17-letter words containing v, s, f
- aftershave lotion — a lotion, usually styptic and perfumed, for application to the face after shaving
- aircraft observer — U.S. Army. observer (def 4).
- aircraft-observer — someone or something that observes.
- at the service of — To be at the service of a person or organization means to be available to help or be used by that person or organization.
- barber of seville — Italian Il barbiere di Siviglia. a comic opera (1816) by Gioacchino Rossini based on a comedy (1775) by Beaumarchais.
- cat scratch fever — a disorder characterized by fever and swelling of the lymph glands, caused by a viral infection resulting from the scratch or bite of a cat.
- cat-scratch fever — a disease of humans caused by an organism, Bartonella henselae, usually resulting from a scratch by a cat and characterized by lymph node enlargement
- counteroffensives — Plural form of counteroffensive.
- denial of service — a deliberate interruption in access to a computer system or network, esp by using multiple computers to generate an unmanageable volume of traffic (distributed denial of service)
- denial-of-service — pertaining to or being an incident in which a computer or computer network is disabled, disrupting access or service: a website hit by a denial-of-service attack; unintentional denial-of-service problems.
- devil's food cake — a rich chocolate cake
- division of labor — a production process in which a worker or group of workers is assigned a specialized task in order to increase efficiency.
- explosive forming — a rapid method of forming a metal object in which components are made by subjecting the metal to very high pressures generated by a controlled explosion
- fall over oneself — to do everything within one's power
- fan-assisted oven — an electric oven in which a fan circulates the air and which uses both top and bottom heat
- female chauvinist — a female who patronizes, disparages, or otherwise denigrates males in the belief that they are inferior to females and thus deserving of less than equal treatment or benefit.
- female-chauvinist — a person who is aggressively and blindly patriotic, especially one devoted to military glory.
- financial adviser — A financial adviser is someone whose job it is to advise people about financial products and services.
- first triumvirate — the political alliance of Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey, formed in 60 bc
- five-spice powder — a mixture of spices used especially in Chinese cooking, usually including cinnamon, cloves, fennel seed, pepper, and star anise.
- floppy disk drive — disk drive
- fluvioterrestrial — (of animals) able to live in rivers and on land
- foolscap envelope — an envelope of dimensions suitable to hold an unfolded sheet of foolscap paper
- for heaven's sake — expressing frustration
- forensic evidence — evidence obtained by the use of science, for example DNA evidence, etc
- freund's adjuvant — a water-in-oil emulsion injected with immunogen (Freund's incomplete adjuvant) or with immunogen and killed mycobacteria (Freund's complete adjuvant) to enhance the immune response to the immunogen.
- 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
- 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).
- have a short fuse — a tube, cord, or the like, filled or saturated with combustible matter, for igniting an explosive.
- have feelings for — to be emotionally or sexually attracted to
- have it in for sb — If someone has it in for you, they dislike you and try to cause problems for you.
- have no words for — to be incapable of describing
- have sth to offer — If you have something to offer, you have a quality or ability that makes you important, attractive, or useful.
- inclusive fitness — the fitness of an individual organism as measured in terms of the survival and reproductive success of its kin, each relative being valued according to the probability of shared genetic information, an offspring or sibling having a value of 50 percent and a cousin 25 percent.
- infantry division — a military division composed of infantry
- infinitive clause — a clause containing an infinitive as its main or only verb form, as to speak clearly in Try to speak clearly.
- intensive farming — battery rearing of animals
- 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.
- odds-on favourite — a person, team, horse, etc that is regarded as the most likely to win a competition
- 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.
- overreach oneself — to fail because of trying to do more than one can
- parts of kesteven — an area in E England constituting a former administrative division of Lincolnshire
- phlebotomus fever — sandfly fever.
- positive definite — (of a quadratic form) positive for all real values of the variables, where the values are not all zero.
- positive feedback — Electronics. the process of returning part of the output of a circuit, system, or device to the input, either to oppose the input (negative feedback) or to aid the input (positive feedback) acoustic feedback.
- self-belay device — (in climbing) a device used to pay out a safety rope as required
- self-conservation — the act of conserving; prevention of injury, decay, waste, or loss; preservation: conservation of wildlife; conservation of human rights.
- self-preservation — preservation of oneself from harm or destruction.
- sinus of valsalva — any of the pouches of the aorta and the pulmonary artery opposite the flaps of the semilunar valves into which blood returning to the heart flows, closing the valves.
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