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16-letter words containing r, e, v, o, l

  • overexcitability — to excite too much.
  • overexploitation — use or utilization, especially for profit: the exploitation of newly discovered oil fields.
  • overhead railway — elevated railroad.
  • overwhelmingness — that overwhelms; overpowering: The temptation to despair may become overwhelming.
  • parole violation — an illegal act or offence that breaches the conditions of a prisoner's parole
  • peasants' revolt — the first great popular rebellion in English history (1381), caused by the imposition of an unpopular poll tax: it lasted less than a month and failed as a social revolution
  • philoprogenitive — producing offspring, especially abundantly; prolific.
  • prerevolutionary — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change: a revolutionary junta.
  • prevost d'exiles — Antoine François [ahn-twan frahn-swa] /ɑ̃ˈtwan frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), ("Abbé Prévost") 1697–1763, French novelist.
  • proenvironmental — the aggregate of surrounding things, conditions, or influences; surroundings; milieu.
  • progressive lens — a multifocal eyeglass lens that provides a continuous range of focal power between near and far distances.
  • projective plane — (mathematics)   The space of equivalence classes of vectors under non-zero scalar multiplication. Elements are sets of the form {kv: k != 0, k scalar, v != O, v a vector} where O is the origin. v is a representative member of this equivalence class. The projective plane of a vector space is the collection of its 1-dimensional subspaces. The properties of the vector space induce a topology and notions of smoothness on the projective plane. A projective plane is in no meaningful sense a plane and would therefore be (but isn't) better described as a "projective space".
  • protective slope — a slope given to a yard or the like to drain surface water away from a building.
  • quiet revolution — a period during the 1960s in Quebec, marked by secularization, educational reforms, and rising support for separation from the rest of Canada
  • radiation levels — the levels of the emission or transfer of radiant energy or the levels of the particles emitted in the transfer of radiant energy, esp the particles and gamma rays emitted in nuclear decay
  • radio evangelist — a Christian minister who devotes time to preaching on the radio
  • recovery vehicle — a truck used to transport motor vehicles which have broken down to another location (generally a repair garage), or to recover vehicles which are no longer on a drivable surface
  • redemption value — the price at which the issuing company may choose to repurchase a security before its maturity date
  • reflexive domain — A domain satisfying a recursive domain equation. E.g. D = D -> D.
  • relative pronoun — one of the pronouns who, whom, which, what, their compounds with -ever or -soever, or that used as the subordinating word to introduce a subordinate clause, especially such a pronoun referring to an antecedent.
  • released version — release
  • reversal process — a process for converting the negative on a film or plate to a positive by bleaching and redeveloping.
  • revised algol 60 — ALGOL 60 Revised
  • revolving credit — credit automatically available up to a predetermined limit while payments are periodically made. Compare credit line (def 2).
  • rockville centre — a city on W Long Island, in SE New York.
  • roosevelt island — Formerly Welfare Island, Blackwells Island. an island in the East River, New York City: residential community. 1½ miles (2½ km) long.
  • saturation level — carrying capacity.
  • scrovegni chapel — Arena Chapel.
  • seal of approval — royal stamp of endorsement
  • selective memory — an ability to remember some facts while apparently forgetting others, especially when they are inconvenient
  • self-deprivation — the act of depriving.
  • self-improvement — improvement of one's mind, character, etc., through one's own efforts.
  • self-observation — an act or instance of noticing or perceiving.
  • self-sovereignty — the quality or state of being sovereign, or of having supreme power or authority.
  • sensory overload — being overwhelmed by sights, sounds, etc.
  • service elevator — an elevator for the use of servants and delivery people and for carrying large items.
  • shoemaker-levy 9 — a comet that was captured into an orbit around Jupiter and later broke up, the fragments colliding with Jupiter in July 1995
  • shrinking violet — a shy, modest, or self-effacing person.
  • slave labor camp — labor camp (def 1).
  • slip one over on — to hoodwink or trick
  • sparking voltage — the minimum voltage required to produce a spark across a given spark gap.
  • surveyor's level — level (def 8a).
  • texas revolution — a revolutionary movement, 1832–36, in which U.S. settlers asserted their independence from Mexico and established the republic of Texas.
  • the renosterveld — an area of high altitude in SW South Africa, having fertile ground
  • the unobservable — something that cannot be observed
  • thermionic valve — vacuum tube.
  • torvill and dean — two British ice dancers, Jayne Torvill, born 1957, and Christopher Dean, born 1958. They won the world championships in 1981–84, the European championships in 1981–82, 1984, and 1994, and the gold medal in the 1984 Olympic Games
  • transverse colon — the middle portion of the colon, lying across the upper abdominal cavity between the ascending colon on the right and the descending colon on the left.
  • travelling clock — a small clock taken by someone who is travelling
  • unconversational — of, relating to, or characteristic of conversation: a conversational tone of voice.
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