13-letter words containing c, a, v, e, r, n
- noncreativity — a lack of creativity
- nonobservance — absence or lack of observance.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- provincialize — to make provincial in character.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- sperry univac — (company) One of the divisions of Sperry Corporation at the time that company merged with the Burroughs Corporation to form Unisys Corporation.
- touch a nerve — to mention or bring to mind a sensitive issue or subject
- 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.
- 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