13-letter words containing i, r, v
- nonprovincial — Not restricted to a small region; not done in isolation.
- nonreflective — Not reflective.
- nonresponsive — responding especially readily and sympathetically to appeals, efforts, influences, etc.: a responsive government.
- nonreversible — capable of reversing or of being reversed.
- nontransitive — Grammar. having the nature of a transitive verb.
- nonuniversity — distinct from university, not university-based
- nonvegetarian — a person who is not vegetarian
- normativeness — The quality or state of being normative.
- normotensives — Plural form of normotensive.
- north vietnam — that part of Vietnam N of about 17° N; formerly a part of French Indochina; separate republic 1954–75.
- norwalk virus — a norovirus.
- nouveau riche — a person who is newly rich: the ostentation of the nouveaux riches of the 1920s.
- nowheresville — a remote or isolated town or village.
- objurgatively — In an objurgative or reproving manner.
- observability — capable of being or liable to be observed; noticeable; visible; discernible: an observable change in attitude.
- observational — of, relating to, or founded on observation, especially founded on observation rather than experiment.
- observatories — Plural form of observatory.
- obstructively — In an obstructive manner.
- obtrusiveness — having or showing a disposition to obtrude, as by imposing oneself or one's opinions on others.
- old favourite — If you refer to something as an old favourite, you mean that it has been in existence for a long time and everyone knows it or likes it.
- old man river — a name for the Mississippi River
- olduvai gorge — a gorge in Tanzania in which is located a site containing Australopithecine and human skeletal and cultural remains.
- open interval — (mathematics) A type of interval (range of numbers) that does not include either of its endpoints. For example, when mixing red and blue paint, the proportion of red lies in the interval 0% to 100% but can't be exactly 0% or 100% or it wouldn't be a mixture.
- open universe — a model of the universe in which the universe expands forever because there is not enough mass to counteract the expansion by means of gravitational attraction.
- operativeness — (uncountable) The state or quality of being operative.
- optical drive — optical disk drive
- ordinary wave — Radio. (of the two waves into which a radio wave is divided in the ionosphere under the influence of the earth's magnetic field) the wave with characteristics more nearly resembling those that the undivided wave would have exhibited in the absence of the magnetic field.
- originatively — in an originative manner
- ovariectomies — Plural form of ovariectomy.
- ovariectomize — (transitive) To remove the ovaries from.
- over the hill — a natural elevation of the earth's surface, smaller than a mountain.
- over-achiever — to perform, especially academically, above the potential indicated by tests of one's mental ability or aptitude.
- over-analytic — pertaining to or proceeding by analysis (opposed to synthetic).
- over-cautious — excessively or unnecessarily cautious: Sometimes it doesn't pay to be overcautious in business.
- over-cropping — Agriculture. to crop (land) to excess; exhaust the fertility of by continuous cropping.
- over-designed — having too many design features; fussy
- over-detailed — having many details: a detailed problem.
- over-effusive — unduly demonstrative; lacking reserve: effusive greetings; an effusive person.
- over-estimate — to estimate at too high a value, amount, rate, or the like: Don't overestimate the car's trade-in value.
- over-exercise — bodily or mental exertion, especially for the sake of training or improvement of health: Walking is good exercise.
- over-exerting — to exert excessively.
- over-idealize — to make ideal; represent in an ideal form or character; exalt to an ideal perfection or excellence.
- over-identify — to recognize or establish as being a particular person or thing; verify the identity of: to identify handwriting; to identify the bearer of a check.
- over-occupied — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
- over-planning — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- over-promised — a declaration that something will or will not be done, given, etc., by one: unkept political promises.
- over-rational — agreeable to reason; reasonable; sensible: a rational plan for economic development.
- over-reactive — tending to react.
- over-reliance — confident or trustful dependence.
- over-shipment — an act or instance of shipping freight or cargo.