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13-letter words containing l, o, v

  • introvertedly — In an introverted manner.
  • inventoriable — a complete listing of merchandise or stock on hand, work in progress, raw materials, finished goods on hand, etc., made each year by a business concern.
  • inviolability — prohibiting violation; secure from destruction, violence, infringement, or desecration: an inviolable sanctuary; an inviolable promise.
  • inviolateness — The state of being inviolate.
  • invitationals — Plural form of invitational.
  • invoice clerk — a worker, esp in an office, who deals with invoices
  • involuntarily — not voluntary; independent of one's will; not by one's own choice: an involuntary listener; involuntary servitude.
  • involute gear — a gear tooth form that is generated by involute geometry
  • irrecoverable — incapable of being recovered or regained: an irrecoverable debt.
  • irrecoverably — incapable of being recovered or regained: an irrecoverable debt.
  • jovian planet — any of the four large outer planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
  • l-d converter — a vessel in which steel is made from pig iron by blowing oxygen into the molten metal through a water-cooled tube
  • labor of love — work done for the sake of one's own enjoyment or of benefit to others rather than for material rewards: He coached amateur baseball teams as a labor of love.
  • labour-saving — A labour-saving device or idea makes it possible for you to do something with less effort than usual.
  • ladino clover — a giant variety of white clover, Trifolium repens lodigense, used for pasture and hay.
  • laevorotation — a rotation to the left
  • laevorotatory — Alternative spelling of levorotatory.
  • lake victoria — the ancient Roman goddess of victory, identified with the Greek goddess Nike.
  • lateroversion — abnormal lateral displacement of a bodily organ or part, esp of the uterus
  • lavatory bowl — the part inside a lavatory containing water and fitted with a water-flushing device and connected to a drain
  • lavatory seat — the part on a toilet or lavatory which can be moved up or down and which is used for sitting on
  • leave sb cold — If something leaves you cold, it fails to excite or interest you.
  • lemon verbena — a plant, Aloysia triphylla, having long, slender leaves with a lemonlike fragrance.
  • leonine verse — a form of verse, based upon an earlier Latin form, with a rhyme scheme that requires the last word in a line to rhyme with the word just before a caesura or with a word near the middle of the line.
  • levant dollar — a silver coin, either a Maria Theresa thaler or an imitation of one, formerly used for trade with Abyssinia, Eritrea, Aden, etc. Imitations bear the date 1780 regardless of the year of minting.
  • levant storax — a solid resin with a vanillalike odor, obtained from a small tree, Styrax officinalis: formerly used in medicine and perfumery.
  • level5 object — From Information Builders.
  • levelling rod — a graduated rod that is used to determine differences in elevation
  • light-o'-love — a lover.
  • live together — cohabit
  • livery colors — the principal tinctures of a coat of arms, usually one color and one metal, used for liveries, standards, etc.
  • 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.
  • loan-to-value — the ratio between the sum of money lent in a mortgage agreement and the lender's valuation of the property involved
  • 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.
  • lord advocate — (in Scotland) the chief law officer of the Crown who acts as public prosecutor and is in charge of the administration of criminal justice
  • love for love — a comedy (1695) by William Congreve.
  • love triangle — relationship between three people
  • love-entangle — the stonecrop, Sedum acre.
  • love-stricken — If you describe someone as love-stricken, you mean that they are so much in love that they are behaving in a strange and foolish way.
  • low explosive — a relatively slow-burning explosive, usually set off by heat or friction, used for propelling charges in guns or for ordinary blasting.
  • macrovascular — Of or pertaining to the larger blood vessels.
  • manhole cover — a removable metal plate covering a shaft that leads down to a sewer or drain
  • marvelousness — The quality or state of being marvelous.
  • massage glove — a type of glove with special surfaces on the palm and fingers, worn by someone giving a massage to improve the effectiveness of the massage
  • melvin conway — (person)   An early proto-hacker who wrote an assembler for the Burroughs 220 called SAVE and (probably) formulated Conway's Law.
  • metaevolution — (philosophy, biology) The evolution of the elements of evolutionary systems.
  • methyl violet — gentian violet
  • mezzo-relievo — sculptured relief intermediate between high relief and bas-relief.
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