13-letter words containing r, i, v, e, s
- investigators — Plural form of investigator.
- investigatory — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
- irrelevancies — irrelevance.
- landgraviates — Plural form of landgraviate.
- lateroversion — abnormal lateral displacement of a bodily organ or part, esp of the uterus
- legal adviser — a lawyer who gives advice
- leonine verse — a form of verse, based upon an earlier Latin form, with a rhyme scheme that requires the last word in a line to rhyme with the word just before a caesura or with a word near the middle of the line.
- liver sausage — liverwurst.
- livery colors — the principal tinctures of a coat of arms, usually one color and one metal, used for liveries, standards, etc.
- livery stable — a stable where horses and vehicles are cared for or rented out for pay.
- love-stricken — If you describe someone as love-stricken, you mean that they are so much in love that they are behaving in a strange and foolish way.
- lucrativeness — profitable; moneymaking; remunerative: a lucrative business.
- marriage vows — promises made as part of wedding ceremony
- midsummer eve — the evening preceding Midsummer Day: formerly believed to be a time when witches and other supernatural beings caused widespread mischief.
- misadventured — (obsolete) unfortunate.
- misadventurer — a person who experiences misadventure or misfortune
- misadventures — Plural form of misadventure.
- misadvertence — inadvertence
- misgovernance — to govern or manage badly.
- misgovernment — to govern or manage badly.
- misobservance — a failure to observe thoroughly or properly
- misperceiving — Present participle of misperceive.
- movie actress — a female who acts in films or movies
- naive realism — the theory that the world is perceived exactly as it is.
- navy register — (in the US) an annual publication giving genealogical information about the commissioned and warrant officers in the US Navy.
- nectarivorous — feeding on nectar
- nerve impulse — a progressive wave of electric and chemical activity along a nerve fiber that stimulates or inhibits the action of a muscle, gland, or other nerve cell.
- never say die — to cease to live; undergo the complete and permanent cessation of all vital functions; become dead.
- nickel silver — German silver.
- non-assertive — confidently aggressive or self-assured; positive: aggressive; dogmatic: He is too assertive as a salesman.
- non-corrosive — having the quality of corroding or eating away; erosive.
- non-intrusive — tending or apt to intrude; coming without invitation or welcome: intrusive memories of a lost love.
- non-sovereign — a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler.
- non-vesicular — of or relating to a vesicle or vesicles.
- nonabsorptive — Not absorptive.
- nonadsorptive — Not adsorptive.
- nonaggressive — Not aggressive.
- nondiscursive — passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling.
- nondispersive — not dispersive
- nondisruptive — causing, tending to cause, or caused by disruption; disrupting: the disruptive effect of their rioting.
- nonpermissive — habitually or characteristically accepting or tolerant of something, as social behavior or linguistic usage, that others might disapprove or forbid.
- nonresponsive — responding especially readily and sympathetically to appeals, efforts, influences, etc.: a responsive government.
- nonreversible — capable of reversing or of being reversed.
- nontransitive — Grammar. having the nature of a transitive verb.
- nonuniversity — distinct from university, not university-based
- normativeness — The quality or state of being normative.
- normotensives — Plural form of normotensive.
- nowheresville — a remote or isolated town or village.
- observability — capable of being or liable to be observed; noticeable; visible; discernible: an observable change in attitude.
- observational — of, relating to, or founded on observation, especially founded on observation rather than experiment.