13-letter words containing c, i, v, l, o
- nonvocational — not relating to a particular job or profession
- obstructively — In an obstructive manner.
- 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.
- overcivilized — excessively civilized
- overcredulity — Excessive credulity.
- 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.
- pollice verso — with thumbs turned downward: the sign made by spectators calling for the death of a defeated gladiator in the ancient Roman circus.
- prevocational — of, relating to, or constituting preliminary vocational training.
- privy council — a board or select body of personal advisers, as of a sovereign.
- prospectively — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
- 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
- self-violence — swift and intense force: the violence of a storm.
- silver doctor — a type of artificial fly, used chiefly for trout and salmon.
- 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.
- trophic level — any class of organisms that occupy the same position in a food chain, as primary consumers, secondary consumers, and tertiary consumers.
- ultraviolence — acts of extreme violence, esp those shown on television or film
- unconceivable — inconceivable.
- unconceivably — inconceivably
- unconvertible — capable of being converted.
- 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
- vercelli book — a codex of Old English poems and sermons found in the chapter house at Vercelli.
- vermiculation — to work or ornament with wavy lines or markings resembling the form or tracks of a worm.
- versicoloured — of variable or various colours
- vicente lopez — a city in E central Argentina, N of Buenos Aires.