13-letter words containing o, r, v
- disinvigorate — to deprive of vigour
- divarications — Plural form of divarication.
- diversionists — Plural form of diversionist.
- 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.
- division ring — a ring in which the set of nonzero elements is a group with the operation of multiplication.
- divorce court — a court having jurisdiction over termination of marital relations, as actions for divorce or annulment.
- 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
- drive-through — the act of driving through a specified locality or place, especially driving into a place of business, completing a transaction from one's car, and driving out: a quick drive-through of Beverly Hills; The bank has outside tellers' windows to accept deposits by drive-through.
- driving force — impetus
- dronkverdriet — drunk and maudlin
- drummondville — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- eavesdroppers — Plural form of eavesdropper.
- eavesdropping — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
- ebola (virus) — an RNA virus (family Filoviridae) that causes fever, internal bleeding, and, often, death
- economy drive — a campaign by the government or a firm to reduce expenditure and make savings
- electroactive — (of living tissue) exhibiting electrical activity or responsive to electrical stimuli
- electromotive — Producing or tending to produce an electric current.
- electron volt — a unit of energy equal to that attained by an electron falling unimpeded through a potential difference of one volt; 1.602 × 10-19 joule
- electrovalent — (of bonding) resulting from electrostatic attraction between positive and negative ions; ionic.
- elevator shoe — a shoe designed to increase the wearer's height
- eleventh hour — If someone does something at the eleventh hour, they do it at the last possible moment.
- endeavourment — the act of endeavouring
- enteroviruses — Plural form of enterovirus.
- environmental — Relating to the natural world and the impact of human activity on its condition.
- escort vessel — ship that accompanies another
- ethchlorvynol — A sedative and hypnotic drug used to treat insomnia.
- event horizon — the surface around a black hole enclosing the space from which electromagnetic radiation cannot escape due to gravitational attraction. For a non-rotating black hole, the radius is proportional to the mass of the black hole
- ever and anon — now and then
- expectorative — an expectorant medicine
- exploratively — in an explorative manner
- exteroceptive — Relating to stimuli that are external to an organism.
- extrapolative — That serves to extrapolate.
- extravasation — The exudation of blood, lymph or urine from a vessel into the tissues.
- extroversions — Plural form of extroversion.
- favorableness — Alternative spelling of favourableness.
- ferrovanadium — a ferroalloy containing up to 55 percent vanadium.
- festivalgoers — Plural form of festivalgoer.
- fibrovascular — composed of fibrous and conductive tissue, as in the vascular systems of higher plants: a fibrovascular bundle.
- field servoid — (jargon, abuse) /fee'ld ser'voyd/ A play on "android", a derogatory term for a representative of a field service organisation (see field circus), suggesting an unintelligent rule-driven approach to servicing computer hardware.
- flavoproteins — Plural form of flavoprotein.
- flavopurpurin — a yellow, crystalline anthraquinone dye, C 14 H 8 O 5 , isomeric with purpurin.
- floorcovering — A covering for a floor.
- for values of — (jargon) A common rhetorical maneuver at MIT is to use any of the canonical random numbers as placeholders for variables. "The max function takes 42 arguments, for arbitrary values of 42". "There are 69 ways to leave your lover, for 69 = 50". This is especially likely when the speaker has uttered a random number and realises that it was not recognised as such, but even "non-random" numbers are occasionally used in this fashion. A related joke is that pi equals 3 - for small values of pi and large values of 3. This usage probably derives from the programming language MAD (Michigan Algorithm Decoder), an ALGOL-like language that was the most common choice among mainstream (non-hacker) users at MIT in the mid-1960s. It had a control structure FOR VALUES OF X = 3, 7, 99 DO ... that would repeat the indicated instructions for each value in the list (unlike the usual FOR that generates an arithmetic sequence of values). MAD is long extinct, but similar for-constructs still flourish (e.g. in Unix's shell languages).
- foramen ovale — the small, oval opening in the wall that separates the atria of the heart in a normal fetus: it allows blood to bypass the nonfunctioning fetal lungs until the time of birth when it gradually closes up
- forgivingness — disposed to forgive; indicating forgiveness: a forgiving soul; a forgiving smile.
- formal review — (project) A technical review conducted with the customer including the types of reviews called for in DOD-STD-2167A (Preliminary Design Review, Critical Design Review, etc.)
- formicivorous — ant-eating.
- fort victoria — a former name of Masvingo.