18-letter words containing r, e, v
- legislative branch — the branch of government having the power to make laws; the legislature.
- lifesaving service — a private organization or government agency for general marine rescue operations.
- limited government — confined within limits; restricted or circumscribed: a limited space; limited resources.
- linear perspective — a mathematical system for representing three-dimensional objects and space on a two-dimensional surface by means of intersecting lines that are drawn vertically and horizontally and that radiate from one point (one-point perspective) two points (two-point perspective) or several points on a horizon line as perceived by a viewer imagined in an arbitrarily fixed position.
- lowell observatory — the astronomical observatory, situated in Flagstaff, Arizona, at which Pluto was discovered in 1930.
- lunitidal interval — the period of time between the moon's transit and the next high lunar tide.
- macroinvertebrates — Plural form of macroinvertebrate.
- magnetic variation — variation (def 8).
- make heavy weather — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- margaret of valois — ("Queen Margot") 1533–1615, 1st wife of Henry IV of France: queen of Navarre; patron of science and literature (daughter of Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici).
- maritime provinces — region in Canada
- mental reservation — an unexpressed doubt or qualification about a situation, person, etc.
- merchant of venice — a comedy (1596?) by Shakespeare.
- mercury-vapor lamp — a lamp producing a light with a high actinic and ultraviolet content by means of an electric arc in mercury vapor.
- microenvironmental — Pertaining to a microenvironment.
- microinvertebrates — Plural form of microinvertebrate.
- microwave detector — a device for recording the speed of a motorist
- microwave spectrum — a spectrum of electromagnetic radiations whose wavelengths fall in the microwave range.
- montgomery village — a city in central Maryland.
- mordovian republic — a constituent republic of W central Russia, in the middle Volga basin. Capital: Saransk. Pop: 888 700 (2002). Area: 26 200 sq km (10 110 sq miles)
- movers and shakers — a person or thing that moves.
- moving bed reactor — A moving bed reactor is a reactor in which a layer of catalyst in the form of granules is moved between a reaction area and a regeneration area.
- mutually recursive — recursion
- myeloproliferative — (medicine) of or pertaining to the presence of an abnormal proliferation of myelopoietic cells (from bone marrow).
- native advertising — advertising content on a website that conforms to the design and format of the site and is integrated into the site’s usual content: native advertising that is almost indistinguishable from the paper’s news stories.
- natural convection — Natural convection is the loss of heat from a hot solid or liquid into air which is not artificially agitated.
- naval architecture — the science of designing ships and other waterborne craft.
- neovascularization — the development of new blood vessels, especially in tissues where circulation has been impaired by trauma or disease.
- nervous exhaustion — extreme mental and physical fatigue caused by excessive emotional stress; neurasthenia.
- netscape navigator — (networking, tool, product) /Mozilla/ (Often called just "Netscape") A web browser from Netscape Communications Corporation. The first beta-test version was released free to the Internet on 13 October 1994. Netscape evolved from NCSA Mosaic (with which it shares at least one author) and runs on the X Window System under various versions of Unix, on Microsoft Windows and on the Apple Macintosh. It features integrated support for sending electronic mail and reading Usenet news, as well as RSA encryption to allow secure communications for commercial applications such as exchanging credit card numbers with net retailers. It provides multiple simultaneous interruptible text and image loading; native inline JPEG image display; display and interaction with documents as they load; multiple independent windows. Netscape was designed with 14.4 kbps modem links in mind. You can download Netscape Navigator for evaluation, or for unlimited use in academic or not-for-profit environments. You can also pay for it. Version: 1.0N. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- neurodevelopmental — Of or pertaining to the development of neurological pathways in the brain.
- nominative-address — a noun naming the person to whom one is speaking.
- non-conversational — able or ready to converse; given to conversation.
- non-discriminative — constituting a particular quality, trait, or difference; characteristic; notable.
- non-self-governing — governed by itself or having self-government, as a state or community; independent.
- nondestructiveness — The quality of not being destructive.
- noninterventionism — A policy of non-intervention.
- noninterventionist — A proponent of non-intervention.
- nonvolatile memory — computer memory that can retain stored information even when not powered, for example read-only memory
- northern transvaal — province of South Africa, in the N part: 47,599 sq mi (123,280 sq km); pop. 5,202,000; cap. Pietersburg
- not have the heart — If you want to do something but do not have the heart to do it, you do not do it because you know it will make someone unhappy or disappointed.
- nueva san salvador — Santa Tecla.
- october revolution — Russian Revolution (def 2).
- offensive material — any published or broadcast content (such as articles, photographs, films, or websites) that is likely to be upsetting, insulting, or objectionable to some or most people
- on everyone's lips — being much discussed
- operation overlord — the codename for the Allied invasion (June 1944) of northern France
- optical disc drive — optical disk drive
- optical disk drive — (hardware) (Or "optical disc drive", "optical storage") A generic term for any device that reads and/or writes optical media, i.e. compact discs, DVDs and/or Blu-ray discs or future media that uses light (from a small laser) to read data off a removable, rotating disk. At least one such drive is commonly installed in most personal computers to allow them to play and/or record audio and video media and load and store data such as program installers. The floppy disk has been replaced by optical media due to its vastly greater capacity, e.g. 50,000 megabytes for a dual-layer blu-ray disc compared with 1.5 megabytes for a floppy (over 30,000 times as much).
- oral contraceptive — birth-control pill.
- order room service — When a customer orders room service, they ask for meals or drinks to be brought to their room.