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13-letter words containing a, g, v

  • overdiagnosis — excessive diagnosis of a disease
  • overeagerness — The quality of being overeager; excessive readiness or enthusiasm.
  • overencourage — to encourage too much
  • overflow flag — overflow bit
  • overglamorize — to glamorize excessively
  • overlay glass — case glass.
  • overleveraged — (of a business organization) having an excessively high ratio of debt capital to equity capital
  • overnight bag — a travel bag large enough to hold personal articles and clothing for an overnight trip.
  • overpedalling — the overuse of the piano's pedals
  • pacific grove — a city in W California, at S end of Monterey Bay.
  • passage grave — a megalithic tomb of the Neolithic and Copper or early Bronze ages found in the British Isles and Europe, consisting of a roofed burial chamber and narrow entrance passage covered by a round mound and containing human remains and funerary offerings.
  • pham van dong — 1906–2000, Vietnamese political leader: prime minister of North Vietnam 1955–76 and of unified Vietnam 1976–86.
  • photonegative — pertaining to a substance, as selenium, having a conductivity that decreases upon absorption of electromagnetic radiation.
  • pigouvian tax — a tax levied to counter an economic negative externality, for example taxing producers of industrial pollution in order to encourage pollution control
  • pivot grammar — a loose grammar said to govern two-word utterances by children
  • plural voting — right to vote more than once
  • point shaving — (especially in basketball) the illegal practice, by one or more bribed players, of deliberately limiting the number of points scored to conform to the desires of corrupt gamblers.
  • point-shaving — (especially in basketball) the illegal practice, by one or more bribed players, of deliberately limiting the number of points scored to conform to the desires of corrupt gamblers.
  • pole-vaulting — a field sport in which competitors attempt to clear a high bar with the aid of an extremely flexible long pole
  • prerogatively — by way of privilege or prerogative
  • primigravidas — a woman pregnant for the first time.
  • provost guard — a detachment of soldiers assigned to police duties under the provost marshal.
  • racing driver — someone who drives a racing car in motor car races
  • raglan sleeve — a sleeve that begins at the neck and has a long, slanting seam line from the neck to the armhole, giving the garment a relatively undefined shoulder.
  • rally driving — the sport of taking part in motor rallies
  • rayleigh wave — a wave along the surface of a solid, elastic body, especially along the surface of the earth.
  • re-evaluating — to determine or set the value or amount of; appraise: to evaluate property.
  • recording van — a van containing sound and image recording equipment, used as a mobile recording studio
  • red-eye gravy — a gravy made from the pan juices of fried country ham, thickened with flour and sometimes containing coffee for color and flavor.
  • regular bevel — the bevel of a bolt or lock on a door opening into the building, room, etc., to which the doorway leads (opposed to reverse bevel).
  • reintegrative — characterized by integration; tending to restore unity
  • reinvestigate — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
  • reinvigorated — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
  • reinvigorator — something that gives new life and energy (to something)
  • reserve-grade — denoting a sporting team of the second rank in a club
  • revenue agent — a government official who is responsible for the collection of revenue.
  • revictualling — victuals, food supplies; provisions.
  • ring-a-lievio — a game played usually between two teams in which the members of one team attempt to find, capture, and imprison the members of the other, who can be freed only by a teammate not yet captured.
  • rocking valve — (on a steam engine) a valve mechanism oscillating through an arc to open and close.
  • salvage costs — the costs involved in salvaging goods or property from fire, shipwreck, etc
  • saving clause — a clause which denotes a reservation or exception
  • savings ratio — the ratio of personal savings to disposable income, esp using the difference between national figures for disposable income and consumer spending as a measure of savings
  • savings stamp — a stamp which can be bought (for example at a machine in a supermarket), saved, and then redeemed against the cost of goods later (for example at Christmas)
  • savoy cabbage — a variety of cabbage having a compact head of crinkled, blistered leaves.
  • scavenge pump — an oil pump used in some internal-combustion engines to return oil from the crankcase to the oil tank
  • scotch lovage — a similar and related plant, Ligusticum scoticum, of N Europe
  • sea vegetable — an edible seaweed
  • serving hatch — a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room
  • seventh grade — school year: age 12-13
  • shaving brush — a short, cylindrical brush with long, soft, bristles, used in lathering the face before shaving.
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