13-letter words containing c, i, v, l
- irrelevancies — irrelevance.
- ladino clover — a giant variety of white clover, Trifolium repens lodigense, used for pasture and hay.
- lake victoria — the ancient Roman goddess of victory, identified with the Greek goddess Nike.
- licking river — a river in E Kentucky, flowing NW to the Ohio River. 320 miles (515 km) long.
- light vehicle — a vehicle designed to carry loads or a small number of passengers up to an officially determined weight, such as a scooter, motorbike, rickshaw, etc
- liver extract — an extract of mammalian liver, especially hog or beef, for treating pernicious anemia.
- livery colors — the principal tinctures of a coat of arms, usually one color and one metal, used for liveries, standards, etc.
- long vacation — the summer vacation customary in the law courts and universities.
- love-stricken — If you describe someone as love-stricken, you mean that they are so much in love that they are behaving in a strange and foolish way.
- lucrativeness — profitable; moneymaking; remunerative: a lucrative business.
- machiavellian — of, like, or befitting Machiavelli.
- machiavellism — of, like, or befitting Machiavelli.
- 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.
- mischievously — maliciously or playfully annoying.
- mobile device — a portable, wireless computing device that is small enough to be used while held in the hand; a handheld: a large selection of smartphones, PDAs, and other mobile devices.
- moral victory — greater honour despite losing
- motor vehicle — an automobile, truck, bus, or similar motor-driven conveyance.
- naval officer — member of navy staff
- nicholasville — a town in central Kentucky.
- nickel silver — German silver.
- nicoise olive — a small variety of olive with a rich, nutty flavor.
- non-exclusive — not admitting of something else; incompatible: mutually exclusive plans of action.
- 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.
- nonreflective — Not reflective.
- 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.
- pelvic girdle — (in vertebrates) a bony or cartilaginous arch supporting the hind limbs or analogous parts.
- perspectively — a technique of depicting volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surface. Compare aerial perspective, linear perspective.
- 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.