16-letter words containing y, v, e, t
- 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.
- lick observatory — the astronomical observatory of the University of California, situated on Mount Hamilton, near San Jose, California, and having a 120-inch (3-meter) reflecting telescope and a 36-inch (91-cm) refracting telescope.
- majority verdict — a decision supported by more than half, but not all, the jury
- medieval history — the branch of history dealing with the Middle Ages
- military service — compulsory period spent in the army
- multiplicatively — tending to multiply or increase.
- nguyen van thieu — Nguyen Van [ngoo-yen vahn,, noo-] /ˈŋuˈyɛn vɑn,, ˈnu-/ (Show IPA), 1923–2001, South Vietnamese political leader: president 1967–75.
- non-transitively — Grammar. having the nature of a transitive verb.
- nondestructively — In a nondestructive manner; without causing destruction.
- observationality — The property of being observational.
- orbital velocity — the minimum velocity at which a body must move to maintain a given orbit.
- over-familiarity — thorough knowledge or mastery of a thing, subject, etc.
- overall majority — If a political party wins an overall majority in an election or vote, they get more votes than the total number of votes or seats won by all their opponents.
- overcompensatory — a pronounced striving to neutralize and conceal a strong but unacceptable character trait by substituting for it an opposite trait.
- overdramatically — In an overdramatic manner.
- overexcitability — to excite too much.
- ovshinsky effect — an effect that turns special types of glassy, thin films into semiconductors upon application of low voltage.
- passive immunity — immunity resulting from the injection of antibodies or sensitized lymphocytes from another organism or, in infants, from the transfer of antibodies through the placenta or from colostrum.
- peruvian rhatany — See under rhatany (def 1).
- peter stuyvesant — Peter, 1592–1672, Dutch colonial administrator in the Americas: last governor of New Netherlands 1646–64.
- photosensitivity — the quality of being photosensitive.
- polyvinyl acetal — any of the class of thermoplastic resins derived by the condensation of an aldehyde with polyvinyl alcohol.
- poverty-stricken — suffering from poverty; extremely poor: poverty-stricken refugees.
- prerevolutionary — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change: a revolutionary junta.
- private property — land or belongings owned by a person or group and kept for their exclusive use
- re-entry vehicle — the section of a spacecraft or ballistic missile designed to return to earth.
- relative density — specific gravity.
- relatively prime — (mathematics) Having no common divisors (greater than 1). Two numbers are said to be relativey prime if there is no number greater than unity that divides both of them evenly. For example, 10 and 33 are relativly prime. 15 and 33 are not relatively prime, since 3 is a divisor of both.
- relativistically — of or relating to relativity or relativism.
- representatively — a person or thing that represents another or others.
- reserve capacity — the capacity of a battery, measured in minutes, to keep a vehicle operating if the charging system fails.
- security vetting — the process of investigating somebody to establish their trustworthiness
- selective memory — an ability to remember some facts while apparently forgetting others, especially when they are inconvenient
- self-sovereignty — the quality or state of being sovereign, or of having supreme power or authority.
- send to coventry — to ostracize or ignore
- service industry — business providing a service
- specific gravity — the ratio of the density of any substance to the density of some other substance taken as standard, water being the standard for liquids and solids, and hydrogen or air being the standard for gases.
- state university — a university maintained by the government of a state.
- strawberry guava — a shrub or small tree, Psidium littorale, of the myrtle family, native to Brazil, having smooth, grayish-brown bark, leathery leaves, white flowers, and edible, white-fleshed, purplish-red fruit.
- superheavyweight — an amateur boxer weighing more than 91 kg
- supersensitivity — extremely or excessively sensitive; hypersensitive: a supersensitive smoke detector.
- the devil to pay — Theology. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.
- the moving party — a person who applies to a court or judge with the aim of obtaining a ruling in their favour
- time sovereignty — control by an employee of the use of his or her time, involving flexibility of working hours
- tinnevelly senna — any plant, shrub, or tree belonging to the genus Cassia, of the legume family, having pinnate leaves and large clusters of flowers.
- to pay dividends — If something pays dividends, it brings advantages at a later date.
- top drive system — A top drive system is a system which includes a motor that turns the drill string, used instead of the kelly.
- treaty of verdun — an agreement reached in 843 ad by three grandsons of Charlemagne, dividing his empire into an E kingdom (later Germany), a W kingdom (later France), and a middle kingdom (containing what became the Low Countries, Lorraine, Burgundy, and N Italy)
- twelvepenny nail — a nail that is 3 1/4 inches (8.25 cm) long.
- unconventionally — not conventional; not bound by or conforming to convention, rule, or precedent; free from conventionality: an unconventional artist; an unconventional use of material.