13-letter words containing g, i, v, e
- levelling rod — a graduated rod that is used to determine differences in elevation
- licking river — a river in E Kentucky, flowing NW to the Ohio River. 320 miles (515 km) long.
- light vehicle — a vehicle designed to carry loads or a small number of passengers up to an officially determined weight, such as a scooter, motorbike, rickshaw, etc
- light-o'-love — a lover.
- live together — cohabit
- liver sausage — liverwurst.
- 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.
- love triangle — relationship between three people
- magnetomotive — (physics) capable of producing magnetic flux.
- maiden voyage — the first voyage of a ship after its acceptance by the owners from the builders.
- make a living — earn money
- marriage vows — promises made as part of wedding ceremony
- megaherbivore — a large herbivore, such as an elephant, weighing more than 1000kg
- metacognitive — higher-order thinking that enables understanding, analysis, and control of one’s cognitive processes, especially when engaged in learning.
- milledgeville — a city in central Georgia: state capital 1807–68.
- 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.
- moravian gate — a mountain pass between the Sudeten Mountains and the Tatra range of the Carpathians, leading from S Poland into N Moravia in the NE Czech Republic.
- mourning dove — variety of pigeon
- native tongue — first language
- 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 flag — the letter N in the International Code of Signals, signifying “no” when flown by itself: a square flag having four rows of alternate blue and white squares.
- negative glow — the luminous region between the Crookes dark space and the Faraday dark space in a vacuum tube, occurring when the pressure is low.
- 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 pole — the south-seeking pole of a magnet
- negative sign — bad omen
- nerve-racking — extremely irritating, annoying, or trying: a nerve-racking day; a nerve-racking noise.
- nervewracking — Alternative form of nerve-wracking.
- never-failing — that does not fail ever; unfailing
- nigger heaven — peanut gallery (def 1).
- non-divergent — diverging; differing; deviating.
- non-navigable — deep and wide enough to provide passage to ships: a navigable channel.
- non-receiving — to take into one's possession (something offered or delivered): to receive many gifts.
- non-sovereign — a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler.
- nonaggressive — Not aggressive.
- nonfigurative — of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, especially a metaphor; metaphorical and not literal: The word “head” has several figurative senses, as in “She's the head of the company.”. Synonyms: metaphorical, not literal, symbolic.
- nonperceiving — Unperceiving.
- nonvegetarian — a person who is not vegetarian
- nun's veiling — a thin, plain-woven, worsted fabric, originally for nuns' veils but now also for dresses, coats, etc.
- objurgatively — In an objurgative or reproving manner.
- olduvai gorge — a gorge in Tanzania in which is located a site containing Australopithecine and human skeletal and cultural remains.
- originatively — in an originative manner
- over-cropping — Agriculture. to crop (land) to excess; exhaust the fertility of by continuous cropping.
- over-designed — having too many design features; fussy
- over-exerting — to exert excessively.
- over-planning — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.