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13-letter words containing a, e, v, u

  • corel ventura — (text, graphics)   (Previously "Ventura Publisher") The first full-featured desktop publishing program available for the IBM personal computer and compatibles. Ventura Publisher was originally distributed by Ventura, a wholy owned subsiduary of Xerox Corporation but was acquired by Corel Corporation in September 1993.
  • coronaviruses — Plural form of coronavirus.
  • counteractive — to act in opposition to; frustrate by contrary action.
  • countervailed — Simple past tense and past participle of countervail.
  • cup and cover — a turning used in Elizabethan and Jacobean furniture and resembling a goblet with a domed cover.
  • cupboard love — a show of love inspired only by some selfish or greedy motive
  • curvilinearly — In a curvilinear way.
  • cut-and-cover — designating a method of constructing a tunnel by excavating a cutting to the required depth and then backfilling the excavation over the tunnel roof
  • cut-off valve — a valve that terminates the flow of fluid in a system
  • damage survey — an inspection by an insurance company of something that has been damaged and for which an insurance claim has been made, in order to determine the extent and cause of damage
  • devolutionary — the act or fact of devolving; passage onward from stage to stage.
  • dispurveyance — the lack of provisions
  • diverticulate — of or relating to a diverticulum
  • documentative — Of or pertaining to documents or documentation.
  • ebola (virus) — an RNA virus (family Filoviridae) that causes fever, internal bleeding, and, often, death
  • endeavourment — the act of endeavouring
  • equivalencing — Present participle of equivalence.
  • equivocalness — The state of being equivocal; ambiguity.
  • equivocations — Plural form of equivocation.
  • eventualities — Plural form of eventuality.
  • executive pay — the money that an executive of an organization gets as wages or salary
  • exhaust valve — An exhaust valve is a valve that releases burned gases from a cylinder.
  • extravascular — Situated or happening outside of the blood vessels or lymph vessels.
  • facultatively — In a facultative manner.
  • family values — belief in traditional family unit
  • ferrovanadium — a ferroalloy containing up to 55 percent vanadium.
  • for values of — (jargon)   A common rhetorical maneuver at MIT is to use any of the canonical random numbers as placeholders for variables. "The max function takes 42 arguments, for arbitrary values of 42". "There are 69 ways to leave your lover, for 69 = 50". This is especially likely when the speaker has uttered a random number and realises that it was not recognised as such, but even "non-random" numbers are occasionally used in this fashion. A related joke is that pi equals 3 - for small values of pi and large values of 3. This usage probably derives from the programming language MAD (Michigan Algorithm Decoder), an ALGOL-like language that was the most common choice among mainstream (non-hacker) users at MIT in the mid-1960s. It had a control structure FOR VALUES OF X = 3, 7, 99 DO ... that would repeat the indicated instructions for each value in the list (unlike the usual FOR that generates an arithmetic sequence of values). MAD is long extinct, but similar for-constructs still flourish (e.g. in Unix's shell languages).
  • frequentative — noting or pertaining to a verb aspect expressing repetition of an action.
  • fuerteventura — a Spanish island off the NW coast of Africa, one of the Canary Islands. 641 sq. mi. (1660 sq. km).
  • full-flavored — Full-flavored food or wine has a pleasant fairly strong taste.
  • furniture van — a van designed to move the furniture of a house, office, etc, to another place
  • gesticulative — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
  • give a leg up — to help to mount
  • give pause to — to cause to hesitate
  • h and d curve — characteristic curve.
  • hairpin curve — A hairpin curve or a hairpin is a very sharp bend in a road, where the road turns back in the opposite direction.
  • hallucinative — a sensory experience of something that does not exist outside the mind, caused by various physical and mental disorders, or by reaction to certain toxic substances, and usually manifested as visual or auditory images.
  • harvest mouse — an Old World field mouse, Micromys minutus, that builds a spherical nest among the stems of grains and other plants.
  • have a bun on — have a bun on, Slang. to be intoxicated: Everyone at the party seemed to have a bun on.
  • have its uses — If you say that being something or knowing someone has its uses, you mean that it makes it possible for you to do what you otherwise would not be able to do.
  • have the guts — be brave enough
  • heavily built — with a big heavy body
  • heavy cruiser — a naval cruiser having 8-inch (20.3-cm) guns as its main armament.
  • hypervascular — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
  • individualise — (British spelling) alternative spelling of individualize.
  • individualize — to make individual or distinctive; give an individual or distinctive character to.
  • inequivalence — The condition of being inequivalent.
  • intervalvular — Between valves.
  • intravenously — through or within a vein. Abbreviation: IV.
  • involute gear — a gear tooth form that is generated by involute geometry
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