13-letter words containing c, o, e, v, l
- 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.
- motor vehicle — an automobile, truck, bus, or similar motor-driven conveyance.
- naval college — training institution for the navy
- naval officer — member of navy staff
- nervomuscular — (physiology) Of or pertaining to both nerves and muscles.
- neurovascular — of, relating to, or involving the nerves and blood vessels.
- nicholasville — a town in central Kentucky.
- 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-revocable — that may be revoked.
- 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.
- nonreflective — Not reflective.
- obstructively — In an obstructive manner.
- old provencal — the Provençal language as found in documents from the 11th to the 16th centuries. Abbreviation: OPr.
- optical drive — optical disk drive
- orchard valve — an alfalfa valve of lesser diameter than the pipe it closes.
- over-analytic — pertaining to or proceeding by analysis (opposed to synthetic).
- over-reliance — confident or trustful dependence.
- overallocated — Allocated in excess.
- overbalancing — Present participle of overbalance.
- overcivilized — excessively civilized
- overcredulity — Excessive credulity.
- overcredulous — willing to believe or trust too readily, especially without proper or adequate evidence; gullible.
- overexcitable — Excessively excitable.
- oversocialize — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
- overspeculate — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
- plano-concave — pertaining to or noting a lens that is plane on one side and concave on the other.
- 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.
- proces-verbal — a report of proceedings, as of an assembly.
- 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.
- record sleeve — the outer covering of a phonograph record
- recultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
- retroactively — operative with respect to past occurrences, as a statute; retrospective: a retroactive law.
- 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
- salvage costs — the costs involved in salvaging goods or property from fire, shipwreck, etc
- salviniaceous — relating to the genus Salviniaceae
- school leaver — School leavers are young people who have just left school, because they have completed their time there.
- scotch lovage — a similar and related plant, Ligusticum scoticum, of N Europe
- self-advocacy — the practice of having mentally handicapped people speak for themselves and control their own affairs, rather than having nonhandicapped people automatically assume responsibility for them