16-letter words containing v, e, r, m
- observer mission — a mission to an area of conflict in order to observe proceedings
- oculomotor nerve — either one of the third pair of cranial nerves, consisting chiefly of motor fibers that innervate most of the muscles of the eyeball.
- over the transom — by unsolicited submission, as to a publisher
- over-communicate — to impart knowledge of; make known: to communicate information; to communicate one's happiness.
- over-competitive — of, pertaining to, involving, or decided by competition: competitive sports; a competitive examination.
- over-consumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
- over-familiarity — thorough knowledge or mastery of a thing, subject, etc.
- over-imaginative — characterized by or bearing evidence of imagination: an imaginative tale.
- over-nourishment — something that nourishes; food, nutriment, or sustenance.
- over-romanticize — to make romantic; invest with a romantic character: Many people romanticize the role of an editor.
- over-sentimental — expressive of or appealing to sentiment, especially the tender emotions and feelings, as love, pity, or nostalgia: a sentimental song.
- overaccumulation — Accumulation of too much.
- overall majority — If a political party wins an overall majority in an election or vote, they get more votes than the total number of votes or seats won by all their opponents.
- overcompensating — Present participle of overcompensate.
- overcompensation — a pronounced striving to neutralize and conceal a strong but unacceptable character trait by substituting for it an opposite trait.
- overcompensatory — a pronounced striving to neutralize and conceal a strong but unacceptable character trait by substituting for it an opposite trait.
- overcomplicating — Present participle of overcomplicate.
- overdramatically — In an overdramatic manner.
- overnumerousness — very many; being or existing in great quantity: numerous visits; numerous fish.
- overwhelmingness — that overwhelms; overpowering: The temptation to despair may become overwhelming.
- pincers movement — a military maneuver in which both flanks of an enemy force are attacked with the aim of attaining complete encirclement.
- preemptive right — a privilege given to an existing shareholder to buy a portion of a new stock issue at the offering price on a pro-rata per-share basis.
- premier division — a football or soccer league division consisting of the top ten Scottish football teams
- presumptive heir — heir presumptive.
- primary deviance — the violation of a norm or rule that does not result in the violator's being stigmatized as deviant.
- primitive church — the early Christian church, especially in reference to its earliest form and organization.
- private judgment — personal opinion formed independently of the expressed position of an institution, as in matters of religion or politics.
- privet andromeda — a spreading shrub, Lyonia ligustrina, of the eastern U.S., having leafless, white flowers in terminal clusters.
- proenvironmental — the aggregate of surrounding things, conditions, or influences; surroundings; milieu.
- rear-view mirror — a mirror mounted on the side, windshield, or instrument panel of an automobile or other vehicle to provide the driver with a view of the area behind the vehicle.
- 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.
- redemption value — the price at which the issuing company may choose to repurchase a security before its maturity date
- reflexive domain — A domain satisfying a recursive domain equation. E.g. D = D -> D.
- relative maximum — maximum (def 4a).
- relative minimum — minimum (def 5a).
- relative-maximum — maximum (def 4a).
- relatively prime — (mathematics) Having no common divisors (greater than 1). Two numbers are said to be relativey prime if there is no number greater than unity that divides both of them evenly. For example, 10 and 33 are relativly prime. 15 and 33 are not relatively prime, since 3 is a divisor of both.
- reverse commuter — a commuter who lives in a city and commutes to a job in the suburbs.
- reverse mortgage — a type of home mortgage under which an elderly homeowner is allowed a long-term loan in the form of monthly payments against his or her paid-off equity as collateral, repayable when the home is eventually sold. Abbreviation: RAM.
- salivary amylase — an enzyme in the saliva that converts starch into dextrin and maltose.
- 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.
- selective memory — an ability to remember some facts while apparently forgetting others, especially when they are inconvenient
- self-improvement — improvement of one's mind, character, etc., through one's own efforts.
- semiconservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
- semiprivate room — a hospital room shared by two people, typically with a curtain dividing the room and providing some privacy
- service families — families which have a member serving in the armed forces
- severance motion — an application made to a judge or court for the division into separate parts of a joint estate, contract, etc
- severnaya zemlya — an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, between the Kara Sea and Laptev Sea, in N Russia. 14,175 sq. mi. (36,712 sq. km).
- shaker and mover — mover and shaker
- shoemaker-levy 9 — a comet that was captured into an orbit around Jupiter and later broke up, the fragments colliding with Jupiter in July 1995