16-letter words containing v, a, r, i, s, c
- divisional court — a high court in which at least two judges sit
- domestic servant — person employed to do household chores
- drumhead service — a religious service attended by members of a military unit while in the field
- family of curves — a collection of curves whose equations differ only by values assigned a parameter or parameters.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- indiscriminative — Making no distinction; not discriminating.
- inverse cosecant — arc cosecant.
- janet ip service — (networking) (JIPS) Joint Academic NETwork Internet Protocol. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- lactovegetarians — Plural form of lactovegetarian.
- 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.
- magnetostrictive — Of or pertaining to magnetostriction.
- manic-depressive — suffering from bipolar disorder.
- measuring device — gauge
- medieval cornish — the Cornish language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from the 14th century to 1600.
- memorial service — ceremony held in commemoration
- merchant service — A merchant service is a provider of credit card processing services.
- microvasculature — the system of tiny blood vessels, including capillaries, venules, and arterioles, that perfuse the body's tissues.
- military service — compulsory period spent in the army
- 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.
- native americans — a person born in the United States.
- 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.
- non-conservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
- noncontroversial — of, relating to, or characteristic of controversy, or prolonged public dispute, debate, or contention; polemical: a controversial book.
- observation deck — an area on a high building that is surrounded with railings or fencing and which provides panoramic views
- over-speculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
- overcautiousness — the quality or state of being too cautious, wary, or careful
- overcompensating — Present participle of overcompensate.
- overcompensation — a pronounced striving to neutralize and conceal a strong but unacceptable character trait by substituting for it an opposite trait.
- overenthusiastic — full of or characterized by enthusiasm; ardent: He seems very enthusiastic about his role in the play.
- plutarch's lives — (Parallel Lives) a collection (a.d. 105–15) by Plutarch of short biographies of the leading political figures of ancient Greece and Rome.
- pre-conversation — informal interchange of thoughts, information, etc., by spoken words; oral communication between persons; talk; colloquy.
- relativistically — of or relating to relativity or relativism.
- reserve capacity — the capacity of a battery, measured in minutes, to keep a vehicle operating if the charging system fails.
- resistance level — a point at which the rise in price of a specific stock is arrested due to more substantial selling than buying.
- river carpsucker — a carpsucker, Carpiodes carpio, found in silty rivers of the central U.S. south to Mexico.
- same-day service — (humour, operating system) An ironic term used to describe long response time, particularly with respect to MS-DOS system calls (which ought to require only a tiny fraction of a second to execute). Such response time is a major incentive for programmers to write programs that are not well-behaved. See also PC-ism.
- savonarola chair — a chair of the Renaissance having a number of transverse pairs of curved legs, crossing beneath the seat and rising to support the arms and back.
- scrovegni chapel — Arena Chapel.
- self-deliverance — suicide.
- semiconservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
- service contract — law: between employer and employee
- service elevator — an elevator for the use of servants and delivery people and for carrying large items.