13-letter words containing c, o, v, e, t
- 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.
- 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.
- recovery team — a team engaged in locating and retrieving bodies, cargo, etc, esp following a crash, explosion or natural disaster
- 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.
- 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
- scratch video — the technique or practice of recycling images from films or television to make collages
- second advent — Second Coming.
- service court — the part of the court into which a player must serve in various games, as tennis, badminton, handball, or squash.
- seventh chord — a chord formed by the superposition of three thirds.
- 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.
- suction valve — a nonreturn valve in a pump suction to prevent the pump draining or depriming when not in service
- tax avoidance — Tax avoidance is the use of legal methods to pay the smallest possible amount of tax.
- teleconverter — a person or thing that converts.
- the provinces — those parts of a country lying outside the capital and other large cities and regarded as outside the mainstream of sophisticated culture
- throw a curve — a continuously bending line, without angles.
- 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.
- to take cover — If you take cover, you shelter from gunfire, bombs, or the weather.
- touch a nerve — to mention or bring to mind a sensitive issue or subject
- 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
- un-convoluted — twisted; coiled.
- uncompetitive — of, pertaining to, involving, or decided by competition: competitive sports; a competitive examination.
- unconjunctive — unable to be joined
- unconsecutive — following one another in uninterrupted succession or order; successive: six consecutive numbers, such as 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
- 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.
- vaccine point — a thin, pointed, vaccine-coated piece of bone or the like, for use in vaccinating.
- 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).
- vaunt-courier — a person who goes in advance, as a herald.