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.