13-letter words containing e, v, c
- grave clothes — the wrappings in which a dead body is interred
- gravel-voiced — speaking in a rough and rasping tone
- graving piece — a piece of wood let into a wooden hull to replace decayed wood.
- gravity scale — a scale giving the relative density of fluids
- h and d curve — characteristic curve.
- hairpin curve — A hairpin curve or a hairpin is a very sharp bend in a road, where the road turns back in the opposite direction.
- hallucinative — a sensory experience of something that does not exist outside the mind, caused by various physical and mental disorders, or by reaction to certain toxic substances, and usually manifested as visual or auditory images.
- have a record — to be a known criminal; have a previous conviction or convictions
- have occasion — If you have occasion to do something, it is necessary for you to do it.
- heavenly city — the abode of God and His saints; heaven. Rev. 21:2.
- heavy cruiser — a naval cruiser having 8-inch (20.3-cm) guns as its main armament.
- high-velocity — having an above average velocity
- homing device — a mechanism incorporated into a guided missile, airplane, etc., that aims it toward its objective.
- hyperactivate — (biology) To cause or undergo hyperactivation.
- hyperactively — In a hyperactive manner.
- hyperactivity — the condition of being hyperactive.
- hyperreactive — Showing a much greater than normal response to a stimulus.
- hypervascular — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
- hypervelocity — extremely high velocity, as of projectiles, space vehicles, or accelerated nuclear particles.
- ice-cream van — a mobile shop that sells ice cream and confectionery
- ill-conceived — badly conceived or planned: an ill-conceived project.
- imperceivable — That cannot be perceived; imperceptible.
- imperfectives — Plural form of imperfective.
- implicatively — In an implicative way.
- 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
- in-observance — lack of attention; inattention; heedlessness: drowsy inobservance.
- incarcerative — to imprison; confine.
- incentive pay — additional pay, a higher wage, or a bonus paid to promote the productivity of an employee.
- incentivising — Present participle of incentivise.
- incentivizing — to give incentives to: The government should incentivize the private sector to create jobs.
- inclusiveness — including or encompassing the stated limit or extremes in consideration or account (usually used postpositively): from 6 to 37 inclusive.
- inconceivable — not conceivable; unimaginable; unthinkable.
- inconceivably — not conceivable; unimaginable; unthinkable.
- inconsecutive — not consecutive.
- inconvenience — the quality or state of being inconvenient.
- inconveniency — inconvenience.
- inconversable — (obsolete) uncommunicative; reserved.
- inconvertible — (of paper money) not capable of being converted into specie.
- inconvertibly — In an inconvertible manner.
- inconvincible — not convincible; incapable of being convinced.
- incorporative — Tending to incorporate or include things.
- indistinctive — without distinctive characteristics.
- ineffectively — not effective; not producing results; ineffectual: ineffective efforts; ineffective remedies.
- inequivalence — The condition of being inequivalent.
- innocent viii — (Giovanni Battista Cibò) 1432–92, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1484–92.
- insectivorous — adapted to feeding on insects.
- instinctively — of, relating to, or of the nature of instinct.
- instructively — In an instructive manner.
- interactively — acting one upon or with the other.