13-letter words containing m, o, v, e, l
- old man river — a name for the Mississippi River
- overallotment — (finance) A greenshoe option.
- overamplified — amplified too much, causing distortion or discomfort, etc
- overembellish — Make (something) too ornate or complicated.
- overemotional — pertaining to or involving emotion or the emotions.
- overglamorize — to glamorize excessively
- overland mail — a government mail service, started in 1848, for sending mail from the Mississippi to the Far West.
- overmultitude — to exceed in number
- overstimulate — to stimulate too much
- plumbosolvent — able to dissolve lead
- problem-solve — find solutions
- proverbialism — a proverbial expression
- redevelopment — the act or process of redeveloping.
- reinvolvement — to include as a necessary circumstance, condition, or consequence; imply; entail: This job involves long hours and hard work.
- revolutionism — a belief in revolution or revolutionary ideas
- roll-over arm — an upholstered chair or sofa arm that curves outward and downward.
- romantic love — love characterized by romance and involving sexual attraction
- roosevelt dam — a dam on the Salt River, in central Arizona. 284 feet (87 meters) high; 1080 feet (329 meters) long.
- self-improver — improvement of one's mind, character, etc., through one's own efforts.
- silver salmon — coho salmon.
- silver-y moth — a brownish noctuid moth, Plusia gamma, having a light Y-shaped marking on each forewing; it migrates in large flocks
- slasher movie — a film in which victims, often women, are slashed with knives, razors, etc
- speak volumes — a collection of written or printed sheets bound together and constituting a book.
- to come alive — If people, places, or events come alive, they start to be lively again after a quiet period. If someone or something brings them alive, they cause them to come alive.
- vacuum bottle — a bottle or flask having a vacuum liner that prevents the escape of heat from hot contents, usually liquids, or the entrance of heat into cold contents; thermos.
- vale of tempe — a wooded valley in E Greece, in Thessaly between the mountains Olympus and Ossa
- ventriloquism — the art or practice of speaking, with little or no lip movement, in such a manner that the voice does not appear to come from the speaker but from another source, as from a wooden dummy.
- venturesomely — in a venturesome manner
- vermiculation — to work or ornament with wavy lines or markings resembling the form or tracks of a worm.
- victory medal — a round bronze medal awarded to all those who served in the armed forces of the U.S. during World War I.
- vinyl polymer — any of a group of compounds derived by polymerization from vinyl compounds, as vinyl acetate and styrene.
- viola d'amore — a treble viol with numerous sympathetic strings and several gut strings, producing a resonant sound.
- violent storm — Meteorology. storm (def 3).
- violet family — the plant family Violaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants and some tropical shrubs and trees having alternate, usually simple leaves, solitary flowers with five usually irregular petals, the lower petal often spurred, and a berry or many-seeded capsule, and including the Johnny-jump-up, pansy, and numerous species of violet.
- volumenometer — a device for determining the volume occupied by an object
- vowel harmony — a phonological rule in some languages, as Hungarian and Turkish, requiring that the vowels of a word all share a specified feature, such as front or back articulation, thereby conditioning the form that affixes may take, as in forming the Turkish plurals evler “houses” from ev “house” and adamlar “men” from adam “man.”.
- wolverhampton — a city in West Midlands, in W England.
- women in love — a novel (1920) by D. H. Lawrence.