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17-letter words containing v, y, s

  • protective system — protectionism (def 1).
  • purdue university — http://purdue.edu/.
  • 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.
  • recovery position — a position in which an unconscious person can be lain on the floor, which minimises them from further risk
  • recursive acronym — (convention)   A hackish (and especially MIT) tradition is to choose acronyms and abbreviations that refer humorously to themselves or to other acronyms or abbreviations. The classic examples were two MIT editors called EINE ("EINE Is Not Emacs") and ZWEI ("ZWEI Was EINE Initially"). More recently, there is a Scheme compiler called LIAR (Liar Imitates Apply Recursively), and GNU stands for "GNU's Not Unix!" - and a company with the name CYGNUS, which expands to "Cygnus, Your GNU Support". See also mung.
  • resource recovery — Resource recovery is when energy, a material, or a product is taken from waste and used.
  • rybinsk reservoir — a vast water reservoir in W central Russia on the River Volga and its tributaries Sheksna and Mologa, formed by Rybinsk Hydroelectric Station dam
  • saved by the bell — a hollow instrument of cast metal, typically cup-shaped with a flaring mouth, suspended from the vertex and rung by the strokes of a clapper, hammer, or the like.
  • self-belay device — (in climbing) a device used to pay out a safety rope as required
  • sensitivity group — a group of persons participating in sensitivity training.
  • seven deadly sins — Christianity: worst vices
  • softvelocity inc. — (company)   The distributors of the Clarion family of application development systems.
  • structural survey — an examination of a property carried out by surveyor which should reveal any problems with the building
  • subclavian artery — either of a pair of arteries, one on each side of the body, that carry the main supply of blood to the arms.
  • sunday observance — the fact of keeping Sunday as a special day when people go to church
  • superconductivity — the phenomenon of almost perfect conductivity shown by certain substances at temperatures approaching absolute zero. The recent discovery of materials that are superconductive at temperatures hundreds of degrees above absolute zero raises the possibility of revolutionary developments in the production and transmission of electrical energy.
  • supervisory board — a board of management of which nonmanagerial workers are members, having supervisory powers over some aspects of management decision-making
  • survivor syndrome — a characteristic group of symptoms, including recurrent images of death, depression, persistent anxiety, and emotional numbness, occurring in survivors of disaster.
  • sybase sql server — Adaptive Server Enterprise
  • synovial membrane — anatomy: connective tissue
  • the pennsylvanian — the Pennsylvanian period or rock system, equivalent to the Upper Carboniferous of Europe
  • the varsity match — a sporting fixture between Oxford and Cambridge university rugby teams
  • twenty four seven — continually; constantly: They're together 24/7.
  • twenty-four seven — continually; constantly: They're together 24/7.
  • twenty-four-seven — continually; constantly: They're together 24/7.
  • university degree — an award conferred by a college or university signifying that the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study
  • vanity publishing — the practice of the author of a book paying all or most of the costs of its publication
  • varix lymphaticus — a similar condition affecting an artery or lymphatic vessel
  • vascular cylinder — stele (sense 3)
  • vasovagal syncope — a faint brought on by excessive activity of the vagus nerve, causing the heart to slow and the blood pressure to fall. It can be caused by fear, choking, or stomach cramps and has no lasting effects
  • verkhoyansk range — a mountain range in the Sakha Republic, in E Siberia, Russia. About 600 miles (970 km) long.
  • vertical analysis — the conversion of an organization's profits and losses into overall percentages
  • vestibular system — the sensory mechanism in the inner ear that detects movement of the head and helps to control balance
  • video disk player — a device that reads the information on a video disc
  • visitors' gallery — a balcony in a building such as a parliament or court where members of the public can sit
  • visually impaired — (of a person) having reduced vision so severe as to constitute a handicap.
  • voice synthesizer — a computer system that is used to artificially produce the human voice
  • yellowstone river — river flowing from NW Wyo. through Mont. into the Missouri River: 671 mi (1,080 km)
  • yesterday evening — during the evening of the day preceding today
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