13-letter words containing s, a, v, i
- microvascular — Of or relating to the smallest blood vessels.
- misadventured — (obsolete) unfortunate.
- misadventurer — a person who experiences misadventure or misfortune
- misadventures — Plural form of misadventure.
- misadvertence — inadvertence
- miscegenative — (rare) Miscegenous.
- misevaluation — an act or instance of evaluating or appraising.
- misgovernance — to govern or manage badly.
- misobservance — a failure to observe thoroughly or properly
- mosaic vision — a type of vision hypothesized for the insect compound eye, in which the image is formed by hundreds of separate ommatidia.
- movie actress — a female who acts in films or movies
- multigravidas — Plural form of multigravida.
- multivitamins — Plural form of multivitamin.
- naive realism — the theory that the world is perceived exactly as it is.
- native states — the former 562 semi-independent states of India, ruled by Indians but subject to varying degrees of British authority: merged with provinces by 1948; largest states were Hyderabad, Gwalior, Baroda, Mysore, Cochin, Jammu and Kashmir, Travancore, Sikkim, and Indore
- navigableness — Quality of being navigable.
- navy register — (in the US) an annual publication giving genealogical information about the commissioned and warrant officers in the US Navy.
- necessitative — to make necessary or unavoidable: The breakdown of the car necessitated a change in our plans.
- nectarivorous — feeding on nectar
- negative lens — a lens that causes a beam of parallel rays to diverge after refraction, as from a virtual image; a lens that has a negative focal length.
- negative sign — bad omen
- never say die — to cease to live; undergo the complete and permanent cessation of all vital functions; become dead.
- nicholasville — a town in central Kentucky.
- non-assertive — confidently aggressive or self-assured; positive: aggressive; dogmatic: He is too assertive as a salesman.
- non-causative — acting as a cause; producing (often followed by of): a causative agency; an event causative of war.
- non-vesicular — of or relating to a vesicle or vesicles.
- nonabsorptive — Not absorptive.
- nonadsorptive — Not adsorptive.
- nonaggressive — Not aggressive.
- nonchauvinist — a person who is not a chauvinist
- nondivisional — Not divisional.
- nonexhaustive — exhausting a subject, topic, etc.; comprehensive; thorough: He published an exhaustive study of Greek vases.
- noninvasively — In a noninvasive manner.
- nontransitive — Grammar. having the nature of a transitive verb.
- normativeness — The quality or state of being normative.
- norwalk virus — a norovirus.
- 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.
- observatories — Plural form of observatory.
- operativeness — (uncountable) The state or quality of being operative.
- ovariectomies — Plural form of ovariectomy.
- over-cautious — excessively or unnecessarily cautious: Sometimes it doesn't pay to be overcautious in business.
- over-estimate — to estimate at too high a value, amount, rate, or the like: Don't overestimate the car's trade-in value.
- over-standing — overreach (def 13).
- overachievers — Plural form of overachiever.
- overambitious — having ambition; eagerly desirous of achieving or obtaining success, power, wealth, a specific goal, etc.: ambitious students.
- overappraisal — An appraisal that overvalues something.
- overassertion — assertion of something to an excessive or unnecessary degree
- overassertive — excessively assertive, esp in an unpleasant way
- overdiagnosed — Simple past tense and past participle of overdiagnose.