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

  • cover your tracks — If someone covers their tracks, they hide or destroy evidence of their identity or their actions, because they want to keep them secret.
  • crossover network — an electronic network in a loudspeaker system that separates the signal into two or more frequency bands, the lower frequencies being fed to a woofer, the higher frequencies to a tweeter
  • cryopreservations — the storage of blood or living tissues at extremely cold temperatures, often -196 degrees Celsius.
  • cytomegaloviruses — Plural form of cytomegalovirus.
  • david livingstone — David, 1813–73, Scottish missionary and explorer in Africa.
  • deliver the goods — to produce or perform something promised or expected
  • demonstrativeness — The state or quality of being demonstrative.
  • developmentalists — an expert in or advocate of developmental psychology.
  • directory service — (database, networking)   A structured repository of information on people and resources within an organisation, facilitating management and communication. On a LAN or WAN the directory service identifies all aspects of the network including users, software, hardware, and the various rights and policies assigned to each. As a result applications can access information without knowing where a particular resource is physically located, and users interact oblivious to the network topology and protocols. To allow heterogeneous networks to share directory information the ITU proposed a common structure called X.500. However, its complexity and lack of seamless Internet support led to the development of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) which has continued to evolve under the aegis of the IETF. Despite its name LDAP is too closely linked to X.500 to be "lightweight".
  • disadvantageously — In a disadvantageous manner.
  • disaster recovery — (business)   (DR) Planning and implementation of procedures and facilities for use when essential systems are not available for a period long enough to have a significant impact on the business, e.g. when the head office is blown up. Disasters include natural: fire, flood, lightning, hurricane; hardware: power failure, component failure, head crash; software failure: bugs, resources; vandalism: arson, bombing, cracking, theft; data corruption or loss: human error, media failure; communications: computer network equipment, network storm, telephones; security: passwords compromised, computer virus; legal: change in legislation; personnel: unavailability of essential staff, industrial action. Companies need to plan for disaster: before: risk analysis, preventive measures, training; during: how should staff and systems respond; after: recovery measures, post mortem analysis. Hardware can usually be replaced and is usually insured. Software and data needs to be backed up off site. Alternative communication systems should be arranged in case of network failure or inaccessible premises, e.g. emergency telephone number, home working, alternative data center.
  • disruptive action — action performed by protestors, workers, etc that causes the disruption of a service
  • dissolve in tears — weep
  • domestic violence — physical abuse in the home
  • drive-by shooting — an incident in which a person, building, or vehicle is shot at by someone in a moving vehicle
  • electroconvulsive — Of or relating to the treatment of mental illness by the application of electric shocks to the brain.
  • electropositivity — (uncountable) the condition of being electropositive.
  • environmentalists — Plural form of environmentalist.
  • executive mansion — the White House (in Washington, D.C.), official home of the President of the U.S.
  • executive session — a session of the Senate for the discussion of executive business, such as the ratification of treaties: formerly held in secret
  • fan-assisted oven — an electric oven in which a fan circulates the air and which uses both top and bottom heat
  • fluvioterrestrial — (of animals) able to live in rivers and on land
  • get above oneself — If you say that someone is getting above themself, you disapprove of them because they think they are better than everyone else.
  • give satisfaction — to satisfy
  • give up the ghost — the soul of a dead person, a disembodied spirit imagined, usually as a vague, shadowy or evanescent form, as wandering among or haunting living persons.
  • great vowel shift — a series of changes in the quality of the long vowels between Middle and Modern English as a result of which all were raised, while the high vowels (ē) and (o̅o̅), already at the upper limit, underwent breaking to become the diphthongs (ī) and (ou).
  • gustavo a. madero — official name of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
  • gustavus adolphus — (Gustavus Adolphus) 1778–1837, king of Sweden 1792–1809 (son of Gustavus III).
  • gustavus-adolphus — (Gustavus Adolphus) 1778–1837, king of Sweden 1792–1809 (son of Gustavus III).
  • have a short fuse — a tube, cord, or the like, filled or saturated with combustible matter, for igniting an explosive.
  • have it both ways — to try to get the best of a situation, argument, etc, by chopping and changing between alternatives or opposites
  • have it in for sb — If someone has it in for you, they dislike you and try to cause problems for you.
  • have sth to offer — If you have something to offer, you have a quality or ability that makes you important, attractive, or useful.
  • home improvements — improvements to one's home, such as new kitchens and bathrooms, central heating etc
  • http proxy server — (web)   A proxy server for HTTP requests. Typically an HTTP proxy or "web proxy" accepts HTTP requests containing URLs with a special prefix. The proxy removes the prefix and looks for the resulting URL in its local cache (if it is a caching proxy). If found, it returns the document immediately, otherwise it fetches it from the remote server, saves a copy in its cache and returns it to the requester. The cache will usually have an expiry algorithm which flushes documents according to their age, size and access history. The purpose is to reduce the amount of data flowing over the proxy's Internet connection and to speed up clients' access to frequently requested pages, e.g. at an ISP or on a large company's firewall. The proxy may also reject requests where the URL or content matches certain conditions. The Apache HTTP server can be configured to act as a proxy server. Another popular software proxy is Squid.
  • immediate version — child version
  • implosive-therapy — a form of behavior therapy involving intensive recollection and review of anxiety-producing situations or events in a patient's life in an attempt to develop more appropriate responses to similar situations in the future.
  • improvisationally — In an improvisational way.
  • individualisation — Alternative spelling of individualization.
  • inertial observer — a hypothetical observer who is not accelerated with respect to an inertial system. Newton's laws of motion and the special theory of relativity apply to the measurements which would be made by such observers
  • infantry division — a military division composed of infantry
  • insectivorous bat — any bat of the suborder Microchiroptera, typically having large ears and feeding on insects. The group includes common bats (Myotis species), vampire bats, etc
  • introspectiveness — characterized by introspection, the act or process of looking into oneself.
  • inverse cotangent — arc cotangent.
  • inversion casting — casting from an electric furnace inverted over the mold.
  • inversion therapy — a method used to stretch and align the body, especially the lower back, by suspending the entire body upside down from an apparatus that grips or supports the feet or knees.
  • inverted snobbery — the attitude of an inverted snob
  • investment income — income arising from business investments
  • invisible exports — services sold to a foreign country or countries
  • invisible imports — imports of services rather than goods
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