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16-letter words containing v

  • above and beyond — in addition to
  • academic advisor — a faculty member who helps and advises students on academic matters, such as planning their academic career
  • accrued dividend — an accumulated unpaid dividend on preferred stock.
  • accumulativeness — The state or qualities of being accumulative.
  • achievement test — a test designed to measure the effects that learning and teaching have on individuals
  • activated carbon — a porous highly adsorptive form of carbon used to remove colour or impurities from liquids and gases, in the separation and extraction of chemical compounds, and in the recovery of solvents
  • activated sludge — a mass of aerated precipitated sewage added to untreated sewage to bring about purification by hastening decomposition by microorganisms
  • activation order — an instruction to create, mobilize, or organize a unit
  • active directory — (operating system)   A directory service from Microsoft Corporation, similar in concept to Novell Netware Directory Services, that also integrates with the user organisation's DNS structure and is interoperable with LDAP. Active Directory is included in Windows 2000.
  • active transport — a process by which molecules are enabled to pass across a membrane from a region in which they are in a low concentration to one of high concentration; this requires the expenditure of energy in metabolism and is assisted by carrier proteins, commonly referred to as pumps
  • activity holiday — a type of holiday in which holiday-makers can take part in many different organized activities, esp sports
  • adaptive routing — dynamic routing
  • additive inverse — the number that must be added to a number to equal zero
  • additive process — a photographic process in which the desired colours are produced by adding together appropriate proportions of three primary colours
  • adhesive bandage — a bandage consisting of a small pad of gauze affixed to a strip of adhesive tape.
  • adhesive binding — a style of binding used mainly for paperback books, where the backs of the gathered sections are trimmed and inserted into a cover along with adhesive to hold the pages and cover together
  • adhesive plaster — adhesive tape, especially in wide sheets.
  • adjective clause — a relative clause that modifies a noun or pronoun, as the clause that I told you about in This is the book that I told you about and who saw us in It was she who saw us.
  • adjective phrase — An adjective phrase or adjectival phrase is a group of words based on an adjective, such as 'very nice' or 'interested in football.' An adjective phrase can also consist simply of an adjective.
  • administratively — pertaining to administration; executive: administrative ability.
  • advantageousness — The state or quality of being advantageous.
  • adventitiousness — The degree to which a thing is adventitious.
  • adventure racing — a contest in which teams compete in an expedition-length race which involves two or more sporting disciplines, often running, mountain biking, climbing, kayaking, and elements of navigation and orienteering
  • adverbial phrase — a group of two or more words that function together as an adverb, as the phrase in a minute in I'll be with you in a minute.
  • advice columnist — An advice columnist is a person who writes a column in a newspaper or magazine in which they reply to readers who have written to them for advice on their personal problems.
  • advisory opinion — an opinion given by a court on a case that does not settle the case but sets out the court's view of how the law or the constitution would apply to that case
  • advisory teacher — a teacher who visits schools to advise teachers on curriculum developments within a particular subject area
  • affirmative flag — a flag having five horizontal stripes, blue, white, red, white, and blue, from top to bottom, signifying “yes”: letter C in the International Code of Signals.
  • air vice-marshal — a senior Royal Air Force officer of equivalent rank to a rear admiral in the Royal Navy
  • airmail envelope — an envelope made of the very thin blue paper that is used to send letters by airmail
  • alexander nevski — Saint. ?1220–63, Russian prince and military leader, who defeated the Swedes at the River Neva (1240) and the Teutonic knights at Lake Peipus (1242)
  • alexander nevsky — 1220?-63; Russ. military hero, statesman, & saint
  • algol 60 revised — (language)   (Or "Revised ALGOL 60") A revision of Algol 60 which still lacked standard I/O.
  • algol 68 revised — (language)   A significant simplification of ALGOL 68.
  • all over the map — changeable
  • all sb ever does — You use the expression all someone ever does when you want to emphasize that they do the same thing all the time, and this annoys you.
  • alliterativeness — The state or quality of being alliterative.
  • alpha conversion — (theory)   In lambda-calculus and reduction, the renaming of a formal parameter in a lambda abstraction. This does not change the meaning of the abstraction. For example: \ x . x+1 <--> \ y . y+1 If the actual argument to a lambda abstraction contains instances of the abstraction's formal parameter then it is necessary to rename the parameter before applying the abstraction to avoid name capture.
  • alternative fact — a theory posited as an alternative to another, often more widely accepted, theory
  • alternative fuel — An alternative fuel is any automotive fuel other than gasoline and diesel fuel.
  • alternative rock — a broad category of popular rock music typically regarded as somewhat out of the mainstream and variously including elements of punk rock, heavy metal, folk music, etc.
  • alternative vote — of or relating to a system of voting in which voters list the candidates in order of preference. If no candidate obtains more than 50% of first-preference votes, the votes for the bottom candidate are redistributed according to the voters' next preference
  • alvarez quintero — Joa‧ˈquín (hwɑˈkin ) ; hwäkēnˈ) 1873-1944; Sp. playwright
  • alveolar process — the ridgelike border of the upper and lower jaws containing the sockets of the teeth.
  • ambulance driver — a person whose job is to drive an ambulance
  • amerigo vespucci — Amerigo [uh-mer-i-goh;; Italian ah-me-ree-gaw] /əˈmɛr ɪˌgoʊ;; Italian ˌɑ mɛˈri gɔ/ (Show IPA), (Americus Vespucius) 1451–1512, Italian merchant, adventurer, and explorer after whom America was named.
  • amindivi islands — group of islands in the Arabian Sea, off the SW coast of India: the N part of Lakshadweep territory
  • andorra la vella — the capital of Andorra, situated in the west of the principality. Pop: 22 035 (2003 est)
  • andreas vesalius — Andreas [ahn-dre-ahs] /ɑnˈdrɛ ɑs/ (Show IPA), 1514–64, Flemish anatomist.
  • andrei vishinsky — Andrei Yanuarievich [uhn-dryey yi-noo-ah-ryi-vyich] /ʌnˈdryeɪ yɪ nuˈɑ ryɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1883–1954, Soviet statesman.

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