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16-letter words containing v, e, r, o

  • delta conversion — delta reduction
  • developing world — Third World: poor countries
  • development area — (in Britain) an area suffering from high unemployment and economic depression, because of the decline of its main industries, that is given government help to establish new industries
  • device control 1 — control-Q
  • device control 2 — (character)   (DC2) The mnemonic for ASCII character 18, one of the four Device Control characters.
  • device control 3 — control-S
  • device control 4 — (character)   (DC4) The mnemonic for ASCII character 20, one of the four Device Control characters.
  • devonshire cream — clotted cream.
  • devonshire split — a kind of yeast bun split open and served with whipped cream or butter and jam
  • discovered check — a check that is effected by moving an intervening piece from the line of attack of a queen, rook, or bishop.
  • discovery method — a largely unstructured, situational method or philosophy of teaching whereby students are permitted to find solutions to problems on their own or at their own pace, often jointly in group activities, either independent of or under the guidance of a teacher.
  • dispersive power — a measure of the ability of a substance to disperse light, equal to the quotient of the difference in refractive indices of the substance for two representative wavelengths divided by the difference of the refractive index for an intermediate wavelength and 1.
  • diversifications — Plural form of diversification.
  • diverticulectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of a diverticulum.
  • division algebra — a linear algebra in which each element of the vector space has a multiplicative inverse.
  • domestic servant — person employed to do household chores
  • domestic service — the work of household servants
  • driver education — a course of study, as for high-school students, that teaches the techniques of driving a vehicle, along with basic vehicle maintenance, safety precautions, and traffic regulations and laws.
  • droves of people — large numbers of people
  • dumont d'urville — Jules Sébastien César [zhyl sey-bas-tyan sey-zar] /ʒül seɪ basˈtyɛ̃ seɪˈzar/ (Show IPA), 1790–1842, French naval officer: explored South Pacific and Antarctic.
  • eager evaluation — Any evaluation strategy where evaluation of some or all function arguments is started before their value is required. A typical example is call-by-value, where all arguments are passed evaluated. The opposite of eager evaluation is call-by-need where evaluation of an argument is only started when it is required. The term "speculative evaluation" is very close in meaning to eager evaluation but is applied mostly to parallel architectures whereas eager evaluation is used of both sequential and parallel evaluators. Eager evaluation does not specify exactly when argument evaluation takes place - it might be done fully speculatively (all redexes in the program reduced in parallel) or may be done by the caller just before the function is entered. The term "eager evaluation" was invented by Carl Hewitt and Henry Baker <[email protected]> and used in their paper ["The Incremental Garbage Collection of Processes", Sigplan Notices, Aug 1977. ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/hb/hbaker/Futures.html]. It was named after their "eager beaver" evaluator. See also conservative evaluation, lenient evaluation, strict evaluation.
  • east coast fever — a disease of cattle, endemic in east and central Africa, caused by a parasite, Theileria parva, that is carried by ticks
  • ending inventory — An ending inventory is all of the goods, services, or materials that a business has available for use or sale at the end of an accounting period.
  • environmentalism — A political and social ideology that seeks to prevent the environment from degradation by human activity.
  • environmentalist — A person who is concerned with or advocates the protection of the environment.
  • evacuation route — An evacuation route is a way to get out of a building if there is an emergency, such as a fire.
  • evening primrose — flowering plant
  • family of curves — a collection of curves whose equations differ only by values assigned a parameter or parameters.
  • fellow traveller — a companion on a journey
  • flame cultivator — an implement that kills weeds by scorching them with a directed flow of flaming gas.
  • florencio varela — a city in E Argentina, near Buenos Aires.
  • forced vibration — Forced vibration is a type of vibration in which a force is repeatedly applied to a mechanical system.
  • forinsec service — foreign service
  • fort leavenworth — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in E Kansas adjoining Leavenworth, one of the oldest (1827) military posts W of the Mississippi and site of federal penitentiary.
  • forward delivery — delivery at a future date.
  • four-leaf clover — a clover leaf having four leaflets instead of the usual three, purported to bring good luck.
  • four-wheel drive — a drive system in which engine power is transmitted to all four wheels for improved traction.
  • franco-provencal — a Romance dialect group of western Switzerland and neighboring parts of France: closely related to both Provençal and northern French.
  • gender-normative — cisgender.
  • general aviation — aviation including business flying, sports flying, and crop dusting.
  • go over the hill — a natural elevation of the earth's surface, smaller than a mountain.
  • golden retriever — one of an English breed of retrievers having a thick, flat or wavy, golden coat.
  • government house — the official residence of a colonial governor, as in a British Commonwealth country.
  • government issue — (often initial capital letter) issued or supplied by the government or one of its agencies.
  • government stock — stock issued by the UK or another national government
  • governmentalized — Simple past tense and past participle of governmentalize.
  • governor general — a governor who is chief over subordinate or deputy governors.
  • governor-general — A Governor-General is a person who is sent to a former British colony as the chief representative of Britain.
  • governors island — an island in New York Bay at the S end of the East River: U.S. military post. 2 sq. mi. (5 sq. km).
  • grace-and-favour — (of a house, flat, etc) owned by the sovereign and granted free of rent to a person to whom the sovereign wishes to express gratitude
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