16-letter words containing ave
- average adjuster — a person who calculates average claims, esp for marine insurance
- aversion therapy — a method of suppressing an undesirable habit, such as excessive smoking, by causing the subject to associate an unpleasant effect, such as an electric shock or nausea, with the habit
- brave west winds — the strong west and west-northwest winds blowing between latitudes 40° S and 60° S.
- compression wave — a shock wave that compresses the medium through which it is transmitted.
- continuous waves — radio waves generated as a continuous train of oscillations having a constant frequency and amplitude
- de broglie waves — the set of waves that represent the behaviour of an elementary particle, or some atoms and molecules, under certain conditions. The de Broglie wavelength, λ, is given by λ = h/mv, where h is the Planck constant, m the mass, and v the velocity of the particle
- fellow traveller — a companion on a journey
- fielding average — a measure of the fielding ability of a player, obtained by dividing the number of put-outs and assists by the number of put-outs, assists, and errors and carrying out the result to three decimal places. A player with ten errors in 600 chances has a fielding average of .984.
- fort leavenworth — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in E Kansas adjoining Leavenworth, one of the oldest (1827) military posts W of the Mississippi and site of federal penitentiary.
- great slave lake — a lake in NW Canada, in the Northwest Territories. 11,172 sq. mi. (28,935 sq. km).
- have a big mouth — to speak indiscreetly, loudly, or excessively
- have a field day — If someone is having a field day, they are very busy doing something that they enjoy, even though it may be hurtful for other people.
- have a good time — enjoy yourself, have fun
- have a hard time — experience difficulties
- have a talk with — discuss
- have a word with — discuss
- have been around — be experienced
- have in the wind — to be in the act of following (quarry) by scent
- have issues with — If someone has issues with a particular aspect of their life, they have problems connected with it.
- have no business — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
- have no time for — not tolerate
- have sb to thank — If you say that you have someone to thank for something, you mean that you are grateful to them because they caused it to happen.
- have the decency — If you say that someone did not have the decency to do something, you are criticizing them because there was a particular action which they did not do but which you believe they ought to have done.
- have the drop on — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- have the edge on — to have a slight advantage or superiority over
- have the wood on — to have an advantage over
- haversian system — a Haversian canal and the series of concentric bony plates surrounding it.
- in heaven's name — You can use in heaven's name in questions beginning with 'what', 'when', 'who', 'why', 'when', and 'how' to add emphasis in a way that shows that you are very angry or surprised.
- incentive travel — a vacation awarded to employees as a bonus in order to motivate them.
- incontravertable — Misspelling of incontrovertible.
- intravenous drip — the continuous, slow introduction of a fluid into a vein of the body. Abbreviation: IV.
- intraventricular — (medicine) In a ventricle.
- javelin throwing — the sport of throwing the javelin
- kondratieff wave — a long business cycle of economic expansion and contraction, postulated to last about 60 years.
- leave it at that — to take a matter no further
- leave of absence — permission to be absent from duty, employment, service, etc.; leave.
- leave well alone — to refrain from interfering with something that is satisfactory
- machiavellianism — of, like, or befitting Machiavelli.
- medal of bravery — a Canadian award for courage
- new haven colony — a settlement founded in 1638 by John Davenport and Theophilus Eaton at Quinnipiac (now New Haven, Conn.).
- on (the) average — as an average quantity, rate, etc.
- sabbatical leave — a year or shorter period of absence for study, rest, or travel, given at intervals (orig. every seven years) as to some college teachers and now to people in other fields, at full or partial salary
- san buenaventura — a city in SW California.
- save as you earn — (in Britain) a savings scheme which offers a tax-free bonus and allows employees to buy shares in the company they work for at a fixed price
- save one's bacon — the back and sides of the hog, salted and dried or smoked, usually sliced thin and fried for food.
- scavenger beetle — any beetle of the mostly aquatic family Hydrophilidae, having clubbed antennae and long palps, and usually feeding on decaying vegetation
- sheet-web weaver — any of numerous spiders of the family Linyphiidae, characterized by a closely woven, sheetlike web.
- slave labor camp — labor camp (def 1).
- slave-making ant — an ant of a species that raids the colonies of other ant species, carrying off larvae and pupae to be reared as slaves.
- slugging average — a measure of the effectiveness of a batter in making base hits, obtained by dividing the total bases reached by hitting by the number of official times at bat and carrying out the result to three decimal places. A batter making 275 total bases in 500 times at bat has a slugging average of .550.
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