16-letter words containing v, k
- alexander nevski — Saint. ?1220–63, Russian prince and military leader, who defeated the Swedes at the River Neva (1240) and the Teutonic knights at Lake Peipus (1242)
- alexander nevsky — 1220?-63; Russ. military hero, statesman, & saint
- alternative rock — a broad category of popular rock music typically regarded as somewhat out of the mainstream and variously including elements of punk rock, heavy metal, folk music, etc.
- andrei vishinsky — Andrei Yanuarievich [uhn-dryey yi-noo-ah-ryi-vyich] /ʌnˈdryeɪ yɪ nuˈɑ ryɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1883–1954, Soviet statesman.
- back-seat driver — If you refer to a passenger in a car as a back-seat driver, they annoy you because they constantly give you advice.
- behavioural sink — a small area in which people or animals live in overcrowded conditions
- blackwater fever — a rare and serious complication of malaria, characterized by massive destruction of red blood cells, producing dark red or blackish urine
- break-even point — When a company reaches break-even point, the money it makes from the sale of goods or services is just enough to cover the cost of supplying those goods or services, but not enough to make a profit.
- ceske budejovice — a city in the S Czech Republic, on the Vltava (Moldau) River. Pop: 94 747 (2007 est)
- cooperative bank — a cooperative savings institution, chartered and regulated by a state or the federal government, that receives deposits in exchange for shares of ownership and invests its funds chiefly in loans secured by first mortgages on homes.
- development bank — A development bank is a bank that provides money for projects in poor countries or areas.
- discovered check — a check that is effected by moving an intervening piece from the line of attack of a queen, rook, or bishop.
- fit like a glove — fit perfectly
- government stock — stock issued by the UK or another national government
- granville-barker — Harley, 1877–1946, English dramatist, actor, and critic.
- great slave lake — a lake in NW Canada, in the Northwest Territories. 11,172 sq. mi. (28,935 sq. km).
- have a talk with — discuss
- have sb to thank — If you say that you have someone to thank for something, you mean that you are grateful to them because they caused it to happen.
- hoek van holland — Hook of Holland.
- hostile takeover — a takeover that is not approved by the management of the corporation being acquired or that is accomplished through the secret purchase of stock.
- kiloelectronvolt — (physics) A unit of energy equal to a thousand electron volts.
- kondratieff wave — a long business cycle of economic expansion and contraction, postulated to last about 60 years.
- lake havasu city — a city in W central Arizona.
- lick observatory — the astronomical observatory of the University of California, situated on Mount Hamilton, near San Jose, California, and having a 120-inch (3-meter) reflecting telescope and a 36-inch (91-cm) refracting telescope.
- live like a king — If you say that someone lives like a king, you mean that they are able to live in a very comfortable or luxurious way.
- make a virtue of — If you make a virtue of something, you pretend that you did it because you chose to, although in fact you did it because you had to.
- molotov cocktail — a crude incendiary grenade consisting of a bottle filled with a flammable liquid and a wick that is ignited before throwing: used originally for setting fire to enemy tanks during the Spanish Civil War.
- moravska ostrava — former name of Ostrava.
- mover and shaker — a person who has power and influence, esp., a member of a group having power and influence
- network provider — a business or organization that provides customers with access to a telecommunications network (esp mobile phone networks) or to the internet
- observation deck — an area on a high building that is surrounded with railings or fencing and which provides panoramic views
- ovshinsky effect — an effect that turns special types of glassy, thin films into semiconductors upon application of low voltage.
- potemkin village — a pretentiously showy or imposing façade intended to mask or divert attention from an embarrassing or shabby fact or condition.
- poverty-stricken — suffering from poverty; extremely poor: poverty-stricken refugees.
- reckless driving — a serious traffic offence whereby the driver of a vehicle disregards the rules of the road, driving very dangerously, causing accidents or other damage
- reservation desk — a desk in a hotel, office, etc, where an employee takes bookings for rooms, tickets, etc
- reverse takeover — the purchase of a larger company by a smaller company, esp of a public company by a private company
- river carpsucker — a carpsucker, Carpiodes carpio, found in silty rivers of the central U.S. south to Mexico.
- rockville centre — a city on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- selective strike — a partial strike against a particular area of a business or against one employer or a small number of employers in a collective bargaining situation
- seven weeks' war — the war (1866) in which Prussia, Italy, and some minor German states opposed Austria, Saxony, Hanover, and the states of southern Germany.
- shaker and mover — mover and shaker
- shoemaker-levy 9 — a comet that was captured into an orbit around Jupiter and later broke up, the fragments colliding with Jupiter in July 1995
- shrinking violet — a shy, modest, or self-effacing person.
- 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.
- sparking voltage — the minimum voltage required to produce a spark across a given spark gap.
- stevedore's knot — a knot that forms a lump in a line to prevent it from passing through a hole or grommet.
- substantive rank — a permanent rank in the armed services obtained by length of service, selection, etc
- take one's leave — to go away; depart
- thanksgiving day — a national holiday celebrated as a day of feasting and giving thanks for divine favors or goodness, observed on the fourth Thursday of November in the U.S. and in Canada on the second Monday of October.
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