13-letter words containing a, v, s, t
- levant storax — a solid resin with a vanillalike odor, obtained from a small tree, Styrax officinalis: formerly used in medicine and perfumery.
- livery stable — a stable where horses and vehicles are cared for or rented out for pay.
- lucrativeness — profitable; moneymaking; remunerative: a lucrative business.
- malinvestment — An incorrect or unwise investment.
- manifestative — manifesting; showing clearly or conclusively.
- manipulatives — influencing or attempting to influence the behavior or emotions of others for one’s own purposes: a manipulative boss.
- mantelshelves — Plural form of mantelshelf.
- mass movement — an organized effort by a large number of people, especially those not forming part of the elite of a given society, to bring about pervasive changes in existing social, economic, or political institutions, frequently characterized by charismatic leadership.
- misadventured — (obsolete) unfortunate.
- misadventurer — a person who experiences misadventure or misfortune
- misadventures — Plural form of misadventure.
- misadvertence — inadvertence
- miscegenative — (rare) Miscegenous.
- misevaluation — an act or instance of evaluating or appraising.
- mohave desert — a desert in S California: part of the Great Basin. About 15,000 sq. mi. (38,850 sq. km).
- mojave desert — a desert in S California: part of the Great Basin. About 15,000 sq. mi. (38,850 sq. km).
- movable feast — a religious feast that does not occur on the same date each year.
- movie actress — a female who acts in films or movies
- multigravidas — Plural form of multigravida.
- multivitamins — Plural form of multivitamin.
- native states — the former 562 semi-independent states of India, ruled by Indians but subject to varying degrees of British authority: merged with provinces by 1948; largest states were Hyderabad, Gwalior, Baroda, Mysore, Cochin, Jammu and Kashmir, Travancore, Sikkim, and Indore
- navy register — (in the US) an annual publication giving genealogical information about the commissioned and warrant officers in the US Navy.
- necessitative — to make necessary or unavoidable: The breakdown of the car necessitated a change in our plans.
- nectarivorous — feeding on nectar
- negative lens — a lens that causes a beam of parallel rays to diverge after refraction, as from a virtual image; a lens that has a negative focal length.
- negative sign — bad omen
- non-assertive — confidently aggressive or self-assured; positive: aggressive; dogmatic: He is too assertive as a salesman.
- non-causative — acting as a cause; producing (often followed by of): a causative agency; an event causative of war.
- non-observant — absence or lack of observance.
- nonabsorptive — Not absorptive.
- nonadsorptive — Not adsorptive.
- nonchauvinist — a person who is not a chauvinist
- nonconversant — Not conversant.
- nonexhaustive — exhausting a subject, topic, etc.; comprehensive; thorough: He published an exhaustive study of Greek vases.
- nontransitive — Grammar. having the nature of a transitive verb.
- normativeness — The quality or state of being normative.
- novated lease — Australian system of employer-aided car purchase
- observability — capable of being or liable to be observed; noticeable; visible; discernible: an observable change in attitude.
- observational — of, relating to, or founded on observation, especially founded on observation rather than experiment.
- observatories — Plural form of observatory.
- observer team — a team deployed to an area of conflict to observe proceedings
- operativeness — (uncountable) The state or quality of being operative.
- ovariectomies — Plural form of ovariectomy.
- over-abstract — thought of apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances: an abstract idea.
- over-cautious — excessively or unnecessarily cautious: Sometimes it doesn't pay to be overcautious in business.
- over-estimate — to estimate at too high a value, amount, rate, or the like: Don't overestimate the car's trade-in value.
- over-standing — overreach (def 13).
- overacuteness — sharp or severe in effect; intense: acute sorrow; an acute pain.
- overambitious — having ambition; eagerly desirous of achieving or obtaining success, power, wealth, a specific goal, etc.: ambitious students.
- overassertion — assertion of something to an excessive or unnecessary degree