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

  • self-deprivation — the act of depriving.
  • self-improvement — improvement of one's mind, character, etc., through one's own efforts.
  • self-observation — an act or instance of noticing or perceiving.
  • self-sovereignty — the quality or state of being sovereign, or of having supreme power or authority.
  • self-vindicating — to clear, as from an accusation, imputation, suspicion, or the like: to vindicate someone's honor.
  • self-vindication — the act of vindicating.
  • self-vulcanizing — to treat (rubber) with sulfur and heat, thereby imparting strength, greater elasticity, durability, etc.
  • semiconservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
  • semiquantitative — partially quantitative.
  • senior executive — someone in a senior position in a business, who makes decisions and puts them into action
  • service contract — law: between employer and employee
  • service engineer — someone who maintains and repairs equipment
  • service entrance — an entrance for the use of servants, delivery people, or the like.
  • service industry — business providing a service
  • severance motion — an application made to a judge or court for the division into separate parts of a joint estate, contract, etc
  • sexual deviation — a type of mental disorder characterized by a preference for or obsession with unusual sexual practices, as pedophilia, sadomasochism, or exhibitionism.
  • shopping village — a shopping centre that designed to look like a village
  • shrinking violet — a shy, modest, or self-effacing person.
  • sicilian vespers — a general massacre of the French in Sicily by the local population, begun at the sound of the vesper bell on Easter Monday, 1282.
  • silver-lace vine — a hardy, twining, woody plant, Polygonum auberti, of the buckwheat family, native to western China and Tibet, having greenish-white, fragrant flowers in drooping clusters.
  • slave-making ant — an ant of a species that raids the colonies of other ant species, carrying off larvae and pupae to be reared as slaves.
  • slip one over on — to hoodwink or trick
  • slugging average — a measure of the effectiveness of a batter in making base hits, obtained by dividing the total bases reached by hitting by the number of official times at bat and carrying out the result to three decimal places. A batter making 275 total bases in 500 times at bat has a slugging average of .550.
  • social evolution — the gradual development of society and social forms, institutions, etc., usually through a series of peaceful stages. Compare revolution (def 2).
  • south vietnamese — of or relating to the former South Vietnam (now part of Vietnam) or its inhabitants
  • sparking voltage — the minimum voltage required to produce a spark across a given spark gap.
  • splanchnic nerve — Anatomy. any of several nerves to the viscera and blood vessels of the chest and pelvic areas.
  • split infinitive — an expression in which there is a word or phrase, especially an adverb or adverbial phrase, between to and its accompanying verb form in an infinitive, as in to readily understand.
  • state university — a university maintained by the government of a state.
  • state's evidence — evidence given by an accomplice in a crime who becomes a voluntary witness against the other defendants: The defendants' case was lost when one of them turned state's evidence.
  • substantive rank — a permanent rank in the armed services obtained by length of service, selection, etc
  • supersensitivity — extremely or excessively sensitive; hypersensitive: a supersensitive smoke detector.
  • surveyor's chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
  • swedish vallhund — a small sturdy dog of a Swedish breed with a long body and pricked pointed ears
  • tarragon vinegar — a white vinegar flavoured with the herb tarragon, used in cooking, esp in salad dressings
  • texas revolution — a revolutionary movement, 1832–36, in which U.S. settlers asserted their independence from Mexico and established the republic of Texas.
  • the moving party — a person who applies to a court or judge with the aim of obtaining a ruling in their favour
  • the noes have it — there is a majority of votes in the negative
  • the silver ferns — the women's international netball team of New Zealand
  • the vienna union — an international conference of socialists who came together in Vienna in 1921 in an attempt to reconstruct a united International by offering an alternative to the right-wing remnant of the Second International and to the Comintern: merged into the Labour and Socialist International in 1923
  • the virgin queen — another name for Queen Elizabeth I of England
  • thermionic valve — vacuum tube.
  • thieves' kitchen — a thieves' hideout
  • time sovereignty — control by an employee of the use of his or her time, involving flexibility of working hours
  • tinnevelly senna — any plant, shrub, or tree belonging to the genus Cassia, of the legume family, having pinnate leaves and large clusters of flowers.
  • to overabound in — to have or contain too large a quantity or number of something
  • to pay dividends — If something pays dividends, it brings advantages at a later date.
  • tomorrow evening — on the evening of the day after today
  • torvill and dean — two British ice dancers, Jayne Torvill, born 1957, and Christopher Dean, born 1958. They won the world championships in 1981–84, the European championships in 1981–82, 1984, and 1994, and the gold medal in the 1984 Olympic Games
  • travel insurance — insurance which covers losses that may be incurred while travelling, such as medical expenses, flight cancellations, lost luggage, etc
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