13-letter words containing i, n, c, s, v
- misconceiving — Present participle of misconceive.
- misgovernance — to govern or manage badly.
- misobservance — a failure to observe thoroughly or properly
- misperceiving — Present participle of misperceive.
- mosaic vision — a type of vision hypothesized for the insect compound eye, in which the image is formed by hundreds of separate ommatidia.
- necessitative — to make necessary or unavoidable: The breakdown of the car necessitated a change in our plans.
- nectarivorous — feeding on nectar
- nicholasville — a town in central Kentucky.
- nickel silver — German silver.
- nicoise olive — a small variety of olive with a rich, nutty flavor.
- non-causative — acting as a cause; producing (often followed by of): a causative agency; an event causative of war.
- non-corrosive — having the quality of corroding or eating away; erosive.
- non-exclusive — not admitting of something else; incompatible: mutually exclusive plans of action.
- non-vesicular — of or relating to a vesicle or vesicles.
- nonchauvinist — a person who is not a chauvinist
- nondiscursive — passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling.
- nonsubjective — Not subjective.
- nonsuccessive — Not successive; not part of a succession.
- objectiveness — something that one's efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish; purpose; goal; target: the objective of a military attack; the objective of a fund-raising drive.
- overconscious — excessively conscious
- overinsurance — (of goods or property) insurance in excess of actual value
- oversecretion — (in a cell or gland) the act or process of separating, elaborating, and releasing a substance that fulfills some function within the organism or undergoes excretion.
- proactiveness — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- provincialise — to make provincial in character.
- provincialism — narrowness of mind, ignorance, or the like, considered as resulting from lack of exposure to cultural or intellectual activity.
- provincialist — a native or inhabitant of a province.
- receiving set — a radio receiver.
- receptiveness — having the quality of receiving, taking in, or admitting.
- recessiveness — tending to go, move, or slant back; receding.
- reclusiveness — the state or quality of being reclusive
- recursiveness — pertaining to or using a rule or procedure that can be applied repeatedly.
- reductiveness — of or relating to reduction; serving to reduce or abridge: an urgent need for reductive measures.
- sabin vaccine — an orally administered vaccine of live viruses for immunization against poliomyelitis.
- saint vincent — Saint, died a.d. 304, Spanish martyr: patron saint of winegrowers.
- salviniaceous — relating to the genus Salviniaceae
- saving clause — a clause which denotes a reservation or exception
- sciatic nerve — either of a pair of nerves, the largest in the body, that originate in the sacral plexus of the lower back and extend down the buttocks to the back of the knees, where they divide into other nerves: the sciatic nerve and its branches innervate large areas of the pelvis, leg, and foot.
- scrivenership — the position of being a scrivener or scribe; scribing
- seclusiveness — tending to seclude, especially oneself.
- seductiveness — tending to seduce; enticing; beguiling; captivating: a seductive smile.
- self-violence — swift and intense force: the violence of a storm.
- serviceperson — a person who is a member of the armed forces of a country.
- serving hatch — a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room
- 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 stick — a piece of shaving foam moulded into a slender shape and held in a slender container for ease of application to the face when removing hair with a razor
- significative — serving to signify.
- silver screen — motion pictures; the motion-picture industry: a star of the silver screen.
- singing voice — the musical quality of a voice when a person is singing
- sir-reverence — (used as an expression of apology, as before unseemly or indelicate words.)
- sperry univac — (company) One of the divisions of Sperry Corporation at the time that company merged with the Burroughs Corporation to form Unisys Corporation.