19-letter words containing v, e, c, t
- evaporative cooling — a method of reducing temperature that uses evaporation
- executive agreement — an agreement made between the US President and the head of a foreign state, having the effect of a treaty
- executive committee — the executive committee or board of an organization is a committee within that organization which has the authority to make decisions and ensures that these decisions are carried out
- executive president — a president in certain systems of government who possesses wide powers
- executive privilege — Executive privilege is the right that a member of the executive branch of government has to withhold information about matters that they consider to be confidential.
- executive secretary — supports executives or departments
- facultative apomict — a plant that can reproduce sexually or asexually.
- farmers cooperative — an organization of farmers for marketing their products or buying supplies.
- full-wave rectifier — a rectifier that transmits both halves of a cycle of alternating current as a direct current.
- geneva nomenclature — an internationally accepted system for naming organic carbon compounds.
- give one credit for — to commend one for
- goods received note — a document created by a buyer on receipt of merchandise and which describes each good and details the quantity of each received
- grievance committee — a group of representatives chosen from a labor union or from both labor and management to consider and remedy workers' grievances.
- half wave rectifier — A half wave rectifier removes the negative component of an alternating signal leaving only the positive part.
- half-wave rectifier — a rectifier that changes only one half of a cycle of alternating current into a pulsating, direct current.
- haul over the coals — a black or dark-brown combustible mineral substance consisting of carbonized vegetable matter, used as a fuel. Compare anthracite, bituminous coal, lignite.
- have a bone to pick — to have grounds for a quarrel
- heavy-water reactor — a nuclear reactor that uses heavy water as moderator
- hepatic portal vein — a vein connecting two capillary networks in the liver
- immersion objective — a microscope objective of high resolving power in which the space between the front lens and the cover glass is filled with an oil whose index of refraction is close to that of the objective and the cover glass.
- in-service training — training that is given to employees during the course of employment
- incontrovertibility — The state or characteristic of being incontrovertible, of not being debatable; incontestability.
- indirect initiative — a procedure in which a statute or amendment proposed by popular petition must receive legislative consideration before being submitted to the voters.
- inductive inference — grammatical inference
- inductive reactance — the opposition of inductance to alternating current, equal to the product of the angular frequency of the current times the self-inductance. Symbol: X L.
- information service — a service which provides information
- input/output device — a device that passes data into and out of a computer
- intensive care unit — the specialized center in a hospital where intensive care is provided. Abbreviation: ICU.
- interactive fiction — an adventure or mystery story, usually presented as a video game or book, in which the player or reader is given choices as to how the storyline is to develop or the mystery is to be solved.
- internal conversion — the emission of an electron by an atom with an excited nucleus, occurring as a result of the transfer of energy from the nucleus to the electron.
- interpretive centre — (at a place of interest, such as a country park, historical site, etc) a building or group of buildings that provides interpretation of the place of interest through a variety of media, such as video displays and exhibitions of material, and, often, includes facilities such as refreshment rooms and gift shops
- intervertebral disc — any of the cartilaginous discs between individual vertebrae, acting as shock absorbers
- intrauterine device — any small, mechanical device for semipermanent insertion into the uterus as a contraceptive. Abbreviation: IUD.
- investment compound — investment (def 11).
- kinematic viscosity — the coefficient of viscosity of a fluid divided by the density, usually measured in stokes.
- legislative council — the upper house of a bicameral legislature.
- lift up one's voice — to speak out loudly
- locomotive engineer — engineer (def 3).
- locomotive workshop — a place where locomotives are built or repaired
- magnetic levitation — the suspension of an object above or below a second object by means of magnetic repulsion or attraction.
- magnetic tape drive — (storage) (Or "tape drive") A peripheral device that reads and writes magnetic tape.
- magnetomotive force — a scalar quantity that is a measure of the sources of magnetic flux in a magnetic circuit. Abbreviation: mmf.
- major seventh chord — a chord much used in modern music, esp jazz and pop, consisting of a major triad with an added major seventh above the root
- male chauvinist pig — male chauvinist.
- minor seventh chord — a chord consisting of a minor triad with an added minor seventh above the root
- motivation research — the application of the knowledge and techniques of the social sciences, especially psychology and sociology, to understanding consumer attitudes and behavior: used as a guide in advertising and marketing.
- moving spirit/force — The moving spirit or moving force behind something is the person or thing that caused it to start and to keep going, or that influenced people to take part in it.
- national convention — French History. the legislature of France 1792–95.
- national serviceman — a soldier undertaking compulsory military service
- neats vs. scruffies — (artificial intelligence, jargon) The label used to refer to one of the continuing holy wars in artificial intelligence research. This conflict tangles together two separate issues. One is the relationship between human reasoning and AI; "neats" tend to try to build systems that "reason" in some way identifiably similar to the way humans report themselves as doing, while "scruffies" profess not to care whether an algorithm resembles human reasoning in the least as long as it works. More importantly, neats tend to believe that logic is king, while scruffies favour looser, more ad-hoc methods driven by empirical knowledge. To a neat, scruffy methods appear promiscuous, successful only by accident and not productive of insights about how intelligence actually works; to a scruffy, neat methods appear to be hung up on formalism and irrelevant to the hard-to-capture "common sense" of living intelligences.