18-letter words containing v, i, r
- hemidemisemiquaver — a sixty-fourth note.
- herring bone weave — a pattern consisting of adjoining vertical rows of slanting lines, any two contiguous lines forming either a V or an inverted V , used in masonry, textiles, embroidery, etc.
- hit-and-run driver — sb: leaves accident scene
- hold a reservation — If a hotel holds a reservation, it keeps a room for someone, and does not give it to someone else.
- hypersensitiveness — The state of being hypersensitive.
- in inverted commas — If you say in inverted commas after a word or phrase, you are indicating that it is inaccurate or unacceptable in some way, or that you are quoting someone else.
- in the affirmative — positively, by saying yes
- indecent behaviour — the offence of committing indecent acts
- indentured servant — a person who came to America and was placed under contract to work for another over a period of time, usually seven years, especially during the 17th to 19th centuries. Generally, indentured servants included redemptioners, victims of religious or political persecution, persons kidnapped for the purpose, convicts, and paupers.
- individual liberty — the liberty of an individual to exercise freely those rights generally accepted as being outside of governmental control.
- inductive relation — A relation R between domains D and E is inductive if for all chains d1 .. dn in D and e1 .. en in E,
- industrial vehicle — a vehicle designed for use in industry
- inferior vena cava — See under vena cava.
- intermittent fever — a malarial fever in which feverish periods lasting a few hours alternate with periods in which the temperature is normal.
- internet go server — (games, networking) (IGS) A place for Go players to meet and play via the Internet.
- intervention price — the price at which the EU intervenes to buy surplus produce
- inventory turnover — Inventory turnover is a measure of the efficiency of a company, that is calculated by dividing the cost of goods sold by average inventory.
- inverse square law — one of several laws relating two quantities such that one quantity varies inversely as the square of the other, as the law that the illumination produced on a screen by a point source varies inversely as the square of the distance of the screen from the source.
- investment manager — financial advisor
- invisible earnings — earnings from services provided rather than goods
- involuntary muscle — muscle: contracts involuntarily
- irregular variable — a variable star whose brightness variation is irregular.
- isidore of seville — Saint (Isidorus Hispalensis) a.d. c570–636, Spanish archbishop, historian, and encyclopedist.
- italian provincial — designating or of a style of rural, Italian furniture of the 18th and 19th cent., with straight lines and simple decoration, usually of fruitwood or mahogany
- iverson's language — APL, which went unnamed for many years.
- james baird weaver — James Baird, 1833–1912, U.S. politician: congressman 1879–81, 1885–89.
- junior heavyweight — a boxer weighing up to 190 pounds (85.5 kg), between light heavyweight and heavyweight.
- king james version — Authorized Version.
- labrador retriever — one of a breed of retrievers having a short, thick, oily, solid black or yellow coat, raised originally in Newfoundland.
- language universal — a trait or property of language that exists, or has the potential to exist, in all languages.
- law of gravitation — a law stating that any two masses attract each other with a force equal to a constant (constant of gravitation) multiplied by the product of the two masses and divided by the square of the distance between them.
- leave in the lurch — a situation at the close of various games in which the loser scores nothing or is far behind the opponent.
- legislative branch — the branch of government having the power to make laws; the legislature.
- lifesaving service — a private organization or government agency for general marine rescue operations.
- limited government — confined within limits; restricted or circumscribed: a limited space; limited resources.
- linear perspective — a mathematical system for representing three-dimensional objects and space on a two-dimensional surface by means of intersecting lines that are drawn vertically and horizontally and that radiate from one point (one-point perspective) two points (two-point perspective) or several points on a horizon line as perceived by a viewer imagined in an arbitrarily fixed position.
- lunitidal interval — the period of time between the moon's transit and the next high lunar tide.
- macroinvertebrates — Plural form of macroinvertebrate.
- magnetic variation — variation (def 8).
- margaret of valois — ("Queen Margot") 1533–1615, 1st wife of Henry IV of France: queen of Navarre; patron of science and literature (daughter of Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici).
- maritime provinces — region in Canada
- mental reservation — an unexpressed doubt or qualification about a situation, person, etc.
- merchant of venice — a comedy (1596?) by Shakespeare.
- microenvironmental — Pertaining to a microenvironment.
- microgravitational — Of or pertaining to microgravitation.
- microinvertebrates — Plural form of microinvertebrate.
- microwave detector — a device for recording the speed of a motorist
- microwave spectrum — a spectrum of electromagnetic radiations whose wavelengths fall in the microwave range.
- montgomery village — a city in central Maryland.
- mordovian republic — a constituent republic of W central Russia, in the middle Volga basin. Capital: Saransk. Pop: 888 700 (2002). Area: 26 200 sq km (10 110 sq miles)