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16-letter words containing iv

  • reflexive domain — A domain satisfying a recursive domain equation. E.g. D = D -> D.
  • refractive index — index of refraction.
  • relative bearing — the bearing of an object, relative to the heading of a vessel or aircraft.
  • relative density — specific gravity.
  • relative maximum — maximum (def 4a).
  • relative minimum — minimum (def 5a).
  • relative pronoun — one of the pronouns who, whom, which, what, their compounds with -ever or -soever, or that used as the subordinating word to introduce a subordinate clause, especially such a pronoun referring to an antecedent.
  • relative-maximum — maximum (def 4a).
  • 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.
  • republican river — a river flowing E from E Colorado through Nebraska and Kansas into the Kansas River. 422 miles (680 km) long.
  • right-hand drive — A right-hand drive vehicle has its steering wheel on the right side. It is designed to be driven in countries such as Britain, Japan, and Australia where people drive on the left side of the road.
  • river carpsucker — a carpsucker, Carpiodes carpio, found in silty rivers of the central U.S. south to Mexico.
  • rodent operative — a name sometimes used for an official (operative) employed by a local authority to destroy vermin
  • salivary amylase — an enzyme in the saliva that converts starch into dextrin and maltose.
  • selective memory — an ability to remember some facts while apparently forgetting others, especially when they are inconvenient
  • selective strike — a partial strike against a particular area of a business or against one employer or a small number of employers in a collective bargaining situation
  • self-cultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
  • self-deliverance — suicide.
  • self-deprivation — the act of depriving.
  • self-descriptive — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
  • self-destructive — harmful, injurious, or destructive to oneself: His constant arguing with the boss shows he's a self-destructive person.
  • semiconservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
  • semiprivate room — a hospital room shared by two people, typically with a curtain dividing the room and providing some privacy
  • semiquantitative — partially quantitative.
  • senior executive — someone in a senior position in a business, who makes decisions and puts them into action
  • special delivery — (in the U.S. Postal Service) delivery of mail outside the regularly scheduled hours, by a special messenger, upon the payment of an extra fee.
  • split infinitive — an expression in which there is a word or phrase, especially an adverb or adverbial phrase, between to and its accompanying verb form in an infinitive, as in to readily understand.
  • state university — a university maintained by the government of a state.
  • steam locomotive — a locomotive moved by steam power generated in its own boiler: still in commercial use in nations that have not yet converted entirely to diesel and electric locomotives.
  • substantive rank — a permanent rank in the armed services obtained by length of service, selection, etc
  • supersensitivity — extremely or excessively sensitive; hypersensitive: a supersensitive smoke detector.
  • thanksgiving day — a national holiday celebrated as a day of feasting and giving thanks for divine favors or goodness, observed on the fourth Thursday of November in the U.S. and in Canada on the second Monday of October.
  • 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.
  • unattractiveness — the condition of not appealing to the senses or mind through beauty, form, character, etc
  • universalization — to make universal.
  • unrepresentative — a person or thing that represents another or others.
  • unresponsiveness — responding especially readily and sympathetically to appeals, efforts, influences, etc.: a responsive government.
  • vasoconstrictive — causing vasoconstriction.
  • verbal adjective — an adjective derived from a verb, as, in English, smiling in smiling eyes, or, in Greek, batós “going,” “moving,” derived from baínen “to go,” “to move.”.
  • virgin olive oil — oil from olives that is not processed
  • well-diversified — distinguished by various forms or by a variety of objects: diversified activity.
  • wind river range — a mountain range in W Wyoming, part of the Rocky Mountains. Highest peak, Gannett Peak, 13,785 feet (4202 meters).
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