13-letter words containing a, v, o, c
- irrecoverably — incapable of being recovered or regained: an irrecoverable debt.
- it governance — information technology governance
- ladino clover — a giant variety of white clover, Trifolium repens lodigense, used for pasture and hay.
- lake victoria — the ancient Roman goddess of victory, identified with the Greek goddess Nike.
- leave sb cold — If something leaves you cold, it fails to excite or interest you.
- long vacation — the summer vacation customary in the law courts and universities.
- lord advocate — (in Scotland) the chief law officer of the Crown who acts as public prosecutor and is in charge of the administration of criminal justice
- macrovascular — Of or pertaining to the larger blood vessels.
- mangrove jack — a predatory food and game fish, Lutjanus argentimaculatus, of Australian rivers and tidal creeks dominated by mangroves
- manhole cover — a removable metal plate covering a shaft that leads down to a sewer or drain
- medium octavo — a size of book, about 6 × 9½ inches (15 × 24 cm), untrimmed. Abbreviation: medium 8vo.
- melvin conway — (person) An early proto-hacker who wrote an assembler for the Burroughs 220 called SAVE and (probably) formulated Conway's Law.
- metacognitive — higher-order thinking that enables understanding, analysis, and control of one’s cognitive processes, especially when engaged in learning.
- microvascular — Of or relating to the smallest blood vessels.
- microwaveable — Alternative spelling of microwavable.
- mid-victorian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the middle portion (about 1850 to 1890) of the reign of Queen Victoria (reigned 1837–1901) in England: mid-Victorian writers.
- mikhailovitch — Draja [drah-zhah] /ˈdrɑ ʒɑ/ (Show IPA), 1893–1946, Yugoslav military leader.
- misgovernance — to govern or manage badly.
- misobservance — a failure to observe thoroughly or properly
- moral victory — greater honour despite losing
- mosaic vision — a type of vision hypothesized for the insect compound eye, in which the image is formed by hundreds of separate ommatidia.
- movie actress — a female who acts in films or movies
- naval college — training institution for the navy
- naval officer — member of navy staff
- nectarivorous — feeding on nectar
- nervomuscular — (physiology) Of or pertaining to both nerves and muscles.
- neurovascular — of, relating to, or involving the nerves and blood vessels.
- 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-revocable — that may be revoked.
- non-vesicular — of or relating to a vesicle or vesicles.
- nonattractive — Not attractive.
- nonchauvinist — a person who is not a chauvinist
- nonconversant — Not conversant.
- 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.
- nonobservance — absence or lack of observance.
- 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.
- novocentenary — a nine-hundredth anniversary
- novocherkassk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Rostov.
- old provencal — the Provençal language as found in documents from the 11th to the 16th centuries. Abbreviation: OPr.
- optical drive — optical disk drive
- orchard valve — an alfalfa valve of lesser diameter than the pipe it closes.
- ovariectomies — Plural form of ovariectomy.