17-letter words containing u, v, e, d
- activated alumina — a granular highly porous and adsorptive form of aluminium oxide, used for drying gases and as an oil-filtering material and catalyst
- adjective pronoun — a pronoun used as an adjective, as his in His dinner is ready.
- adoptive immunity — passive immunity resulting from the administration of sensitized lymphocytes from an immune donor.
- adventure holiday — a holiday that involves some physically challenging activity such as canoeing, rock climbing, etc
- adventure tourism — tourism involving activities that are physically challenging
- adventuresomeness — The state or quality of being adventuresome.
- aggravated murder — a murder made more serious by its violent circumstances
- alexander severus — a.d. 208?-235; Rom. emperor ( a.d. 222-235)
- automatic vending — selling goods by vending machines
- avogadro's number — the constant, 6.022 × 10 23 , representing the number of atoms, molecules, or ions in one mole of a substance. Symbol: N. Compare gram-atom, gram molecule.
- bell-shaped curve — bell curve
- bill of adventure — a certificate made out by a merchant to show that goods handled by him and his agents are the property of another party at whose risk the dealing is done
- blue-headed vireo — solitary vireo.
- coastguard vessel — a ship used by the coastguard
- code of behaviour — the generally accepted rules governing how people behave
- compound interval — an interval that is greater than an octave, as a ninth or a thirteenth.
- consumer advocate — consumerist (def 1).
- consumer-advocate — Also called consumer advocate. a person who is dedicated to protecting and promoting the welfare and rights of consumers.
- convoluted tubule — a portion of the nephron in the kidney that functions in concentrating urine and in maintaining salt, water, and sugar balance.
- counterproductive — Something that is counterproductive achieves the opposite result from the one that you want to achieve.
- dangerous driving — the act of driving a motor vehicle in a manner that falls far below that expected of a competent and careful driver and hence puts the life of the driver and the lives of other road users at risk
- data service unit — (communications) (DSU or "data service unit") A device used in digital transmission for connecting a CSU (Channel Service Unit) to Data Terminal Equipment (a terminal or computer), in the same way that a modem is used for connection to an analogue medium. A DSU provides a standard interface to a user's terminal which is compatible with modems and handles such functions as signal translation, regeneration, reformatting, and timing. The transmitting portion of the DSU processeses the customers' signal into bipolar pulses suitable for transmission over the digital facility. The receiving portion of the DSU is used both to extract timing information and to regenerate mark and space information from the received bipolar signal.
- deductive tableau — (tool) A theorem proof system consisting of a table whose rows contain assertions or goals. Variables in assertions are implicitly universally quantified and variables in goals are implicitly existentially quantified. The declarative meaning of a tableau is that if every instance of every assertion is true then some instance of at least one of the goals is true.
- desaix de veygoux — Louis Charles Antoine [lwee sharl ahn-twan] /lwi ʃærl ɑ̃ˈtwan/ (Show IPA), 1768–1800, French general.
- digestive biscuit — a round semisweet biscuit made from wholemeal flour
- disadvantageously — In a disadvantageous manner.
- dispersive medium — a substance in which waves of different frequencies travel at different speeds
- disruptive action — action performed by protestors, workers, etc that causes the disruption of a service
- drive up the wall — to cause to become crazy or furious
- freund's adjuvant — a water-in-oil emulsion injected with immunogen (Freund's incomplete adjuvant) or with immunogen and killed mycobacteria (Freund's complete adjuvant) to enhance the immune response to the immunogen.
- full-motion video — (video) (FMV) Any kind of video that is theoretically capable of changing the entire content on the screen fast enough that the transitions are not obvious to the human eye, i.e. about 24 times a second or more. In practise most video encoding relies on the fact that in most video there is relatively little change from one frame to the next. This allows for compression of the video data. The term is used, chiefly in computer games, in contrast to techniques such as the use of sprites that move against a more-or-less fixed background.
- gross value added — the aggregate of values added throughout an economy, which represents that economy's gross domestic product
- gustavo a. madero — official name of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
- household cavalry — (in Britain) cavalry units forming part of the ceremonial guard of the monarch.
- individual medley — a race in which the total distance is either divided into three equal portions, in which each swimmer uses the backstroke for the first portion, the breaststroke for the second portion, and the freestyle for the third, or the total distance is divided into four equal portions, in which each swimmer uses the butterfly stroke for the first portion and then the other strokes used follow the same pattern as in the three-part medley. Compare medley relay (def 2).
- juvenile diabetes — any of several disorders characterized by increased urine production.
- juvenile offender — a child or young person who has been found guilty of some offence, act of vandalism, or antisocial behaviour before a juvenile court
- longitudinal wave — a wave in which the direction of displacement is the same as the direction of propagation, as a sound wave.
- many-valued logic — the study of logical systems in which the truth-values that a proposition may have are not restricted to two, representing only truth and falsity
- nervous breakdown — (not in technical use) any disabling mental disorder requiring treatment.
- neurodegenerative — Resulting in or characterized by degeneration of the nervous system, especially the neurons in the brain.
- nonproductiveness — The quality of being nonproductive.
- odds-on favourite — a person, team, horse, etc that is regarded as the most likely to win a competition
- old wives' summer — a period of fine, summerlike weather occurring in Europe in autumn.
- period-revolution — a rather large interval of time that is meaningful in the life of a person, in history, etc., because of its particular characteristics: a period of illness; a period of great profitability for a company; a period of social unrest in Germany.
- private education — education provided 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
- pseudo-aggressive — characterized by or tending toward unprovoked offensives, attacks, invasions, or the like; militantly forward or menacing: aggressive acts against a neighboring country.
- purdue university — http://purdue.edu/.
- radiative capture — the capture of a particle, as a neutron, by a nucleus, inducing the emission of electromagnetic radiation, as a gamma ray.
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