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17-letter words containing s, n, i, v

  • conservation area — In Britain, a conservation area is an area where birds and animals are protected.
  • contemplativeness — The state or quality of being contemplative.
  • context-sensitive — behaving, responding, or interpreted differently depending on context
  • contradistinctive — distinction by opposition or contrast: plants and animals in contradistinction to humans.
  • controversialness — The state or quality of being controversial.
  • convenience goods — goods which make people's lives easier
  • convenience store — A convenience store is a shop which sells mainly food and which is usually open until late at night.
  • conventionalities — Plural form of conventionality.
  • conversationalist — A good conversationalist is someone who talks about interesting things when they have conversations.
  • counteroffensives — Plural form of counteroffensive.
  • countersubversive — Also, subversionary [suh b-vur-zhuh-ner-ee, -shuh-] /səbˈvɜr ʒəˌnɛr i, -ʃə-/ (Show IPA). tending or intending to subvert or overthrow, destroy, or undermine an established or existing system, especially a legally constituted government or a set of beliefs.
  • cracking severity — Cracking severity is the temperature used in a cracking process to yield a product, higher temperatures being used to produce ethane and benzene, and lower temperatures to produce propene and liquid products.
  • cryopreservations — the storage of blood or living tissues at extremely cold temperatures, often -196 degrees Celsius.
  • dangerous driving — the act of driving a motor vehicle in a manner that falls far below that expected of a competent and careful driver and hence puts the life of the driver and the lives of other road users at risk
  • data service unit — (communications)   (DSU or "data service unit") A device used in digital transmission for connecting a CSU (Channel Service Unit) to Data Terminal Equipment (a terminal or computer), in the same way that a modem is used for connection to an analogue medium. A DSU provides a standard interface to a user's terminal which is compatible with modems and handles such functions as signal translation, regeneration, reformatting, and timing. The transmitting portion of the DSU processeses the customers' signal into bipolar pulses suitable for transmission over the digital facility. The receiving portion of the DSU is used both to extract timing information and to regenerate mark and space information from the received bipolar signal.
  • david livingstone — David, 1813–73, Scottish missionary and explorer in Africa.
  • demonstrativeness — The state or quality of being demonstrative.
  • denial of service — a deliberate interruption in access to a computer system or network, esp by using multiple computers to generate an unmanageable volume of traffic (distributed denial of service)
  • denial-of-service — pertaining to or being an incident in which a computer or computer network is disabled, disrupting access or service: a website hit by a denial-of-service attack; unintentional denial-of-service problems.
  • designated driver — The designated driver in a group of people travelling together is the one who has agreed to drive, or who is insured to drive.
  • developmentalists — an expert in or advocate of developmental psychology.
  • disadvantagedness — The quality of being disadvantaged.
  • disadvantageously — In a disadvantageous manner.
  • disruptive action — action performed by protestors, workers, etc that causes the disruption of a service
  • dissolve in tears — weep
  • division of labor — a production process in which a worker or group of workers is assigned a specialized task in order to increase efficiency.
  • domestic violence — physical abuse in the home
  • drive-by shooting — an incident in which a person, building, or vehicle is shot at by someone in a moving vehicle
  • electroconvulsive — Of or relating to the treatment of mental illness by the application of electric shocks to the brain.
  • emergency service — a department within a bigger organization that deals with emergencies
  • energy conversion — the process of changing one form of energy into another, such as nuclear energy into heat or solar energy into electrical energy
  • environmentalists — Plural form of environmentalist.
  • equivalence class — (mathematics)   An equivalence class is a subset whose elements are related to each other by an equivalence relation. The equivalence classes of a set under some relation form a partition of that set (i.e. any two are either equal or disjoint and every element of the set is in some class).
  • executive mansion — the White House (in Washington, D.C.), official home of the President of the U.S.
  • executive session — a session of the Senate for the discussion of executive business, such as the ratification of treaties: formerly held in secret
  • explosive forming — a rapid method of forming a metal object in which components are made by subjecting the metal to very high pressures generated by a controlled explosion
  • fan-assisted oven — an electric oven in which a fan circulates the air and which uses both top and bottom heat
  • female chauvinist — a female who patronizes, disparages, or otherwise denigrates males in the belief that they are inferior to females and thus deserving of less than equal treatment or benefit.
  • female-chauvinist — a person who is aggressively and blindly patriotic, especially one devoted to military glory.
  • financial adviser — A financial adviser is someone whose job it is to advise people about financial products and services.
  • forensic evidence — evidence obtained by the use of science, for example DNA evidence, etc
  • give satisfaction — to satisfy
  • give someone hell — the place or state of punishment of the wicked after death; the abode of evil and condemned spirits; Gehenna or Tartarus.
  • give the business — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
  • ground provisions — starchy vegetables, esp root crops and plantains
  • have a thick skin — to be insensitive (or acutely sensitive) to blame, criticism, insults, etc.
  • have feelings for — to be emotionally or sexually attracted to
  • have it in for sb — If someone has it in for you, they dislike you and try to cause problems for you.
  • home improvements — improvements to one's home, such as new kitchens and bathrooms, central heating etc
  • immediate version — child version
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