13-letter words containing l, o, v, e
- dissolve into — If you dissolve into or dissolve in tears or laughter, you begin to cry or laugh, because you cannot control yourself.
- division bell — a bell rung in a parliament to signal a division
- dolman sleeve — a sleeve tapered from a very large armhole to fit closely at the wrist, used on women's garments.
- double vision — diplopia.
- drummondville — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- ebola (virus) — an RNA virus (family Filoviridae) that causes fever, internal bleeding, and, often, death
- electroactive — (of living tissue) exhibiting electrical activity or responsive to electrical stimuli
- electromotive — Producing or tending to produce an electric current.
- electron volt — a unit of energy equal to that attained by an electron falling unimpeded through a potential difference of one volt; 1.602 × 10-19 joule
- electrovalent — (of bonding) resulting from electrostatic attraction between positive and negative ions; ionic.
- elevator shoe — a shoe designed to increase the wearer's height
- eleventh hour — If someone does something at the eleventh hour, they do it at the last possible moment.
- environmental — Relating to the natural world and the impact of human activity on its condition.
- equivocalness — The state of being equivocal; ambiguity.
- escort vessel — ship that accompanies another
- ethchlorvynol — A sedative and hypnotic drug used to treat insomnia.
- exploded view — a drawing or photograph of a complicated mechanism that shows the individual parts separately, usually indicating their relative positions
- exploratively — in an explorative manner
- explosiveness — The state of being explosive.
- extrapolative — That serves to extrapolate.
- fast dissolve — a transition that fades out one scene and replaces it with another, merging the two scenes imperceptibly
- favorableness — Alternative spelling of favourableness.
- festivalgoers — Plural form of festivalgoer.
- field of view — field (def 13).
- 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.
- flavoproteins — Plural form of flavoprotein.
- floating vote — those voters collectively who are not permanently attached to any political party.
- floorcovering — A covering for a floor.
- flow cleavage — cleavage resulting from the parallel alignment of the mineral constituents of a rock when in a plastic condition.
- for values of — (jargon) A common rhetorical maneuver at MIT is to use any of the canonical random numbers as placeholders for variables. "The max function takes 42 arguments, for arbitrary values of 42". "There are 69 ways to leave your lover, for 69 = 50". This is especially likely when the speaker has uttered a random number and realises that it was not recognised as such, but even "non-random" numbers are occasionally used in this fashion. A related joke is that pi equals 3 - for small values of pi and large values of 3. This usage probably derives from the programming language MAD (Michigan Algorithm Decoder), an ALGOL-like language that was the most common choice among mainstream (non-hacker) users at MIT in the mid-1960s. It had a control structure FOR VALUES OF X = 3, 7, 99 DO ... that would repeat the indicated instructions for each value in the list (unlike the usual FOR that generates an arithmetic sequence of values). MAD is long extinct, but similar for-constructs still flourish (e.g. in Unix's shell languages).
- foramen ovale — the small, oval opening in the wall that separates the atria of the heart in a normal fetus: it allows blood to bypass the nonfunctioning fetal lungs until the time of birth when it gradually closes up
- formal review — (project) A technical review conducted with the customer including the types of reviews called for in DOD-STD-2167A (Preliminary Design Review, Critical Design Review, etc.)
- frivolousness — characterized by lack of seriousness or sense: frivolous conduct.
- full-flavored — Full-flavored food or wine has a pleasant fairly strong taste.
- galvanometers — Plural form of galvanometer.
- galvanometric — Of or pertaining to galvanometry.
- galveston bay — an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico.
- glove factory — a factory where gloves are made
- glove leather — a soft, smooth, pliable, stretchable leather.
- golden plover — either of two plovers of the genus Pluvialis, having the back marked with golden-yellow spots, P. apricaria, of Europe, or P. dominica, of America.
- golden valley — a town in SE Minnesota.
- governability — to rule over by right of authority: to govern a nation.
- graphic novel — a novel in the form of comic strips.
- grave clothes — the wrappings in which a dead body is interred
- gravel-voiced — speaking in a rough and rasping tone
- green vitriol — a bluish-green, crystalline, saline-tasting, water-soluble heptahydrated solid, FeSO 4 ⋅7H 2 O, used chiefly in the manufacture of other iron salts, in water purification, fertilizer, inks, pigments, tanning, photography, and in medicine in the treatment of anemia.
- 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.
- heave the log — to determine a ship's speed with such a device
- heavenly body — celestial object: star, planet, etc.