17-letter words containing v, e, t, r, a, n
- cryopreservations — the storage of blood or living tissues at extremely cold temperatures, often -196 degrees Celsius.
- data service unit — (communications) (DSU or "data service unit") A device used in digital transmission for connecting a CSU (Channel Service Unit) to Data Terminal Equipment (a terminal or computer), in the same way that a modem is used for connection to an analogue medium. A DSU provides a standard interface to a user's terminal which is compatible with modems and handles such functions as signal translation, regeneration, reformatting, and timing. The transmitting portion of the DSU processeses the customers' signal into bipolar pulses suitable for transmission over the digital facility. The receiving portion of the DSU is used both to extract timing information and to regenerate mark and space information from the received bipolar signal.
- demonstrativeness — The state or quality of being demonstrative.
- designated driver — The designated driver in a group of people travelling together is the one who has agreed to drive, or who is insured to drive.
- development grant — a grant awarded, esp by a government, to a person or company in order to fund the development of a new product
- disruptive action — action performed by protestors, workers, etc that causes the disruption of a service
- dissolve in tears — weep
- eastern transvaal — Mpumalanga
- electronegativity — The tendency, or a measure of the ability, of an atom or molecule to attract electrons and thus form bonds.
- environmentalists — Plural form of environmentalist.
- formative element — a morpheme that serves as an affix, not as a base, or root, in word formation.
- freund's adjuvant — a water-in-oil emulsion injected with immunogen (Freund's incomplete adjuvant) or with immunogen and killed mycobacteria (Freund's complete adjuvant) to enhance the immune response to the immunogen.
- gigaelectron volt — one billion electron-volts. Abbreviation: GeV, Gev.
- glove compartment — a compartment in the dashboard of an automobile for storing small items.
- government action — intervention by a government, esp to influence financial markets
- harmonic interval — an intervening period of time: an interval of 50 years.
- have a reputation — to be known or notorious, esp for promiscuity, excessive drinking, or the like
- have it in for sb — If someone has it in for you, they dislike you and try to cause problems for you.
- have on the brain — If someone has something on the brain, they keep thinking about it.
- heteronormativity — The view that all human beings are either male or female, both in sex and in gender, and that sexual and romantic thoughts and relations are normal only when between people of different sexes.
- hydrothermal vent — an opening on the floor of the sea from which hot, mineral-rich solutions issue. Compare vent1 (def 2).
- immediate version — child version
- improvement grant — a sum of money provided by a government, local authority, or public fund to finance the amelioration of a building, area of land, etc
- incremental value — increased value measured on an index or scale
- inertial observer — a hypothetical observer who is not accelerated with respect to an inertial system. Newton's laws of motion and the special theory of relativity apply to the measurements which would be made by such observers
- infinitive marker — a word or affix occurring with the verb stem in the infinitive, such as to in to make
- insectivorous bat — any bat of the suborder Microchiroptera, typically having large ears and feeding on insects. The group includes common bats (Myotis species), vampire bats, etc
- instance variable — (programming) In object-oriented programming, one of the variables of a class template which may have a different value for each object of that class. Instance variables hold the state of an object.
- intensive farming — battery rearing of animals
- interactive video — a computer-optical disk system that displays still or moving video images as determined by computer program and user needs
- intergovernmental — involving two or more governments or levels of government.
- interval estimate — the interval used as an estimate in interval estimation; a confidence interval.
- interval training — an exercise and training program in which each session consists of periods of intense exertion alternating with periods of rest or lighter exertion.
- intragovernmental — Within a government.
- intransitive verb — a verb that indicates a complete action without being accompanied by a direct object, as sit or lie, and, in English, that does not form a passive.
- inverse cotangent — arc cotangent.
- inversion casting — casting from an electric furnace inverted over the mold.
- inversion therapy — a method used to stretch and align the body, especially the lower back, by suspending the entire body upside down from an apparatus that grips or supports the feet or knees.
- investment banker — an executive in an investment bank
- inward investment — Inward investment is the investment of money in a country by companies from outside that country.
- ivan the terrible — ("Ivan the Terrible") 1530–84, first czar of Russia 1547–84.
- job advertisement — an announcement in a newspaper, on television, or on a poster about a post of employment
- level compensator — an automatic gain control device used in the receivers of telegraphic circuits.
- macroevolutionary — Pertaining to, or as a result of macroevolution.
- macroinvertebrate — (zoology) An invertebrate that is large enough to be seen without the use of a microscope.
- make conversation — If you make conversation, you talk to someone in order to be polite and not because you really want to.
- martha's vineyard — an island off SE Massachusetts: summer resort. About 100 sq. mi. (259 sq. km).
- megaelectron volt — million electron volts.
- microevolutionary — Of or pertaining to microevolution.
- microinvertebrate — An invertebrate of microscopic size.