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17-letter words containing v, i, n, s, o

  • navigation system — A navigation system is an instrument that determines the position of a vehicle and the route to a particular place.
  • neurotransmissive — Relating to neurotransmission.
  • nikolaus von cusa — Nicholas (def 1).
  • non-controversial — of, relating to, or characteristic of controversy, or prolonged public dispute, debate, or contention; polemical: a controversial book.
  • non-demonstrative — characterized by or given to open exhibition or expression of one's emotions, attitudes, etc., especially of love or affection: She wished her fiancé were more demonstrative.
  • nonproductiveness — The quality of being nonproductive.
  • nonrepresentative — a person or thing that represents another or others.
  • number seven iron — pitcher2 (def 3).
  • observation tower — lookout, observation point
  • odds-on favourite — a person, team, horse, etc that is regarded as the most likely to win a competition
  • on the heavy side — tending to be too heavy
  • otto von bismarck — Otto von [ot-oh von;; German aw-toh fuh n] /ˈɒt oʊ vɒn;; German ˈɔ toʊ fən/ (Show IPA), 1815–98, German statesman: first chancellor of modern German Empire 1871–90.
  • over-compensation — a pronounced striving to neutralize and conceal a strong but unacceptable character trait by substituting for it an opposite trait.
  • over-conservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
  • overconscientious — Excessively conscientious.
  • overnight success — sth or sb suddenly popular
  • oversquare engine — An oversquare engine is an engine which has a cylinder bore that is larger than its stroke.
  • paleoconservative — a person advocating an older, traditional type of conservatism, especially in politics.
  • passive obedience — unquestioning obedience to authority
  • pension provision — the provision of a pension by the state or an employer
  • peripheral vision — all that is visible to the eye outside the central area of focus; side vision.
  • positive definite — (of a quadratic form) positive for all real values of the variables, where the values are not all zero.
  • positive electron — positron.
  • positive eugenics — the study of or belief in the possibility of improving the qualities of the human species or a human population, especially by such means as discouraging reproduction by persons having genetic defects or presumed to have inheritable undesirable traits (negative eugenics) or encouraging reproduction by persons presumed to have inheritable desirable traits (positive eugenics)
  • positive thinking — an optimistic attitude
  • prairie provinces — the Canadian provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, which lie in the N Great Plains region of North America: the chief wheat and petroleum producing area of Canada
  • pre-investigation — the act or process of investigating or the condition of being investigated.
  • previous question — a move that a vote be taken at once on a main question, used especially as a means of cutting off further debate.
  • private ownership — the fact of being owned by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
  • production values — the quality of a media production (such as a film) in regards to elements such as colours, quality, style, etc
  • public television — a type of noncommercial, usually educational, television programming funded by the government, grants, viewers, and corporations. Compare educational television.
  • quantity surveyor — A quantity surveyor is a person who calculates the cost and amount of materials and workers needed for a job such as building a house or a road.
  • recovery position — a position in which an unconscious person can be lain on the floor, which minimises them from further risk
  • recursive acronym — (convention)   A hackish (and especially MIT) tradition is to choose acronyms and abbreviations that refer humorously to themselves or to other acronyms or abbreviations. The classic examples were two MIT editors called EINE ("EINE Is Not Emacs") and ZWEI ("ZWEI Was EINE Initially"). More recently, there is a Scheme compiler called LIAR (Liar Imitates Apply Recursively), and GNU stands for "GNU's Not Unix!" - and a company with the name CYGNUS, which expands to "Cygnus, Your GNU Support". See also mung.
  • revascularization — the restoration of the blood circulation of an organ or area, achieved by unblocking obstructed or disrupted blood vessels or by surgically implanting replacements.
  • roving commission — authority or power given in a general area, without precisely defined terms of reference
  • rybinsk reservoir — a vast water reservoir in W central Russia on the River Volga and its tributaries Sheksna and Mologa, formed by Rybinsk Hydroelectric Station dam
  • saint bonaventure — Saint ("the Seraphic Doctor") 1221–74, Italian scholastic theologian.
  • saint croix river — Also called Santa Cruz. a U.S. island in the N Lesser Antilles: the largest of the Virgin Islands. 82 sq. mi. (212 sq. km).
  • saturation diving — a method of prolonged diving, using an underwater habitat to allow divers to remain in the high-pressure environment of the ocean depths long enough for their body tissues to become saturated with the inert components of the pressurized gas mixture that they breathe: when this condition is reached, the amount of time required for decompression remains the same, whether the dive lasts a day, a week, or a month.
  • second derivative — the derivative of the derivative of a function: Acceleration is the second derivative of distance with respect to time.
  • self-conservation — the act of conserving; prevention of injury, decay, waste, or loss; preservation: conservation of wildlife; conservation of human rights.
  • self-preservation — preservation of oneself from harm or destruction.
  • sensitivity group — a group of persons participating in sensitivity training.
  • silent revolution — a social or political revolution that takes place with little warning and without great fuss or unrest
  • silver collection — a collection that consists of silver coins that is made at a meeting etc
  • sinus of valsalva — any of the pouches of the aorta and the pulmonary artery opposite the flaps of the semilunar valves into which blood returning to the heart flows, closing the valves.
  • situations vacant — Situations Vacant is the title of a column or page in a newspaper where jobs are advertised.
  • sleep deprivation — a condition in which you have not had enough sleep
  • softvelocity inc. — (company)   The distributors of the Clarion family of application development systems.
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