13-letter words containing l, i, v, n, g
- involute gear — a gear tooth form that is generated by involute geometry
- irving berlin — Irving, 1888–1989, U.S. songwriter.
- labour-saving — A labour-saving device or idea makes it possible for you to do something with less effort than usual.
- landgraviates — Plural form of landgraviate.
- level pegging — If two opponents in a competition or contest are level pegging, they are equal with each other.
- levelling rod — a graduated rod that is used to determine differences in elevation
- licking river — a river in E Kentucky, flowing NW to the Ohio River. 320 miles (515 km) long.
- living fossil — an organism that is a living example of an otherwise extinct group and that has remained virtually unchanged in structure and function over a long period of time, as the coelacanth and the horseshoe crab.
- living stones — any of various succulent plants of the genus Lithops, native to Africa, having solitary yellow or white flowers and thick leaves that resemble stones.
- long division — division, usually by a number of two or more digits, in which each step of the process is written down.
- long vacation — the summer vacation customary in the law courts and universities.
- love triangle — relationship between three people
- make a living — earn money
- navigableness — Quality of being navigable.
- negative flag — the letter N in the International Code of Signals, signifying “no” when flown by itself: a square flag having four rows of alternate blue and white squares.
- negative glow — the luminous region between the Crookes dark space and the Faraday dark space in a vacuum tube, occurring when the pressure is low.
- 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.
- negative pole — the south-seeking pole of a magnet
- never-failing — that does not fail ever; unfailing
- non-navigable — deep and wide enough to provide passage to ships: a navigable channel.
- nun's veiling — a thin, plain-woven, worsted fabric, originally for nuns' veils but now also for dresses, coats, etc.
- originatively — in an originative manner
- over-planning — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- overanalyzing — Present participle of overanalyze.
- overbalancing — Present participle of overbalance.
- overbearingly — domineering; dictatorial; haughtily or rudely arrogant.
- overflowingly — to an excessive degree
- overpedalling — the overuse of the piano's pedals
- perseveringly — displaying perseverance; resolutely persistent; steadfast: a persevering student.
- plural voting — right to vote more than once
- pole-vaulting — a field sport in which competitors attempt to clear a high bar with the aid of an extremely flexible long pole
- rally driving — the sport of taking part in motor rallies
- re-evaluating — to determine or set the value or amount of; appraise: to evaluate property.
- revictualling — victuals, food supplies; provisions.
- ring-a-lievio — a game played usually between two teams in which the members of one team attempt to find, capture, and imprison the members of the other, who can be freed only by a teammate not yet captured.
- ringed plover — any of several cosmopolitan plovers of the genus Charadrius, especially C. hiaticula, brownish above and white below with a black band around the breast.
- rocking valve — (on a steam engine) a valve mechanism oscillating through an arc to open and close.
- saving clause — a clause which denotes a reservation or exception
- self-evolving — to develop gradually: to evolve a scheme.
- shelving unit — A shelving unit is a flexible display system which can be moved and adjusted to accommodate different product dimensions.
- shivering owl — screech owl.
- silver lining — a sign of hope in an unfortunate or gloomy situation; a bright prospect: Every cloud has a silver lining.
- silver spring — a town in central Maryland, near Washington, D.C.
- silver tongue — the characteristic of being skilful at persuading people to believe what they say or to do what they want them to do
- single-valued — (of a function) having the property that each element in the domain has corresponding to it exactly one element in the range.
- slave trading — trafficking in people
- spring valley — a city in SW California, near San Diego.
- televangelism — Christian preaching on TV
- televangelist — an evangelist who regularly conducts religious services on television.
- traveling bag — a small bag, as a valise or suitcase, usually made of leather, having an oblong shape, and used chiefly to hold clothes.