23-letter words containing ve

give (or get) a tumble — to give (or get) some favorable or affectionate notice, attention, etc.
give (or get) the gate — to subject (or be subjected) to dismissal
give one's eyeteeth for — to go to any lengths to achieve or obtain (something)
give someone the finger — any of the terminal members of the hand, especially one other than the thumb.
give someone the needle — to goad or heckle
give something a rub-up — to smooth or polish something
hate-driven development — (programming, humour) A play on test-driven development for use when a piece of code is not necessarily broken but you hate the way it is written so much that you feel compelled to rewrite it.
have a way of doing sth — If you say that someone or something has a way of doing a particular thing, you mean that they often do it.
have bats in the belfry — to be mad or eccentric; have strange ideas
have nothing to do with — not associate with
have one over the eight — to be drunk
have one's act together — anything done, being done, or to be done; deed; performance: a heroic act.
have one's heart set on — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
have one's work cut out — to have as much work as one can manage
have struck/hit paydirt — If you say that someone has struck paydirt or has hit paydirt, you mean that they have achieved sudden success or gained a lot of money very quickly.
have the makings of sth — If you say that a person or thing has the makings of something, you mean it seems possible or likely that they will become that thing, as they have the necessary qualities.
have tickets on oneself — to be conceited
hypothetical imperative — (esp in the moral philosophy of Kant) any conditional rule of action, concerned with means and ends rather than with duty for its own sake
interval of convergence — an interval associated with a given power series such that the series converges for all values of the variable inside the interval and diverges for all values outside it.
invertible counterpoint — counterpoint in which the voices, while retaining their original form, may be interchanged above or below one another in any order.
juvenile-onset diabetes — diabetes (def 3).
lady chatterley's lover — a novel (1928) by D. H. Lawrence.
lawrence livermore labs — Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
leave no stone unturned — the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.
leave well enough alone — in a good or satisfactory manner: Business is going well.
marriage of convenience — marriage entered into for a personal or family advantage, as for social, political, or economic reasons, usually without love and sometimes without the expectation of sexual relations.
masters of the universe — extremely powerful and wealthy members of the financial professions
multiplicative identity — an identity that when used to multiply a given element in a specified set leaves that element unchanged, as the number 1 for the real-number system.
negative bending moment — a bending moment that produces convex bending at the supports of a continuously supported beam
new product development — the process of developing new products for the market
non-destructive testing — Non-destructive testing is the examination of the quality of a component without changing it in any way.
nonverbal communication — gesture and facial expression
oil-immersion objective — immersion objective.
on one's own initiative — without being prompted
on someone's wavelength — having similar views, feelings, or thoughts (as someone else)
on the same wave length — Physics. the distance, measured in the direction of propagation of a wave, between two successive points in the wave that are characterized by the same phase of oscillation.
over-the-counter market — a security market that deals in securities that are not listed or quoted on a stock exchange
overnight accommodation — accommodation provided by an establishment (such as a hotel) where guests can sleep or spend the night
own occupation coverage — Own occupation coverage is insurance that covers a person if they cannot work in their own occupation, following an accident, injury, or disability.
perceived noise decibel — a unit for measuring perceived levels of noise by comparison with the sound pressure level of a reference sound judged equally noisy by a normal listener
positive bending moment — a bending moment that produces concave bending at the middle of a simple supported beam
positive discrimination — special opportunities
presidential government — a system of government in which the powers of the president are constitutionally separate from those of the legislature.
progressive cavity pump — A progressive cavity pump is a pump with an electric motor that rotates rods to make fluid in cavities move upward.
provocative maintenance — [Common ironic mutation of "preventive maintenance"] Actions performed upon a machine at regularly scheduled intervals to ensure that the system remains in a usable state. So called because it is all too often performed by a field servoid who doesn't know what he is doing; such "maintenance" often *induces* problems, or otherwise results in the machine's remaining in an *un*usable state for an indeterminate amount of time. See also scratch monkey.
quote chapter and verse — [by analogy with the mainstream phrase] To cite a relevant excerpt from an appropriate bible. "I don't care if "rn" gets it wrong; "Followup-To: poster" is explicitly permitted by RFC 1036. I'll quote chapter and verse if you don't believe me." See also legalese, language lawyer, RTFS (sense 2).
regressive assimilation — assimilation in which a following sound has an effect on a preceding one, as in pronouncing have in have to as [haf] /hæf/ (Show IPA) influenced by the voiceless (t) in to.
relative molecular mass — the sum of all the relative atomic masses of the atoms in a molecule; the ratio of the average mass per molecule of a specified isotopic composition of a substance to one-twelfth the mass of an atom of carbon-12
relative sunspot number — a number indicating the degree of sunspot activity on the sun as a factor of observer idiosyncrasies, the number of sunspot groups, and the number of individual sunspots.
reverse polish notation — postfix notation

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