13-letter words containing a, s, c, e, i
- undescribable — to tell or depict in written or spoken words; give an account of: He described the accident very carefully.
- undiscernable — capable of being discerned; distinguishable.
- undiscouraged — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
- undiscussable — to consider or examine by argument, comment, etc.; talk over or write about, especially to explore solutions; debate: to discuss the proposed law on taxes.
- undissociated — not dissociated, especially into ions or into simpler molecules.
- undomesticate — to make wild
- unethicalness — lacking moral principles; unwilling to adhere to proper rules of conduct.
- unicameralism — consisting of a single chamber, as a legislative assembly.
- unnecessarily — not necessary or essential; needless; unessential.
- unplasticized — not made plastic, as by the addition of a plasticizer
- unscholarlike — not befitting a scholar; ungentlemanly
- unsecularized — to make secular; separate from religious or spiritual connection or influences; make worldly or unspiritual; imbue with secularism.
- unserviceable — not suitable to be used
- unspecialized — not specialized
- unspecifiable — not able to be specified
- unspeculative — not characterized by speculation
- unsuperficial — external or outward: a superficial resemblance.
- unsymmetrical — characterized by or exhibiting symmetry; well-proportioned, as a body or whole; regular in form or arrangement of corresponding parts.
- unsympathetic — characterized by, proceeding from, exhibiting, or feeling sympathy; sympathizing; compassionate: a sympathetic listener.
- valet service — a cleaning service, in which your clothes are collected for cleaning, from your house or hotel, and returned to you
- variable cost — a cost that varies with a change in the volume of output while remaining uniform on a per-unit basis, as cost of labor (distinguished from fixed cost).
- varicose vein — Varicose veins are swollen and painful veins in a person's legs, which sometimes require a medical operation.
- vascularities — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
- venire facias — a writ directing the appropriate official to summon a jury.
- veraciousness — characterized by truthfulness; true, accurate, or honest in content: a veracious statement; a veracious account.
- vernacularism — a vernacular word or expression.
- vernacularist — someone who uses vernacular speech
- vernier scale — Also, vernier scale. a small, movable, graduated scale running parallel to the fixed graduated scale of a sextant, theodolite, barometer, etc., and used for measuring a fractional part of one of the divisions of the fixed scale.
- versification — the act of versifying.
- vesica piscis — an elliptical figure in pointed form, usually one made by the intersection of two arcs and used, especially in early Christian art, as an emblem of Christ.
- vicariousness — performed, exercised, received, or suffered in place of another: vicarious punishment.
- videocassette — a cassette enclosing a length of tape for video recording or reproduction.
- visceral arch — Embryology. branchial arch.
- visual cortex — the portion of the cerebral cortex of the brain that receives and processes impulses from the optic nerves.
- visual effect — Usually, visual effects. a special effect that is added to a film or video in post-production, as computer-generated imagery. Abbreviation: VFX.
- vivaciousness — lively; animated; spirited: a vivacious folk dance.
- vraisemblance — verisimilitude; appearance of truth
- wage increase — the amount by which a salary is increased
- wages council — (formerly, in Britain) a statutory body empowered to fix minimum wages in an industry; abolished in 1994
- wallcoverings — Plural form of wallcovering.
- water biscuit — a crackerlike biscuit prepared from flour and water.
- watercolorist — a pigment for which water and not oil is used as the vehicle.
- waterscorpion — any of several predaceous aquatic bugs of the family Nepidae, having clasping front legs and a long respiratory tube at the rear of the abdomen: capable of biting if handled.
- west atlantic — a group of languages of W Africa constituting a branch of the Niger-Congo subfamily of languages, and including Fulani and Wolof.
- west columbia — a town in central South Carolina.
- west germanic — a subbranch of Germanic that includes English, Frisian, Flemish, Dutch, Plattdeutsch, Yiddish, and German. Abbreviation: WGmc.
- whimsicalness — Whimsicality.
- white arsenic — arsenous acid
- wild allspice — spicebush (sense 1)
- without cease — without stopping; incessantly