13-letter words containing c, a, v, o, r, e
- nonattractive — Not attractive.
- nonconversant — Not conversant.
- 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.
- optical drive — optical disk drive
- orchard valve — an alfalfa valve of lesser diameter than the pipe it closes.
- ovariectomies — Plural form of ovariectomy.
- ovariectomize — (transitive) To remove the ovaries from.
- over-abstract — thought of apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances: an abstract idea.
- over-achiever — to perform, especially academically, above the potential indicated by tests of one's mental ability or aptitude.
- over-analytic — pertaining to or proceeding by analysis (opposed to synthetic).
- over-cautious — excessively or unnecessarily cautious: Sometimes it doesn't pay to be overcautious in business.
- over-contract — an agreement between two or more parties for the doing or not doing of something specified.
- over-educated — to develop the faculties and powers of (a person) by teaching, instruction, or schooling. Synonyms: instruct, school, drill, indoctrinate.
- over-reactive — tending to react.
- over-reliance — confident or trustful dependence.
- overabundance — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
- overachievers — Plural form of overachiever.
- overachieving — Present participle of overachieve.
- overacuteness — sharp or severe in effect; intense: acute sorrow; an acute pain.
- overallocated — Allocated in excess.
- overbalancing — Present participle of overbalance.
- overcast seam — a hem with long stitches passing successively over the edge
- overdecorated — Simple past tense and past participle of overdecorate.
- 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
- overexcitable — Excessively excitable.
- overinsurance — (of goods or property) insurance in excess of actual value
- oversocialize — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
- overspeculate — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
- pacific grove — a city in W California, at S end of Monterey Bay.
- papaveraceous — belonging to the Papaveraceae, the poppy family of plants.
- potomac fever — the determination or fervor to share in the power and prestige of the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., especially by being appointed or elected to a government position.
- potomac river — a river flowing SE from the Allegheny Mountains in West Virginia, along the boundary between Maryland and Virginia to the Chesapeake Bay. 287 miles (460 km) long.
- 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.
- proces-verbal — a report of proceedings, as of an assembly.
- provincialise — to make provincial in character.
- provincialize — to make provincial in character.
- provocatively — tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
- radioactivate — to make (a substance) radioactive.
- radius vector — Mathematics. the length of the line segment joining a fixed point or origin to a given point.
- ratiocinative — the process of logical reasoning.
- re-activation — to render active again; revive.