13-letter words containing c, o, v
- countermoving — Present participle of countermove.
- countervailed — Simple past tense and past participle of countervail.
- country fever — malaria.
- covalent bond — a type of chemical bond involving the sharing of electrons between atoms in a molecule, esp the sharing of a pair of electrons by two adjacent atoms
- cove lighting — indirect lighting directed upward from an interior cornice or the like toward a cove at the edge of the ceiling.
- covent garden — a district of central London: famous for its former fruit, vegetable, and flower market, now a shopping precinct
- coventry bell — a perennial garden plant, Campanula trachelium, of Eurasia, having coarsely toothed leaves and bluish-purple flowers.
- cover bidding — the act of tendering an artificially high price for a contract, on the assumption that the tender will not be accepted
- cover version — A cover version of a song is a version of it recorded by a singer or band who did not originally perform the song.
- cover-mounted — Cover-mounted items such as cassettes, videos and CDs are attached to the front of a magazine as free gifts.
- covered wagon — A covered wagon is a wagon that has an arched canvas roof and is pulled by horses. Covered wagons were used by the early American settlers as they travelled across the country.
- covering fire — firing intended to protect an individual or formation making a movement by forcing the enemy to take cover
- coversed sine — obsolete function in trigonometry
- covert action — a secret action undertaken to influence the course of political events, as a government intelligence operation.
- coveteousness — Alternative spelling of covetousness.
- crossing over — the interchange of sections between pairing homologous chromosomes during the diplotene stage of meiosis. It results in the rearrangement of genes and produces variation in the inherited characteristics of the offspring
- culver's root — a tall North American scrophulariaceous plant, Veronicastrum virginicum, having spikes of small white or purple flowers
- cup and cover — a turning used in Elizabethan and Jacobean furniture and resembling a goblet with a domed cover.
- cupboard love — a show of love inspired only by some selfish or greedy motive
- cushion cover — a fabric cover, often with a decorative design, designed to protect a cushion
- cut-and-cover — designating a method of constructing a tunnel by excavating a cutting to the required depth and then backfilling the excavation over the tunnel roof
- cut-off valve — a valve that terminates the flow of fluid in a system
- debt covenant — A debt covenant is a number of restrictions that a borrower agrees to that are set by the lending institution.
- deconvolution — A process of resolving something into its constituent elements or removing complication in order to clarify it.
- discovery bay — an inlet of the Indian Ocean in SE Australia
- discovery day — Columbus Day.
- divarications — Plural form of divarication.
- divine comedy — a narrative epic poem (14th century) by Dante.
- divine office — office (def 12c).
- divorce court — a court having jurisdiction over termination of marital relations, as actions for divorce or annulment.
- documentative — Of or pertaining to documents or documentation.
- domical vault — cloistered vault.
- downconverter — A device that converts a signal to a lower frequency, especially in television reception.
- driving force — impetus
- economy drive — a campaign by the government or a firm to reduce expenditure and make savings
- electroactive — (of living tissue) exhibiting electrical activity or responsive to electrical stimuli
- electromotive — Producing or tending to produce an electric current.
- electron volt — a unit of energy equal to that attained by an electron falling unimpeded through a potential difference of one volt; 1.602 × 10-19 joule
- electrovalent — (of bonding) resulting from electrostatic attraction between positive and negative ions; ionic.
- equivocalness — The state of being equivocal; ambiguity.
- equivocations — Plural form of equivocation.
- escort vessel — ship that accompanies another
- ethchlorvynol — A sedative and hypnotic drug used to treat insomnia.
- evening stock — a plant, Matthiola incana, of the genus Matthiola, of the Mediterranean region, cultivated for its brightly coloured flowers: Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- evocativeness — The state or condition of being evocative.
- executive job — a job in which a person is responsible for the administration of a project, activity, or business
- executive toy — a novelty item, such as a Newton's cradle, on the desk of a corporate executive
- expectorative — an expectorant medicine
- exteroceptive — Relating to stimuli that are external to an organism.
- fibrovascular — composed of fibrous and conductive tissue, as in the vascular systems of higher plants: a fibrovascular bundle.