13-letter words containing c, a, n, v
- 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.
- over-analytic — pertaining to or proceeding by analysis (opposed to synthetic).
- over-contract — an agreement between two or more parties for the doing or not doing of something specified.
- over-reliance — confident or trustful dependence.
- overabundance — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
- overachieving — Present participle of overachieve.
- overacuteness — sharp or severe in effect; intense: acute sorrow; an acute pain.
- 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.
- overencourage — to encourage too much
- overinsurance — (of goods or property) insurance in excess of actual value
- paper advance — the feeding of paper through a printer
- pavement café — part of a café which is outdoors or on the pavement or sidewalk
- plano-concave — pertaining to or noting a lens that is plane on one side and concave on the other.
- 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
- saving clause — a clause which denotes a reservation or exception
- scavenge pump — an oil pump used in some internal-combustion engines to return oil from the crankcase to the oil tank
- sciatic nerve — either of a pair of nerves, the largest in the body, that originate in the sacral plexus of the lower back and extend down the buttocks to the back of the knees, where they divide into other nerves: the sciatic nerve and its branches innervate large areas of the pelvis, leg, and foot.
- second advent — Second Coming.
- serving hatch — a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room
- severance pay — money, exclusive of wages, back pay, etc., paid to an employee who has tenure and who is dismissed because of lack of work or other reasons beyond the employee's control.
- severance tax — a tax levied by a state on the extraction and use of a natural product, as coal, that is sold outside the state or during a certain period.
- shaving cream — a preparation, as of soap and free fatty acid, that is lathered and applied to the face to soften and condition the beard for shaving.