13-letter words containing c, a, n, v
- interactivity — The quality of being interactive.
- interclavicle — a median membrane bone developed between the collarbones, or in front of the breastbone, in many vertebrates.
- intracavitary — situated within, or inserted through, a body cavity
- intravascular — within the blood vessels.
- invalid chair — a chair specially designed for an invalid to sit in
- irrelevancies — irrelevance.
- it governance — information technology governance
- ladino clover — a giant variety of white clover, Trifolium repens lodigense, used for pasture and hay.
- long vacation — the summer vacation customary in the law courts and universities.
- lucrativeness — profitable; moneymaking; remunerative: a lucrative business.
- machiavellian — of, like, or befitting Machiavelli.
- 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
- melvin conway — (person) An early proto-hacker who wrote an assembler for the Burroughs 220 called SAVE and (probably) formulated Conway's Law.
- merchant navy — commercial ships
- metacognitive — higher-order thinking that enables understanding, analysis, and control of one’s cognitive processes, especially when engaged in learning.
- 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.
- misadvertence — inadvertence
- miscegenative — (rare) Miscegenous.
- misgovernance — to govern or manage badly.
- misobservance — a failure to observe thoroughly or properly
- mosaic vision — a type of vision hypothesized for the insect compound eye, in which the image is formed by hundreds of separate ommatidia.
- mundificative — a cleansing medicine or preparation
- naval academy — a collegiate institution for training naval officers.
- naval college — training institution for the navy
- naval officer — member of navy staff
- necessitative — to make necessary or unavoidable: The breakdown of the car necessitated a change in our plans.
- 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.
- 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