13-letter words containing d, e, v, a, c
- misadvertence — inadvertence
- much-traveled — A much-traveled person has traveled a lot in foreign countries.
- mundificative — a cleansing medicine or preparation
- naval academy — a collegiate institution for training naval officers.
- noncultivated — relating to natural resources that are not under institutional or managed cultivation
- old provencal — the Provençal language as found in documents from the 11th to the 16th centuries. Abbreviation: OPr.
- optical drive — optical disk drive
- orchard valve — an alfalfa valve of lesser diameter than the pipe it closes.
- over-educated — to develop the faculties and powers of (a person) by teaching, instruction, or schooling. Synonyms: instruct, school, drill, indoctrinate.
- overabundance — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
- overallocated — Allocated in excess.
- overdecorated — Simple past tense and past participle of overdecorate.
- overdominance — excessive dominance
- overeducation — the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.
- packet driver — (networking) IBM PC local area network software that divides data into packets which it routes to the network. It also handles incoming data, reassembling the packets so that application programs can read the data as a continuous stream. Packet drivers provide a simple, common programming interface that allows multiple applications to share a network interface at the data link layer. Packet drivers demultiplex incoming packets among the applications by using the network media's standard packet type or service access point field(s). The packet driver provides calls to initiate access to a specific packet type, to end access to it, to send a packet, to get statistics on the network interface and to get information about the interface. Protocol implementations that use the packet driver can coexist and can make use of one another's services, whereas multiple applications which do not use the driver do not coexist on one machine properly. Through use of the packet driver, a user could run TCP/IP, XNS and a proprietary protocol implementation such as DECnet, Banyan's, LifeNet's, Novell's or 3Com's without the difficulties associated with pre-empting the network interface. Applications which use the packet driver can also run on new network hardware of the same class without being modified; only a new packet driver need be supplied. There are several levels of packet driver. The first is the basic packet driver, which provides minimal functionality but should be simple to implement and which uses very few host resources. The basic driver provides operations to broadcast and receive packets. The second driver is the extended packet driver, which is a superset of the basic driver. The extended driver supports less commonly used functions of the network interface such as multicast, and also gathers statistics on use of the interface and makes these available to the application. The third level, the high-performance functions, support performance improvements and tuning.
- paper advance — the feeding of paper through a printer
- pas de cheval — a step in which the dancer hops on one foot and paws the ground with the other.
- prejudicative — tending to prejudge
- racing driver — someone who drives a racing car in motor car races
- 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.
- recording van — a van containing sound and image recording equipment, used as a mobile recording studio
- reduplicative — tending to reduplicate.
- revendication — the process or act of revendicating
- revindication — the act of vindicating.
- safety device — A safety device is a piece of equipment such as a fire extinguisher, safety belt, or burglar alarm that reduces loss or damage from a fire, accident, or break-in.
- scratch video — the technique or practice of recycling images from films or television to make collages
- second advent — Second Coming.
- self-advocacy — the practice of having mentally handicapped people speak for themselves and control their own affairs, rather than having nonhandicapped people automatically assume responsibility for them
- subindicative — of or relating to subindicating
- tax avoidance — Tax avoidance is the use of legal methods to pay the smallest possible amount of tax.
- 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
- un-indicative — showing, signifying, or pointing out; expressive or suggestive (usually followed by of): behavior indicative of mental disorder.
- underachiever — a student who performs less well in school than would be expected on the basis of abilities indicated by intelligence and aptitude tests, etc.
- underactivity — insufficient activity
- unscavengered — lacking the qualities of having been scavenged
- vacuum-packed — packed and sealed in a container, as a can or jar, with as much air as possible evacuated before sealing, chiefly to preserve freshness.
- valedictorian — a student, usually the one ranking highest academically in a school graduating class, who delivers the valedictory at the commencement exercises.
- valued policy — a policy in which the company and the policyholder agree to the amount to be paid in the event of total loss of property, regardless of the value of the property.
- 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
- verticillated — whorled
- victory medal — a round bronze medal awarded to all those who served in the armed forces of the U.S. during World War I.
- videocassette — a cassette enclosing a length of tape for video recording or reproduction.
- votive candle — religion: candle lit in prayer