16-letter words containing iv
- collectivisation — Alternative spelling of collectivization.
- collectivization — to organize (a people, industry, economy, etc.) according to the principles of collectivism.
- come/bring alive — If a story or description comes alive, it becomes interesting, lively, or realistic. If someone or something brings it alive, they make it seem more interesting, lively, or realistic.
- competitive edge — business: superiority
- conservative jew — a Jew who adheres for the most part to the principles and practices of traditional Judaism with the reservation that, taking into account contemporary conditions, certain modifications or rejections are permissible.
- conservativeness — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
- constructiveness — helping to improve; promoting further development or advancement (opposed to destructive): constructive criticism.
- contraindicative — Serving as a contraindication.
- cooperative bank — a cooperative savings institution, chartered and regulated by a state or the federal government, that receives deposits in exchange for shares of ownership and invests its funds chiefly in loans secured by first mortgages on homes.
- cooperative farm — a farm that is run in cooperation with others in the purchasing and using of machinery, stock, etc, and in the marketing of produce through its own institutions (farmers' cooperatives)
- cost-effectively — in a cost-effective way; efficiently
- counterintuitive — (of an idea, proposal, etc) seemingly contrary to common sense
- counteroffensive — a series of attacks by a defending force against an attacking enemy
- creative commons — Sometimes, creative commons. a set of various licenses that allow people to share their copyrighted work to be copied, edited, built upon, etc., while retaining the copyright to the original work (often used attributively): We’re happy for other sites to share these photos under Creative Commons; a creative commons license.
- creative tension — a situation where disagreement or discord ultimately gives rise to better ideas or outcomes
- creative writing — Creative writing is writing such as novels, stories, poems, and plays.
- currier and ives — any of a 19th-cent. series of prints showing the manners, people, and events of the times
- debt forgiveness — the action or process of forgiving people their debts
- deconstructively — In a deconstructive manner.
- defective number — a positive number that is greater than the sum of all positive integers that are submultiples of it, as 10, which is greater than the sum of 1, 2, and 5.
- deliberativeness — The state or quality of being deliberative.
- detective device — a device that detects or discovers the existence of something
- digestive juices — fluids secreted in the stomach or intestines that assist in the digestion of food
- digestive system — the system by which ingested food is acted upon by physical and chemical means to provide the body with absorbable nutrients and to excrete waste products; in mammals the system includes the alimentary canal extending from the mouth to the anus, and the hormones and enzymes assisting in digestion.
- disincentivising — Present participle of disincentivise.
- dispersive power — a measure of the ability of a substance to disperse light, equal to the quotient of the difference in refractive indices of the substance for two representative wavelengths divided by the difference of the refractive index for an intermediate wavelength and 1.
- distributive law — a theorem asserting that one operator can validly be distributed over another
- diversifications — Plural form of diversification.
- diverticulectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of a diverticulum.
- division algebra — a linear algebra in which each element of the vector space has a multiplicative inverse.
- divisional court — a high court in which at least two judges sit
- driver education — a course of study, as for high-school students, that teaches the techniques of driving a vehicle, along with basic vehicle maintenance, safety precautions, and traffic regulations and laws.
- driver's license — a permit, as one issued by a state's motor vehicle bureau, that allows the holder to drive a motor vehicle on public roads.
- elective surgery — when someone chooses to have an operation which is not absolutely medically necessary
- enantioselective — (chemistry) (of a catalyst) that catalyzes the reaction of only one of a pair of enantiomers.
- energy-intensive — using large amount of energy
- ex-dividend date — The ex-dividend date is the date after the declaration of a dividend on which the buyer of a stock is not entitled to receive the next dividend payment.
- executive lounge — a room in an airport in which people who are travelling first class can wait for their flight in comfort
- executive member — a member of an executive committee
- executive relief — sexual intercourse or masturbation
- explosive device — a device, such as a bomb, that explodes or bursts loudly and with great force
- first derivative — the derivative of a function: Velocity is the first derivative of distance with respect to time.
- flame cultivator — an implement that kills weeds by scorching them with a directed flow of flaming gas.
- forward delivery — delivery at a future date.
- four-wheel drive — a drive system in which engine power is transmitted to all four wheels for improved traction.
- free perspective — exaggeration of perspectival devices to increase the illusion of depth, used especially in stage-set painting and construction.
- gender-normative — cisgender.
- general delivery — a postal service that delivers mail to a specific post office where it is held for pickup by the addressee.
- give a hard time — a period of difficulties or hardship.
- give sb the slip — If you give someone the slip, you escape from them when they are following you or watching you.