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17-letter words containing v, m

  • phlebotomus fever — sandfly fever.
  • preemptive strike — preventive war.
  • primitive baptist — (especially in the Southern U.S.) one belonging to a highly conservative, loosely organized Baptist group, characterized by extreme fundamentalism and by opposition to missionary work, Sunday Schools, and the use of musical instruments in church.
  • private placement — a sale of an issue of securities by the issuing company directly to a limited number of investors, often only one or two large institutional investors, such as a bank or an insurance company (opposed to public offering): required to be cleared but not registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
  • pro forma invoice — an invoice issued before an order is placed or before the goods are delivered giving all the details and the cost of the goods
  • pro-environmental — the aggregate of surrounding things, conditions, or influences; surroundings; milieu.
  • promotional event — occasion organized to market or advertise sth
  • protective system — protectionism (def 1).
  • putative marriage — a marriage contracted in violation of an impediment, but in good faith on the part of one or both of the contracting persons.
  • quasi-competitive — of, pertaining to, involving, or decided by competition: competitive sports; a competitive examination.
  • 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.
  • relative humidity — the amount of water vapor in the air, expressed as a percentage of the maximum amount that the air could hold at the given temperature; the ratio of the actual water vapor pressure to the saturation vapor pressure. Abbreviation: RH, rh.
  • relative majority — the excess of votes or seats won by the winner of an election over the runner-up when no candidate or party has more than 50 per cent
  • relative pathname — (file system)   A path relative to the working directory. Its first character can be anything but the pathname separator.
  • relativistic mass — the mass of a body in motion relative to the observer: it is equal to the rest mass multiplied by a factor that is greater than 1 and that increases as the magnitude of the velocity increases.
  • remittance advice — a letter sent by a customer to a supplier, to let them know that their invoice has been paid
  • replacement value — insurance: sum required to replace sth
  • romantic movement — the late 18th- and early 19th-century movement in France, Germany, England, and America to establish Romanticism in art and literature.
  • roving commission — authority or power given in a general area, without precisely defined terms of reference
  • rural development — social or economic activities or initiatives designed to improve the standard of living in areas far away from large towns or cities
  • selective amnesia — the deliberate forgetting of something
  • semi-quantitative — partially quantitative.
  • sentimental value — personal, emotional significance
  • servient tenement — land subject to an easement or servitude.
  • seventh amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, guaranteeing trial by jury.
  • silver star medal — a U.S. military decoration in the form of a bronze star with a small silver star at the center, awarded for gallantry in action
  • sliding vane pump — A sliding vane pump is a pump in which the vanes (=flat parts) are the main sealing element between the suction and discharge areas.
  • small waved umber — a brownish geometrid moth, Horisme vitalbata, that is cryptically marked to merge with tree bark
  • small-leaved lime — Tilia cordata: a tiliaceous deciduous tree of the N temperate genus Tilia, having heart-shaped leaves and small fragrant yellowish flowers: cultivated for timber and as shade trees
  • sodium-vapor lamp — an electric lamp in which sodium vapor is activated by current passing between two electrodes, producing a yellow, glareless light: used on streets and highways.
  • supermassive star — Astronomy. a star with a mass more than fifty times the mass of the sun.
  • supernova remnant — an expanding shell of gas, with accompanying strong radio and x-ray emissions, produced by a supernova.
  • survivor syndrome — a characteristic group of symptoms, including recurrent images of death, depression, persistent anxiety, and emotional numbness, occurring in survivors of disaster.
  • synovial membrane — anatomy: connective tissue
  • terminal velocity — Physics. the velocity at which a falling body moves through a medium, as air, when the force of resistance of the medium is equal in magnitude and opposite in direction to the force of gravity. the maximum velocity of a body falling through a viscous fluid.
  • the varsity match — a sporting fixture between Oxford and Cambridge university rugby teams
  • the-invisible-man — a novel (1897) by H.G. Wells.
  • to have a mind to — If you have a mind to do something, you want, intend, or choose to do it.
  • twelve-mile limit — the offshore boundary of a state, extending 12 miles (19 km) at sea.
  • underground movie — a movie produced independently on a low budget and often using experimental techniques and avant-garde themes.
  • unimaginativeness — the quality of being unimaginative
  • universal grammar — a grammar that attempts to establish the properties and constraints common to all possible human languages.
  • urban development — the development or improvement of an urban area by building
  • vacuum aspiration — menstrual extraction.
  • vacuum extraction — applying suction to a baby's head during birth to help it emerge
  • vale of glamorgan — a county borough of S Wales, created in 1996 from parts of South Glamorgan and Mid Glamorgan. Administrative centre: Barry. Pop: 121 200 (2003 est). Area: 295 sq km (114 sq miles)
  • valetudinarianism — the state, condition, or habits of a valetudinarian.
  • valsalva maneuver — a forced expiratory effort against a closed glottis that decreases intrathoracic pressure, hampering venous return to the heart, and that can be used to inflate the Eustachian tubes and adjust pressure in the middle ear.
  • van diemen's land — former name of Tasmania.
  • variable-geometry — denoting an aircraft in which the wings are hinged to give the variable aspect ratio colloquially known as a swing-wing
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