13-letter words containing e, v, o, l, i
- controversial — If you describe something or someone as controversial, you mean that they are the subject of intense public argument, disagreement, or disapproval.
- convertiplane — an aircraft that can land and take off vertically by temporarily directing its propulsive thrust downwards
- cooperatively — working or acting together willingly for a common purpose or benefit.
- correlatively — so related that each implies or complements the other.
- countervailed — Simple past tense and past participle of countervail.
- cove lighting — indirect lighting directed upward from an interior cornice or the like toward a cove at the edge of the ceiling.
- dame's violet — a Eurasian hairy perennial plant, Hesperis matronalis, cultivated in gardens for its mauve or white fragrant flowers: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- 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.
- 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
- dispositively — in a dispositive manner
- dissolve into — If you dissolve into or dissolve in tears or laughter, you begin to cry or laugh, because you cannot control yourself.
- division bell — a bell rung in a parliament to signal a division
- double vision — diplopia.
- drummondville — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- 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.
- environmental — Relating to the natural world and the impact of human activity on its condition.
- equivocalness — The state of being equivocal; ambiguity.
- exploded view — a drawing or photograph of a complicated mechanism that shows the individual parts separately, usually indicating their relative positions
- exploratively — in an explorative manner
- explosiveness — The state of being explosive.
- extrapolative — That serves to extrapolate.
- fast dissolve — a transition that fades out one scene and replaces it with another, merging the two scenes imperceptibly
- festivalgoers — Plural form of festivalgoer.
- field of view — field (def 13).
- field servoid — (jargon, abuse) /fee'ld ser'voyd/ A play on "android", a derogatory term for a representative of a field service organisation (see field circus), suggesting an unintelligent rule-driven approach to servicing computer hardware.
- flavoproteins — Plural form of flavoprotein.
- floating vote — those voters collectively who are not permanently attached to any political party.
- floorcovering — A covering for a floor.
- formal review — (project) A technical review conducted with the customer including the types of reviews called for in DOD-STD-2167A (Preliminary Design Review, Critical Design Review, etc.)
- frivolousness — characterized by lack of seriousness or sense: frivolous conduct.
- galvanometric — Of or pertaining to galvanometry.
- governability — to rule over by right of authority: to govern a nation.
- graphic novel — a novel in the form of comic strips.
- gravel-voiced — speaking in a rough and rasping tone
- green vitriol — a bluish-green, crystalline, saline-tasting, water-soluble heptahydrated solid, FeSO 4 ⋅7H 2 O, used chiefly in the manufacture of other iron salts, in water purification, fertilizer, inks, pigments, tanning, photography, and in medicine in the treatment of anemia.
- hand in glove — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- hand-in-glove — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- hevelian halo — a faint white halo with an angular radius of 90° that is occasionally seen around the sun or the moon, thought to be caused by the reflection and refraction of sunlight by ice crystals.
- high-velocity — having an above average velocity
- home delivery — delivery to one's home
- hypervelocity — extremely high velocity, as of projectiles, space vehicles, or accelerated nuclear particles.
- hypoventilate — (intransitive) To undergo hypoventilation.
- ill-conceived — badly conceived or planned: an ill-conceived project.