13-letter words containing c, i, v
- executive pay — the money that an executive of an organization gets as wages or salary
- executive toy — a novelty item, such as a Newton's cradle, on the desk of a corporate executive
- expectorative — an expectorant medicine
- expert advice — advice given by someone who has studied a subject thoroughly or who is very skilled at a particular job
- explicatively — in an explicative or explanatory manner
- exteroceptive — Relating to stimuli that are external to an organism.
- face validity — the extent to which a psychological test appears to measure what it is intended to measure
- facultatively — In a facultative manner.
- fibrovascular — composed of fibrous and conductive tissue, as in the vascular systems of higher plants: a fibrovascular bundle.
- field service — military service performed in the field
- fingal's cave — a cave on the island of Staffa, in the Hebrides, Scotland. 227 feet (69 meters) long; 42 feet (13 meters) wide.
- floorcovering — A covering for a floor.
- formicivorous — ant-eating.
- fort victoria — a former name of Masvingo.
- french endive — endive (def 2).
- galvanic cell — cell1 (def 7a).
- galvanic pile — voltaic pile.
- galvanometric — Of or pertaining to galvanometry.
- gesticulative — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
- give evidence — testify in a court of law
- give voice to — If you give voice to an opinion, a need, or a desire, you express it aloud.
- goods service — a transport service in which goods are sent by train from one location to another
- graphic novel — a novel in the form of comic strips.
- gravel-voiced — speaking in a rough and rasping tone
- graving piece — a piece of wood let into a wooden hull to replace decayed wood.
- gravity clock — a clock driven by its own weight as it descends a rack, cord, incline, etc.
- gravity scale — a scale giving the relative density of fluids
- hairpin curve — A hairpin curve or a hairpin is a very sharp bend in a road, where the road turns back in the opposite direction.
- hallucinative — a sensory experience of something that does not exist outside the mind, caused by various physical and mental disorders, or by reaction to certain toxic substances, and usually manifested as visual or auditory images.
- harvard chair — a three-legged armchair of the late 17th century, composed of turned uprights and spindles and having a triangular seat.
- have occasion — If you have occasion to do something, it is necessary for you to do it.
- heavenly city — the abode of God and His saints; heaven. Rev. 21:2.
- heavy cruiser — a naval cruiser having 8-inch (20.3-cm) guns as its main armament.
- high-velocity — having an above average velocity
- homing device — a mechanism incorporated into a guided missile, airplane, etc., that aims it toward its objective.
- hyperactivate — (biology) To cause or undergo hyperactivation.
- hyperactively — In a hyperactive manner.
- hyperactivity — the condition of being hyperactive.
- hyperreactive — Showing a much greater than normal response to a stimulus.
- hypervelocity — extremely high velocity, as of projectiles, space vehicles, or accelerated nuclear particles.
- ice-cream van — a mobile shop that sells ice cream and confectionery
- ill-conceived — badly conceived or planned: an ill-conceived project.
- imperceivable — That cannot be perceived; imperceptible.
- imperfectives — Plural form of imperfective.
- implicatively — In an implicative way.
- impredicative — (of a definition) given in terms that require quantification over a range that includes that which is to be defined, as having all the properties of a great general where one of the properties as ascribed must be that property itself
- in advance of — prior to
- in-observance — lack of attention; inattention; heedlessness: drowsy inobservance.
- incarcerative — to imprison; confine.
- incentive pay — additional pay, a higher wage, or a bonus paid to promote the productivity of an employee.