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13-letter words containing i, v, t

  • sylvicultural — relating to sylviculture
  • taedium vitae — the feeling that life is boring and dull
  • take the veil — to become a nun
  • talkativeness — inclined to talk a great deal: One drink and she became very talkative.
  • tax avoidance — Tax avoidance is the use of legal methods to pay the smallest possible amount of tax.
  • tax incentive — measure to encourage activity
  • televangelism — Christian preaching on TV
  • televangelist — an evangelist who regularly conducts religious services on television.
  • tenosynovitis — inflammation of a tendon sheath, as from trauma, repeated strain, or systemic disease.
  • tenovaginitis — the inflammation of the sheath around a tendon
  • tentativeness — of the nature of or made or done as a trial, experiment, or attempt; experimental: a tentative report on her findings.
  • tergiversator — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
  • terminatively — in a finalizing manner
  • tet offensive — an offensive by Vietcong and North Vietnamese forces against South Vietnamese and U.S. positions in South Vietnam, beginning on Jan. 31, 1968, the start of Tet.
  • the civil war — the war between the North (the Union) and the South (the Confederacy) in the U.S. (1861-65)
  • the hué river — a river in central Vietnam that crosses the port of Hué
  • the invisible — God
  • the narrative — the part of a literary work that relates events
  • the offensive — an attitude or position of aggression
  • the provinces — those parts of a country lying outside the capital and other large cities and regarded as outside the mainstream of sophisticated culture
  • the seventies — the years numbered 70–79 in a particular century, esp the 20th century
  • thermic fever — sunstroke.
  • thieves' cant — slang used by thieves
  • time reversal — the mathematical operation of reversing the direction of time. Symbol: T.
  • timing device — a device that can be set to detonate a bomb at a particular time
  • to come alive — If people, places, or events come alive, they start to be lively again after a quiet period. If someone or something brings them alive, they cause them to come alive.
  • to live a lie — If you say that someone is living a lie, you mean that in every part of their life they are hiding the truth about themselves from other people.
  • totis viribus — with all one's might.
  • tractor drive — a mechanism that feeds paper through a printer, using studs on a rotating wheel that engage with holes along the side of the paper
  • train service — provision of railway transport
  • transactivate — to activate the replication of (a viral gene) through the presence of a gene at another locus, especially following a viral infection.
  • transfusively — in a transfusive manner
  • transgressive — to violate a law, command, moral code, etc.; offend; sin.
  • transmutative — the act or process of transmuting.
  • traveling bag — a small bag, as a valise or suitcase, usually made of leather, having an oblong shape, and used chiefly to hold clothes.
  • traverse city — a city in NW Michigan.
  • triple-nerved — noting a leaf in which two prominent nerves emerge from the middle nerve a little above its base.
  • trophic level — any class of organisms that occupy the same position in a food chain, as primary consumers, secondary consumers, and tertiary consumers.
  • true believer — a person who has been thoroughly convinced of something.
  • tunnel vision — a drastically narrowed field of vision, as in looking through a tube, symptomatic of retinitis pigmentosa.
  • tuva republic — a constituent republic of S Russia: mountainous. Capital: Kizyl. Pop: 305 500 (2002). Area: 170 500 sq km (65 800 sq miles)
  • typhoid fever — Also called typhoid fever. an infectious, often fatal, febrile disease, usually of the summer months, characterized by intestinal inflammation and ulceration, caused by the typhoid bacillus, which is usually introduced with food or drink.
  • ultra-violent — acting with or characterized by uncontrolled, strong, rough force: a violent earthquake.
  • ultraviolence — acts of extreme violence, esp those shown on television or film
  • ultravirility — the quality or state of extreme virility
  • un-indicative — showing, signifying, or pointing out; expressive or suggestive (usually followed by of): behavior indicative of mental disorder.
  • unabbreviated — shortened; made briefer: The rain led to an abbreviated picnic.
  • unassertively — in an unassertive manner
  • uncaptivating — to attract and hold the attention or interest of, as by beauty or excellence; enchant: Her blue eyes and red hair captivated him.
  • uncompetitive — of, pertaining to, involving, or decided by competition: competitive sports; a competitive examination.
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