13-letter words containing a, t, r, i, o, v
- revaccination — the act or practice of vaccinating; inoculation with vaccine.
- revelationist — a person who believes in divine revelation.
- revendication — the process or act of revendicating
- reverberation — a reechoed sound.
- revindication — the act of vindicating.
- revolutionary — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change: a revolutionary junta.
- romantic love — love characterized by romance and involving sexual attraction
- 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
- scratch video — the technique or practice of recycling images from films or television to make collages
- silver iodate — a white, crystalline, slightly water-soluble powder, AgIO 3 , used in medicine chiefly as an antiseptic and as an astringent.
- solitary wave — a localized disturbance that propagates like a wave but resembles a particle in that it does not disperse, even if it collides with other such waves.
- soviet russia — a conventional name of the Soviet Union.
- stain remover — a substance designed for removing stains or dirty marks, as from clothes, carpets, etc
- star of david — Judaism: six-pointed star
- subordinative — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
- suovetaurilia — (in ancient Rome) a sacrifice of a hog, a ram, and a bull.
- tergiversator — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
- tractor drive — a mechanism that feeds paper through a printer, using studs on a rotating wheel that engage with holes along the side of the paper
- ultra-violent — acting with or characterized by uncontrolled, strong, rough force: a violent earthquake.
- ultraviolence — acts of extreme violence, esp those shown on television or film
- uncooperative — working or acting together willingly for a common purpose or benefit.
- uninformative — not educational
- unprovocative — tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
- unvoluntarily — done, made, brought about, undertaken, etc., of one's own accord or by free choice: a voluntary contribution.
- vacation trip — a trip undertaken during a vacation
- vacation work — work undertaken by students during their vacation
- valedictorian — a student, usually the one ranking highest academically in a school graduating class, who delivers the valedictory at the commencement exercises.
- vanity mirror — a small mirror contained in the sun visor of a car
- vapor tension — vapor pressure.
- 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).
- variety store — a retail store, as a five-and-ten, carrying a large variety of goods, especially low-priced articles.
- vasoinhibitor — an agent, as a drug, that inhibits the action of the vasomotor nerves.
- vaunt-courier — a person who goes in advance, as a herald.
- vectorization — the process of converting from a bitmap image to a vector representation
- venetian door — a doorway having a form similar to that of a Palladian window.
- ventriloquial — of, relating to, or using ventriloquism.
- verbalization — to express in words: He couldn't verbalize his feelings.
- verbigeration — the condition or instances of repeating the same word or sentence against one's will as a symptom of a psychiatric disorder
- vermiculation — to work or ornament with wavy lines or markings resembling the form or tracks of a worm.
- vernalization — to shorten the growth period of (a plant) by chilling or other special treatment of it, its seeds, or its bulbs.
- versification — the act of versifying.
- victoria land — a region in Antarctica, bordering on the Ross Sea, mainly in Ross Dependency.
- victoria nile — a section of the upper Nile River in central Uganda between Lake Victoria and Lake Albert. 260 miles (418 km) long.
- victorian box — a tree, Pittosporum undulatum, of Australia, having shiny, wavy-margined, oblong leaves and fragrant clusters of yellowish flowers.
- victoriaville — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- victory medal — a round bronze medal awarded to all those who served in the armed forces of the U.S. during World War I.
- vindicatorily — in a vindicatory manner
- virgo intacta — a girl or woman whose hymen has not been broken
- visitor's tax — a tax that visitors to a place must pay
- visual cortex — the portion of the cerebral cortex of the brain that receives and processes impulses from the optic nerves.