13-letter words containing c, a, v, i, l, o
- long vacation — the summer vacation customary in the law courts and universities.
- melvin conway — (person) An early proto-hacker who wrote an assembler for the Burroughs 220 called SAVE and (probably) formulated Conway's Law.
- microvascular — Of or relating to the smallest blood vessels.
- microwaveable — Alternative spelling of microwavable.
- mikhailovitch — Draja [drah-zhah] /ˈdrɑ ʒɑ/ (Show IPA), 1893–1946, Yugoslav military leader.
- moral victory — greater honour despite losing
- naval officer — member of navy staff
- nicholasville — a town in central Kentucky.
- non-lucrative — profitable; moneymaking; remunerative: a lucrative business.
- non-vesicular — of or relating to a vesicle or vesicles.
- 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.
- nonprovincial — Not restricted to a small region; not done in isolation.
- nonvocational — not relating to a particular job or profession
- optical drive — optical disk drive
- over-analytic — pertaining to or proceeding by analysis (opposed to synthetic).
- over-reliance — confident or trustful dependence.
- overbalancing — Present participle of overbalance.
- overexcitable — Excessively excitable.
- oversocialize — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
- photovoltaics — (used with a singular verb) a field of semiconductor technology involving the direct conversion of electromagnetic radiation as sunlight, into electricity.
- 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.
- prevocational — of, relating to, or constituting preliminary vocational training.
- 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.
- provocatively — tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
- recultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
- retroactively — operative with respect to past occurrences, as a statute; retrospective: a retroactive law.
- 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
- salviniaceous — relating to the genus Salviniaceae
- suction valve — a nonreturn valve in a pump suction to prevent the pump draining or depriming when not in service
- to come alive — If people, places, or events come alive, they start to be lively again after a quiet period. If someone or something brings them alive, they cause them to come alive.
- ultraviolence — acts of extreme violence, esp those shown on television or film
- unconceivable — inconceivable.
- unconceivably — inconceivably
- unequivocally — in a way that is clear and unambiguous: The theme is unequivocally religious.
- vaccinologist — the science of vaccine development.
- vacuolization — the state of being full of vacuoles
- valedictorian — a student, usually the one ranking highest academically in a school graduating class, who delivers the valedictory at the commencement exercises.
- 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.
- valued policy — a policy in which the company and the policyholder agree to the amount to be paid in the event of total loss of property, regardless of the value of the property.
- 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).
- velocity head — the velocity of a fluid expressed in terms of the head or static pressure required to produce that velocity. It equals ρν/2 where ρ is the density of the fluid and ν is the velocity. In hydrology the density of water can be written 1/G where G is the gravitational constant
- vermiculation — to work or ornament with wavy lines or markings resembling the form or tracks of a worm.