18-letter words containing v, e, n, o, l
- federal government — pertaining to or of the nature of a union of states under a central government distinct from the individual governments of the separate states, as in federal government; federal system.
- fischer von erlach — Johann Bernhard [yaw-hahn bern-hahrt] /ˈyɔ hɑn ˈbɛrn hɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1656–1723, Austrian architect.
- forced development — the processing of underexposed photographic film to increase the image density
- formal equivalence — the relation that holds between two open sentences when their universal closures are materially equivalent
- governor's council — a council chosen to assist or inform a governor on legislative or executive matters.
- gravitational lens — a heavy, dense body, as a galaxy, that lies along our line of sight to a more distant object, as a quasar, and whose gravitational field refracts the light of that object, splitting it into multiple images as seen from the earth.
- gravitational wave — (in general relativity) a propagating wave of gravitational energy produced by accelerating masses, especially during catastrophic events, as the gravitational collapse of massive stars.
- half-open interval — a set of numbers between two given numbers but including only one endpoint.
- have eyes only for — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
- heimlich manoeuvre — a technique in first aid to dislodge a foreign body in a person's windpipe by applying sudden upward pressure on the upper abdomen
- hold a reservation — If a hotel holds a reservation, it keeps a room for someone, and does not give it to someone else.
- homelands movement — the programme to resettle native Australians on their tribal lands
- inductive coupling — the coupling between two electric circuits through inductances linked by a common changing magnetic field.
- inductive relation — A relation R between domains D and E is inductive if for all chains d1 .. dn in D and e1 .. en in E,
- involuntary muscle — muscle: contracts involuntarily
- iverson's language — APL, which went unnamed for many years.
- jacksonville beach — a city in NE Florida.
- lenient evaluation — (reduction) An evaluation strategy, described in [Traub, FPCA 89], under which all redexes are evaluated in parallel except inside the arms of conditionals and inside lambda abstractions. Lenient evaluation is an example of an eager evaluation strategy.
- limestone pavement — a horizontal surface of exposed limestone in which the joints have been enlarged, cutting the surface into roughly rectangular blocks
- limited government — confined within limits; restricted or circumscribed: a limited space; limited resources.
- live by one's wits — the keen perception and cleverly apt expression of those connections between ideas that awaken amusement and pleasure. Synonyms: drollery, facetiousness, waggishness, repartee.
- love-lies-bleeding — an amaranth, especially Amaranthus caudatus, having spikes of crimson flowers.
- low-level language — computer code
- mental reservation — an unexpressed doubt or qualification about a situation, person, etc.
- microenvironmental — Pertaining to a microenvironment.
- montgomery village — a city in central Maryland.
- mordovian republic — a constituent republic of W central Russia, in the middle Volga basin. Capital: Saransk. Pop: 888 700 (2002). Area: 26 200 sq km (10 110 sq miles)
- natural convection — Natural convection is the loss of heat from a hot solid or liquid into air which is not artificially agitated.
- negative cash flow — the situation when income is less than payments
- neovascularization — the development of new blood vessels, especially in tissues where circulation has been impaired by trauma or disease.
- neurodevelopmental — Of or pertaining to the development of neurological pathways in the brain.
- non-conversational — able or ready to converse; given to conversation.
- non-self-governing — governed by itself or having self-government, as a state or community; independent.
- nonvolatile memory — computer memory that can retain stored information even when not powered, for example read-only memory
- northern transvaal — province of South Africa, in the N part: 47,599 sq mi (123,280 sq km); pop. 5,202,000; cap. Pietersburg
- not to have a clue — to be completely baffled
- nueva san salvador — Santa Tecla.
- october revolution — Russian Revolution (def 2).
- offensive material — any published or broadcast content (such as articles, photographs, films, or websites) that is likely to be upsetting, insulting, or objectionable to some or most people
- on everyone's lips — being much discussed
- one false move and — You use one false move to introduce the very bad or serious consequences which will result if someone makes a mistake, even a very small one.
- operation overlord — the codename for the Allied invasion (June 1944) of northern France
- oral contraceptive — birth-control pill.
- over the long term — in the future
- over-extrapolation — to infer (an unknown) from something that is known; conjecture.
- overcapitalization — The state of being overcapitalized.
- overgeneralization — the act or process of overgeneralizing.
- overnight telegram — a type of domestic telegram sent at a reduced rate with a minimum charge for 10 words or less and accepted until midnight for delivery the following day.
- overspecialization — excessive specialization, as in a field of study.
- parallel evolution — the independent development of closely corresponding adaptive features in two or more groups of organisms that occupy different but equivalent habitats, as marsupial mammals in Australia and placental mammals on other continents.