13-letter words containing n, e, r, v
- furniture van — a van designed to move the furniture of a house, office, etc, to another place
- galvanometers — Plural form of galvanometer.
- galvanometric — Of or pertaining to galvanometry.
- gas reversion — Gas reversion is a process which combines thermal cracking or reforming of naphtha with thermal polymerization or alkylation of hydrocarbon gases, which is carried out in the same reaction place.
- german silver — any of various alloys of copper, zinc, and nickel, usually white and used for utensils, drawing instruments, etc.; nickel silver.
- 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.
- governability — to rule over by right of authority: to govern a nation.
- governmentese — complicated or obscurantist language thought to be characteristic of government bureaucratic statements; officialese.
- gram-negative — (of bacteria) not retaining the violet dye when stained by Gram's method.
- graphic novel — a novel in the form of comic strips.
- grave-robbing — a person who steals valuables from graves and tombs: Graverobbers had emptied the Mayan tomb before archaeologists could examine its contents.
- graving piece — a piece of wood let into a wooden hull to replace decayed wood.
- gravity hinge — a hinge closing automatically by means of gravity.
- 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.
- h and d curve — characteristic curve.
- hairpin curve — A hairpin curve or a hairpin is a very sharp bend in a road, where the road turns back in the opposite direction.
- harvest index — a measurement of crop yield: the weight of a harvested product as a percentage of the total plant weight of a crop.
- harvester ant — any of several red or black ants, especially of the genus Pogonomyrmex, of the southwestern U.S., that feed on and store the seeds of grasses.
- heaven forbid — You say 'Heaven forbid!' to emphasize that you very much hope that something will not happen.
- hertzian wave — an electromagnetic wave produced by oscillations in an electric circuit, as a radio or radar wave: first investigated by H. R. Hertz.
- hypertensives — Plural form of hypertensive.
- hypervigilant — keenly watchful to detect danger; wary: a vigilant sentry.
- hypervirulent — actively poisonous; intensely noxious: a virulent insect bite.
- ice-cream van — a mobile shop that sells ice cream and confectionery
- immersiveness — The quality or degree of being immersive.
- imperseverant — lacking the power to perceive
- impoverishing — Present participle of impoverish.
- improvidently — In an improvident manner.
- in the groove — a long, narrow cut or indentation in a surface, as the cut in a board to receive the tongue of another board (tongue-and-groove joint) a furrow, or a natural indentation on an organism.
- in-observance — lack of attention; inattention; heedlessness: drowsy inobservance.
- inadvertently — unintentional: an inadvertent insult.
- incarcerative — to imprison; confine.
- inconversable — (obsolete) uncommunicative; reserved.
- inconvertible — (of paper money) not capable of being converted into specie.
- inconvertibly — In an inconvertible manner.
- incorporative — Tending to incorporate or include things.
- informal vote — an invalid vote or ballot
- informatively — giving information; instructive: an informative book.
- inobservation — lack of observation
- inobtrusively — in an unobtrusive manner
- insectivorous — adapted to feeding on insects.
- instructively — In an instructive manner.
- integer vitae — blameless in life; innocent.
- interactively — acting one upon or with the other.
- interactivity — The quality of being interactive.
- interclavicle — a median membrane bone developed between the collarbones, or in front of the breastbone, in many vertebrates.
- internegative — a color negative of a color transparency, made for purposes of duplication.
- interobserver — someone or something that observes.
- interoceptive — pertaining to interoceptors, the stimuli acting upon them, or the nerve impulses initiated by them.
- interpolative — to introduce (something additional or extraneous) between other things or parts; interject; interpose; intercalate.