18-letter words containing t, e, n, o, v, a
- store launch event — A store launch event is a special event, which publicizes the opening of a new store and at which discounts and free samples may be offered.
- teacher evaluation — the process of vetting teachers to maintain teaching standards
- television cabinet — a cabinet on which a television set is placed or in which it is encased
- television company — a company that broadcasts programmes by television
- television station — station (def 8).
- tender loving care — considerate and kindly care, as of someone who is ill, upset, etc
- the heavens opened — it started pouring with rain
- thermogalvanometer — a thermoammeter for measuring small currents, consisting of a thermocouple connected to a direct-current galvanometer.
- thomas alva edison — Thomas Alva [al-vuh] /ˈæl və/ (Show IPA), 1847–1931, U.S. inventor, especially of electrical devices.
- to be above ground — to be alive
- to one's advantage — If you use or turn something to your advantage, you use it in order to benefit from it, especially when it might be expected to harm or damage you.
- to save one's life — If you say that someone cannot do something to save their life, you are emphasizing that they do it very badly.
- to scrape a living — If you say that someone scrapes a living or scratches a living, you mean that they manage to earn enough to live on, but it is very difficult. In American English, you say they scrape out a living or scratch out a living.
- townsend avalanche — avalanche (def 3).
- transverse process — a process that projects from the sides of a vertebra.
- transverse section — cross section (def 1).
- turbine ventilator — a ventilator, usually mounted on the roof of a building, deck of a ship, etc., having at its head a globular, vaned rotor that is rotated by the wind, conveying air through a duct to and from a chamber below.
- vanadium pentoxide — a yellow to red crystalline compound, V 2 O 5 , slightly soluble in water, used as a catalyst for organic reactions, in glass to absorb ultraviolet radiation, and as a photographic developer.
- veterinary surgeon — Chiefly British. a veterinarian.
- victor emmanuel ii — 1820–78, king of Sardinia 1849–78; first king of Italy 1861–78.
- video installation — an art installation incorporating video footage
- virginia snakeroot — any of various plants whose roots have been regarded as a remedy for snakebites, as the herb Aristolochia serpentaria (Virginia snakeroot) having a medicinal rhizome and rootlets, and the white-flowered Polygala senega (Seneca snakeroot) having a medicinal root.
- vosges (mountains) — mountain range in NE France, west of the Rhine: highest peak, c. 4,700 ft (1,433 m)
- voter registration — the requirement of citizens to become registered in order to vote
- you never can tell — If you say 'You never can tell', you mean that the future is always uncertain and it is never possible to know exactly what will happen.
- young conservative — a member of the youth section of the United Kingdom Conservative Party