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17-letter words containing v, e, c

  • polyvinyl acetate — a colorless, odorless, nontoxic, transparent, thermoplastic, water-insoluble resin used as an adhesive in certain paints and as an intermediate in the synthesis of polyvinyl acetal and polyvinyl alcohol.
  • positive electron — positron.
  • positive eugenics — the study of or belief in the possibility of improving the qualities of the human species or a human population, especially by such means as discouraging reproduction by persons having genetic defects or presumed to have inheritable undesirable traits (negative eugenics) or encouraging reproduction by persons presumed to have inheritable desirable traits (positive eugenics)
  • positive feedback — Electronics. the process of returning part of the output of a circuit, system, or device to the input, either to oppose the input (negative feedback) or to aid the input (positive feedback) acoustic feedback.
  • prairie provinces — the Canadian provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, which lie in the N Great Plains region of North America: the chief wheat and petroleum producing area of Canada
  • prerogative court — a former ecclesiastical court in England and Ireland for the trial of certain testamentary cases.
  • private detective — a detective who is not a member of an official force but is employed by private parties.
  • private education — education provided by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
  • private placement — a sale of an issue of securities by the issuing company directly to a limited number of investors, often only one or two large institutional investors, such as a bank or an insurance company (opposed to public offering): required to be cleared but not registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
  • private secretary — a person who attends to the individual or confidential correspondence, files, etc., of a business executive, official, or the like.
  • pro forma invoice — an invoice issued before an order is placed or before the goods are delivered giving all the details and the cost of the goods
  • probability curve — a curve that describes the distribution of probability over the values of a random variable.
  • production values — the quality of a media production (such as a film) in regards to elements such as colours, quality, style, etc
  • proof of coverage — A policyholder's proof of coverage is a document from an insurer stating that they have insurance coverage.
  • protective system — protectionism (def 1).
  • protective tariff — a tariff levied on imports to protect the domestic economy rather than to raise revenue
  • provincial police — (in Canada) the police force of a province, esp Ontario or Quebec
  • public television — a type of noncommercial, usually educational, television programming funded by the government, grants, viewers, and corporations. Compare educational television.
  • quasi-competitive — of, pertaining to, involving, or decided by competition: competitive sports; a competitive examination.
  • radiative capture — the capture of a particle, as a neutron, by a nucleus, inducing the emission of electromagnetic radiation, as a gamma ray.
  • radioactive decay — decay (def 8).
  • radioactive waste — the radioactive by-products from the operation of a nuclear reactor or from the reprocessing of depleted nuclear fuel.
  • received standard — the form of educated English spoken originally in southern England and having Received Pronunciation as a chief distinguishing feature.
  • receiving blanket — a small blanket, usually of cotton, for wrapping an infant, especially following a bath.
  • recorded delivery — If you send a letter or parcel recorded delivery, you send it using a Post Office service which gives you an official record of the fact that it has been posted and delivered.
  • recoverable error — a program error that can be corrected and does not cause the program to fail or irretrievably lose data.
  • recovery position — a position in which an unconscious person can be lain on the floor, which minimises them from further risk
  • recursive acronym — (convention)   A hackish (and especially MIT) tradition is to choose acronyms and abbreviations that refer humorously to themselves or to other acronyms or abbreviations. The classic examples were two MIT editors called EINE ("EINE Is Not Emacs") and ZWEI ("ZWEI Was EINE Initially"). More recently, there is a Scheme compiler called LIAR (Liar Imitates Apply Recursively), and GNU stands for "GNU's Not Unix!" - and a company with the name CYGNUS, which expands to "Cygnus, Your GNU Support". See also mung.
  • relativistic mass — the mass of a body in motion relative to the observer: it is equal to the rest mass multiplied by a factor that is greater than 1 and that increases as the magnitude of the velocity increases.
  • remittance advice — a letter sent by a customer to a supplier, to let them know that their invoice has been paid
  • replacement value — insurance: sum required to replace sth
  • reproductive cell — gamete.
  • resource recovery — Resource recovery is when energy, a material, or a product is taken from waste and used.
  • revascularization — the restoration of the blood circulation of an organ or area, achieved by unblocking obstructed or disrupted blood vessels or by surgically implanting replacements.
  • romantic movement — the late 18th- and early 19th-century movement in France, Germany, England, and America to establish Romanticism in art and literature.
  • row-level locking — (database)   A technique used in database management systems, where a row is locked for writing to prevent other users from accessing data being while it is being updated. Other techniques are table locking and MVCC.
  • saint croix river — Also called Santa Cruz. a U.S. island in the N Lesser Antilles: the largest of the Virgin Islands. 82 sq. mi. (212 sq. km).
  • second derivative — the derivative of the derivative of a function: Acceleration is the second derivative of distance with respect to time.
  • selective amnesia — the deliberate forgetting of something
  • selective service — compulsory military service.
  • self-belay device — (in climbing) a device used to pay out a safety rope as required
  • self-conservation — the act of conserving; prevention of injury, decay, waste, or loss; preservation: conservation of wildlife; conservation of human rights.
  • severance package — an amount of compensation paid by an organization to an employee who leaves because, through no fault of their own, the job to which they were appointed ceases to exist, as during rationalization, and no comparable job is available to them
  • silver collection — a collection that consists of silver coins that is made at a meeting etc
  • softvelocity inc. — (company)   The distributors of the Clarion family of application development systems.
  • soil conservation — any of various methods to achieve the maximum utilization of the land and preserve its resources through such controls as crop rotation, prevention of soil erosion, etc.
  • special privilege — exclusive advantage
  • st. vitus's dance — St. Vitus's dance.
  • structural survey — an examination of a property carried out by surveyor which should reveal any problems with the building
  • subclavian artery — either of a pair of arteries, one on each side of the body, that carry the main supply of blood to the arms.
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