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19-letter words containing v

  • corrosive sublimate — mercuric chloride
  • counter-advertising — the act or practice of calling public attention to one's product, service, need, etc., especially by paid announcements in newspapers and magazines, over radio or television, on billboards, etc.: to get more customers by advertising.
  • counterproductively — In a counterproductive way.
  • countersurveillance — The art of evading surveillance.
  • countervailing duty — an extra import duty imposed by a country on certain imports, esp to prevent dumping or to counteract subsidies in the exporting country
  • covered-dish supper — a meal to which guests contribute food, as casseroles.
  • creative accounting — Creative accounting is when companies present or organize their accounts in such a way that they gain money for themselves or give a false impression of their profits.
  • creative department — the department of a company or organization responsible for the design and creation of advertisements and marketing materials
  • cry over spilt milk — to lament something that cannot be altered
  • cultivated mushroom — an edible mushroom (Agaricus bisporus) with a pale cap and stalk: the most common food mushroom
  • cultural relativism — a concept that cultural norms and values derive their meaning within a specific social context. Also called cultural relativism. Compare ethnocentrism (def 2).
  • cultural relativity — a concept that cultural norms and values derive their meaning within a specific social context. Also called cultural relativism. Compare ethnocentrism (def 2).
  • cultural revolution — (in China) a mass movement (1965–68), in which the youthful Red Guard played a prominent part. It was initiated by Mao Tse-tung to destroy the power of the bureaucrats and to revolutionize the attitudes and behaviour of the people
  • cultural-relativism — a concept that cultural norms and values derive their meaning within a specific social context. Also called cultural relativism. Compare ethnocentrism (def 2).
  • cumulative evidence — additional evidence reinforcing testimony previously given
  • cup-and-saucer vine — a woody, Mexican vine, Cobaea scandens, of the phlox family, having bell-shaped, violet-colored or greenish-purple flowers with an inflated, leaflike calyx and long, curved stamens.
  • curvilinear tracery — tracery, especially of the 14th and 15th centuries, characterized by a pattern of irregular, boldly curved forms.
  • data driven machine — (language)   (DDM) A dataflow language.
  • davy jones's locker — the bottom of the sea; grave of those drowned at sea or buried there
  • de moivre's theorem — the theorem that a complex number raised to a given positive integral power is equal to the modulus of the number raised to the power and multiplied by the amplitude times the given power.
  • declaration of love — a statement made by one person to another in which they say they are in love with the other person
  • descriptive grammar — an approach to grammar that is concerned with reporting the usage of native speakers without reference to proposed norms of correctness or advocacy of rules based on such norms.
  • detective constable — a police officer who investigates crime and who is of the lowest rank
  • detective inspector — a police officer who investigates crime and who ranks above a detective sergeant but below a detective chief inspector
  • developable surface — a surface that can be flattened onto a plane without stretching or compressing any part of it, as a circular cone.
  • development company — a company that buys land and builds houses, offices, shops, or factories on it, or buys existing buildings and makes them more modern
  • devil's coach-horse — a large black rove beetle, Ocypus olens, with large jaws and ferocious habits
  • devils-on-horseback — a savoury of prunes wrapped in bacon slices and served on toast
  • diamond anniversary — a 60th, or occasionally 75th, anniversary
  • differential driver — (hardware)   An electronic device (commonly an integrated circuit), containing two amplifiers, used to drive a differential line.
  • dig one's own grave — If you say that someone is digging their own grave, you are warning them that they are doing something foolish or dangerous that will cause their own failure.
  • direct-vision prism — Amici prism.
  • disadvantageousness — The state or quality of being disadvantageous.
  • discovery procedure — any rigorous method by the application of which a grammar might be constructed from a corpus of utterances in a language; an algorithm leading from data to a formulation.
  • disjunctive pronoun — an inflection of pronouns in some languages that is used alone or after a preposition, such as moi in French
  • display advertising — display ads taken collectively.
  • distance university — a degree-granting institution operating wholly or mainly by correspondence courses for students not resident on or within commuting distance of the campus.
  • distinctive feature — a feature of the sound system of a language that serves as the crucial distinguishing mark between two phonemes, as the distinctive feature of voicing, which distinguishes b from p in English, or nasality, which distinguishes m from b and p.
  • diversified farming — the practice of producing a variety of crops or animals, or both, on one farm, as distinguished from specializing in a single commodity.
  • diversional therapy — the structured use of leisure time in recreation and play as a form of or supplement to conventional therapy
  • do one's level best — If you say that you will do your level best to do something, you are emphasizing that you will try as hard as you can to do it, even if the situation makes it very difficult.
  • dominant wavelength — the wavelength of monochromatic light that would give the same visual sensation if combined in a suitable proportion with an achromatic light
  • dose-response curve — a curve plotting the relationship between the dose of a drug administered and its pharmacological effect.
  • earthquake coverage — Earthquake coverage is insurance coverage for damage caused by earthquakes.
  • ebola virus disease — Also called Ebola fever, Ebola hemorrhagic fever, Ebola virus disease. a usually fatal disease, a type of hemorrhagic fever, caused by the Ebola virus and marked by high fever, severe gastrointestinal distress, and bleeding.
  • ecumenical movement — See under ecumenical (def 4).
  • educational adviser — a person who provides advice and training to teachers about teaching methods and educational policies
  • effective half-life — the time required for half of a quantity of radioactive material absorbed by a living tissue or organism to be removed by both elimination and decay
  • effervescent tablet — Effervescent tablets break down quickly when they are dropped into water or another liquid.
  • electroconductivity — Electrical conductivity.
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