16-letter words containing ves
- amerigo vespucci — Amerigo [uh-mer-i-goh;; Italian ah-me-ree-gaw] /əˈmɛr ɪˌgoʊ;; Italian ˌɑ mɛˈri gɔ/ (Show IPA), (Americus Vespucius) 1451–1512, Italian merchant, adventurer, and explorer after whom America was named.
- andreas vesalius — Andreas [ahn-dre-ahs] /ɑnˈdrɛ ɑs/ (Show IPA), 1514–64, Flemish anatomist.
- auditory vesicle — the pouch that is formed by the invagination of an ectodermal placode and that develops into the internal ear.
- bulletproof vest — a protective garment
- bundle of nerves — a very nervous person
- capital reserves — the money which a company holds in reserve
- continuous waves — radio waves generated as a continuous train of oscillations having a constant frequency and amplitude
- currier and ives — any of a 19th-cent. series of prints showing the manners, people, and events of the times
- de broglie waves — the set of waves that represent the behaviour of an elementary particle, or some atoms and molecules, under certain conditions. The de Broglie wavelength, λ, is given by λ = h/mv, where h is the Planck constant, m the mass, and v the velocity of the particle
- droves of people — large numbers of people
- family of curves — a collection of curves whose equations differ only by values assigned a parameter or parameters.
- germinal vesicle — the large, vesicular nucleus of an ovum before the polar bodies are formed.
- harvest festival — religious celebration of crops gathered
- investment grant — a direct subsidy made by a government to a business in order to enable it to make further investment
- investment trust — a company that invests its funds in other companies and issues its own securities against these investments.
- neoconservatives — Plural form of neoconservative.
- peter stuyvesant — Peter, 1592–1672, Dutch colonial administrator in the Americas: last governor of New Netherlands 1646–64.
- plutarch's lives — (Parallel Lives) a collection (a.d. 105–15) by Plutarch of short biographies of the leading political figures of ancient Greece and Rome.
- reap the harvest — If you reap the harvest, you benefit or suffer from the results of your past actions or of someone else's past actions.
- sicilian vespers — a general massacre of the French in Sicily by the local population, begun at the sound of the vesper bell on Easter Monday, 1282.
- thick as thieves — very close friends
- thieves' kitchen — a thieves' hideout
- vest-pocket park — pocket park.
- vestibular nerve — the part of the auditory nerve in the inner ear that carries sensory information related to body equilibrium.
- vestibule school — a school in an industrial establishment where new employees are given specific training in the jobs they are to perform.
- vesuvianite jade — a green variety of vesuvianite, used as a gem: not a true jade.
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