13-letter words containing o, v, e, r, a, c
- reciprocative — to give, feel, etc., in return.
- recording van — a van containing sound and image recording equipment, used as a mobile recording studio
- recovery team — a team engaged in locating and retrieving bodies, cargo, etc, esp following a crash, explosion or natural disaster
- recultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
- retroactively — operative with respect to past occurrences, as a statute; retrospective: a retroactive law.
- revaccination — the act or practice of vaccinating; inoculation with vaccine.
- revendication — the process or act of revendicating
- revindication — the act of vindicating.
- rocking valve — (on a steam engine) a valve mechanism oscillating through an arc to open and close.
- romantic love — love characterized by romance and involving sexual attraction
- school leaver — School leavers are young people who have just left school, because they have completed their time there.
- scratch video — the technique or practice of recycling images from films or television to make collages
- throw a curve — a continuously bending line, without angles.
- to take cover — If you take cover, you shelter from gunfire, bombs, or the weather.
- touch a nerve — to mention or bring to mind a sensitive issue or subject
- tractor drive — a mechanism that feeds paper through a printer, using studs on a rotating wheel that engage with holes along the side of the paper
- ultraviolence — acts of extreme violence, esp those shown on television or film
- unconversable — inappropriate for conversation
- uncooperative — working or acting together willingly for a common purpose or benefit.
- unprovocative — tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
- unrecoverable — able to recover or be recovered: a patient now believed to be recoverable; recoverable losses on his investments.
- unrecoverably — in an unrecoverable or irrecoverable manner
- valedictorian — a student, usually the one ranking highest academically in a school graduating class, who delivers the valedictory at the commencement exercises.
- variable cost — a cost that varies with a change in the volume of output while remaining uniform on a per-unit basis, as cost of labor (distinguished from fixed cost).
- varicose vein — Varicose veins are swollen and painful veins in a person's legs, which sometimes require a medical operation.
- vaunt-courier — a person who goes in advance, as a herald.
- vectorization — the process of converting from a bitmap image to a vector representation
- veraciousness — characterized by truthfulness; true, accurate, or honest in content: a veracious statement; a veracious account.
- vermiculation — to work or ornament with wavy lines or markings resembling the form or tracks of a worm.
- versification — the act of versifying.
- vicariousness — performed, exercised, received, or suffered in place of another: vicarious punishment.
- victoria nile — a section of the upper Nile River in central Uganda between Lake Victoria and Lake Albert. 260 miles (418 km) long.
- victoriaville — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- victory medal — a round bronze medal awarded to all those who served in the armed forces of the U.S. during World War I.
- visual cortex — the portion of the cerebral cortex of the brain that receives and processes impulses from the optic nerves.
- wallcoverings — Plural form of wallcovering.