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17-letter words containing t, s, a, v, o, r

  • inversion casting — casting from an electric furnace inverted over the mold.
  • inversion therapy — a method used to stretch and align the body, especially the lower back, by suspending the entire body upside down from an apparatus that grips or supports the feet or knees.
  • job advertisement — an announcement in a newspaper, on television, or on a poster about a post of employment
  • kvatro telecom as — (company)   The company that maintains Mary. Address: Trondheim, Norway.
  • level compensator — an automatic gain control device used in the receivers of telegraphic circuits.
  • make conversation — If you make conversation, you talk to someone in order to be polite and not because you really want to.
  • naval air station — military airbase for the navy
  • naval observatory — an astronomical observatory located in Washington, D.C., operated by the U.S. government, and responsible for the U.S. time service.
  • neurotransmissive — Relating to neurotransmission.
  • non-controversial — of, relating to, or characteristic of controversy, or prolonged public dispute, debate, or contention; polemical: a controversial book.
  • non-demonstrative — characterized by or given to open exhibition or expression of one's emotions, attitudes, etc., especially of love or affection: She wished her fiancé were more demonstrative.
  • nonrepresentative — a person or thing that represents another or others.
  • observation tower — lookout, observation point
  • odds-on favourite — a person, team, horse, etc that is regarded as the most likely to win a competition
  • otto von bismarck — Otto von [ot-oh von;; German aw-toh fuh n] /ˈɒt oʊ vɒn;; German ˈɔ toʊ fən/ (Show IPA), 1815–98, German statesman: first chancellor of modern German Empire 1871–90.
  • over-compensation — a pronounced striving to neutralize and conceal a strong but unacceptable character trait by substituting for it an opposite trait.
  • over-conservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
  • overhead camshaft — a camshaft in an automotive engine that is located in the cylinder head over the engine block rather than in the block. Abbreviation: OHC.
  • overstep the mark — If someone oversteps the mark, they behave in a way that is considered unacceptable.
  • paleoconservative — a person advocating an older, traditional type of conservatism, especially in politics.
  • parts of kesteven — an area in E England constituting a former administrative division of Lincolnshire
  • positive polarity — the grammatical characteristic of a word or phrase, such as delicious or rather, that may normally only be used in a semantically or syntactically positive or affirmative context
  • pre-investigation — the act or process of investigating or the condition of being investigated.
  • private ownership — the fact of being owned by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
  • production values — the quality of a media production (such as a film) in regards to elements such as colours, quality, style, etc
  • progressive party — a political party formed in 1912 under the leadership of Theodore Roosevelt, advocating popular control of government, direct primaries, the initiative, the referendum, woman suffrage, etc.
  • quantity surveyor — A quantity surveyor is a person who calculates the cost and amount of materials and workers needed for a job such as building a house or a road.
  • radioactive waste — the radioactive by-products from the operation of a nuclear reactor or from the reprocessing of depleted nuclear fuel.
  • revascularization — the restoration of the blood circulation of an organ or area, achieved by unblocking obstructed or disrupted blood vessels or by surgically implanting replacements.
  • saint bonaventure — Saint ("the Seraphic Doctor") 1221–74, Italian scholastic theologian.
  • saint croix river — Also called Santa Cruz. a U.S. island in the N Lesser Antilles: the largest of the Virgin Islands. 82 sq. mi. (212 sq. km).
  • saturation diving — a method of prolonged diving, using an underwater habitat to allow divers to remain in the high-pressure environment of the ocean depths long enough for their body tissues to become saturated with the inert components of the pressurized gas mixture that they breathe: when this condition is reached, the amount of time required for decompression remains the same, whether the dive lasts a day, a week, or a month.
  • save one's breath — the air inhaled and exhaled in respiration.
  • save shoe leather — to avoid wearing out shoes, as by taking a bus rather than walking
  • second derivative — the derivative of the derivative of a function: Acceleration is the second derivative of distance with respect to time.
  • self-conservation — the act of conserving; prevention of injury, decay, waste, or loss; preservation: conservation of wildlife; conservation of human rights.
  • self-preservation — preservation of oneself from harm or destruction.
  • shetland pullover — a thick woollen sweater made from Shetland wool
  • sleep deprivation — a condition in which you have not had enough sleep
  • soil conservation — any of various methods to achieve the maximum utilization of the land and preserve its resources through such controls as crop rotation, prevention of soil erosion, etc.
  • stellar evolution — the sequence of changes that occurs in a star as it ages
  • stratford-on-avon — a town in SW Warwickshire, in central England, on the Avon River: birthplace and burial place of Shakespeare.
  • subtractive color — cyan, yellow, or magenta, as used in the subtractive process of color photography.
  • supernova remnant — an expanding shell of gas, with accompanying strong radio and x-ray emissions, produced by a supernova.
  • traffic diversion — a special route arranged for traffic to follow when the normal route cannot be used
  • transferable vote — a vote that is transferred to a second candidate indicated by the voter if the first is eliminated from the ballot
  • ultraconservative — extremely conservative, especially in politics.
  • uncooperativeness — working or acting together willingly for a common purpose or benefit.
  • vacuum aspiration — menstrual extraction.
  • valence electrons — an electron of an atom, located in the outermost shell (valence shell) of the atom, that can be transferred to or shared with another atom.
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