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

  • level descriptor — one of a set of criteria used to assess the performance of a pupil in a particular subject
  • leveraged buyout — the purchase of a company with borrowed money, using the company's assets as collateral, and often discharging the debt and realizing a profit by liquidating the company. Abbreviation: LBO.
  • lick observatory — the astronomical observatory of the University of California, situated on Mount Hamilton, near San Jose, California, and having a 120-inch (3-meter) reflecting telescope and a 36-inch (91-cm) refracting telescope.
  • local government — the administration of the civic affairs of a city, town, or district by its inhabitants rather than by the state or country at large.
  • lost river range — a mountain range in E central Idaho. Highest peak, Borah Peak (also highest in the state), 12,662 feet (3862 meters).
  • macroenvironment — (biology) The large-scale and long-term environment and conditions that affect an organism.
  • magnetoresistive — Of or pertaining to magnetoresistance.
  • magnetostrictive — Of or pertaining to magnetostriction.
  • majority verdict — a decision supported by more than half, but not all, the jury
  • make a virtue of — If you make a virtue of something, you pretend that you did it because you chose to, although in fact you did it because you had to.
  • mass observation — the study of the social habits of people through observation, interviews, etc
  • mechanoreceptive — Responsive to mechanical stimuli such as sound and touch.
  • medieval history — the branch of history dealing with the Middle Ages
  • melodic interval — an intervening period of time: an interval of 50 years.
  • microenvironment — the environment of a small area or of a particular organism; microhabitat.
  • microvasculature — the system of tiny blood vessels, including capillaries, venules, and arterioles, that perfuse the body's tissues.
  • mind over matter — You can use the expression mind over matter to describe situations in which a person seems to be able to control events, physical objects, or the condition of their own body using their mind.
  • minerva software — A company producing software for the Acorn Archimedes.
  • monotransitivity — (grammar) The state or quality of being monotransitive.
  • moravska ostrava — former name of Ostrava.
  • moving staircase — Also called moving staircase, moving stairway. a continuously moving stairway on an endless loop for carrying passengers up or down.
  • national service — National service is service in the armed forces, which young people in certain countries have to do by law.
  • neo-conservatism — (in the US) a right-wing tendency that originated amongst supporters of the political left and has become characterized by its support of hawkish foreign policies
  • neoconservatives — Plural form of neoconservative.
  • network provider — a business or organization that provides customers with access to a telecommunications network (esp mobile phone networks) or to the internet
  • neurodevelopment — The development of the nervous system during the life of an organism.
  • no-fault divorce — a divorce granted without anyone being found guilty of marital misconduct
  • noise prevention — the prevention of annoying or harmful noise in an environment
  • non-conservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
  • non-constructive — helping to improve; promoting further development or advancement (opposed to destructive): constructive criticism.
  • non-contributive — to give (money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes.
  • non-interpretive — serving to interpret; explanatory.
  • non-intervention — abstention by a nation from interference in the affairs of other nations or in those of its own political subdivisions.
  • non-remunerative — affording remuneration; profitable: remunerative work.
  • non-reproductive — serving to reproduce.
  • non-transitively — Grammar. having the nature of a transitive verb.
  • noncontroversial — of, relating to, or characteristic of controversy, or prolonged public dispute, debate, or contention; polemical: a controversial book.
  • nondestructively — In a nondestructive manner; without causing destruction.
  • north providence — a town in NE Rhode Island.
  • north ridgeville — a town in N Ohio.
  • north vietnamese — relating to North Vietnam or its people
  • objective danger — a danger, such as a stone fall or avalanche, to which climbing skill is irrelevant
  • objective spirit — the human spirit, insofar as it has become capable of a rational identification of its individual self with the community of other spirits but is not yet capable of the identification with the absolute idea that characterizes the absolute spirit.
  • observation deck — an area on a high building that is surrounded with railings or fencing and which provides panoramic views
  • observation post — a forward position, often on high ground, from which enemy activity can be observed and, particularly, from which artillery or mortar fire can be directed.
  • observation ward — a ward in a hospital where patients are monitored
  • observationalist — One who relies on empirical observations.
  • observationality — The property of being observational.
  • oculomotor nerve — either one of the third pair of cranial nerves, consisting chiefly of motor fibers that innervate most of the muscles of the eyeball.
  • on (the) average — as an average quantity, rate, etc.
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