16-letter words containing v, a, c, i
- cross-validation — a process by which a method that works for one sample of a population is checked for validity by applying the method to another sample from the same population.
- cryopreservation — the storage of blood or living tissues at extremely cold temperatures, often -196 degrees Celsius.
- curriculum vitae — A curriculum vitae is the same as a CV.
- currier and ives — any of a 19th-cent. series of prints showing the manners, people, and events of the times
- davidson current — a winter countercurrent that flows N along the W coast of the U.S.
- delta conversion — delta reduction
- devil's advocate — If you play devil's advocate in a discussion or debate, you express an opinion which you may not agree with but which is very different to what other people have been saying, in order to make the argument more interesting.
- devonshire cream — clotted cream.
- diversifications — Plural form of diversification.
- divisional court — a high court in which at least two judges sit
- domestic servant — person employed to do household chores
- driver education — a course of study, as for high-school students, that teaches the techniques of driving a vehicle, along with basic vehicle maintenance, safety precautions, and traffic regulations and laws.
- drumhead service — a religious service attended by members of a military unit while in the field
- enantioselective — (chemistry) (of a catalyst) that catalyzes the reaction of only one of a pair of enantiomers.
- evacuation route — An evacuation route is a way to get out of a building if there is an emergency, such as a fire.
- evangelistically — In an evangelistic manner.
- family of curves — a collection of curves whose equations differ only by values assigned a parameter or parameters.
- flame cultivator — an implement that kills weeds by scorching them with a directed flow of flaming gas.
- florencio varela — a city in E Argentina, near Buenos Aires.
- forced vibration — Forced vibration is a type of vibration in which a force is repeatedly applied to a mechanical system.
- galvanic battery — battery (def 1a).
- germinal vesicle — the large, vesicular nucleus of an ovum before the polar bodies are formed.
- gnu archive site — (body) The main GNU FTP archive is on gnu.org but copies ("mirrors") of some or all of the files there are also held on many other computers around the world. To avoid overloading gnu.org and the Internet you should FTP files from the machine closest to yours. Look for a directory like /pub/gnu, /mirrors/gnu, /systems/gnu or /archives/gnu.
- gravity decanter — A gravity decanter is a vessel or stage in which two liquids of different densities are allowed to separate by gravity.
- harvard graphics — (graphics, tool) A presentation graphics product by Software Publishing Corporation (SPC) for creating presentations, speeches, slides, etc..
- hearsay evidence — testimony based on what a witness has heard from another person rather than on direct personal knowledge or experience.
- heavy with child — pregnant
- 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
- hypervascularity — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
- incentive travel — a vacation awarded to employees as a bonus in order to motivate them.
- inconceivability — (uncountable) The quality of being inconceivable.
- incontravertable — Misspelling of incontrovertible.
- indiscriminative — Making no distinction; not discriminating.
- interventricular — (anatomy) Located between the ventricles of the heart.
- intervocalically — (phonology) Between vowels.
- intraventricular — (medicine) In a ventricle.
- inverse cosecant — arc cosecant.
- janet ip service — (networking) (JIPS) Joint Academic NETwork Internet Protocol. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- lacto-vegetarian — a vegetarian whose diet includes dairy produce and eggs
- lactovegetarians — Plural form of lactovegetarian.
- lake havasu city — a city in W central Arizona.
- 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.
- 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.
- machiavellianism — of, like, or befitting Machiavelli.
- macroenvironment — (biology) The large-scale and long-term environment and conditions that affect an organism.
- magnetostrictive — Of or pertaining to magnetostriction.
- majority verdict — a decision supported by more than half, but not all, the jury
- male-voice choir — a choir of male singers