16-letter words containing v, r, e, g

governors island — an island in New York Bay at the S end of the East River: U.S. military post. 2 sq. mi. (5 sq. km).
grace-and-favour — (of a house, flat, etc) owned by the sovereign and granted free of rent to a person to whom the sovereign wishes to express gratitude
granger movement — a campaign for state control of railroads and grain elevators, especially in the north central states, carried on during the 1870s by members of the Patrons of Husbandry (the Grange) a farmers' organization that had been formed for social and cultural purposes.
granville-barker — Harley, 1877–1946, English dramatist, actor, and critic.
gravity decanter — A gravity decanter is a vessel or stage in which two liquids of different densities are allowed to separate by gravity.
great slave lake — a lake in NW Canada, in the Northwest Territories. 11,172 sq. mi. (28,935 sq. km).
green revolution — an increase in food production, especially in underdeveloped and developing nations, through the introduction of high-yield crop varieties and application of modern agricultural techniques.
green vegetables — green edible plants
hyperventilating — Present participle of hyperventilate.
in living memory — If you say that something is, for example, the best, worst, or first thing of its kind in living memory, you are emphasizing that it is the only thing of that kind that people can remember.
indexing service — a service that indexes the contents of a number of publications for use in printed or machine-readable form.
inverse graffiti — a form of street art in which a dirty wall or pavement has a template placed against it and is scrubbed until the surface is clean. This reveals an image or message which gradually fades with time.
investment grant — a direct subsidy made by a government to a business in order to enable it to make further investment
ivyleaf geranium — a geranium plant, pelargonium peltatum, with trailing leaves and white, pink, red, or violet flowers
javaserver pages — (programming, web) (JSP) A freely available specification for extending the Java Servlet API to generate dynamic web pages on a web server. The JSP specification was written by industry leaders as part of the Java development program. JSP assists developers in creating HTML or XML pages that combine static (fixed) page templates with dynamic content. Separating the user interface from content generation allows page designers to change the page layout without having to rewrite program code. JSP was designed to be simpler than pure servlets or CGI scripting. JSP uses XML-like tags and scripts written in Java to generate the page content. HTML or XML formatting tags are passed back to the client. Application logic can live on the server, e.g. in JavaBeans. JSP is a cross-platform alternative to Microsoft's Active Server Pages, which only runs in IIS on Windows NT. Applications written to the JSP specification can be run on compliant web servers, and web servers such as Apache, Netscape Enterprise Server, and Microsoft IIS that have had Java support added. JSP should soon be available on Unix, AS/400, and mainframe platforms.
javelin throwing — the sport of throwing the javelin
lacto-vegetarian — a vegetarian whose diet includes dairy produce and eggs
lactovegetarians — Plural form of lactovegetarian.
leveraged buyout — the purchase of a company with borrowed money, using the company's assets as collateral, and often discharging the debt and realizing a profit by liquidating the company. Abbreviation: LBO.
local government — the administration of the civic affairs of a city, town, or district by its inhabitants rather than by the state or country at large.
lost river range — a mountain range in E central Idaho. Highest peak, Borah Peak (also highest in the state), 12,662 feet (3862 meters).
magnetoresistive — Of or pertaining to magnetoresistance.
magnetostrictive — Of or pertaining to magnetostriction.
mangrove snapper — gray snapper.
measuring device — gauge
moving staircase — Also called moving staircase, moving stairway. a continuously moving stairway on an endless loop for carrying passengers up or down.
negative-raising — a rule that moves a negative element out of the complement clause of certain verbs, such as think, into the main clause, as in the derivation of He doesn't think that he'll finish
north ridgeville — a town in N Ohio.
objective danger — a danger, such as a stone fall or avalanche, to which climbing skill is irrelevant
on (the) average — as an average quantity, rate, etc.
over-controlling — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
over-imaginative — characterized by or bearing evidence of imagination: an imaginative tale.
overcapitalizing — Present participle of overcapitalize.
overcompensating — Present participle of overcompensate.
overcomplicating — Present participle of overcomplicate.
overwhelmingness — that overwhelms; overpowering: The temptation to despair may become overwhelming.
parents' evening — an occasion when the parents of children at a school and their teachers come together (outside normal school hours, in the evening) in order to discuss the progress or work of the children
past progressive — a verb form consisting of an auxiliary be in the past tense followed by a present participle and used especially to indicate that an action or event was incomplete or in progress at a point of reference in the past, as was sleeping in I was sleeping when the phone rang.
philoprogenitive — producing offspring, especially abundantly; prolific.
preemptive right — a privilege given to an existing shareholder to buy a portion of a new stock issue at the offering price on a pro-rata per-share basis.
preserved ginger — fresh ginger preserved in syrup and used in cooking, esp desserts
prevenient grace — divine grace operating on the human will prior to its turning to God.
private judgment — personal opinion formed independently of the expressed position of an institution, as in matters of religion or politics.
private language — a language that is not merely secret or accidentally limited to one user, but that cannot in principle be communicated to another
privileged altar — an altar at which a plenary indulgence for a departed soul may be granted upon celebration of a Mass.
progressive jazz — an experimental, nonmelodic, and often free-flowing style of modern jazz, especially in the form of highly dissonant, rhythmically complex orchestral arrangements. Compare bop1 , cool jazz, hard bop, modern jazz.
progressive jpeg — (graphics, file format) (PJPEG) An implementation of JPEG that supports progressive coding.
progressive lens — a multifocal eyeglass lens that provides a continuous range of focal power between near and far distances.
provost sergeant — the senior noncommissioned officer of a prison or other confinement facility whose chief duty is the supervision of prisoners and of the military police unit.
radio evangelist — a Christian minister who devotes time to preaching on the radio

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