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16-letter words containing t, r, o, v

  • flame cultivator — an implement that kills weeds by scorching them with a directed flow of flaming gas.
  • forced vibration — Forced vibration is a type of vibration in which a force is repeatedly applied to a mechanical system.
  • fort leavenworth — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in E Kansas adjoining Leavenworth, one of the oldest (1827) military posts W of the Mississippi and site of federal penitentiary.
  • gender-normative — cisgender.
  • general aviation — aviation including business flying, sports flying, and crop dusting.
  • go over the hill — a natural elevation of the earth's surface, smaller than a mountain.
  • golden retriever — one of an English breed of retrievers having a thick, flat or wavy, golden coat.
  • 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.
  • government stock — stock issued by the UK or another national government
  • governmentalized — Simple past tense and past participle of governmentalize.
  • granger movement — a campaign for state control of railroads and grain elevators, especially in the north central states, carried on during the 1870s by members of the Patrons of Husbandry (the Grange) a farmers' organization that had been formed for social and cultural purposes.
  • gravity platform — (in the oil industry) a drilling platform that rests directly on the sea bed and is kept in position by its own weight; it is usually made of reinforced concrete
  • gravity railroad — a railroad depending partly on the force of gravity for motive power.
  • green revolution — an increase in food production, especially in underdeveloped and developing nations, through the introduction of high-yield crop varieties and application of modern agricultural techniques.
  • harvey firestone — Harvey Samuel, 1868–1938, U.S. industrialist and rubber manufacturer.
  • have a word with — discuss
  • have no time for — not tolerate
  • have the drop on — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
  • hematocrit-value — a centrifuge for separating the cells of the blood from the plasma.
  • historical novel — a novel within the genre of historical fiction.
  • hospital service — the whole organization of government funded hospitals, their staff, and the services they provide
  • hostile takeover — a takeover that is not approved by the management of the corporation being acquired or that is accomplished through the secret purchase of stock.
  • hypercompetitive — Extremely competitive.
  • hyperinnervation — the act of innervating; state of being innervated.
  • hyperventilation — excessively rapid and deep breathing.
  • hypervitaminosis — an abnormal condition caused by an excessive intake of vitamins.
  • incontravertable — Misspelling of incontrovertible.
  • incontrovertible — not controvertible; not open to question or dispute; indisputable: absolute and incontrovertible truth.
  • incontrovertibly — not controvertible; not open to question or dispute; indisputable: absolute and incontrovertible truth.
  • inconvertibility — The condition of being inconvertible.
  • inter-divisional — the act or process of dividing; state of being divided.
  • interbehavioural — relating to or involving interbehaviour
  • interconvertible — to subject to interconversion; interchange.
  • interventionally — In terms of, or by means of, intervention.
  • intervocalically — (phonology) Between vowels.
  • intravenous drip — the continuous, slow introduction of a fluid into a vein of the body. Abbreviation: IV.
  • inverse cosecant — arc cosecant.
  • 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.
  • inverted mordent — a melodic embellishment consisting of a rapid alternation of a principal tone with an auxiliary tone one degree above it.
  • italian vermouth — sweet vermouth
  • javelin throwing — the sport of throwing the javelin
  • junior executive — a trainee position in a business or organization
  • kiloelectronvolt — (physics) A unit of energy equal to a thousand electron volts.
  • kondratieff wave — a long business cycle of economic expansion and contraction, postulated to last about 60 years.
  • labour-intensive — Labour-intensive industries or methods of making things involve a lot of workers. Compare capital-intensive.
  • lacto-vegetarian — a vegetarian whose diet includes dairy produce and eggs
  • lactovegetarians — Plural form of lactovegetarian.
  • letter of advice — a notification from a consignor to a consignee giving specific information as to a shipment, the name of the carrier, the date shipped, etc.
  • levallois-perret — a suburb of Paris, in N France, on the Seine.
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