13-letter words containing n, e, r, v
- counteractive — to act in opposition to; frustrate by contrary action.
- countermoving — Present participle of countermove.
- countervailed — Simple past tense and past participle of countervail.
- country fever — malaria.
- covent garden — a district of central London: famous for its former fruit, vegetable, and flower market, now a shopping precinct
- coventry bell — a perennial garden plant, Campanula trachelium, of Eurasia, having coarsely toothed leaves and bluish-purple flowers.
- cover bidding — the act of tendering an artificially high price for a contract, on the assumption that the tender will not be accepted
- cover version — A cover version of a song is a version of it recorded by a singer or band who did not originally perform the song.
- cover-mounted — Cover-mounted items such as cassettes, videos and CDs are attached to the front of a magazine as free gifts.
- covered wagon — A covered wagon is a wagon that has an arched canvas roof and is pulled by horses. Covered wagons were used by the early American settlers as they travelled across the country.
- covering fire — firing intended to protect an individual or formation making a movement by forcing the enemy to take cover
- coversed sine — obsolete function in trigonometry
- covert action — a secret action undertaken to influence the course of political events, as a government intelligence operation.
- cranial nerve — any of the 12 paired nerves that have their origin in the brain and reach the periphery through natural openings in the skull
- crossing over — the interchange of sections between pairing homologous chromosomes during the diplotene stage of meiosis. It results in the rearrangement of genes and produces variation in the inherited characteristics of the offspring
- cup and cover — a turning used in Elizabethan and Jacobean furniture and resembling a goblet with a domed cover.
- curve fitting — the determination of a curve that fits a specified set of points: The method of least squares is commonly used for curve fitting.
- curvilinearly — In a curvilinear way.
- cushion cover — a fabric cover, often with a decorative design, designed to protect a cushion
- cut-and-cover — designating a method of constructing a tunnel by excavating a cutting to the required depth and then backfilling the excavation over the tunnel roof
- darling river — a river in SE Australia, rising in the Eastern Highlands and flowing southwest to the Murray River. Length: 2740 km (1702 miles)
- defervescence — the abatement of a fever
- defervescency — Alternative form of defervescence.
- delivery note — a document that accompanies a delivery of goods
- demand driven — A demand driven architecture/language performs computations when the result is required by some other computation. E.g. Imperial College's ALICE running HOPE. See also data flow, lazy evaluation, reduction.
- demi-culverin — a culverin having a bore of about 4½ inches (11 cm) and firing a shot of about 10 pounds (5 kg).
- demonstrative — Someone who is demonstrative shows affection freely and openly.
- denmark vesey — Denmark, 1767–1822, black freedman, born probably on St. Thomas, Danish West Indies: hanged as alleged leader of a slave insurrection, in Charleston, S.C.
- deprivatizing — Present participle of deprivatize.
- derivationist — a person who believes that it is possible to derive knowledge of what is good for humans from a metaphysical study of humans themselves
- deservingness — qualified for or having a claim to reward, assistance, etc., because of one's actions, qualities, or situation: the deserving poor; a deserving applicant.
- determinative — able to or serving to settle or determine; deciding
- devirgination — The loss of a girl or woman's virginity.
- devolutionary — the act or fact of devolving; passage onward from stage to stage.
- digitinervate — (of a leaf) having veins that radiate from the petiole like the fingers of a hand.
- disinvigorate — to deprive of vigour
- dispurveyance — the lack of provisions
- diversionists — Plural form of diversionist.
- divertisement — (archaic) diversion; amusement; recreation.
- divine mother — the creative, dynamic aspect of the Godhead, the consort or Shakti of Brahma, Vishnu, or Shiva, variously known as Devi, Durga, Kālī, Shakti, etc.
- diving petrel — any of several small seabirds of the family Pelecanoididae, of Southern Hemisphere seas, having compact bodies, tubelike processes near the nostrils, and usually drab plumage.
- diving reflex — a reflex of humans, other mammals, reptiles, and birds, triggered by immersion in cold water, that slows the heart rate and diverts blood flow to the brain, heart, and lungs: serves to conserve oxygen until breathing resumes and to delay potential brain damage.
- divinyl ether — vinyl ether.
- downconverter — A device that converts a signal to a lower frequency, especially in television reception.
- downers grove — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- draft version — a preliminary version
- driving force — impetus
- driving range — a tract of land for practicing long golf shots, especially drives, with clubs and balls available for rent from the management.
- driving wheel — Machinery. a main wheel that communicates motion to others.
- dronkverdriet — drunk and maudlin