20-letter words containing t, e, l, v, a, n
- surveillance society — a society where surveillance technology is widely used to monitor people's everyday activities
- talavera de la reina — a city in central Spain, on the Tagus River: British and Spanish defeat of the French 1809.
- tangent galvanometer — a type of galvanometer having a vertical coil of wire with a horizontal magnetic needle at its centre. The current to be measured is passed through the coil and produces a proportional magnetic field which deflects the needle
- television broadcast — sth shown on tv
- television programme — a programme broadcast on television
- thermal conductivity — the amount of heat per unit time per unit area that can be conducted through a plate of unit thickness of a given material, the faces of the plate differing by one unit of temperature.
- to live and let live — You say live and let live as a way of saying that you should let other people behave in the way that they want to and not criticize them for behaving differently from you.
- track-laying vehicle — A track-laying vehicle is a vehicle whose wheels run inside a continuous chain or track.
- trailing vortex drag — drag arising from vortices that occur behind a body moving through a gas or liquid
- travel-sickness pill — a pill which is used to relieve the symptoms of travel or motion sickness, the condition of being nauseated from riding in a moving vehicle
- travelling-wave tube — an electronic tube in which an electron beam interacts with a distributed high-frequency magnetic field so that energy is transferred from the beam to the field
- turn over a new leaf — one of the expanded, usually green organs borne by the stem of a plant.
- twelve-string guitar — an acoustic guitar having twelve strings instead of six, with each pair tuned an octave apart, and more difficult to play than the standard guitar.
- universal quantifier — a quantifier indicating that the sentential function within its scope is true for all values of any variable included in the quantifier.
- vertical combination — the integration within one company of individual businesses working separately in related phases of the production and sale of a product.
- vertical envelopment — envelopment of an enemy accomplished by parachuting and landing airborne troops at the rear of the enemy's position.
- vertical integration — the joining together of all companies or firms involved in manufacturing a product into one company or firm
- vienna international — a socialist organization formed in Vienna in 1921 and merged in 1923 with the Second International to form the Labor and Socialist International. Compare international (def 6).
- vocalic alliteration — the commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound group (consonantal alliteration) as in from stem to stern, or with a vowel sound that may differ from syllable to syllable (vocalic alliteration) as in each to all. Compare consonance (def 4a).
- vocational education — educational training that provides practical experience in a particular occupational field, as agriculture, home economics, or industry.
- voluntary euthanasia — the act of killing someone painlessly, esp to relieve suffering from an incurable illness, with their consent
- voluntary redundancy — a financial package to encourage employees to voluntarily leave an organization that needs to restructure
- warrensville heights — a city in NE Ohio.
- western civilization — European culture, thought
- wide-angle converter — a person or thing that converts.