21-letter words containing ev
- a finger in every pie — If you say that someone has a finger in every pie, you mean they are involved in a lot of things.
- a level playing field — You talk about a level playing field to mean a situation that is fair, because no competitor or opponent in it has an advantage over another.
- aleksandr-nikolaevich — Alexander (Aleksandr Nikolaevich) 1899–1977, Russian pianist and composer, in the U.S.
- application developer — (job) Someone who does application development.
- bow to the inevitable — If someone bows to the inevitable and does something that they do not want to do, they do it, because circumstances force them to do it.
- cantilever foundation — a building foundation supporting its load partly or wholly upon cantilevers.
- character development — the portrayal of people in a work of fiction in such a way that the reader or audience seems to learn more about them as they develop
- charge-coupled device — an electronic device, used in imaging and signal processing, in which information is represented as packets of electric charge that are stored in an array of tiny closely spaced capacitors and can be moved from one capacitor to another in a controlled way
- civilian review board — a quasi-judicial board of appointed or elected citizens that investigates complaints against the police.
- cognitive development — the process of acquiring intelligence and increasingly advanced thought and problem-solving ability from infancy to adulthood.
- commercial television — television companies which make money by selling advertising
- counter-revolutionary — Counter-revolutionary activities are activities intended to reverse the effects of a previous revolution.
- development education — an area of study that aims to give pupils an understanding of their involvement in world affairs
- developmental biology — the study of the development of multicellular organisms, including the study of the earliest stages of embryonic structure and tissue differentiation
- devil's walking-stick — Hercules'-club (sense 1)
- devil's-walking-stick — Hercules-club (def 2).
- every dog has his day — one's luck will come
- every nook and cranny — If you talk about every nook and cranny of a place or situation, you mean every part or every aspect of it.
- flat-coated retriever — one of an English breed of large sporting dogs having a flat, dense, shiny black or liver-colored coat, small ears, and long jaws, used for retrieving game from both water and land.
- hazard warning device — an appliance fitted to a motor vehicle that operates the hazard lights
- in one's shirtsleeves — not wearing a jacket
- industrial revolution — (sometimes initial capital letters) the totality of the changes in economic and social organization that began about 1760 in England and later in other countries, characterized chiefly by the replacement of hand tools with power-driven machines, as the power loom and the steam engine, and by the concentration of industry in large establishments.
- information retrieval — the systematic storage and recovery of data, as from a file, card catalog, or the memory bank of a computer. Abbreviation: IR.
- kleine-levin syndrome — prolonged episodes of excessive sleepiness often accompanied by overeating, hallucinations, and electroencephalogram changes, usually beginning in adolescence.
- laugh up one's sleeve — the part of a garment that covers the arm, varying in form and length but commonly tubular.
- level of significance — significance level.
- mean square deviation — variance (def 3).
- multi-level marketing — Multi-level marketing is a marketing technique which involves people buying a product, then earning a commission by selling it to their friends. The abbreviation MLM is also used.
- never-to-be-forgotten — unforgettable
- projection television — a television picture display system consisting of a special receiver and an optical system that projects an enlarged picture on a screen.
- real-estate developer — a person who buys and develops houses, buildings, and land in order to sell them and make a profit from them
- record of achievement — a statement of the personal and educational development of each pupil
- redevelopment company — a private corporation or a public agency that stimulates the improvement of land, as through a building project subject to certain designs and controls, by financing, selling, or leasing such real estate to interested buyers or lessees.
- reverberation chamber — a room with walls that reflect sound. It is used to make acoustic measurements and as a source of reverberant sound to be mixed with direct sound for recording or broadcasting
- reverberatory furnace — See at reverberatory (def 2).
- reverse polish syntax — postfix notation
- reverse transcriptase — a retrovirus enzyme that synthesizes DNA from viral RNA, the reverse of the usual DNA-to-RNA replication: used in genetic engineering to clone genes from RNA strands.
- revillagigedo islands — an uninhabited island group belonging to Mexico, in the Pacific Ocean, SSW of the Baja California peninsula: Socorro is the largest island. 320 sq. mi. (830 sq. km).
- roll up one's sleeves — to prepare oneself for work, a fight, etc
- saving your reverence — a form of apology for using an obscene or taboo expression
- seven-segment display — (electronics) (SSD) A kind of display element consisting of seven independently controllable lines arranged as a rectangular figure eight. A seven-segment display is the simplest device that can display any of the digits zero to nine (and some other characters) by lighting different combinations of lines. They are often seen in electronic calculators or measuring equipment.
- seventeen-year locust — a cicada, Magicicada septendecim, of the eastern U.S., having nymphs that live in the soil, usually emerging in great numbers after 17 years in the North or 13 years in the South.
- seventeenth amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1913, providing for the election of two U.S. senators from each state by popular vote and for a term of six years.
- seventh day adventist — Seventh Day Adventist churches are churches that believe that Jesus Christ will return very soon, and that have Saturday as their holy day.
- seventh-day adventist — See example at Seventh-Day.
- sieve of eratosthenes — a method of obtaining prime numbers by sifting out the composite numbers from the set of natural numbers so that only prime numbers remain.
- st. christopher-nevis — St. Kitts-Nevis.
- surface of revolution — a surface formed by revolving a plane curve about a given line.
- television evangelist — a Christian minister who devotes time to preaching on television
- the barber of seville — Italian Il barbiere di Siviglia. a comic opera (1816) by Gioacchino Rossini based on a comedy (1775) by Beaumarchais.
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