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13-letter words containing n, o, v, a, c

  • manhole cover — a removable metal plate covering a shaft that leads down to a sewer or drain
  • melvin conway — (person)   An early proto-hacker who wrote an assembler for the Burroughs 220 called SAVE and (probably) formulated Conway's Law.
  • metacognitive — higher-order thinking that enables understanding, analysis, and control of one’s cognitive processes, especially when engaged in learning.
  • mid-victorian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the middle portion (about 1850 to 1890) of the reign of Queen Victoria (reigned 1837–1901) in England: mid-Victorian writers.
  • misgovernance — to govern or manage badly.
  • misobservance — a failure to observe thoroughly or properly
  • mosaic vision — a type of vision hypothesized for the insect compound eye, in which the image is formed by hundreds of separate ommatidia.
  • naval college — training institution for the navy
  • naval officer — member of navy staff
  • nectarivorous — feeding on nectar
  • nervomuscular — (physiology) Of or pertaining to both nerves and muscles.
  • neurovascular — of, relating to, or involving the nerves and blood vessels.
  • nicholasville — a town in central Kentucky.
  • noctivagation — the act of wandering in the night
  • non-accretive — an increase by natural growth or by gradual external addition; growth in size or extent.
  • non-causative — acting as a cause; producing (often followed by of): a causative agency; an event causative of war.
  • non-lucrative — profitable; moneymaking; remunerative: a lucrative business.
  • non-revocable — that may be revoked.
  • non-vesicular — of or relating to a vesicle or vesicles.
  • nonattractive — Not attractive.
  • nonchauvinist — a person who is not a chauvinist
  • nonconversant — Not conversant.
  • noncreativity — a lack of creativity
  • noncultivated — relating to natural resources that are not under institutional or managed cultivation
  • noncumulative — of or relating to preferred stock the dividends of which are skipped and not accrued.
  • nonobservance — absence or lack of observance.
  • nonprovincial — Not restricted to a small region; not done in isolation.
  • nonvocational — not relating to a particular job or profession
  • nouveau riche — a person who is newly rich: the ostentation of the nouveaux riches of the 1920s.
  • novocentenary — a nine-hundredth anniversary
  • novocherkassk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Rostov.
  • old provencal — the Provençal language as found in documents from the 11th to the 16th centuries. Abbreviation: OPr.
  • over-analytic — pertaining to or proceeding by analysis (opposed to synthetic).
  • over-contract — an agreement between two or more parties for the doing or not doing of something specified.
  • over-reliance — confident or trustful dependence.
  • overabundance — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
  • overachieving — Present participle of overachieve.
  • overacuteness — sharp or severe in effect; intense: acute sorrow; an acute pain.
  • overbalancing — Present participle of overbalance.
  • overdominance — excessive dominance
  • overeducation — the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.
  • overencourage — to encourage too much
  • overinsurance — (of goods or property) insurance in excess of actual value
  • plano-concave — pertaining to or noting a lens that is plane on one side and concave on the other.
  • platonic love — Platonism. love of the Idea of beauty, seen as terminating an evolution from the desire for an individual and the love of physical beauty to the love and contemplation of spiritual or ideal beauty.
  • polio vaccine — a vaccine administered to induce specific active immunity to poliomyelitis.
  • prevarication — the act of prevaricating, or lying: Seeing the expression on his mother's face, Nathan realized this was no time for prevarication.
  • prevocational — of, relating to, or constituting preliminary vocational training.
  • proactiveness — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
  • provincialise — to make provincial in character.
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