19-letter words containing r, e, v
- dig one's own grave — If you say that someone is digging their own grave, you are warning them that they are doing something foolish or dangerous that will cause their own failure.
- direct-vision prism — Amici prism.
- discovery procedure — any rigorous method by the application of which a grammar might be constructed from a corpus of utterances in a language; an algorithm leading from data to a formulation.
- disjunctive pronoun — an inflection of pronouns in some languages that is used alone or after a preposition, such as moi in French
- display advertising — display ads taken collectively.
- distance university — a degree-granting institution operating wholly or mainly by correspondence courses for students not resident on or within commuting distance of the campus.
- distinctive feature — a feature of the sound system of a language that serves as the crucial distinguishing mark between two phonemes, as the distinctive feature of voicing, which distinguishes b from p in English, or nasality, which distinguishes m from b and p.
- diversified farming — the practice of producing a variety of crops or animals, or both, on one farm, as distinguished from specializing in a single commodity.
- diversional therapy — the structured use of leisure time in recreation and play as a form of or supplement to conventional therapy
- dose-response curve — a curve plotting the relationship between the dose of a drug administered and its pharmacological effect.
- earthquake coverage — Earthquake coverage is insurance coverage for damage caused by earthquakes.
- ebola virus disease — Also called Ebola fever, Ebola hemorrhagic fever, Ebola virus disease. a usually fatal disease, a type of hemorrhagic fever, caused by the Ebola virus and marked by high fever, severe gastrointestinal distress, and bleeding.
- educational adviser — a person who provides advice and training to teachers about teaching methods and educational policies
- effervescent tablet — Effervescent tablets break down quickly when they are dropped into water or another liquid.
- electroconductivity — Electrical conductivity.
- electromotive force — a source of energy that can cause a current to flow in an electrical circuit or device
- electronegativities — Plural form of electronegativity.
- elevator controller — An archetypal dumb embedded-systems application, like toaster (which superseded it). During one period (1983--84) in the deliberations of ANSI X3J11 (the C standardisation committee) this was the canonical example of a really stupid, memory-limited computation environment. "You can't require "printf(3)" to be part of the default run-time library - what if you're targeting an elevator controller?" Elevator controllers became important rhetorical weapons on both sides of several holy wars.
- energy conservation — concerted formal or government action or policy to make sure that energy is not wasted
- environmental audit — the systematic examination of an organization's interaction with the environment, to assess the success of its conservation or antipollution programme
- environmental lobby — a group of people who promote environmental issues to government, the public, and business
- evaluation strategy — reduction strategy
- evaporative cooling — a method of reducing temperature that uses evaporation
- executive agreement — an agreement made between the US President and the head of a foreign state, having the effect of a treaty
- executive president — a president in certain systems of government who possesses wide powers
- executive privilege — Executive privilege is the right that a member of the executive branch of government has to withhold information about matters that they consider to be confidential.
- executive secretary — supports executives or departments
- eye make-up remover — a product used to remove cosmetics such as mascara and eyeliner
- farmers cooperative — an organization of farmers for marketing their products or buying supplies.
- february revolution — Russian Revolution (def 1).
- february-revolution — Also called February Revolution. the uprising in Russia in March, 1917 (February Old Style), in which the Czarist government collapsed and a provisional government was established.
- fellow-servant rule — the common-law rule that the employer is not liable to an employee for injuries resulting from the negligence of a fellow employee.
- figurative language — language that contains or uses figures of speech, especially metaphors.
- flavor of the month — Informal. the subject of intense, usually temporary interest; the current fashion.
- floppy (disk) drive — the controller and mechanism for reading and writing data on floppy disks
- florida velvet bean — a tropical vine, Mucuna deeringiana, of the legume family, having showy, purple flowers in drooping clusters and black, hairy pods: grown as an ornamental.
- follow-up interview — a second interview following an initial interview
- full-wave rectifier — a rectifier that transmits both halves of a cycle of alternating current as a direct current.
- geneva nomenclature — an internationally accepted system for naming organic carbon compounds.
- get on one's nerves — one or more bundles of fibers forming part of a system that conveys impulses of sensation, motion, etc., between the brain or spinal cord and other parts of the body.
- give (free) rein to — to allow to act without restraint
- give a person a fit — to surprise a person in an outrageous manner
- give one credit for — to commend one for
- give your eye teeth — If you say that you would give your eye teeth for something, you mean that you want it very much and you would do anything to get it.
- glorious revolution — the events of 1688–89 in England that resulted in the ousting of James II and the establishment of William III and Mary II as joint monarchs
- goods received note — a document created by a buyer on receipt of merchandise and which describes each good and details the quantity of each received
- governing principle — a fundamental moral rule that guides and influences how something is done
- government monopoly — the exclusive control of the market supply of a product or service by the government
- government-in-exile — a government temporarily moved to or formed in a foreign land by exiles who hope to establish that government in their native country after its liberation.
- grade point average — a measure of scholastic attainment computed by dividing the total number of grade points received by the total number of credits or hours of course work taken.