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13-letter words containing c, o, e, r, i, v

  • oversocialize — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
  • oversubscribe — to subscribe for more of than is available, expected, or required: The charity drive was oversubscribed by several thousand dollars.
  • pacific grove — a city in W California, at S end of Monterey Bay.
  • pollice verso — with thumbs turned downward: the sign made by spectators calling for the death of a defeated gladiator in the ancient Roman circus.
  • popcorn movie — a film that appeals to a mass audience
  • 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.
  • pre-contrived — to plan with ingenuity; devise; invent: The author contrived a clever plot.
  • preconvention — taking place immediately prior to a convention
  • preconviction — a conviction or assurance formed beforehand; a preconceived conviction
  • 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.
  • projection tv — a system made up of lenses, mirrors, and a cathode-ray tube, for projecting video images onto a large screen
  • prospectively — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
  • 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.
  • reciprocative — to give, feel, etc., in return.
  • recording van — a van containing sound and image recording equipment, used as a mobile recording studio
  • 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
  • recultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
  • retroactively — operative with respect to past occurrences, as a statute; retrospective: a retroactive law.
  • retrospective — directed to the past; contemplative of past situations, events, etc.
  • revaccination — the act or practice of vaccinating; inoculation with vaccine.
  • revendication — the process or act of revendicating
  • revindication — the act of vindicating.
  • 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
  • scratch video — the technique or practice of recycling images from films or television to make collages
  • 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.
  • society verse — light, graceful, entertaining poetry considered as appealing to polite society.
  • the provinces — those parts of a country lying outside the capital and other large cities and regarded as outside the mainstream of sophisticated culture
  • tractor drive — a mechanism that feeds paper through a printer, using studs on a rotating wheel that engage with holes along the side of the paper
  • 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
  • unconvertible — capable of being converted.
  • uncooperative — working or acting together willingly for a common purpose or benefit.
  • unobstructive — to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
  • unprovocative — tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
  • valedictorian — a student, usually the one ranking highest academically in a school graduating class, who delivers the valedictory at the commencement exercises.
  • 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.
  • vaunt-courier — a person who goes in advance, as a herald.
  • vectorization — the process of converting from a bitmap image to a vector representation
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