13-letter words containing e, l, v
- cranial nerve — any of the 12 paired nerves that have their origin in the brain and reach the periphery through natural openings in the skull
- crevalle jack — any of various portable devices for raising or lifting heavy objects short heights, using various mechanical, pneumatic, or hydraulic methods.
- culver's root — a tall North American scrophulariaceous plant, Veronicastrum virginicum, having spikes of small white or purple flowers
- cupboard love — a show of love inspired only by some selfish or greedy motive
- curvilinearly — In a curvilinear way.
- cut-off valve — a valve that terminates the flow of fluid in a system
- dame's violet — a Eurasian hairy perennial plant, Hesperis matronalis, cultivated in gardens for its mauve or white fragrant flowers: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- darling river — a river in SE Australia, rising in the Eastern Highlands and flowing southwest to the Murray River. Length: 2740 km (1702 miles)
- dataveillance — the surveillance of a person's activities by studying the data trail created by actions such as credit card purchases, mobile phone calls, and internet use
- declaratively — serving to declare, make known, or explain: a declarative statement.
- deconvolution — A process of resolving something into its constituent elements or removing complication in order to clarify it.
- delivery note — a document that accompanies a delivery of goods
- delivery room — In a hospital, the delivery room is the room where women give birth to their babies.
- demi-culverin — a culverin having a bore of about 4½ inches (11 cm) and firing a shot of about 10 pounds (5 kg).
- descriptively — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
- destructively — tending to destroy; causing destruction or much damage (often followed by of or to): a very destructive windstorm.
- detectivelike — Resembling a detective or some aspect of one.
- devastatingly — tending or threatening to devastate: a devastating fire.
- developmental — Developmental means relating to the development of someone or something.
- devil worship — the worship of Satan or of a demon
- devolutionary — the act or fact of devolving; passage onward from stage to stage.
- devotionalist — a devotee
- digital video — video output based on digital rather than analogue signals
- disjunctively — In a disjunctive manner.
- dispositively — in a dispositive manner
- dissimilative — to modify by dissimilation.
- dissolve into — If you dissolve into or dissolve in tears or laughter, you begin to cry or laugh, because you cannot control yourself.
- distinctively — serving to distinguish; characteristic; distinguishing: the distinctive stripes of the zebra.
- diversifiable — to make diverse, as in form or character; give variety or diversity to; variegate.
- divertibility — the capability of being diverted
- diverticulate — of or relating to a diverticulum
- dividing line — distinction
- diving beetle — any of numerous predaceous water beetles of the family Dytiscidae, having the body adapted for swimming.
- diving petrel — any of several small seabirds of the family Pelecanoididae, of Southern Hemisphere seas, having compact bodies, tubelike processes near the nostrils, and usually drab plumage.
- diving reflex — a reflex of humans, other mammals, reptiles, and birds, triggered by immersion in cold water, that slows the heart rate and diverts blood flow to the brain, heart, and lungs: serves to conserve oxygen until breathing resumes and to delay potential brain damage.
- divinyl ether — vinyl ether.
- division bell — a bell rung in a parliament to signal a division
- dolman sleeve — a sleeve tapered from a very large armhole to fit closely at the wrist, used on women's garments.
- double vision — diplopia.
- driving wheel — Machinery. a main wheel that communicates motion to others.
- drummondville — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- early-evening — taking place or being presented in the early part of the evening
- easterly wave — a westward-moving, wavelike disturbance of low atmospheric pressure embedded in tropical easterly winds.
- eastern slavs — one of a group of peoples in eastern, southeastern, and central Europe, including the Russians and Ruthenians (Eastern Slavs) the Bulgars, Serbs, Croats, Slavonians, Slovenes, etc. (Southern Slavs) and the Poles, Czechs, Moravians, Slovaks, etc. (Western Slavs)
- ebola (virus) — an RNA virus (family Filoviridae) that causes fever, internal bleeding, and, often, death
- 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.
- elevator shoe — a shoe designed to increase the wearer's height