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13-letter words containing e, v, c

  • covered wagon — A covered wagon is a wagon that has an arched canvas roof and is pulled by horses. Covered wagons were used by the early American settlers as they travelled across the country.
  • covering fire — firing intended to protect an individual or formation making a movement by forcing the enemy to take cover
  • coversed sine — obsolete function in trigonometry
  • covert action — a secret action undertaken to influence the course of political events, as a government intelligence operation.
  • coveteousness — Alternative spelling of covetousness.
  • 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.
  • crossing over — the interchange of sections between pairing homologous chromosomes during the diplotene stage of meiosis. It results in the rearrangement of genes and produces variation in the inherited characteristics of the offspring
  • culver's root — a tall North American scrophulariaceous plant, Veronicastrum virginicum, having spikes of small white or purple flowers
  • cup and cover — a turning used in Elizabethan and Jacobean furniture and resembling a goblet with a domed cover.
  • cupboard love — a show of love inspired only by some selfish or greedy motive
  • curve fitting — the determination of a curve that fits a specified set of points: The method of least squares is commonly used for curve fitting.
  • curvilinearly — In a curvilinear way.
  • cushion cover — a fabric cover, often with a decorative design, designed to protect a cushion
  • cut-and-cover — designating a method of constructing a tunnel by excavating a cutting to the required depth and then backfilling the excavation over the tunnel roof
  • cut-off valve — a valve that terminates the flow of fluid in a system
  • cyberactivism — Activism facilitated by the Internet.
  • 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
  • debt covenant — A debt covenant is a number of restrictions that a borrower agrees to that are set by the lending institution.
  • deceptiveness — apt or tending to deceive: The enemy's peaceful overtures may be deceptive.
  • 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.
  • defectiveness — having a defect or flaw; faulty; imperfect: a defective machine.
  • defervescence — the abatement of a fever
  • defervescency — Alternative form of defervescence.
  • demi-culverin — a culverin having a bore of about 4½ inches (11 cm) and firing a shot of about 10 pounds (5 kg).
  • derived curve — a curve whose equation is the derivative of the equation of a given curve.
  • descriptively — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
  • descriptivism — the theory that moral utterances have a truth value
  • 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
  • detectivelike — Resembling a detective or some aspect of one.
  • device driver — (operating system)   Software to control a hardware component or peripheral device of a computer such as a magnetic disk, magnetic tape or printer. A device driver is responsible for accessing the hardware registers of the device and often includes an interrupt handler to service interrupts generated by the device. Device drivers often form part of the lowest level of the operating system kernel, with which they are linked when the kernel is built. Some more recent systems have loadable device drivers which can be installed from files after the operating system is running.
  • discovery bay — an inlet of the Indian Ocean in SE Australia
  • discovery day — Columbus Day.
  • disincentives — Plural form of disincentive.
  • disjunctively — In a disjunctive manner.
  • dispurveyance — the lack of provisions
  • disrespective — (obsolete) Showing a lack of respect; disrespectful.
  • distinctively — serving to distinguish; characteristic; distinguishing: the distinctive stripes of the zebra.
  • diverticulate — of or relating to a diverticulum
  • divine comedy — a narrative epic poem (14th century) by Dante.
  • divine office — office (def 12c).
  • divorce court — a court having jurisdiction over termination of marital relations, as actions for divorce or annulment.
  • documentative — Of or pertaining to documents or documentation.
  • downconverter — A device that converts a signal to a lower frequency, especially in television reception.
  • driving force — impetus
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