13-letter words containing g, i, v, e, s
- living stones — any of various succulent plants of the genus Lithops, native to Africa, having solitary yellow or white flowers and thick leaves that resemble stones.
- marriage vows — promises made as part of wedding ceremony
- miscegenative — (rare) Miscegenous.
- misconceiving — Present participle of misconceive.
- misgovernance — to govern or manage badly.
- misgovernment — to govern or manage badly.
- misperceiving — Present participle of misperceive.
- navigableness — Quality of being navigable.
- navy register — (in the US) an annual publication giving genealogical information about the commissioned and warrant officers in the US Navy.
- negative lens — a lens that causes a beam of parallel rays to diverge after refraction, as from a virtual image; a lens that has a negative focal length.
- negative sign — bad omen
- non-sovereign — a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler.
- nonaggressive — Not aggressive.
- nun's veiling — a thin, plain-woven, worsted fabric, originally for nuns' veils but now also for dresses, coats, etc.
- over-designed — having too many design features; fussy
- over-standing — overreach (def 13).
- over-trusting — reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence.
- overdiagnosed — Simple past tense and past participle of overdiagnose.
- overdiagnosis — excessive diagnosis of a disease
- overingenious — ingenious to a fault
- perseveringly — displaying perseverance; resolutely persistent; steadfast: a persevering student.
- positive sign — the sign (+) used to indicate a positive quantity
- progressively — favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters: a progressive mayor.
- progressivism — the principles and practices of progressives.
- progressivist — the principles and practices of progressives.
- progressivity — favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters: a progressive mayor.
- receiving set — a radio receiver.
- reinvestigate — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
- rendezvousing — an agreement between two or more persons to meet at a certain time and place.
- retrogressive — characterized by retrogression; degenerating.
- reverse swing — a type of swing in which a ball that has been scuffed on one side will move in the opposite direction to that of a new ball
- river fishing — the sport of fishing in rivers
- saving clause — a clause which denotes a reservation or exception
- self-evolving — to develop gradually: to evolve a scheme.
- semievergreen — retaining green, unwithered leaves for part of the winter or through comparatively mild winters.
- serving hatch — a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room
- serving spoon — utensil used to serve food
- seventy-eight — a cardinal number, 70 plus 8.
- 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.
- shaving horse — a trestle for supporting and steadying a piece of work being shaved.
- shelving unit — A shelving unit is a flexible display system which can be moved and adjusted to accommodate different product dimensions.
- shivering owl — screech owl.
- significative — serving to signify.
- silver lining — a sign of hope in an unfortunate or gloomy situation; a bright prospect: Every cloud has a silver lining.
- silver spring — a town in central Maryland, near Washington, D.C.
- silver tongue — the characteristic of being skilful at persuading people to believe what they say or to do what they want them to do
- singing voice — the musical quality of a voice when a person is singing
- single-valued — (of a function) having the property that each element in the domain has corresponding to it exactly one element in the range.
- slave trading — trafficking in people
- sovereigntist — a supporter of sovereignty association