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13-letter words containing e, v, o, c

  • 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
  • economy drive — a campaign by the government or a firm to reduce expenditure and make savings
  • 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.
  • equivocalness — The state of being equivocal; ambiguity.
  • equivocations — Plural form of equivocation.
  • escort vessel — ship that accompanies another
  • ethchlorvynol — A sedative and hypnotic drug used to treat insomnia.
  • evening stock — a plant, Matthiola incana, of the genus Matthiola, of the Mediterranean region, cultivated for its brightly coloured flowers: Brassicaceae (crucifers)
  • evocativeness — The state or condition of being evocative.
  • executive job — a job in which a person is responsible for the administration of a project, activity, or business
  • executive toy — a novelty item, such as a Newton's cradle, on the desk of a corporate executive
  • expectorative — an expectorant medicine
  • exteroceptive — Relating to stimuli that are external to an organism.
  • floorcovering — A covering for a floor.
  • flow cleavage — cleavage resulting from the parallel alignment of the mineral constituents of a rock when in a plastic condition.
  • galvanometric — Of or pertaining to galvanometry.
  • give voice to — If you give voice to an opinion, a need, or a desire, you express it aloud.
  • glove factory — a factory where gloves are made
  • goods service — a transport service in which goods are sent by train from one location to another
  • graphic novel — a novel in the form of comic strips.
  • grave clothes — the wrappings in which a dead body is interred
  • gravel-voiced — speaking in a rough and rasping tone
  • 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.
  • high-velocity — having an above average velocity
  • homing device — a mechanism incorporated into a guided missile, airplane, etc., that aims it toward its objective.
  • hypervelocity — extremely high velocity, as of projectiles, space vehicles, or accelerated nuclear particles.
  • ill-conceived — badly conceived or planned: an ill-conceived project.
  • in advance of — prior to
  • in-observance — lack of attention; inattention; heedlessness: drowsy inobservance.
  • 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.
  • innocent viii — (Giovanni Battista Cibò) 1432–92, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1484–92.
  • insectivorous — adapted to feeding on insects.
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