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16-letter words containing s, e, v, r, n

  • couvade syndrome — a psychosomatic condition in which the spouse or partner of a pregnant woman experiences symptoms of childbirth or pregnancy
  • creative commons — Sometimes, creative commons. a set of various licenses that allow people to share their copyrighted work to be copied, edited, built upon, etc., while retaining the copyright to the original work (often used attributively): We’re happy for other sites to share these photos under Creative Commons; a creative commons license.
  • creative tension — a situation where disagreement or discord ultimately gives rise to better ideas or outcomes
  • cryopreservation — the storage of blood or living tissues at extremely cold temperatures, often -196 degrees Celsius.
  • currier and ives — any of a 19th-cent. series of prints showing the manners, people, and events of the times
  • davidson current — a winter countercurrent that flows N along the W coast of the U.S.
  • debt forgiveness — the action or process of forgiving people their debts
  • deconstructively — In a deconstructive manner.
  • deliberativeness — The state or quality of being deliberative.
  • delta conversion — delta reduction
  • devil's triangle — Bermuda Triangle.
  • devonshire cream — clotted cream.
  • devonshire split — a kind of yeast bun split open and served with whipped cream or butter and jam
  • diversifications — Plural form of diversification.
  • division algebra — a linear algebra in which each element of the vector space has a multiplicative inverse.
  • domestic servant — person employed to do household chores
  • driver's license — a permit, as one issued by a state's motor vehicle bureau, that allows the holder to drive a motor vehicle on public roads.
  • energy-intensive — using large amount of energy
  • environmentalism — A political and social ideology that seeks to prevent the environment from degradation by human activity.
  • environmentalist — A person who is concerned with or advocates the protection of the environment.
  • evening primrose — flowering plant
  • forinsec service — foreign service
  • germinal vesicle — the large, vesicular nucleus of an ovum before the polar bodies are formed.
  • gnu archive site — (body)   The main GNU FTP archive is on gnu.org but copies ("mirrors") of some or all of the files there are also held on many other computers around the world. To avoid overloading gnu.org and the Internet you should FTP files from the machine closest to yours. Look for a directory like /pub/gnu, /mirrors/gnu, /systems/gnu or /archives/gnu.
  • government house — the official residence of a colonial governor, as in a British Commonwealth country.
  • government issue — (often initial capital letter) issued or supplied by the government or one of its agencies.
  • government stock — stock issued by the UK or another national government
  • governors island — an island in New York Bay at the S end of the East River: U.S. military post. 2 sq. mi. (5 sq. km).
  • green vegetables — green edible plants
  • harvey firestone — Harvey Samuel, 1868–1938, U.S. industrialist and rubber manufacturer.
  • haversian system — a Haversian canal and the series of concentric bony plates surrounding it.
  • hearsay evidence — testimony based on what a witness has heard from another person rather than on direct personal knowledge or experience.
  • historical novel — a novel within the genre of historical fiction.
  • huevos rancheros — a Latin American dish of eggs, usually fried or poached, topped with a spicy tomato sauce and sometimes served on a fried corn tortilla with the addition of vegetables and cheese.
  • hypersensitivity — excessively sensitive: to be hypersensitive to criticism.
  • hypervitaminosis — an abnormal condition caused by an excessive intake of vitamins.
  • imperceptiveness — The quality of being imperceptive.
  • imperfectiveness — (grammar) The state or quality of being imperfective.
  • in--one-s--favor — something done or granted out of goodwill, rather than from justice or for remuneration; a kind act: to ask a favor.
  • indexing service — a service that indexes the contents of a number of publications for use in printed or machine-readable form.
  • indiscriminative — Making no distinction; not discriminating.
  • inter-divisional — the act or process of dividing; state of being divided.
  • intravenous drip — the continuous, slow introduction of a fluid into a vein of the body. Abbreviation: IV.
  • inverse cosecant — arc cosecant.
  • inverse function — the function that replaces another function when the dependent and independent variables of the first function are interchanged for an appropriate set of values of the dependent variable. In y = sin x and x = arc sin y, the inverse function of sine is arc sine.
  • inverse graffiti — a form of street art in which a dirty wall or pavement has a template placed against it and is scrubbed until the surface is clean. This reveals an image or message which gradually fades with time.
  • inverted nipples — nipples which do not project from the breast but are retracted
  • investment grant — a direct subsidy made by a government to a business in order to enable it to make further investment
  • investment trust — a company that invests its funds in other companies and issues its own securities against these investments.
  • invulnerableness — The quality of being invulnerable.
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