13-letter words containing e, v, n, m
- pavement café — part of a café which is outdoors or on the pavement or sidewalk
- plumbosolvent — able to dissolve lead
- popcorn movie — a film that appeals to a mass audience
- primitiveness — being the first or earliest of the kind or in existence, especially in an early age of the world: primitive forms of life.
- privateersman — an officer or sailor of a privateer.
- progovernment — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
- redevelopment — the act or process of redeveloping.
- reinvolvement — to include as a necessary circumstance, condition, or consequence; imply; entail: This job involves long hours and hard work.
- remonstrative — to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval.
- revenue stamp — a stamp showing that a governmental tax has been paid.
- revolutionism — a belief in revolution or revolutionary ideas
- romantic love — love characterized by romance and involving sexual attraction
- scavenge pump — an oil pump used in some internal-combustion engines to return oil from the crankcase to the oil tank
- semievergreen — retaining green, unwithered leaves for part of the winter or through comparatively mild winters.
- shaving cream — a preparation, as of soap and free fatty acid, that is lathered and applied to the face to soften and condition the beard for shaving.
- shrove monday — the Monday before Ash Wednesday.
- silver salmon — coho salmon.
- smooth-shaven — having the beard and mustache shaved off; clean-shaven.
- south vietnam — a former country in SE Asia that comprised Vietnam S of about 17° N latitude; a separate state 1954–75; now part of reunified Vietnam. Capital: Saigon.
- stain remover — a substance designed for removing stains or dirty marks, as from clothes, carpets, etc
- standover man — a person who extorts money by intimidation
- subgovernment — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
- televangelism — Christian preaching on TV
- terminatively — in a finalizing manner
- timing device — a device that can be set to detonate a bomb at a particular time
- transmutative — the act or process of transmuting.
- uncompetitive — of, pertaining to, involving, or decided by competition: competitive sports; a competitive examination.
- unimaginative — characterized by or bearing evidence of imagination: an imaginative tale.
- uninformative — not educational
- unix system v — System V
- unmoved mover — prime mover (def 3).
- unmoved-mover — Mechanics. the initial agent, as wind or electricity, that puts a machine in motion. a machine, as a water wheel or steam engine, that receives and modifies energy as supplied by some natural source.
- vaginal cream — A vaginal cream is cream for treating vaginal infections, applied with a special applicator.
- vaginal smear — a smear sample taken from vaginal mucous for cytological analysis
- van der merwe — a stereotypical figure humorously representing Boer stupidity and prejudice
- vegetarianism — the beliefs or practices of a vegetarian.
- ventriloquism — the art or practice of speaking, with little or no lip movement, in such a manner that the voice does not appear to come from the speaker but from another source, as from a wooden dummy.
- venturesomely — in a venturesome manner
- vermiculation — to work or ornament with wavy lines or markings resembling the form or tracks of a worm.
- vernacularism — a vernacular word or expression.
- vernis martin — a finish for furniture, invented in France in the 18th century in imitation of Chinese lacquer.
- vice-chairman — a member of a committee, board, group, etc., designated as immediately subordinate to a chairman and serving as such in the latter's absence; a person who acts for and assists a chairman.
- vinyl polymer — any of a group of compounds derived by polymerization from vinyl compounds, as vinyl acetate and styrene.
- violent storm — Meteorology. storm (def 3).
- vip treatment — preferential or special treatment, as or as if given to famous or rich people
- visiting team — sports team playing away from home ground
- volumenometer — a device for determining the volume occupied by an object
- vowel harmony — a phonological rule in some languages, as Hungarian and Turkish, requiring that the vowels of a word all share a specified feature, such as front or back articulation, thereby conditioning the form that affixes may take, as in forming the Turkish plurals evler “houses” from ev “house” and adamlar “men” from adam “man.”.
- vraisemblance — verisimilitude; appearance of truth
- white van man — a male van driver, often of a white van, whose driving is selfish and aggressive