16-letter words containing s, u, r, v, e
- amerigo vespucci — Amerigo [uh-mer-i-goh;; Italian ah-me-ree-gaw] /əˈmɛr ɪˌgoʊ;; Italian ˌɑ mɛˈri gɔ/ (Show IPA), (Americus Vespucius) 1451–1512, Italian merchant, adventurer, and explorer after whom America was named.
- andreas vesalius — Andreas [ahn-dre-ahs] /ɑnˈdrɛ ɑs/ (Show IPA), 1514–64, Flemish anatomist.
- auditory vesicle — the pouch that is formed by the invagination of an ectodermal placode and that develops into the internal ear.
- autoregressively — In an autoregressive manner.
- average adjuster — a person who calculates average claims, esp for marine insurance
- basque provinces — an autonomous region of N Spain, comprising the provinces of Álava, Guipúzcoa, and Vizcaya: inhabited mainly by Basques, who retained virtual autonomy from the 9th to the 19th century. Pop: 1 840 700 (2003 est). Area: about 7250 sq km (2800 sq miles)
- bastard culverin — a 16th-century cannon, smaller than a culverin, firing a shot of between 5 and 8 pounds (11 and 17.6 kg).
- behavioural sink — a small area in which people or animals live in overcrowded conditions
- bulletproof vest — a protective garment
- bundle of nerves — a very nervous person
- cardinal virtues — the most important moral qualities, traditionally justice, prudence, temperance, and fortitude
- chevaux-de-frise — plural of cheval-de-frise.
- church invisible — the entire body of Christian believers on earth and in heaven.
- chuvash republic — a constituent republic of W central Russia, in the middle Volga valley: generally low-lying with undulating plains and large areas of forest. Capital: Cheboksary. Pop: 1 313 900 (2002). Area: 18 300 sq km (7064 sq miles)
- civic university — (in Britain) a university originally instituted as a higher education college serving a particular city
- cloistered vault — a vault having the form of a number of intersecting coves.
- cluster variable — RR Lyrae star.
- constructiveness — helping to improve; promoting further development or advancement (opposed to destructive): constructive criticism.
- counterevidences — Plural form of counterevidence.
- countermovements — Plural form of countermovement.
- counteroffensive — a series of attacks by a defending force against an attacking enemy
- couvade syndrome — a psychosomatic condition in which the spouse or partner of a pregnant woman experiences symptoms of childbirth or pregnancy
- currier and ives — any of a 19th-cent. series of prints showing the manners, people, and events of the times
- customer service — Customer service refers to the way that companies behave towards their customers, for example how well they treat them.
- davidson current — a winter countercurrent that flows N along the W coast of the U.S.
- deconstructively — In a deconstructive manner.
- distributive law — a theorem asserting that one operator can validly be distributed over another
- drumhead service — a religious service attended by members of a military unit while in the field
- elective surgery — when someone chooses to have an operation which is not absolutely medically necessary
- family of curves — a collection of curves whose equations differ only by values assigned a parameter or parameters.
- filterable virus — a virus particle small enough to pass through a filter of diatomaceous earth or porcelain, which will not pass bacteria: chiefly historical or an informal indicator of size, as synthetic membrane filters now permit passage of the smallest virus.
- 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.
- heir presumptive — a person who is expected to be the heir but whose expectations may be canceled by the birth of a nearer heir.
- 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.
- hypervascularity — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
- intravenous drip — the continuous, slow introduction of a fluid into a vein of the body. Abbreviation: IV.
- 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.
- 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.
- labour-intensive — Labour-intensive industries or methods of making things involve a lot of workers. Compare capital-intensive.
- liver of sulphur — a mixture of potassium sulphides used as a fungicide and insecticide and in the treatment of skin diseases
- measuring device — gauge
- microvasculature — the system of tiny blood vessels, including capillaries, venules, and arterioles, that perfuse the body's tissues.
- non-constructive — helping to improve; promoting further development or advancement (opposed to destructive): constructive criticism.
- nondestructively — In a nondestructive manner; without causing destruction.
- nusslein-volhard — Christiane [kris-tee-ah-nuh,, kris-tyah-] /ˌkrɪs tiˈɑ nə,, krɪsˈtyɑ-/ (Show IPA), born 1942, German biologist: Nobel prize 1995.
- over-consumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
- over-nourishment — something that nourishes; food, nutriment, or sustenance.
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