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

  • harvey wallbanger — a screwdriver cocktail topped with Galliano.
  • have a bearing on — If something has a bearing on a situation or event, it is relevant to it.
  • have a roving eye — to show a widespread amorous interest in the opposite sex
  • have feelings for — to be emotionally or sexually attracted to
  • hemorrhagic fever — any of several arbovirus infections, as dengue, characterized by fever, chills, and malaise followed by hemorrhages of capillaries, sometimes leading to kidney failure and death.
  • hypoglossal nerve — either one of the twelfth pair of cranial nerves, consisting of motor fibers that innervate the muscles of the tongue.
  • improvement grant — a sum of money provided by a government, local authority, or public fund to finance the amelioration of a building, area of land, etc
  • intensive farming — battery rearing of animals
  • intergovernmental — involving two or more governments or levels of government.
  • interval training — an exercise and training program in which each session consists of periods of intense exertion alternating with periods of rest or lighter exertion.
  • intragovernmental — Within a government.
  • intrusive testing — (testing)   Testing that collects timing and processing information during program execution that may change the behaviour of the software from its behavior in a real environment. Intrusive testing usually involves additional code embedded in the software being tested or additional processes running concurrently with software being tested on the same processor.
  • inverse cotangent — arc cotangent.
  • inversion casting — casting from an electric furnace inverted over the mold.
  • large-leaved lime — an ornamental European tree with small pale yellow flowers and which grown on lime-rich soils
  • megaelectron volt — million electron volts.
  • mikhail gorbachev — Mikhail S(ergeyevich) [mi-kahyl sur-gey-uh-vich,, mi-keyl;; Russian myi-khuh-yeel syir-gye-yi-vyich] /mɪˈkaɪl sɜrˈgeɪ ə vɪtʃ,, mɪˈkeɪl;; Russian myɪ xʌˈyil syɪrˈgyɛ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), born 1931, Soviet political leader: general secretary of the Communist Party 1985–91; president of the Soviet Union 1988–91; Nobel Peace Prize 1990.
  • military governor — the military officer in command of a military government.
  • mother of vinegar — mother2 .
  • myasthenia gravis — a disease of impaired transmission of motor nerve impulses, characterized by episodic muscle weakness and easy fatigability, especially of the face, tongue, neck, and respiratory muscles: caused by autoimmune destruction of acetylcholine receptors. Abbreviation: MG.
  • native frangipani — an Australian evergreen tree, Hymenosporum flavum, with large fragrant yellow flowers: family Pittosporaceae
  • negative particle — a word that indicates negativity, for example 'not' in English or 'ne pas' in French
  • negative polarity — the grammatical character of a word or phrase, such as ever or any, that may normally be used only in a semantically or syntactically negative or interrogative context
  • negative transfer — the obstruction of or interference with new learning because of previous learning, as when a U.S. tourist in England learns to drive on the left side of the road.
  • neurodegenerative — Resulting in or characterized by degeneration of the nervous system, especially the neurons in the brain.
  • new age traveller — New Age travellers are people who live in tents and vehicles and travel from place to place, and who reject many of the values of modern society.
  • non-argumentative — fond of or given to argument and dispute; disputatious; contentious: The law students were an unusually argumentative group.
  • once over lightly — a hasty or superficial treatment, look, examination, etc.; once-over: The maid gave the room the once-over-lightly.
  • once-over-lightly — a hasty or superficial treatment, look, examination, etc.; once-over: The maid gave the room the once-over-lightly.
  • overhead lighting — lighting which throws light downwards by being situated on the ceiling or having a downward shade, etc
  • overnight success — sth or sb suddenly popular
  • oversquare engine — An oversquare engine is an engine which has a cylinder bore that is larger than its stroke.
  • pauline privilege — (in canon law) the privilege given to converts to dissolve a marriage with an unbaptized spouse if either obstructs the religious practices of the other.
  • pre-investigation — the act or process of investigating or the condition of being investigated.
  • prerogative court — a former ecclesiastical court in England and Ireland for the trial of certain testamentary cases.
  • 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.
  • proof of coverage — A policyholder's proof of coverage is a document from an insurer stating that they have insurance coverage.
  • pseudo-aggressive — characterized by or tending toward unprovoked offensives, attacks, invasions, or the like; militantly forward or menacing: aggressive acts against a neighboring country.
  • 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.
  • receiving blanket — a small blanket, usually of cotton, for wrapping an infant, especially following a bath.
  • revealed religion — religion based chiefly on the revelations of God to humans, especially as described in Scripture.
  • revealed theology — theology based on the doctrine that all religious truth is derived exclusively from the revelations of God to humans.
  • reverse lightning — a faint discharge of blue light from the top of a thunderstorm cloud that propagates upward: extends approximately from the bottom to the top of the stratosphere and is not detectable from the ground.
  • row-level locking — (database)   A technique used in database management systems, where a row is locked for writing to prevent other users from accessing data being while it is being updated. Other techniques are table locking and MVCC.
  • sensitivity group — a group of persons participating in sensitivity training.
  • severance package — an amount of compensation paid by an organization to an employee who leaves because, through no fault of their own, the job to which they were appointed ceases to exist, as during rationalization, and no comparable job is available to them
  • special privilege — exclusive advantage
  • spiral bevel gear — a bevel gear having curved teeth tending to converge on the axis of rotation.
  • subclavian groove — either of two grooves in the first rib, one for the main artery (subclavian artery) and the other for the main vein (subclavian vein) of the arm
  • substantive right — a right, as life, liberty, or property, recognized for its own sake and as part of the natural legal order of society.
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