13-letter words containing o, v, e, r, a
- 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
- electroactive — (of living tissue) exhibiting electrical activity or responsive to electrical stimuli
- electrovalent — (of bonding) resulting from electrostatic attraction between positive and negative ions; ionic.
- elevator shoe — a shoe designed to increase the wearer's height
- endeavourment — the act of endeavouring
- environmental — Relating to the natural world and the impact of human activity on its condition.
- ever and anon — now and then
- expectorative — an expectorant medicine
- exploratively — in an explorative manner
- extrapolative — That serves to extrapolate.
- extravasation — The exudation of blood, lymph or urine from a vessel into the tissues.
- favorableness — Alternative spelling of favourableness.
- ferrovanadium — a ferroalloy containing up to 55 percent vanadium.
- festivalgoers — Plural form of festivalgoer.
- flavoproteins — Plural form of flavoprotein.
- 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
- 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.)
- fosamprenavir — (pharmaceutical drug) An anti-retroviral prodrug of the protease inhibitor amprenavir. It is used to treat HIV infected patients.
- full-flavored — Full-flavored food or wine has a pleasant fairly strong taste.
- 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.
- glove factory — a factory where gloves are made
- glove leather — a soft, smooth, pliable, stretchable leather.
- go over-board — over the side of a ship or boat, especially into or in the water: to fall overboard.
- good behavior — satisfactory, proper, or polite conduct.
- governability — to rule over by right of authority: to govern a nation.
- gram-positive — (of bacteria) retaining the violet dye when stained by Gram's method.
- graphic novel — a novel in the form of comic strips.
- grave clothes — the wrappings in which a dead body is interred
- grave-robbing — a person who steals valuables from graves and tombs: Graverobbers had emptied the Mayan tomb before archaeologists could examine its contents.
- gravel-voiced — speaking in a rough and rasping tone
- harvest mouse — an Old World field mouse, Micromys minutus, that builds a spherical nest among the stems of grains and other plants.
- have a record — to be a known criminal; have a previous conviction or convictions
- have eyes for — to be interested in
- heaven forbid — You say 'Heaven forbid!' to emphasize that you very much hope that something will not happen.
- improvisatore — An individual who recites impromptu verse, as from a song or poem.
- in-observance — lack of attention; inattention; heedlessness: drowsy inobservance.
- inconversable — (obsolete) uncommunicative; reserved.
- 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
- interpolative — to introduce (something additional or extraneous) between other things or parts; interject; interpose; intercalate.
- interrogative — of, relating to, or conveying a question.
- intravenously — through or within a vein. Abbreviation: IV.
- inventoriable — a complete listing of merchandise or stock on hand, work in progress, raw materials, finished goods on hand, etc., made each year by a business concern.