13-letter words containing c, r, e, s, i, v
- descriptivist — a writer, teacher, or supporter of descriptive grammar or descriptive linguistics.
- descriptivity — The quality or state of being descriptive.
- destructively — tending to destroy; causing destruction or much damage (often followed by of or to): a very destructive windstorm.
- destructivism — the theory that a part of a whole may be considered a principle part if the destruction of that part would lead to the destruction of the whole
- destructivist — a person who holds to the theory of destructivism
- discovery bay — an inlet of the Indian Ocean in SE Australia
- discovery day — Columbus Day.
- dispurveyance — the lack of provisions
- disrespective — (obsolete) Showing a lack of respect; disrespectful.
- ex-serviceman — An ex-serviceman is a man who used to be in a country's army, navy, or air force.
- excursiveness — The quality of being discursive.
- field service — military service performed in the field
- goods service — a transport service in which goods are sent by train from one location to another
- gravity scale — a scale giving the relative density of fluids
- heavy cruiser — a naval cruiser having 8-inch (20.3-cm) guns as its main armament.
- imperfectives — Plural form of imperfective.
- in-observance — lack of attention; inattention; heedlessness: drowsy inobservance.
- inconversable — (obsolete) uncommunicative; reserved.
- insectivorous — adapted to feeding on insects.
- instructively — In an instructive manner.
- introspective — characterized by introspection, the act or process of looking into oneself.
- irrelevancies — irrelevance.
- livery colors — the principal tinctures of a coat of arms, usually one color and one metal, used for liveries, standards, etc.
- 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.
- lucrativeness — profitable; moneymaking; remunerative: a lucrative business.
- misadvertence — inadvertence
- misgovernance — to govern or manage badly.
- misobservance — a failure to observe thoroughly or properly
- misperceiving — Present participle of misperceive.
- movie actress — a female who acts in films or movies
- nectarivorous — feeding on nectar
- nickel silver — German silver.
- non-corrosive — having the quality of corroding or eating away; erosive.
- non-vesicular — of or relating to a vesicle or vesicles.
- nondiscursive — passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling.
- obstructively — In an obstructive manner.
- ovariectomies — Plural form of ovariectomy.
- over-cautious — excessively or unnecessarily cautious: Sometimes it doesn't pay to be overcautious in business.
- over-exercise — bodily or mental exertion, especially for the sake of training or improvement of health: Walking is good exercise.
- overachievers — Plural form of overachiever.
- overconscious — excessively conscious
- overinsurance — (of goods or property) insurance in excess of actual value
- overprescribe — to lay down, in writing or otherwise, as a rule or a course of action to be followed; appoint, ordain, or enjoin.
- oversecretion — (in a cell or gland) the act or process of separating, elaborating, and releasing a substance that fulfills some function within the organism or undergoes excretion.
- 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.
- paucis verbis — in or by few words; with brevity.
- perspectively — a technique of depicting volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surface. Compare aerial perspective, linear perspective.
- perspectivism — the doctrine that reality is known only in terms of the perspectives of it seen by individuals or groups at particular moments.
- perspectivist — the doctrine that reality is known only in terms of the perspectives of it seen by individuals or groups at particular moments.