13-letter words containing l, e, a, v, s, t
- malinvestment — An incorrect or unwise investment.
- manipulatives — influencing or attempting to influence the behavior or emotions of others for one’s own purposes: a manipulative boss.
- mantelshelves — Plural form of mantelshelf.
- misevaluation — an act or instance of evaluating or appraising.
- movable feast — a religious feast that does not occur on the same date each year.
- 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.
- novated lease — Australian system of employer-aided car purchase
- 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.
- overspeculate — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
- overstability — the state of being excessively stable
- overstimulate — to stimulate too much
- petropavlovsk — a city in N Kazakhstan on the Ishim River. Pop: 190 000 (2005 est)
- pleasantville — a city in SE New Jersey.
- postvertebral — of or relating to a vertebra or the vertebrae; spinal.
- present value — current monetary worth
- proverbialist — a person who composes, records or uses proverbial expressions
- restless cavy — a wild guinea pig.
- restoratively — in a restorative manner
- revelationist — a person who believes in divine revelation.
- reverse fault — a fault in which the rock above the fault plane is displaced upward relative to the rock below the fault plane (opposed to gravity fault).
- reverse plate — a plate for printing a reverse.
- roosevelt dam — a dam on the Salt River, in central Arizona. 284 feet (87 meters) high; 1080 feet (329 meters) long.
- salvage costs — the costs involved in salvaging goods or property from fire, shipwreck, etc
- scarlet fever — a contagious febrile disease caused by streptococci and characterized by a scarlet eruption.
- scotch lovage — a similar and related plant, Ligusticum scoticum, of N Europe
- sea vegetable — an edible seaweed
- seaton valley — a region in NE England, in SE Northumberland: consists of a group of former coal-mining villages
- shaver outlet — a point in a wall, esp in a bathroom, where you can connect an electric razor to the power supply
- silver iodate — a white, crystalline, slightly water-soluble powder, AgIO 3 , used in medicine chiefly as an antiseptic and as an astringent.
- silver wattle — a tree, Acacia dealbata, of the legume family, native to Australia and Tasmania, having feathery, silver-gray foliage and fragrant yellow flowers.
- silver-plated — Something that is silver-plated is covered with a very thin layer of silver.
- slave trading — trafficking in people
- slave traffic — the traffic of slaves
- solitary wave — a localized disturbance that propagates like a wave but resembles a particle in that it does not disperse, even if it collides with other such waves.
- solvent abuse — Solvent abuse is the dangerous practice of breathing in the gases from substances such as glue in order to feel as if you are drunk.
- speculatively — pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by speculation, contemplation, conjecture, or abstract reasoning: a speculative approach.
- substantively — a noun.
- suction valve — a nonreturn valve in a pump suction to prevent the pump draining or depriming when not in service
- suovetaurilia — (in ancient Rome) a sacrifice of a hog, a ram, and a bull.
- superelevated — (of a curve in a road, railroad track, etc.) banked.
- superlatively — of the highest kind, quality, or order; surpassing all else or others; supreme; extreme: superlative wisdom.
- talkativeness — inclined to talk a great deal: One drink and she became very talkative.
- televangelism — Christian preaching on TV
- televangelist — an evangelist who regularly conducts religious services on television.
- time reversal — the mathematical operation of reversing the direction of time. Symbol: T.
- toll traverse — a payment made for the right to cross privately owned property.
- transfusively — in a transfusive manner
- transversally — transverse.
- unassertively — in an unassertive manner