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16-letter words containing v, c, r

  • primitive church — the early Christian church, especially in reference to its earliest form and organization.
  • private practice — the practice of one's profession as an independent rather than as an employee.
  • private-line car — a freight car owned by a company other than a railroad but operated over the tracks of railroads.
  • projective plane — (mathematics)   The space of equivalence classes of vectors under non-zero scalar multiplication. Elements are sets of the form {kv: k != 0, k scalar, v != O, v a vector} where O is the origin. v is a representative member of this equivalence class. The projective plane of a vector space is the collection of its 1-dimensional subspaces. The properties of the vector space induce a topology and notions of smoothness on the projective plane. A projective plane is in no meaningful sense a plane and would therefore be (but isn't) better described as a "projective space".
  • proper adjective — an adjective formed from a proper noun, as American from America.
  • protective slope — a slope given to a yard or the like to drain surface water away from a building.
  • pyroconductivity — conductivity brought about by the application of heat, especially in solids that are not conductors at normal temperatures.
  • pyrovanadic acid — an oxyacid of vanadium, known chiefly in the form of its vanadate salts; Formula: H4V2O7
  • pyruvic aldehyde — a yellow, liquid compound, C 3 H 4 O 2 , containing both an aldehyde and a ketone group, usually obtained in a polymeric form: used chiefly in organic synthesis.
  • re-entry vehicle — the section of a spacecraft or ballistic missile designed to return to earth.
  • receiver general — a public official in charge of the government's treasury.
  • reckless driving — a serious traffic offence whereby the driver of a vehicle disregards the rules of the road, driving very dangerously, causing accidents or other damage
  • recovered memory — a memory of a past event that has been recalled after having been forgotten or repressed for a long time. Compare false-memory syndrome.
  • recovery vehicle — a truck used to transport motor vehicles which have broken down to another location (generally a repair garage), or to recover vehicles which are no longer on a drivable surface
  • refractive index — index of refraction.
  • relativistically — of or relating to relativity or relativism.
  • republican river — a river flowing E from E Colorado through Nebraska and Kansas into the Kansas River. 422 miles (680 km) long.
  • reserve buoyancy — the difference between the volume of a hull below the designed waterline and the volume of the hull below the lowest opening incapable of being made watertight.
  • reserve capacity — the capacity of a battery, measured in minutes, to keep a vehicle operating if the charging system fails.
  • reserve currency — any currency, as the U.S. dollar, used as a medium to settle international debts.
  • resistance level — a point at which the rise in price of a specific stock is arrested due to more substantial selling than buying.
  • reversal process — a process for converting the negative on a film or plate to a positive by bleaching and redeveloping.
  • reverse a charge — If you reverse a charge on a credit card, you put the amount you have charged back into the credit card account.
  • reverse commuter — a commuter who lives in a city and commutes to a job in the suburbs.
  • revolving credit — credit automatically available up to a predetermined limit while payments are periodically made. Compare credit line (def 2).
  • river carpsucker — a carpsucker, Carpiodes carpio, found in silty rivers of the central U.S. south to Mexico.
  • rockville centre — a city on W Long Island, in SE New York.
  • 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.
  • scavenger beetle — any beetle of the mostly aquatic family Hydrophilidae, having clubbed antennae and long palps, and usually feeding on decaying vegetation
  • scrovegni chapel — Arena Chapel.
  • security vetting — the process of investigating somebody to establish their trustworthiness
  • selective memory — an ability to remember some facts while apparently forgetting others, especially when they are inconvenient
  • selective strike — a partial strike against a particular area of a business or against one employer or a small number of employers in a collective bargaining situation
  • self-deliverance — suicide.
  • self-descriptive — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
  • self-destructive — harmful, injurious, or destructive to oneself: His constant arguing with the boss shows he's a self-destructive person.
  • semiconservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
  • send to coventry — to ostracize or ignore
  • senior executive — someone in a senior position in a business, who makes decisions and puts them into action
  • service contract — law: between employer and employee
  • service elevator — an elevator for the use of servants and delivery people and for carrying large items.
  • service engineer — someone who maintains and repairs equipment
  • service entrance — an entrance for the use of servants, delivery people, or the like.
  • service families — families which have a member serving in the armed forces
  • service industry — business providing a service
  • service provider — company: provides internet
  • severance motion — an application made to a judge or court for the division into separate parts of a joint estate, contract, etc
  • sevruga (caviar) — caviar prepared from the small, grayish or black roe of a sturgeon chiefly from the Caspian Sea
  • shortfin corvina — See under corvina.
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