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