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17-letter words containing r, e, v, i, c

  • photoreactivation — a process that repairs DNA damaged by ultraviolet light using an enzyme that requires visible light.
  • pluvius insurance — insurance against rain
  • positive electron — positron.
  • prairie provinces — the Canadian provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, which lie in the N Great Plains region of North America: the chief wheat and petroleum producing area of Canada
  • prerogative court — a former ecclesiastical court in England and Ireland for the trial of certain testamentary cases.
  • private detective — a detective who is not a member of an official force but is employed by private parties.
  • private education — education provided by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
  • private placement — a sale of an issue of securities by the issuing company directly to a limited number of investors, often only one or two large institutional investors, such as a bank or an insurance company (opposed to public offering): required to be cleared but not registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
  • private secretary — a person who attends to the individual or confidential correspondence, files, etc., of a business executive, official, or the like.
  • pro forma invoice — an invoice issued before an order is placed or before the goods are delivered giving all the details and the cost of the goods
  • probability curve — a curve that describes the distribution of probability over the values of a random variable.
  • production values — the quality of a media production (such as a film) in regards to elements such as colours, quality, style, etc
  • protective system — protectionism (def 1).
  • protective tariff — a tariff levied on imports to protect the domestic economy rather than to raise revenue
  • provincial police — (in Canada) the police force of a province, esp Ontario or Quebec
  • radiative capture — the capture of a particle, as a neutron, by a nucleus, inducing the emission of electromagnetic radiation, as a gamma ray.
  • radioactive decay — decay (def 8).
  • radioactive waste — the radioactive by-products from the operation of a nuclear reactor or from the reprocessing of depleted nuclear fuel.
  • received standard — the form of educated English spoken originally in southern England and having Received Pronunciation as a chief distinguishing feature.
  • receiving blanket — a small blanket, usually of cotton, for wrapping an infant, especially following a bath.
  • recorded delivery — If you send a letter or parcel recorded delivery, you send it using a Post Office service which gives you an official record of the fact that it has been posted and delivered.
  • recovery position — a position in which an unconscious person can be lain on the floor, which minimises them from further risk
  • recursive acronym — (convention)   A hackish (and especially MIT) tradition is to choose acronyms and abbreviations that refer humorously to themselves or to other acronyms or abbreviations. The classic examples were two MIT editors called EINE ("EINE Is Not Emacs") and ZWEI ("ZWEI Was EINE Initially"). More recently, there is a Scheme compiler called LIAR (Liar Imitates Apply Recursively), and GNU stands for "GNU's Not Unix!" - and a company with the name CYGNUS, which expands to "Cygnus, Your GNU Support". See also mung.
  • relativistic mass — the mass of a body in motion relative to the observer: it is equal to the rest mass multiplied by a factor that is greater than 1 and that increases as the magnitude of the velocity increases.
  • remittance advice — a letter sent by a customer to a supplier, to let them know that their invoice has been paid
  • reproductive cell — gamete.
  • revascularization — the restoration of the blood circulation of an organ or area, achieved by unblocking obstructed or disrupted blood vessels or by surgically implanting replacements.
  • romantic movement — the late 18th- and early 19th-century movement in France, Germany, England, and America to establish Romanticism in art and literature.
  • row-level locking — (database)   A technique used in database management systems, where a row is locked for writing to prevent other users from accessing data being while it is being updated. Other techniques are table locking and MVCC.
  • saint croix river — Also called Santa Cruz. a U.S. island in the N Lesser Antilles: the largest of the Virgin Islands. 82 sq. mi. (212 sq. km).
  • second derivative — the derivative of the derivative of a function: Acceleration is the second derivative of distance with respect to time.
  • selective service — compulsory military service.
  • self-conservation — the act of conserving; prevention of injury, decay, waste, or loss; preservation: conservation of wildlife; conservation of human rights.
  • silver collection — a collection that consists of silver coins that is made at a meeting etc
  • soil conservation — any of various methods to achieve the maximum utilization of the land and preserve its resources through such controls as crop rotation, prevention of soil erosion, etc.
  • special privilege — exclusive advantage
  • subclavian artery — either of a pair of arteries, one on each side of the body, that carry the main supply of blood to the arms.
  • subclavian groove — either of two grooves in the first rib, one for the main artery (subclavian artery) and the other for the main vein (subclavian vein) of the arm
  • subjective spirit — spirit, insofar as it falls short of the attainments of objective spirit.
  • subtractive color — cyan, yellow, or magenta, as used in the subtractive process of color photography.
  • superconductivity — the phenomenon of almost perfect conductivity shown by certain substances at temperatures approaching absolute zero. The recent discovery of materials that are superconductive at temperatures hundreds of degrees above absolute zero raises the possibility of revolutionary developments in the production and transmission of electrical energy.
  • telephone service — a company or public utility that provides a telephone-operating service
  • television screen — the flat vertical surface in a television set on which pictures are shown
  • terminal velocity — Physics. the velocity at which a falling body moves through a medium, as air, when the force of resistance of the medium is equal in magnitude and opposite in direction to the force of gravity. the maximum velocity of a body falling through a viscous fluid.
  • the varsity match — a sporting fixture between Oxford and Cambridge university rugby teams
  • traffic diversion — a special route arranged for traffic to follow when the normal route cannot be used
  • travancore-cochin — a former Indian state that was a merger of Travancore and Cochin, two former princely states of India, and which became part of Kerala state in 1956
  • turn-down service — In a hotel, a turn-down service is the preparation of a room for a guest to sleep in by slightly turning back the comforter on the bed, turning down the lights, and so on.
  • twelve patriarchs — any of the sons of Jacob ((the twelve patriarchs),) from whom the tribes of Israel were descended.
  • ultraconservative — extremely conservative, especially in politics.
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