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17-letter words containing v, e, t, r

  • 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
  • dietrich von bern — Theodoric of Verona: the name of the eastern Gothic emperor Theodoric as it appears in German legends.
  • directory service — (database, networking)   A structured repository of information on people and resources within an organisation, facilitating management and communication. On a LAN or WAN the directory service identifies all aspects of the network including users, software, hardware, and the various rights and policies assigned to each. As a result applications can access information without knowing where a particular resource is physically located, and users interact oblivious to the network topology and protocols. To allow heterogeneous networks to share directory information the ITU proposed a common structure called X.500. However, its complexity and lack of seamless Internet support led to the development of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) which has continued to evolve under the aegis of the IETF. Despite its name LDAP is too closely linked to X.500 to be "lightweight".
  • disaster recovery — (business)   (DR) Planning and implementation of procedures and facilities for use when essential systems are not available for a period long enough to have a significant impact on the business, e.g. when the head office is blown up. Disasters include natural: fire, flood, lightning, hurricane; hardware: power failure, component failure, head crash; software failure: bugs, resources; vandalism: arson, bombing, cracking, theft; data corruption or loss: human error, media failure; communications: computer network equipment, network storm, telephones; security: passwords compromised, computer virus; legal: change in legislation; personnel: unavailability of essential staff, industrial action. Companies need to plan for disaster: before: risk analysis, preventive measures, training; during: how should staff and systems respond; after: recovery measures, post mortem analysis. Hardware can usually be replaced and is usually insured. Software and data needs to be backed up off site. Alternative communication systems should be arranged in case of network failure or inaccessible premises, e.g. emergency telephone number, home working, alternative data center.
  • discrete variable — a variable that may assume only a countable, and usually finite, number of values.
  • disruptive action — action performed by protestors, workers, etc that causes the disruption of a service
  • dissolve in tears — weep
  • drink-drive limit — the maximum blood alcohol level permitted for someone driving a vehicle
  • drive to the wall — to force into an awkward situation
  • drive up the wall — to cause to become crazy or furious
  • drive-by shooting — an incident in which a person, building, or vehicle is shot at by someone in a moving vehicle
  • eastern transvaal — Mpumalanga
  • effective current — the magnitude of an alternating current having the same heating effect as that of a given magnitude of direct current.
  • electroconvulsive — Of or relating to the treatment of mental illness by the application of electric shocks to the brain.
  • electronegativity — The tendency, or a measure of the ability, of an atom or molecule to attract electrons and thus form bonds.
  • electropositivity — (uncountable) the condition of being electropositive.
  • elevator operator — a person who operates a platform raised or lowered in a vertical shaft to transport people from floor to floor in a building
  • environmentalists — Plural form of environmentalist.
  • executive burnout — a total loss of energy and interest and an inability to function effectively, experienced by some executives as a result of excessive demands upon their resources or chronic overwork
  • executive officer — the second-in-command of any of certain military units
  • fair market value — The fair market value of an asset is what a willing buyer would pay a willing seller for it on the open market.
  • first triumvirate — the political alliance of Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey, formed in 60 bc
  • fluvioterrestrial — (of animals) able to live in rivers and on land
  • forced convection — Forced convection is convection in which the movement of fluid does not happen naturally but is helped by a device such as a fan or pump.
  • formative element — a morpheme that serves as an affix, not as a base, or root, in word formation.
  • fouquier-tinville — Antoine Quentin [ahn-twan kahn-tan] /ɑ̃ˈtwan kɑ̃ˈtɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1747?–95, French revolutionist: prosecutor during the Reign of Terror.
  • french revolution — the revolution that began in 1789, overthrew the absolute monarchy of the Bourbons and the system of aristocratic privileges, and ended with Napoleon's overthrow of the Directory and seizure of power in 1799.
  • 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.
  • front-wheel drive — a drive system in which engine power is transmitted through the front wheels only.
  • gigaelectron volt — one billion electron-volts. Abbreviation: GeV, Gev.
  • give free rein to — Often, reins. a leather strap, fastened to each end of the bit of a bridle, by which the rider or driver controls a horse or other animal by pulling so as to exert pressure on the bit.
  • give to the world — to publish
  • 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
  • government broker — the government-appointed stockbroker whose job is to sell government securities on the stock exchange, as instructed by the Bank of England
  • great rift valley — a series of rift valleys running from N to S, from the Jordan Valley in SW Asia to Mozambique in SE Africa.
  • great vowel shift — a series of changes in the quality of the long vowels between Middle and Modern English as a result of which all were raised, while the high vowels (ē) and (o̅o̅), already at the upper limit, underwent breaking to become the diphthongs (ī) and (ou).
  • grooved fricative — a fricative, as (s), in which air is channeled through a groove along the center of the tongue.
  • gustavo a. madero — official name of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
  • 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 a short fuse — a tube, cord, or the like, filled or saturated with combustible matter, for igniting an explosive.
  • 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.
  • have sth to offer — If you have something to offer, you have a quality or ability that makes you important, attractive, or useful.
  • head of the river — any of various annual rowing regattas held on particular rivers
  • hepatitis b virus — a form of hepatitis caused by a DNA virus (hepatitis B virus, or HBV) that persists in the blood, characterized by a long incubation period: usually transmitted by sexual contact or by injection or ingestion of infected blood or other bodily fluids.
  • 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.
  • hit over the head — to strike on the head
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