13-letter words containing d, v, c
- have a record — to be a known criminal; have a previous conviction or convictions
- homing device — a mechanism incorporated into a guided missile, airplane, etc., that aims it toward its objective.
- ill-conceived — badly conceived or planned: an ill-conceived project.
- impredicative — (of a definition) given in terms that require quantification over a range that includes that which is to be defined, as having all the properties of a great general where one of the properties as ascribed must be that property itself
- in advance of — prior to
- indistinctive — without distinctive characteristics.
- invalid chair — a chair specially designed for an invalid to sit in
- l-d converter — a vessel in which steel is made from pig iron by blowing oxygen into the molten metal through a water-cooled tube
- ladino clover — a giant variety of white clover, Trifolium repens lodigense, used for pasture and hay.
- leave sb cold — If something leaves you cold, it fails to excite or interest you.
- lord advocate — (in Scotland) the chief law officer of the Crown who acts as public prosecutor and is in charge of the administration of criminal justice
- medium octavo — a size of book, about 6 × 9½ inches (15 × 24 cm), untrimmed. Abbreviation: medium 8vo.
- mid-victorian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the middle portion (about 1850 to 1890) of the reign of Queen Victoria (reigned 1837–1901) in England: mid-Victorian writers.
- misadvertence — inadvertence
- mobile device — a portable, wireless computing device that is small enough to be used while held in the hand; a handheld: a large selection of smartphones, PDAs, and other mobile devices.
- 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.
- non-conducive — tending to produce; contributive; helpful; favorable (usually followed by to): Good eating habits are conducive to good health.
- non-deceptive — apt or tending to deceive: The enemy's peaceful overtures may be deceptive.
- non-deductive — based on deduction from accepted premises, as in deductive argument; deductive reasoning.
- non-defective — having a defect or flaw; faulty; imperfect: a defective machine.
- non-inductive — not inductive: a noninductive resistance.
- nonconductive — having the property or capability of conducting.
- noncultivated — relating to natural resources that are not under institutional or managed cultivation
- nondiscursive — passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling.
- nonproductive — not productive; unproductive.
- 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.
- output device — (hardware) Electronic or electromechanical equipment connected to a computer and used to transfer data out of the computer in the form of text, images, sounds or other media to a display screen, printer, loudspeaker or storage device. Most modern storage devices such as disk drives and magnetic tape drives act as both input and output devices, others such as CD-ROM are input only.
- over-educated — to develop the faculties and powers of (a person) by teaching, instruction, or schooling. Synonyms: instruct, school, drill, indoctrinate.
- over-occupied — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
- overabundance — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
- overallocated — Allocated in excess.
- overcivilized — excessively civilized
- overcommitted — to commit more than is feasible, desirable, or necessary.
- overconfident — too confident.
- overcorrected — Simple past tense and past participle of overcorrect.
- overcredulity — Excessive credulity.
- overcredulous — willing to believe or trust too readily, especially without proper or adequate evidence; gullible.
- 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.
- overprocessed — a systematic series of actions directed to some end: to devise a process for homogenizing milk.
- overstretched — to stretch excessively.
- 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.
- pelvic girdle — (in vertebrates) a bony or cartilaginous arch supporting the hind limbs or analogous parts.