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

overcompensation — a pronounced striving to neutralize and conceal a strong but unacceptable character trait by substituting for it an opposite trait.
overcomplicating — Present participle of overcomplicate.
overdramatically — In an overdramatic manner.
overenthusiastic — full of or characterized by enthusiasm; ardent: He seems very enthusiastic about his role in the play.
overexcitability — to excite too much.
oversubscription — to subscribe for more of than is available, expected, or required: The charity drive was oversubscribed by several thousand dollars.
pincers movement — a military maneuver in which both flanks of an enemy force are attacked with the aim of attaining complete encirclement.
plutarch's lives — (Parallel Lives) a collection (a.d. 105–15) by Plutarch of short biographies of the leading political figures of ancient Greece and Rome.
poverty-stricken — suffering from poverty; extremely poor: poverty-stricken refugees.
pre-conversation — informal interchange of thoughts, information, etc., by spoken words; oral communication between persons; talk; colloquy.
prevenient grace — divine grace operating on the human will prior to its turning to God.
primary deviance — the violation of a norm or rule that does not result in the violator's being stigmatized as deviant.
primitive church — the early Christian church, especially in reference to its earliest form and organization.
private practice — the practice of one's profession as an independent rather than as an employee.
private-line car — a freight car owned by a company other than a railroad but operated over the tracks of railroads.
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".
proper adjective — an adjective formed from a proper noun, as American from America.
protective slope — a slope given to a yard or the like to drain surface water away from a building.
pyruvic aldehyde — a yellow, liquid compound, C 3 H 4 O 2 , containing both an aldehyde and a ketone group, usually obtained in a polymeric form: used chiefly in organic synthesis.
re-entry vehicle — the section of a spacecraft or ballistic missile designed to return to earth.
receiver general — a public official in charge of the government's treasury.
reckless driving — a serious traffic offence whereby the driver of a vehicle disregards the rules of the road, driving very dangerously, causing accidents or other damage
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
refractive index — index of refraction.
relativistically — of or relating to relativity or relativism.
republican river — a river flowing E from E Colorado through Nebraska and Kansas into the Kansas River. 422 miles (680 km) long.
reserve capacity — the capacity of a battery, measured in minutes, to keep a vehicle operating if the charging system fails.
resistance level — a point at which the rise in price of a specific stock is arrested due to more substantial selling than buying.
revolving credit — credit automatically available up to a predetermined limit while payments are periodically made. Compare credit line (def 2).
river carpsucker — a carpsucker, Carpiodes carpio, found in silty rivers of the central U.S. south to Mexico.
rockville centre — a city on W Long Island, in SE New York.
same-day service — (humour, operating system) An ironic term used to describe long response time, particularly with respect to MS-DOS system calls (which ought to require only a tiny fraction of a second to execute). Such response time is a major incentive for programmers to write programs that are not well-behaved. See also PC-ism.
scrovegni chapel — Arena Chapel.
security vetting — the process of investigating somebody to establish their trustworthiness
selective memory — an ability to remember some facts while apparently forgetting others, especially when they are inconvenient
selective strike — a partial strike against a particular area of a business or against one employer or a small number of employers in a collective bargaining situation
self-deliverance — suicide.
self-descriptive — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
self-destructive — harmful, injurious, or destructive to oneself: His constant arguing with the boss shows he's a self-destructive person.
semiconservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
senior executive — someone in a senior position in a business, who makes decisions and puts them into action
service contract — law: between employer and employee
service elevator — an elevator for the use of servants and delivery people and for carrying large items.
service engineer — someone who maintains and repairs equipment
service entrance — an entrance for the use of servants, delivery people, or the like.
service families — families which have a member serving in the armed forces
service industry — business providing a service
service provider — company: provides internet
severance motion — an application made to a judge or court for the division into separate parts of a joint estate, contract, etc
sevruga (caviar) — caviar prepared from the small, grayish or black roe of a sturgeon chiefly from the Caspian Sea

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