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17-letter words containing v, o, r, s

  • inverted snobbery — the attitude of an inverted snob
  • invisible exports — services sold to a foreign country or countries
  • invisible imports — imports of services rather than goods
  • irrecoverableness — The quality of being irrecoverable.
  • it's now or never — If you say 'It's now or never', you mean that something must be done immediately, because if it is not done immediately there will not be another chance to do it.
  • job advertisement — an announcement in a newspaper, on television, or on a poster about a post of employment
  • kvatro telecom as — (company)   The company that maintains Mary. Address: Trondheim, Norway.
  • lee harvey oswald — Lee Harvey, 1939–63, designated by a presidential commission to be the lone assassin of John F. Kennedy.
  • level compensator — an automatic gain control device used in the receivers of telegraphic circuits.
  • make conversation — If you make conversation, you talk to someone in order to be polite and not because you really want to.
  • mies van der rohe — Ludwig [luhd-wig] /ˈlʌd wɪg/ (Show IPA), 1886–1969, U.S. architect, born in Germany.
  • naval air station — military airbase for the navy
  • naval observatory — an astronomical observatory located in Washington, D.C., operated by the U.S. government, and responsible for the U.S. time service.
  • nervous breakdown — (not in technical use) any disabling mental disorder requiring treatment.
  • neurotransmissive — Relating to neurotransmission.
  • 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
  • old wives' summer — a period of fine, summerlike weather occurring in Europe in autumn.
  • 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.
  • over-presumptuous — full of, characterized by, or showing presumption or readiness to presume in conduct or thought, as by saying or doing something without right or permission.
  • overconscientious — Excessively conscientious.
  • overhead camshaft — a camshaft in an automotive engine that is located in the cylinder head over the engine block rather than in the block. Abbreviation: OHC.
  • overnight success — sth or sb suddenly popular
  • overreach oneself — to fail because of trying to do more than one can
  • oversquare engine — An oversquare engine is an engine which has a cylinder bore that is larger than its stroke.
  • overstep the mark — If someone oversteps the mark, they behave in a way that is considered unacceptable.
  • paleoconservative — a person advocating an older, traditional type of conservatism, especially in politics.
  • parts of kesteven — an area in E England constituting a former administrative division of Lincolnshire
  • 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.
  • phlebotomus fever — sandfly fever.
  • positive electron — positron.
  • positive polarity — the grammatical characteristic of a word or phrase, such as delicious or rather, that may normally only be used in a semantically or syntactically positive or affirmative context
  • 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
  • progressive party — a political party formed in 1912 under the leadership of Theodore Roosevelt, advocating popular control of government, direct primaries, the initiative, the referendum, woman suffrage, etc.
  • protective system — protectionism (def 1).
  • pseudo-aggressive — characterized by or tending toward unprovoked offensives, attacks, invasions, or the like; militantly forward or menacing: aggressive acts against a neighboring country.
  • 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.
  • radioactive waste — the radioactive by-products from the operation of a nuclear reactor or from the reprocessing of depleted nuclear fuel.
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