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16-letter words containing v, i, e, n

  • evangelistically — In an evangelistic manner.
  • evening primrose — flowering plant
  • event television — television programmes focusing on events that attract media attention and high ratings
  • ex-dividend date — The ex-dividend date is the date after the declaration of a dividend on which the buyer of a stock is not entitled to receive the next dividend payment.
  • executive lounge — a room in an airport in which people who are travelling first class can wait for their flight in comfort
  • fielding average — a measure of the fielding ability of a player, obtained by dividing the number of put-outs and assists by the number of put-outs, assists, and errors and carrying out the result to three decimal places. A player with ten errors in 600 chances has a fielding average of .984.
  • find one's level — to find one's most suitable place socially, professionally, etc
  • find one's voice — If someone finds their voice, they start to speak in spite of fear or surprise or difficult circumstances.
  • 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
  • galvanic battery — battery (def 1a).
  • gender-normative — cisgender.
  • general aviation — aviation including business flying, sports flying, and crop dusting.
  • general delivery — a postal service that delivers mail to a specific post office where it is held for pickup by the addressee.
  • germinal vesicle — the large, vesicular nucleus of an ovum before the polar bodies are formed.
  • 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.
  • golden retriever — one of an English breed of retrievers having a thick, flat or wavy, golden coat.
  • government issue — (often initial capital letter) issued or supplied by the government or one of its agencies.
  • governmentalized — Simple past tense and past participle of governmentalize.
  • 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).
  • granville-barker — Harley, 1877–1946, English dramatist, actor, and critic.
  • gravity decanter — A gravity decanter is a vessel or stage in which two liquids of different densities are allowed to separate by gravity.
  • green revolution — an increase in food production, especially in underdeveloped and developing nations, through the introduction of high-yield crop varieties and application of modern agricultural techniques.
  • harvey firestone — Harvey Samuel, 1868–1938, U.S. industrialist and rubber manufacturer.
  • have in the wind — to be in the act of following (quarry) by scent
  • have no business — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
  • have no time for — not tolerate
  • 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.
  • heavier-than-air — (of an aircraft) weighing more than the air that it displaces, hence having to obtain lift by aerodynamic means.
  • historical novel — a novel within the genre of historical fiction.
  • hyperinnervation — the act of innervating; state of being innervated.
  • hypersensitivity — excessively sensitive: to be hypersensitive to criticism.
  • hyperventilating — Present participle of hyperventilate.
  • hyperventilation — excessively rapid and deep breathing.
  • 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 living memory — If you say that something is, for example, the best, worst, or first thing of its kind in living memory, you are emphasizing that it is the only thing of that kind that people can remember.
  • 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
  • incentive travel — a vacation awarded to employees as a bonus in order to motivate them.
  • inconceivability — (uncountable) The quality of being inconceivable.
  • inconclusiveness — The state or condition of being inconclusive.
  • incontravertable — Misspelling of incontrovertible.
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