13-letter words containing c, i, v, s, o, e
- 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.
- prospectively — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
- provincialise — to make provincial in character.
- radius vector — Mathematics. the length of the line segment joining a fixed point or origin to a given point.
- recovery ship — a naval vessel designed to participate in the retrieval of a satellite, instrument package, or spaceship after it has re-entered the atmosphere and landed in the ocean
- retrospective — directed to the past; contemplative of past situations, events, etc.
- salviniaceous — relating to the genus Salviniaceae
- scratch video — the technique or practice of recycling images from films or television to make collages
- self-violence — swift and intense force: the violence of a storm.
- service court — the part of the court into which a player must serve in various games, as tennis, badminton, handball, or squash.
- serviceperson — a person who is a member of the armed forces of a country.
- silver doctor — a type of artificial fly, used chiefly for trout and salmon.
- singing voice — the musical quality of a voice when a person is singing
- society verse — light, graceful, entertaining poetry considered as appealing to polite society.
- suction valve — a nonreturn valve in a pump suction to prevent the pump draining or depriming when not in service
- the provinces — those parts of a country lying outside the capital and other large cities and regarded as outside the mainstream of sophisticated culture
- unconsecutive — following one another in uninterrupted succession or order; successive: six consecutive numbers, such as 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
- unobstructive — to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
- 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).
- varicose vein — Varicose veins are swollen and painful veins in a person's legs, which sometimes require a medical operation.
- veraciousness — characterized by truthfulness; true, accurate, or honest in content: a veracious statement; a veracious account.
- versicoloured — of variable or various colours
- versification — the act of versifying.
- vicariousness — performed, exercised, received, or suffered in place of another: vicarious punishment.
- videocassette — a cassette enclosing a length of tape for video recording or reproduction.
- violoncellist — cellist.
- virgo cluster — a cluster of about 2500 galaxies in the constellation Virgo, the nearest cluster to our galaxy.
- visceroptosis — a downward displacement of the intestine
- visual cortex — the portion of the cerebral cortex of the brain that receives and processes impulses from the optic nerves.
- vivaciousness — lively; animated; spirited: a vivacious folk dance.
- vivisectorium — the location where vivisection takes place
- wallcoverings — Plural form of wallcovering.
- world service — a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation which transmits programmes in many languages around the world