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13-letter words containing l, i, v, e, d

  • divinyl ether — vinyl ether.
  • division bell — a bell rung in a parliament to signal a division
  • double vision — diplopia.
  • driving wheel — Machinery. a main wheel that communicates motion to others.
  • drummondville — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada.
  • evidentiarily — In an evidentiary way.
  • exploded view — a drawing or photograph of a complicated mechanism that shows the individual parts separately, usually indicating their relative positions
  • face validity — the extent to which a psychological test appears to measure what it is intended to measure
  • fast dissolve — a transition that fades out one scene and replaces it with another, merging the two scenes imperceptibly
  • field of view — field (def 13).
  • field service — military service performed in the field
  • field servoid — (jargon, abuse)   /fee'ld ser'voyd/ A play on "android", a derogatory term for a representative of a field service organisation (see field circus), suggesting an unintelligent rule-driven approach to servicing computer hardware.
  • free delivery — the delivery of mail directly to the recipient's address without charge to the recipient: Before free delivery people had to pick up their mail at the post office or pay a letter carrier to deliver it.
  • gravel-voiced — speaking in a rough and rasping tone
  • half-silvered — (of a mirror) having an incomplete reflective coating, so that half the incident light is reflected and half transmitted: used in optical instruments and two-way mirrors
  • hand in glove — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • hand-in-glove — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • haven't lived — If you tell someone that they haven't lived unless they experience a particular thing, you are telling them that thing is extremely good and should be experienced.
  • home delivery — delivery to one's home
  • ill-conceived — badly conceived or planned: an ill-conceived project.
  • improvidently — In an improvident manner.
  • inadvertently — unintentional: an inadvertent insult.
  • indissolvable — Not dissolvable; incapable of being dissolved or separated.
  • individualise — (British spelling) alternative spelling of individualize.
  • individualize — to make individual or distinctive; give an individual or distinctive character to.
  • introvertedly — In an introverted manner.
  • invendibility — the state or quality of being invendible or unsaleable
  • jail delivery — a liberation of persons from prison, especially by force.
  • judah ha-levi — (Judah ben Samuel Halevi) 1085–1140, Spanish rabbi, physician, poet, and philosopher.
  • ladino clover — a giant variety of white clover, Trifolium repens lodigense, used for pasture and hay.
  • landgraviates — Plural form of landgraviate.
  • legal adviser — a lawyer who gives advice
  • levelling rod — a graduated rod that is used to determine differences in elevation
  • milford haven — a bay in SW Wales.
  • milledgeville — a city in central Georgia: state capital 1807–68.
  • mobile device — a portable, wireless computing device that is small enough to be used while held in the hand; a handheld: a large selection of smartphones, PDAs, and other mobile devices.
  • noncultivated — relating to natural resources that are not under institutional or managed cultivation
  • 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.
  • optical drive — optical disk drive
  • over-detailed — having many details: a detailed problem.
  • over-idealize — to make ideal; represent in an ideal form or character; exalt to an ideal perfection or excellence.
  • overamplified — amplified too much, causing distortion or discomfort, etc
  • overcivilized — excessively civilized
  • overcredulity — Excessive credulity.
  • overland mail — a government mail service, started in 1848, for sending mail from the Mississippi to the Far West.
  • overmultitude — to exceed in number
  • overpedalling — the overuse of the piano's pedals
  • overqualified — having more education, training, or experience than is required for a job or position.
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