13-letter words containing o, v, e, r, c
- 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
- service court — the part of the court into which a player must serve in various games, as tennis, badminton, handball, or squash.
- serviceperson — a person who is a member of the armed forces of a country.
- seventh chord — a chord formed by the superposition of three thirds.
- silver doctor — a type of artificial fly, used chiefly for trout and salmon.
- society verse — light, graceful, entertaining poetry considered as appealing to polite society.
- survey course — an introductory course of study that provides a general view of an academic subject.
- teleconverter — a person or thing that converts.
- the provinces — those parts of a country lying outside the capital and other large cities and regarded as outside the mainstream of sophisticated culture
- 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
- trophic level — any class of organisms that occupy the same position in a food chain, as primary consumers, secondary consumers, and tertiary consumers.
- ultraviolence — acts of extreme violence, esp those shown on television or film
- unconversable — inappropriate for conversation
- unconvertible — capable of being converted.
- uncooperative — working or acting together willingly for a common purpose or benefit.
- unobstructive — to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
- 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
- velvet scoter — a European sea duck, Melanitta fusca, the male of which has a black plumage with white patches below the eyes and on the wings
- venture scout — a young man or woman, aged 16–20, who is a member of the senior branch of the Scouts
- veraciousness — characterized by truthfulness; true, accurate, or honest in content: a veracious statement; a veracious account.
- vercelli book — a codex of Old English poems and sermons found in the chapter house at Vercelli.
- vercingetorix — died 45? b.c, Gallic chieftain conquered by Caesar.
- vermiculation — to work or ornament with wavy lines or markings resembling the form or tracks of a worm.
- versicoloured — of variable or various colours
- 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.
- videorecorded — to record (programs, broadcasts, or the like) on videotape or videodisk.
- videorecorder — an electronic device for recording video signals on magnetic tape or on videodisks.
- virgo cluster — a cluster of about 2500 galaxies in the constellation Virgo, the nearest cluster to our galaxy.
- visceroptosis — a downward displacement of the intestine
- visual cortex — the portion of the cerebral cortex of the brain that receives and processes impulses from the optic nerves.