17-letter words containing v, a, r
- have a short fuse — a tube, cord, or the like, filled or saturated with combustible matter, for igniting an explosive.
- have feelings for — to be emotionally or sexually attracted to
- have it in for sb — If someone has it in for you, they dislike you and try to cause problems for you.
- have no words for — to be incapable of describing
- have on the brain — If someone has something on the brain, they keep thinking about it.
- have sth to offer — If you have something to offer, you have a quality or ability that makes you important, attractive, or useful.
- head of the river — any of various annual rowing regattas held on particular rivers
- heavy mineral oil — a colorless, oily, almost tasteless, water-insoluble liquid, usually of either a standard light density (light mineral oil) or a standard heavy density (heavy mineral oil) consisting of mixtures of hydrocarbons obtained from petroleum by distillation: used chiefly as a lubricant, in the manufacture of cosmetics, and in medicine as a laxative.
- heimlich maneuver — an emergency rescue procedure for application to someone choking on a foreign object, in which the rescuer places a fist between the victim's lower ribs or upper abdomen from behind and exerts sudden pressure in the form of thrusts of sufficient force to help eject the object from the windpipe.
- hemorrhagic fever — any of several arbovirus infections, as dengue, characterized by fever, chills, and malaise followed by hemorrhages of capillaries, sometimes leading to kidney failure and death.
- hepatitis b virus — a form of hepatitis caused by a DNA virus (hepatitis B virus, or HBV) that persists in the blood, characterized by a long incubation period: usually transmitted by sexual contact or by injection or ingestion of infected blood or other bodily fluids.
- heteronormativity — The view that all human beings are either male or female, both in sex and in gender, and that sexual and romantic thoughts and relations are normal only when between people of different sexes.
- hit over the head — to strike on the head
- household cavalry — (in Britain) cavalry units forming part of the ceremonial guard of the monarch.
- hydrothermal vent — an opening on the floor of the sea from which hot, mineral-rich solutions issue. Compare vent1 (def 2).
- hypoglossal nerve — either one of the twelfth pair of cranial nerves, consisting of motor fibers that innervate the muscles of the tongue.
- immediate version — child version
- implosive-therapy — a form of behavior therapy involving intensive recollection and review of anxiety-producing situations or events in a patient's life in an attempt to develop more appropriate responses to similar situations in the future.
- improvement grant — a sum of money provided by a government, local authority, or public fund to finance the amelioration of a building, area of land, etc
- improvisationally — In an improvisational way.
- incendiary device — a bomb that is designed to start fires
- incremental value — increased value measured on an index or scale
- inertial observer — a hypothetical observer who is not accelerated with respect to an inertial system. Newton's laws of motion and the special theory of relativity apply to the measurements which would be made by such observers
- infantry division — a military division composed of infantry
- infinitive marker — a word or affix occurring with the verb stem in the infinitive, such as to in to make
- insectivorous bat — any bat of the suborder Microchiroptera, typically having large ears and feeding on insects. The group includes common bats (Myotis species), vampire bats, etc
- instance variable — (programming) In object-oriented programming, one of the variables of a class template which may have a different value for each object of that class. Instance variables hold the state of an object.
- intensive farming — battery rearing of animals
- interactive video — a computer-optical disk system that displays still or moving video images as determined by computer program and user needs
- intergovernmental — involving two or more governments or levels of government.
- interval estimate — the interval used as an estimate in interval estimation; a confidence interval.
- interval training — an exercise and training program in which each session consists of periods of intense exertion alternating with periods of rest or lighter exertion.
- intragovernmental — Within a government.
- intransitive verb — a verb that indicates a complete action without being accompanied by a direct object, as sit or lie, and, in English, that does not form a passive.
- inverse cotangent — arc cotangent.
- 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.
- investment banker — an executive in an investment bank
- invincible armada — Armada.
- inward investment — Inward investment is the investment of money in a country by companies from outside that country.
- irrecoverableness — The quality of being irrecoverable.
- ivan the terrible — ("Ivan the Terrible") 1530–84, first czar of Russia 1547–84.
- 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.
- large-leaved lime — an ornamental European tree with small pale yellow flowers and which grown on lime-rich soils
- lee harvey oswald — Lee Harvey, 1939–63, designated by a presidential commission to be the lone assassin of John F. Kennedy.
- leonardo da vinci — Leonardo [lee-uh-nahr-doh,, ley-;; Italian le-aw-nahr-daw] /ˌli əˈnɑr doʊ,, ˌleɪ-;; Italian ˌlɛ ɔˈnɑr dɔ/ (Show IPA), Leonardo da Vinci.
- level compensator — an automatic gain control device used in the receivers of telegraphic circuits.
- macroevolutionary — Pertaining to, or as a result of macroevolution.
- macroinvertebrate — (zoology) An invertebrate that is large enough to be seen without the use of a microscope.