13-letter words containing s, a, v, e
- favorableness — Alternative spelling of favourableness.
- favrile glass — a type of iridescent glass developed by L.C. Tiffany
- festival hall — a concert hall in London, on the South Bank of the Thames: constructed for the 1951 Festival of Britain; completed 1964–65
- festivalgoers — Plural form of festivalgoer.
- film festival — a festival devoted to film
- fingal's cave — a cave on the island of Staffa, in the Hebrides, Scotland. 227 feet (69 meters) long; 42 feet (13 meters) wide.
- 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).
- fosamprenavir — (pharmaceutical drug) An anti-retroviral prodrug of the protease inhibitor amprenavir. It is used to treat HIV infected patients.
- galvanometers — Plural form of galvanometer.
- galveston bay — an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico.
- 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.
- german silver — any of various alloys of copper, zinc, and nickel, usually white and used for utensils, drawing instruments, etc.; nickel silver.
- gesticulative — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
- give it heaps — to try very hard
- give pause to — to cause to hesitate
- give sb heart — If something gives you heart, it makes you feel more confident or happy about something.
- gram-positive — (of bacteria) retaining the violet dye when stained by Gram's method.
- grape harvest — gathering of ripe grapes from the vine
- grave clothes — the wrappings in which a dead body is interred
- gravity scale — a scale giving the relative density of fluids
- grimes graves — an area of Neolithic flint mines in Suffolk, England, comprising more than 300 mine shafts and galleries.
- half-silvered — (of a mirror) having an incomplete reflective coating, so that half the incident light is reflected and half transmitted: used in optical instruments and two-way mirrors
- harvest index — a measurement of crop yield: the weight of a harvested product as a percentage of the total plant weight of a crop.
- harvest mouse — an Old World field mouse, Micromys minutus, that builds a spherical nest among the stems of grains and other plants.
- harvester ant — any of several red or black ants, especially of the genus Pogonomyrmex, of the southwestern U.S., that feed on and store the seeds of grasses.
- have eyes for — to be interested in
- have its uses — If you say that being something or knowing someone has its uses, you mean that it makes it possible for you to do what you otherwise would not be able to do.
- have occasion — If you have occasion to do something, it is necessary for you to do it.
- have the guts — be brave enough
- heavy cruiser — a naval cruiser having 8-inch (20.3-cm) guns as its main armament.
- home invasion — an act or instance of entering an occupied residence with the intent to commit a burglary or other crime.
- host an event — If a hotel or organization hosts an event, it provides the facilities for the event to take place.
- hypervascular — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
- imitativeness — imitating; copying; given to imitation.
- immovableness — The quality of being immovable.
- impassiveness — The state of being impassive.
- imperseverant — lacking the power to perceive
- 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.
- indissolvable — Not dissolvable; incapable of being dissolved or separated.
- individualise — (British spelling) alternative spelling of individualize.
- inobservation — lack of observation
- intravenously — through or within a vein. Abbreviation: IV.
- invertebrates — Zoology. not vertebrate; without a backbone. of or relating to creatures without a backbone.
- investigating — Present participle of investigate.
- investigation — the act or process of investigating or the condition of being investigated.
- investigative — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
- investigators — Plural form of investigator.