13-letter words containing c, r, o, s, v, i
- 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.
- microvascular — Of or relating to the smallest blood vessels.
- misgovernance — to govern or manage badly.
- misobservance — a failure to observe thoroughly or properly
- movie actress — a female who acts in films or movies
- nectarivorous — feeding on nectar
- 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.
- pollice verso — with thumbs turned downward: the sign made by spectators calling for the death of a defeated gladiator in the ancient Roman circus.
- 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.
- prospectively — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
- provincialise — to make provincial in character.
- provincialism — narrowness of mind, ignorance, or the like, considered as resulting from lack of exposure to cultural or intellectual activity.
- provincialist — a native or inhabitant of a province.
- radius vector — Mathematics. the length of the line segment joining a fixed point or origin to a given point.
- recovery ship — a naval vessel designed to participate in the retrieval of a satellite, instrument package, or spaceship after it has re-entered the atmosphere and landed in the ocean
- retrospective — directed to the past; contemplative of past situations, events, etc.
- scratch video — the technique or practice of recycling images from films or television to make collages
- service court — the part of the court into which a player must serve in various games, as tennis, badminton, handball, or squash.
- serviceperson — a person who is a member of the armed forces of a country.
- 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.
- the provinces — those parts of a country lying outside the capital and other large cities and regarded as outside the mainstream of sophisticated culture
- unobstructive — to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
- 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).
- varicose vein — Varicose veins are swollen and painful veins in a person's legs, which sometimes require a medical operation.
- veraciousness — characterized by truthfulness; true, accurate, or honest in content: a veracious statement; a veracious account.
- versicoloured — of variable or various colours
- versification — the act of versifying.
- vicariousness — performed, exercised, received, or suffered in place of another: vicarious punishment.
- virgo cluster — a cluster of about 2500 galaxies in the constellation Virgo, the nearest cluster to our galaxy.
- visceroptosis — a downward displacement of the intestine
- visual cortex — the portion of the cerebral cortex of the brain that receives and processes impulses from the optic nerves.
- vivisectorium — the location where vivisection takes place
- voluntaristic — Philosophy. any theory that regards will as the fundamental agency or principle, in metaphysics, epistemology, or psychology.
- wallcoverings — Plural form of wallcovering.
- world service — a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation which transmits programmes in many languages around the world