16-letter words containing v, e, s
- free perspective — exaggeration of perspectival devices to increase the illusion of depth, used especially in stage-set painting and construction.
- germinal vesicle — the large, vesicular nucleus of an ovum before the polar bodies are formed.
- give sb the slip — If you give someone the slip, you escape from them when they are following you or watching you.
- give someone one — to have sex with someone
- glove anesthesia — loss of sensation in the hand
- gnu archive site — (body) The main GNU FTP archive is on gnu.org but copies ("mirrors") of some or all of the files there are also held on many other computers around the world. To avoid overloading gnu.org and the Internet you should FTP files from the machine closest to yours. Look for a directory like /pub/gnu, /mirrors/gnu, /systems/gnu or /archives/gnu.
- 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
- 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).
- great slave lake — a lake in NW Canada, in the Northwest Territories. 11,172 sq. mi. (28,935 sq. km).
- green vegetables — green edible plants
- harvest festival — religious celebration of crops gathered
- harvey firestone — Harvey Samuel, 1868–1938, U.S. industrialist and rubber manufacturer.
- have issues with — If someone has issues with a particular aspect of their life, they have problems connected with it.
- have no business — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
- have sb to thank — If you say that you have someone to thank for something, you mean that you are grateful to them because they caused it to happen.
- haversian system — a Haversian canal and the series of concentric bony plates surrounding it.
- hearsay evidence — testimony based on what a witness has heard from another person rather than on direct personal knowledge or experience.
- heir presumptive — a person who is expected to be the heir but whose expectations may be canceled by the birth of a nearer heir.
- high-level waste — radioactive waste material, such as spent nuclear fuel initially having a high activity and thus needing constant cooling for several decades by its producers before it can be reprocessed or treated
- historical novel — a novel within the genre of historical fiction.
- hodmezovasarhely — a city in SE Hungary.
- hospital service — the whole organization of government funded hospitals, their staff, and the services they provide
- hostile takeover — a takeover that is not approved by the management of the corporation being acquired or that is accomplished through the secret purchase of stock.
- hot stove league — devotees of a sport, especially baseball, who meet for off-season talks.
- hot-stove league — devotees of a sport, especially baseball, who meet for off-season talks.
- huevos rancheros — a Latin American dish of eggs, usually fried or poached, topped with a spicy tomato sauce and sometimes served on a fried corn tortilla with the addition of vegetables and cheese.
- hypersensitivity — excessively sensitive: to be hypersensitive to criticism.
- hypervascularity — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
- hypervitaminosis — an abnormal condition caused by an excessive intake of vitamins.
- imperceptiveness — The quality of being imperceptive.
- imperfectiveness — (grammar) The state or quality of being imperfective.
- in heaven's name — You can use in heaven's name in questions beginning with 'what', 'when', 'who', 'why', 'when', and 'how' to add emphasis in a way that shows that you are very angry or surprised.
- in the seventies — in the range between 70 and 79 degrees on a given temperature scale, esp the Fahrenheit scale
- in--one-s--favor — something done or granted out of goodwill, rather than from justice or for remuneration; a kind act: to ask a favor.
- incentive scheme — an arrangement under which additional payments are made to employees as a means of increasing production
- inconclusiveness — The state or condition of being inconclusive.
- indexing service — a service that indexes the contents of a number of publications for use in printed or machine-readable form.
- indiscriminative — Making no distinction; not discriminating.
- indivisibilities — not divisible; not separable into parts; incapable of being divided: one nation indivisible.
- inter-divisional — the act or process of dividing; state of being divided.
- intravenous drip — the continuous, slow introduction of a fluid into a vein of the body. Abbreviation: IV.
- inverse cosecant — arc cosecant.
- inverse function — the function that replaces another function when the dependent and independent variables of the first function are interchanged for an appropriate set of values of the dependent variable. In y = sin x and x = arc sin y, the inverse function of sine is arc sine.
- inverse graffiti — a form of street art in which a dirty wall or pavement has a template placed against it and is scrubbed until the surface is clean. This reveals an image or message which gradually fades with time.
- inverted nipples — nipples which do not project from the breast but are retracted
- investment grant — a direct subsidy made by a government to a business in order to enable it to make further investment
- investment trust — a company that invests its funds in other companies and issues its own securities against these investments.
- invisible assets — assets that are not physical, such as services or good will