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

  • indentured servant — a person who came to America and was placed under contract to work for another over a period of time, usually seven years, especially during the 17th to 19th centuries. Generally, indentured servants included redemptioners, victims of religious or political persecution, persons kidnapped for the purpose, convicts, and paupers.
  • indus civilization — an ancient civilization that flourished in the Indus River valley, from about 2500 to 1500 b.c.: extensive archaeological excavations at the main sites of Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa in Pakistan.
  • industrial vehicle — a vehicle designed for use in industry
  • internet go server — (games, networking)   (IGS) A place for Go players to meet and play via the Internet.
  • inverse square law — one of several laws relating two quantities such that one quantity varies inversely as the square of the other, as the law that the illumination produced on a screen by a point source varies inversely as the square of the distance of the screen from the source.
  • investment account — a bank account in which money is saved long-term to accrue interest
  • investment analyst — a specialist in forecasting the prices of stocks and shares
  • investment casting — a casting process in which an expendable pattern is surrounded by an investment compound and then baked so that the investment is hardened to form a mold and the pattern material may be melted and run off.
  • investment company — a company that invests its funds in other companies and issues its own securities against these investments.
  • investment manager — financial advisor
  • invisible earnings — earnings from services provided rather than goods
  • involuntary muscle — muscle: contracts involuntarily
  • iverson's language — APL, which went unnamed for many years.
  • jacksonville beach — a city in NE Florida.
  • king james version — Authorized Version.
  • language universal — a trait or property of language that exists, or has the potential to exist, in all languages.
  • legislative branch — the branch of government having the power to make laws; the legislature.
  • lifesaving service — a private organization or government agency for general marine rescue operations.
  • limestone pavement — a horizontal surface of exposed limestone in which the joints have been enlarged, cutting the surface into roughly rectangular blocks
  • linear perspective — a mathematical system for representing three-dimensional objects and space on a two-dimensional surface by means of intersecting lines that are drawn vertically and horizontally and that radiate from one point (one-point perspective) two points (two-point perspective) or several points on a horizon line as perceived by a viewer imagined in an arbitrarily fixed position.
  • live by one's wits — the keen perception and cleverly apt expression of those connections between ideas that awaken amusement and pleasure. Synonyms: drollery, facetiousness, waggishness, repartee.
  • love-lies-bleeding — an amaranth, especially Amaranthus caudatus, having spikes of crimson flowers.
  • macroinvertebrates — Plural form of macroinvertebrate.
  • maritime provinces — region in Canada
  • melville peninsula — a peninsula in N Canada, SE of the Gulf of Boothia. 250 miles (405 km) long.
  • menendez de aviles — Pedro [pe-th raw] /ˈpɛ ðrɔ/ (Show IPA), 1519–74, Spanish admiral and colonizer: founder of St. Augustine, Florida 1565.
  • mental reservation — an unexpressed doubt or qualification about a situation, person, etc.
  • microinvertebrates — Plural form of microinvertebrate.
  • minimally invasive — (of medical treatments or procedures) requiring only a small incision or the insertion of an instrument into a body cavity; involving minimal damage of body tissue: minimally invasive endoscopy.
  • native advertising — advertising content on a website that conforms to the design and format of the site and is integrated into the site’s usual content: native advertising that is almost indistinguishable from the paper’s news stories.
  • negative cash flow — the situation when income is less than payments
  • neovascularization — the development of new blood vessels, especially in tissues where circulation has been impaired by trauma or disease.
  • nervous exhaustion — extreme mental and physical fatigue caused by excessive emotional stress; neurasthenia.
  • netscape navigator — (networking, tool, product)   /Mozilla/ (Often called just "Netscape") A web browser from Netscape Communications Corporation. The first beta-test version was released free to the Internet on 13 October 1994. Netscape evolved from NCSA Mosaic (with which it shares at least one author) and runs on the X Window System under various versions of Unix, on Microsoft Windows and on the Apple Macintosh. It features integrated support for sending electronic mail and reading Usenet news, as well as RSA encryption to allow secure communications for commercial applications such as exchanging credit card numbers with net retailers. It provides multiple simultaneous interruptible text and image loading; native inline JPEG image display; display and interaction with documents as they load; multiple independent windows. Netscape was designed with 14.4 kbps modem links in mind. You can download Netscape Navigator for evaluation, or for unlimited use in academic or not-for-profit environments. You can also pay for it. Version: 1.0N. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • nominative-address — a noun naming the person to whom one is speaking.
  • non-conversational — able or ready to converse; given to conversation.
  • non-discriminative — constituting a particular quality, trait, or difference; characteristic; notable.
  • non-self-governing — governed by itself or having self-government, as a state or community; independent.
  • nondestructiveness — The quality of not being destructive.
  • noninterventionism — A policy of non-intervention.
  • noninterventionist — A proponent of non-intervention.
  • nova scotia salmon — an Atlantic salmon, especially from the waters off Nova Scotia, cured in the local manner.
  • offensive material — any published or broadcast content (such as articles, photographs, films, or websites) that is likely to be upsetting, insulting, or objectionable to some or most people
  • on everyone's lips — being much discussed
  • one's native heath — the place of one's birth or childhood
  • over-conscientious — governed by conscience; controlled by or done according to one's inner sense of what is right; principled: She's a conscientious judge, who does not let personal prejudices influence her decisions.
  • overdraft interest — interest charged on money withdrawn in excess of the credit balance of a bank or building society account
  • overpressurization — pressure in excess of normal atmospheric pressure, as that caused by an explosion's shock wave or created in an accelerating airplane.
  • overprotectiveness — unduly protective.
  • overrepresentation — to give too much representation to; represent in numbers that are disproportionately high.
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