13-letter words containing a, v, i, n, c
- nectarivorous — feeding on nectar
- nerve-racking — extremely irritating, annoying, or trying: a nerve-racking day; a nerve-racking noise.
- nervewracking — Alternative form of nerve-wracking.
- nicholasville — a town in central Kentucky.
- noctivagation — the act of wandering in the night
- non-accretive — an increase by natural growth or by gradual external addition; growth in size or extent.
- non-causative — acting as a cause; producing (often followed by of): a causative agency; an event causative of war.
- non-lucrative — profitable; moneymaking; remunerative: a lucrative business.
- non-vesicular — of or relating to a vesicle or vesicles.
- nonattractive — Not attractive.
- nonchauvinist — a person who is not a chauvinist
- noncreativity — a lack of creativity
- noncultivated — relating to natural resources that are not under institutional or managed cultivation
- noncumulative — of or relating to preferred stock the dividends of which are skipped and not accrued.
- nonprovincial — Not restricted to a small region; not done in isolation.
- nonvocational — not relating to a particular job or profession
- nouveau riche — a person who is newly rich: the ostentation of the nouveaux riches of the 1920s.
- over-analytic — pertaining to or proceeding by analysis (opposed to synthetic).
- over-reliance — confident or trustful dependence.
- overachieving — Present participle of overachieve.
- overbalancing — Present participle of overbalance.
- overdominance — excessive dominance
- overeducation — the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.
- overinsurance — (of goods or property) insurance in excess of actual value
- platonic love — Platonism. love of the Idea of beauty, seen as terminating an evolution from the desire for an individual and the love of physical beauty to the love and contemplation of spiritual or ideal beauty.
- polio vaccine — a vaccine administered to induce specific active immunity to poliomyelitis.
- prevarication — the act of prevaricating, or lying: Seeing the expression on his mother's face, Nathan realized this was no time for prevarication.
- prevocational — of, relating to, or constituting preliminary vocational training.
- proactiveness — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- provincialise — to make provincial in character.
- provincialism — narrowness of mind, ignorance, or the like, considered as resulting from lack of exposure to cultural or intellectual activity.
- provincialist — a native or inhabitant of a province.
- provinciality — provincial character.
- provincialize — to make provincial in character.
- provocational — the act of provoking.
- quantivalence — quantitative equivalence
- racing driver — someone who drives a racing car in motor car races
- ratiocinative — the process of logical reasoning.
- re-activation — to render active again; revive.
- recording van — a van containing sound and image recording equipment, used as a mobile recording studio
- recultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
- revaccination — the act or practice of vaccinating; inoculation with vaccine.
- revendication — the process or act of revendicating
- revictualling — victuals, food supplies; provisions.
- revindication — the act of vindicating.
- rocking valve — (on a steam engine) a valve mechanism oscillating through an arc to open and close.
- romantic love — love characterized by romance and involving sexual attraction
- sabin vaccine — an orally administered vaccine of live viruses for immunization against poliomyelitis.
- saint vincent — Saint, died a.d. 304, Spanish martyr: patron saint of winegrowers.
- salviniaceous — relating to the genus Salviniaceae