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20-letter words containing v

  • regenerative furnace — a furnace in which the incoming air is heated by regenerators.
  • regional development — aid-giving to poorer areas or countries
  • relative atomic mass — the ratio of the average mass per atom of the naturally occurring form of an element to one-twelfth the mass of an atom of carbon-12
  • relative conjunction — a conjunction that introduces a relative clause
  • relative deprivation — the perception of an unfair disparity between one's situation and that of others.
  • relative probability — a measure or estimate of the degree of confidence one may have in the occurrence of an event, defined as the limit of the proportion observed in a sample as the sample size tends to infinity
  • reminder advertising — a type of advertising designed to remind customers that an existing or well-known product is still available and for sale
  • republic of maldives — a republic occupying an archipelago of 1087 coral islands in the Indian Ocean, southwest of Sri Lanka: came under British protection in 1887; became independent in 1965 and a republic in 1968; member of the Commonwealth (1982–2016). The economy and infrastructure were severely damaged in the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004. Official language: Divehi. Official religion: (Sunni) Muslim. Currency: rufiyaa. Capital: Malé. Pop: 393 988 (2013 est). Area: 298 sq km (115 sq miles)
  • reservations manager — A reservations manager at a hotel is responsible for the reservations at the hotel.
  • restrictive covenant — a covenant with a clause that restricts the action of any party to it, especially an agreement among property owners not to sell to members of particular minority groups.
  • restrictive practice — Restrictive practices are ways in which people involved in an industry, trade, or profession protect their own interests, rather than having a system which is fair to the public, employers, and other workers.
  • return of the native — a novel (1878) by Thomas Hardy.
  • return on investment — the amount of profit, before tax and after depreciation, from an investment made, usually expressed as a percentage of the original total cost invested. Abbreviation: ROI.
  • reversionary annuity — an annuity payable to a beneficiary during the period of time he or she survives the insured.
  • revolving presidency — a form of presidency in which the president and vice-president, or countries or bodies acting as such, switch roles after a set period and then back again and so on
  • romantic involvement — the condition of being in a romantic or sexual relationship
  • roof over one's head — If you have a roof over your head, you have somewhere to live.
  • run-time environment — (operating system)   A collection of subroutines and environment variables that provide commonly used functions and data for a program while it is running. Compare run-time support.
  • sales representative — a person or organization designated by a company to solicit business on its behalf in a specified territory or foreign country: I suggest you contact our Chicago sales representative.
  • satellite navigation — navigation using data received from satellites
  • satellite television — television transmitted from an artificial satellite at a power suitable for direct reception in the home
  • save someone's bacon — to help someone to escape from danger
  • scavenger's daughter — an instrument of torture that doubled over and squeezed the body so strongly and violently that blood was brought forth from the ears and nose: invented in 16th-century England.
  • sensitivity training — a form of group therapy designed to develop understanding of oneself and others through free, unstructured discussion.
  • serve a person right — to pay a person back, esp for wrongful or foolish treatment or behaviour
  • server message block — (protocol)   (SMB) A client/server protocol that provides file and printer sharing between computers. In addition SMB can share serial ports and communications abstractions such as named pipes and mail slots. SMB is similar to remote procedure call (RPC) specialised for file system access. SMB was developed by Intel, Microsoft, and IBM in the early 1980s. It has also had input from Xerox and 3Com. It is the native method of file and print sharing for Microsoft operating systems; where it is called Microsoft Networking. Windows for Workgroups, Windows 95, and Windows NT all include SMB clients and servers. SMB is also used by OS/2, Lan Manager and Banyan Vines. There are SMB servers and clients for Unix, for example Samba and smbclient. SMB is a presentation layer protocol structured as a large set of commands (Server Message Blocks). There are commands to support file sharing, printer sharing, user authentication, resource browsing, and other miscellaneous functions. As clients and servers may implement different versions ("dialects") of the protocol they negotiate before starting a session. The redirector packages SMB requests into a network control block (NBC) structure that can be sent across the network to a remote device. SMB originally ran on top of the lower level protocols NetBEUI and NetBIOS, but now typically runs over TCP/IP. Microsoft have developed an extended version of SMB for the Internet, the Common Internet File System (CIFS), which in most cases replaces SMB. CIFS runs only runs over TCP/IP.
  • service access point — (networking)   (SAP) The OSI term for the component of a network address which identifies the individual application on a host which is sending or receiving a packet. Different SAPs distinguish between different services or applications on a host, e.g. electronic mail, FTP, HTTP.
  • seven against thebes — (used with a plural verb) Classical Mythology. seven heroes, Amphiaraus, Capaneus, Eteoclus, Hippomedon, Parthenopaeus, Polynices, and Tydeus, who led an expedition against Thebes to depose Eteocles in favor of his brother Polynices: the expedition failed, but the Epigoni, the sons of the Seven against Thebes, conquered the city ten years later.
  • shank of the evening — the latter part of the afternoon
  • shifting cultivation — a land-use system, esp in tropical Africa, in which a tract of land is cultivated until its fertility diminishes, when it is abandoned until this is restored naturally
  • shivah asar betammuz — a Jewish fast day observed on the 17th day of Tammuz in memory of the breach of the walls of Jerusalem by the Romans in a.d. 70.
  • slow-scan television — a technique or system in which an image is scanned electronically more slowly than is normally done in order to produce images, especially of still pictures, that can be transmitted economically, as over a telephone line, and displayed on a television screen.
  • small craft advisory — a U.S. National Weather Service advisory of sustained winds, over coastal and inland waters, with speeds of 20–33 knots (23–38 mph, 10–17 m/sec). Regional NWS offices have discretion over the choice of the lower limit.
  • societal development — the formation and transformation of social life, customs, institutions, etc.
  • special boat service — a unit of the Royal Marines specializing in reconnaissance and sabotage
  • spontaneous recovery — the reappearance of a response after its extinction has been followed by a period of rest
  • spuyten duyvil creek — a channel in New York City at the north end of Manhattan Island, connecting the Hudson and Harlem rivers.
  • squatter sovereignty — (used contemptuously by its opponents) popular sovereignty (def 2).
  • state representative — a person elected by a state to be a member of the House of Representatives
  • subjective idea-list — a doctrine that the world has no existence independent of sensations or ideas.
  • subjective intension — the associations that an expression has for an individual; the intension he believes it to have
  • suitland-silver hill — a city in central Maryland, near Washington, D.C.
  • summative assessment — general assessment of a pupil's achievements over a range of subjects by means of a combined appraisal of formative assessments
  • surface-active agent — any substance that when dissolved in water or an aqueous solution reduces its surface tension or the interfacial tension between it and another liquid.
  • surveillance society — a society where surveillance technology is widely used to monitor people's everyday activities
  • talavera de la reina — a city in central Spain, on the Tagus River: British and Spanish defeat of the French 1809.
  • tangent galvanometer — a type of galvanometer having a vertical coil of wire with a horizontal magnetic needle at its centre. The current to be measured is passed through the coil and produces a proportional magnetic field which deflects the needle
  • television broadcast — sth shown on tv
  • television programme — a programme broadcast on television
  • the grove of academe — the academic world
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