17-letter words containing v, a, s, e, l, i
- ablative absolute — an absolute construction in Latin grammar in which a governor noun and a modifier in the ablative case function as a sentence modifier; for example, hostibus victis, "the enemy having been beaten"
- access television — television programmes made by the general public as distinguished from those made by professional broadcasters
- adverse selection — Adverse selection is a term used to describe the tendency of those in dangerous jobs or with high-risk lifestyles to want to take out life insurance.
- aftershave lotion — a lotion, usually styptic and perfumed, for application to the face after shaving
- alternative music — independent pop music
- ambivalent sexism — a theory that sexism toward women is multidimensional, one form (hostile sexism) reflecting negative views of women who challenge traditional gender roles, and the other form (benevolent sexism) reflecting positive views of women who conform to these roles.
- ambulance service — the public organization that operates ambulances in a country
- api gravity scale — the American Petroleum Institute gravity scale: a universally accepted scale of the relative density of fluids that is used in fuel technology and is measured in degrees API. One degree API is equal to (141.5/d)–131.5, where d = relative density at 288.7K
- athlete's village — an area of accommodation for competitors taking part in a sports event
- barber of seville — Italian Il barbiere di Siviglia. a comic opera (1816) by Gioacchino Rossini based on a comedy (1775) by Beaumarchais.
- capital-intensive — Capital-intensive industries and businesses need the investment of large sums of money. Compare labour-intensive.
- castilla la nueva — Spanish name of New Castile.
- castilla la vieja — Spanish name of Old Castile.
- cavalier servente — a lover; suitor.
- cellulose varnish — a varnish made from cellulose nitrate, used as a protective sealing film
- civil partnership — A civil partnership is a legal relationship between two people of the same sex that is similar to marriage.
- cleveland heights — city in NE Ohio: suburb of Cleveland: pop. 50,000
- collaborativeness — Quality of being collaborative.
- composite volcano — a large, steep volcano built up of alternating layers of lava and ash or cinders.
- composite-volcano — a large, steep volcano built up of alternating layers of lava and ash or cinders.
- concessive clause — A concessive clause is a subordinate clause which refers to a situation that contrasts with the one described in the main clause. For example, in the sentence 'Although he was tired, he couldn't get to sleep', the first clause is a concessive clause.
- contemplativeness — The state or quality of being contemplative.
- controversialness — The state or quality of being controversial.
- conventionalities — Plural form of conventionality.
- conversationalist — A good conversationalist is someone who talks about interesting things when they have conversations.
- cytomegaloviruses — Plural form of cytomegalovirus.
- david livingstone — David, 1813–73, Scottish missionary and explorer in Africa.
- denial of service — a deliberate interruption in access to a computer system or network, esp by using multiple computers to generate an unmanageable volume of traffic (distributed denial of service)
- denial-of-service — pertaining to or being an incident in which a computer or computer network is disabled, disrupting access or service: a website hit by a denial-of-service attack; unintentional denial-of-service problems.
- developmentalists — an expert in or advocate of developmental psychology.
- devil's food cake — a rich chocolate cake
- disadvantageously — In a disadvantageous manner.
- discrete variable — a variable that may assume only a countable, and usually finite, number of values.
- dissolve in tears — weep
- environmentalists — Plural form of environmentalist.
- equivalence class — (mathematics) An equivalence class is a subset whose elements are related to each other by an equivalence relation. The equivalence classes of a set under some relation form a partition of that set (i.e. any two are either equal or disjoint and every element of the set is in some class).
- female chauvinist — a female who patronizes, disparages, or otherwise denigrates males in the belief that they are inferior to females and thus deserving of less than equal treatment or benefit.
- female-chauvinist — a person who is aggressively and blindly patriotic, especially one devoted to military glory.
- financial adviser — A financial adviser is someone whose job it is to advise people about financial products and services.
- fluvioterrestrial — (of animals) able to live in rivers and on land
- geological survey — U.S. Government. a division of the Department of the Interior, created in 1879, that studies the nation's water and mineral resources, makes topographic surveys, and classifies and leases public lands.
- great vowel shift — a series of changes in the quality of the long vowels between Middle and Modern English as a result of which all were raised, while the high vowels (ē) and (o̅o̅), already at the upper limit, underwent breaking to become the diphthongs (ī) and (ou).
- have feelings for — to be emotionally or sexually attracted to
- 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.
- inconceivableness — The quality of being inconceivable.
- 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
- infinitive clause — a clause containing an infinitive as its main or only verb form, as to speak clearly in Try to speak clearly.
- 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.
- interval estimate — the interval used as an estimate in interval estimation; a confidence interval.
- invisible balance — the difference in value between total exports of services plus payment of property incomes from abroad and total imports of services plus payment abroad of property incomes
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