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13-letter words containing a, v, o, c, e, t

  • over-cautious — excessively or unnecessarily cautious: Sometimes it doesn't pay to be overcautious in business.
  • over-contract — an agreement between two or more parties for the doing or not doing of something specified.
  • over-educated — to develop the faculties and powers of (a person) by teaching, instruction, or schooling. Synonyms: instruct, school, drill, indoctrinate.
  • over-reactive — tending to react.
  • overacuteness — sharp or severe in effect; intense: acute sorrow; an acute pain.
  • overallocated — Allocated in excess.
  • overcast seam — a hem with long stitches passing successively over the edge
  • overdecorated — Simple past tense and past participle of overdecorate.
  • 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.
  • overexcitable — Excessively excitable.
  • overspeculate — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
  • 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.
  • postvasectomy — of or occurring in the period after a vasectomy
  • potomac fever — the determination or fervor to share in the power and prestige of the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., especially by being appointed or elected to a government position.
  • potomac river — a river flowing SE from the Allegheny Mountains in West Virginia, along the boundary between Maryland and Virginia to the Chesapeake Bay. 287 miles (460 km) long.
  • 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.
  • provocatively — tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
  • radioactivate — to make (a substance) radioactive.
  • radius vector — Mathematics. the length of the line segment joining a fixed point or origin to a given point.
  • ratiocinative — the process of logical reasoning.
  • re-activation — to render active again; revive.
  • reciprocative — to give, feel, etc., in return.
  • recovery team — a team engaged in locating and retrieving bodies, cargo, etc, esp following a crash, explosion or natural disaster
  • recultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
  • retroactively — operative with respect to past occurrences, as a statute; retrospective: a retroactive law.
  • revaccination — the act or practice of vaccinating; inoculation with vaccine.
  • revendication — the process or act of revendicating
  • revindication — the act of vindicating.
  • romantic love — love characterized by romance and involving sexual attraction
  • salvage costs — the costs involved in salvaging goods or property from fire, shipwreck, etc
  • scotch lovage — a similar and related plant, Ligusticum scoticum, of N Europe
  • scratch video — the technique or practice of recycling images from films or television to make collages
  • second advent — Second Coming.
  • suction valve — a nonreturn valve in a pump suction to prevent the pump draining or depriming when not in service
  • tax avoidance — Tax avoidance is the use of legal methods to pay the smallest possible amount of tax.
  • throw a curve — a continuously bending line, without angles.
  • to come alive — If people, places, or events come alive, they start to be lively again after a quiet period. If someone or something brings them alive, they cause them to come alive.
  • to take cover — If you take cover, you shelter from gunfire, bombs, or the weather.
  • touch a nerve — to mention or bring to mind a sensitive issue or subject
  • 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
  • ultraviolence — acts of extreme violence, esp those shown on television or film
  • uncooperative — working or acting together willingly for a common purpose or benefit.
  • unprovocative — tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
  • vaccine point — a thin, pointed, vaccine-coated piece of bone or the like, for use in vaccinating.
  • vacuum bottle — a bottle or flask having a vacuum liner that prevents the escape of heat from hot contents, usually liquids, or the entrance of heat into cold contents; thermos.
  • valedictorian — a student, usually the one ranking highest academically in a school graduating class, who delivers the valedictory at the commencement exercises.
  • 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).
  • vaunt-courier — a person who goes in advance, as a herald.
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