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16-letter words containing v, e, n

  • behavioural sink — a small area in which people or animals live in overcrowded conditions
  • behind the curve — behind the times; behind schedule
  • belgian tervuren — one of a Belgian breed of medium-sized dogs having a long, straight coat, fawn to mahogany in color, differing from the Belgian sheepdog only in color.
  • bioenvironmental — pertaining to the environment of living organisms: Bioenvironmental engineers seek to reduce air and water pollution.
  • blow one's cover — to be or serve as a covering for; extend over; rest on the surface of: Snow covered the fields.
  • bonneville flats — an area of salt flats in the W part of Great Salt Lake Desert, in NW Utah: site of automobile speed tests.
  • brain-fever bird — an Indian cuckoo, Cuculus varius, that utters a repetitive call
  • branchial groove — one of a series of rudimentary depressions on the surface of the embryo between adjacent branchial arches, homologous to the branchial clefts of gill-breathing ancestral forms.
  • brave west winds — the strong west and west-northwest winds blowing between latitudes 40° S and 60° S.
  • break-even point — When a company reaches break-even point, the money it makes from the sale of goods or services is just enough to cover the cost of supplying those goods or services, but not enough to make a profit.
  • bundle of nerves — a very nervous person
  • buying behaviour — the behaviours displayed by consumers when they purchase things, such as preferences, price points, etc
  • cable television — Cable television is a television system in which signals are sent along wires rather than by radio waves.
  • cannonball serve — (in tennis) a very fast low serve
  • capital movement — the payments that flow between countries
  • captive audience — a group of people who are unable by circumstances to avoid speeches, advertisements, etc
  • captive breeding — Captive breeding is the breeding of wild animals in places such as zoos, especially animals which have become rare in the wild.
  • cardinal virtues — the most important moral qualities, traditionally justice, prudence, temperance, and fortitude
  • careless driving — the offence of driving without due care
  • case insensitive — case sensitivity
  • case sensitivity — (text)   Whether a text matching operation distinguishes upper-case (capital) letters from lower case (is "case sensitive") or not ("case insensitive"). Case in file names should be preserved (for readability) but ignored when matching (so the user doesn't have to get it right). MS-DOS does not preserve case in file names, Unix preserves case and matches are case sensitive. Any decent text editor will allow the user to specify whether or not text searches should be case sensitive. Case sensitivity is also relevant in programming (most programming languages distiguish between case in the names of identifiers), and addressing (Internet domain names are case insensitive but RFC 822 local mailbox names are case sensitive). Case insensitive operations are sometimes said to "fold case", from the idea of folding the character code table so that upper and lower case letters coincide. The alternative "smash case" is more likely to be used by someone who considers this behaviour a misfeature or in cases where one case is actually permanently converted to the other. "MS-DOS will automatically smash case in the names of all the files you create".
  • cash on delivery — If you pay for goods cash on delivery, you pay for them in cash when they are delivered. The abbreviation C.O.D. is also used.
  • cavity resonator — a conducting surface enclosing a space in which an oscillating electromagnetic field can be maintained, the dimensions of the cavity determining the resonant frequency of the oscillations. It is used in microwave devices for frequencies exceeding 300 megahertz
  • cedar revolution — the popular protests in 2005 that brought down the Lebanese cabinet and prompted Syria to withdraw its troops from Lebanon
  • chancellorsville — hamlet in NE Va. (now called Chancellor): site of a Civil War battle (May, 1863) won by Confederate forces
  • chinese pavilion — crescent (def 6).
  • chinese-pavilion — a shape resembling a segment of a ring tapering to points at the ends.
  • church invisible — the entire body of Christian believers on earth and in heaven.
  • civic university — (in Britain) a university originally instituted as a higher education college serving a particular city
  • civilian clothes — not military uniform
  • clearance volume — The clearance volume is the volume remaining above the piston of an engine when it reaches top dead center.
  • coign of vantage — an advantageous position or stance for observation or action
  • collectivisation — Alternative spelling of collectivization.
  • collectivization — to organize (a people, industry, economy, etc.) according to the principles of collectivism.
  • color television — tv set showing images in colour
  • 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.
  • companion volume — a book that complements another on a related subject, usually by the same author
  • compression wave — a shock wave that compresses the medium through which it is transmitted.
  • confidence level — a measure of the reliability of a result. A confidence level of 95 per cent or 0.95 means that there is a probability of at least 95 per cent that the result is reliable
  • conservation law — any law stating that some quantity or property remains constant during and after an interaction or process, as conservation of charge or conservation of linear momentum.
  • conservationists — Plural form of conservationist.
  • 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.
  • content provider — A content provider is a company that supplies material such as text, music, or images for use on websites.
  • continuous waves — radio waves generated as a continuous train of oscillations having a constant frequency and amplitude
  • contour interval — the difference in altitude represented by the space between two contour lines on a map
  • contraindicative — Serving as a contraindication.
  • control variable — Also called control. Statistics. a person, group, event, etc., that is used as a constant and unchanging standard of comparison in scientific experimentation. Compare dependent variable (def 2), independent variable (def 2).
  • controversialism — The attitude or tendency to engage in controversy.
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