13-letter words containing c, o, v, e, l, t
- hypervelocity — extremely high velocity, as of projectiles, space vehicles, or accelerated nuclear particles.
- inconvertible — (of paper money) not capable of being converted into specie.
- inconvertibly — In an inconvertible manner.
- l-d converter — a vessel in which steel is made from pig iron by blowing oxygen into the molten metal through a water-cooled tube
- lake victoria — the ancient Roman goddess of victory, identified with the Greek goddess Nike.
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- lord advocate — (in Scotland) the chief law officer of the Crown who acts as public prosecutor and is in charge of the administration of criminal justice
- love-stricken — If you describe someone as love-stricken, you mean that they are so much in love that they are behaving in a strange and foolish way.
- motor vehicle — an automobile, truck, bus, or similar motor-driven conveyance.
- non-lucrative — profitable; moneymaking; remunerative: a lucrative business.
- 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.
- optical drive — optical disk drive
- over-analytic — pertaining to or proceeding by analysis (opposed to synthetic).
- overallocated — Allocated in excess.
- overcredulity — Excessive credulity.
- overexcitable — Excessively excitable.
- overspeculate — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
- 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.
- prevocational — of, relating to, or constituting preliminary vocational training.
- prospectively — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
- provocatively — tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
- recultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
- retroactively — operative with respect to past occurrences, as a statute; retrospective: a retroactive law.
- romantic love — love characterized by romance and involving sexual attraction
- salvage costs — the costs involved in salvaging goods or property from fire, shipwreck, etc
- scotch lovage — a similar and related plant, Ligusticum scoticum, of N Europe
- silver doctor — a type of artificial fly, used chiefly for trout and salmon.
- suction valve — a nonreturn valve in a pump suction to prevent the pump draining or depriming when not in service
- teleconverter — a person or thing that converts.
- to come alive — If people, places, or events come alive, they start to be lively again after a quiet period. If someone or something brings them alive, they cause them to come alive.
- 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
- un-convoluted — twisted; coiled.
- unconvertible — capable of being converted.
- vacuum bottle — a bottle or flask having a vacuum liner that prevents the escape of heat from hot contents, usually liquids, or the entrance of heat into cold contents; thermos.
- 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).
- velocity head — the velocity of a fluid expressed in terms of the head or static pressure required to produce that velocity. It equals ρν/2 where ρ is the density of the fluid and ν is the velocity. In hydrology the density of water can be written 1/G where G is the gravitational constant
- velvet scoter — a European sea duck, Melanitta fusca, the male of which has a black plumage with white patches below the eyes and on the wings
- vermiculation — to work or ornament with wavy lines or markings resembling the form or tracks of a worm.
- vicente lopez — a city in E central Argentina, N of Buenos Aires.
- victoria nile — a section of the upper Nile River in central Uganda between Lake Victoria and Lake Albert. 260 miles (418 km) long.
- victoriaville — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- victory medal — a round bronze medal awarded to all those who served in the armed forces of the U.S. during World War I.
- violoncellist — cellist.
- virgo cluster — a cluster of about 2500 galaxies in the constellation Virgo, the nearest cluster to our galaxy.
- visual cortex — the portion of the cerebral cortex of the brain that receives and processes impulses from the optic nerves.