16-letter words containing s, n, i, v
- find one's level — to find one's most suitable place socially, professionally, etc
- find one's voice — If someone finds their voice, they start to speak in spite of fear or surprise or difficult circumstances.
- forinsec service — foreign service
- germinal vesicle — the large, vesicular nucleus of an ovum before the polar bodies are formed.
- give someone one — to have sex with someone
- glove anesthesia — loss of sensation in the hand
- 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 issue — (often initial capital letter) issued or supplied by the government or one of its agencies.
- 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).
- harvey firestone — Harvey Samuel, 1868–1938, U.S. industrialist and rubber manufacturer.
- have no business — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
- 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.
- 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 heaven's name — You can use in heaven's name in questions beginning with 'what', 'when', 'who', 'why', 'when', and 'how' to add emphasis in a way that shows that you are very angry or surprised.
- in the seventies — in the range between 70 and 79 degrees on a given temperature scale, esp the Fahrenheit scale
- 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.
- incentive scheme — an arrangement under which additional payments are made to employees as a means of increasing production
- inconclusiveness — The state or condition of being inconclusive.
- 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.
- indivisibilities — not divisible; not separable into parts; incapable of being divided: one nation indivisible.
- 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.
- invisible assets — assets that are not physical, such as services or good will
- invisible shadow — (in architectural shades and shadows) a three-dimensional space occupied by the shadow projected by a solid and within which a surface is in shadow.
- invulnerableness — The quality of being invulnerable.
- irresolvableness — The state or quality of being irresolvable.
- irreversibleness — The state or quality of being irreversible.
- janet ip service — (networking) (JIPS) Joint Academic NETwork Internet Protocol. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- labour-intensive — Labour-intensive industries or methods of making things involve a lot of workers. Compare capital-intensive.
- lactovegetarians — Plural form of lactovegetarian.
- listening device — a device used to overhear, record, or monitor speech
- live in the past — If you accuse someone of living in the past, you mean that they think too much about the past or believe that things are the same as they were in the past.
- living daylights — having life; being alive; not dead: living persons.
- living standards — standard of living; material quality of life
- lose one's voice — If you lose your voice, you cannot speak for a while because of an illness.
- lost river range — a mountain range in E central Idaho. Highest peak, Borah Peak (also highest in the state), 12,662 feet (3862 meters).
- machiavellianism — of, like, or befitting Machiavelli.
- magnetoresistive — Of or pertaining to magnetoresistance.