13-letter words containing c, a, r, v
- 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
- train service — provision of railway transport
- transactivate — to activate the replication of (a viral gene) through the presence of a gene at another locus, especially following a viral infection.
- travel agency — a business that accommodates travelers, as by securing tickets, arranging for reservations, and giving information.
- traverse city — a city in NW Michigan.
- tuva republic — a constituent republic of S Russia: mountainous. Capital: Kizyl. Pop: 305 500 (2002). Area: 170 500 sq km (65 800 sq miles)
- ultraviolence — acts of extreme violence, esp those shown on television or film
- unconversable — inappropriate for conversation
- uncooperative — working or acting together willingly for a common purpose or benefit.
- underachiever — a student who performs less well in school than would be expected on the basis of abilities indicated by intelligence and aptitude tests, etc.
- underactivity — insufficient activity
- unperceivable — imperceptible
- unperceivably — imperceptibly
- unprovocative — tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
- unrecoverable — able to recover or be recovered: a patient now believed to be recoverable; recoverable losses on his investments.
- unrecoverably — in an unrecoverable or irrecoverable manner
- unscavengered — lacking the qualities of having been scavenged
- unserviceable — not suitable to be used
- vacation trip — a trip undertaken during a vacation
- vacation work — work undertaken by students during their vacation
- vacuum drying — the removal of liquid from a solution or mixture at reduced air pressure so that it dries at a lower temperature than would be required at full pressure.
- vacuum filter — A vacuum filter is a filter in which the liquid passes through more easily because of a vacuum on the liquid output side.
- vaginal cream — A vaginal cream is cream for treating vaginal infections, applied with a special applicator.
- valedictorian — a student, usually the one ranking highest academically in a school graduating class, who delivers the valedictory at the commencement exercises.
- valet service — a cleaning service, in which your clothes are collected for cleaning, from your house or hotel, and returned to you
- valproic acid — a carboxylic acid, C 8 H 16 O 2 , used for its antiepileptic properties in the treatment of various seizures including petit mal.
- 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).
- varicose vein — Varicose veins are swollen and painful veins in a person's legs, which sometimes require a medical operation.
- vascularities — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
- vaunt-courier — a person who goes in advance, as a herald.
- vectorization — the process of converting from a bitmap image to a vector representation
- velvet carpet — a carpet or rug of pile weave resembling Wilton.
- venire facias — a writ directing the appropriate official to summon a jury.
- veraciousness — characterized by truthfulness; true, accurate, or honest in content: a veracious statement; a veracious account.
- vermiculation — to work or ornament with wavy lines or markings resembling the form or tracks of a worm.
- vernacularism — a vernacular word or expression.
- vernacularist — someone who uses vernacular speech
- vernacularity — the quality or state of being vernacular
- vernacularize — to translate into the natural speech peculiar to a people.
- vernier scale — Also, vernier scale. a small, movable, graduated scale running parallel to the fixed graduated scale of a sextant, theodolite, barometer, etc., and used for measuring a fractional part of one of the divisions of the fixed scale.
- versification — the act of versifying.
- vertical file — a collection of pamphlets, pictures, clippings, or other materials stored upright, as in a filing cabinet or cabinets.
- verticillated — whorled
- vicar general — Roman Catholic Church. a priest deputized by a bishop to assist him in the administration of a diocese.
- vicar of bray — a vicar (Simon Aleyn) appointed to the parish of Bray in Berkshire during Henry VIII's reign who changed his faith to Catholic when Mary I was on the throne and back to Protestant when Elizabeth I succeeded and so retained his living
- vicar-general — Roman Catholic Church. a priest deputized by a bishop to assist him in the administration of a diocese.
- vicariousness — performed, exercised, received, or suffered in place of another: vicarious punishment.
- vice-chairman — a member of a committee, board, group, etc., designated as immediately subordinate to a chairman and serving as such in the latter's absence; a person who acts for and assists a chairman.