13-letter words containing s, i, e, v, c, l
- lucrativeness — profitable; moneymaking; remunerative: a lucrative business.
- machiavellism — of, like, or befitting Machiavelli.
- mischievously — maliciously or playfully annoying.
- nicholasville — a town in central Kentucky.
- nickel silver — German silver.
- nicoise olive — a small variety of olive with a rich, nutty flavor.
- non-exclusive — not admitting of something else; incompatible: mutually exclusive plans of action.
- non-vesicular — of or relating to a vesicle or vesicles.
- obstructively — In an obstructive manner.
- oversocialize — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
- perspectively — a technique of depicting volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surface. Compare aerial perspective, linear perspective.
- pollice verso — with thumbs turned downward: the sign made by spectators calling for the death of a defeated gladiator in the ancient Roman circus.
- prospectively — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
- provincialise — to make provincial in character.
- reclusiveness — the state or quality of being reclusive
- restrictively — tending or serving to restrict.
- revascularize — to surgically improve the blood circulation of (an organ or area of the body).
- salviniaceous — relating to the genus Salviniaceae
- saving clause — a clause which denotes a reservation or exception
- schuylerville — a village in E New York, on the Hudson: scene of Burgoyne's defeat and surrender in the Battle of Saratoga 1777.
- seclusiveness — tending to seclude, especially oneself.
- self-deceived — holding an erroneous opinion of oneself, one's own effort, or the like.
- self-violence — swift and intense force: the violence of a storm.
- semicivilized — half or partly civilized.
- service clasp — clasp (def 4).
- service rifle — a rifle that is issued as standard to soldiers of an army or armed force
- silver doctor — a type of artificial fly, used chiefly for trout and salmon.
- silver screen — motion pictures; the motion-picture industry: a star of the silver screen.
- silvichemical — any of a number of chemicals derived from a tree.
- slave traffic — the traffic of slaves
- speculatively — pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by speculation, contemplation, conjecture, or abstract reasoning: a speculative approach.
- suction valve — a nonreturn valve in a pump suction to prevent the pump draining or depriming when not in service
- unexclusively — in an unexclusive manner
- unselectively — in an unselective manner
- unserviceable — not suitable to be used
- unspeculative — not characterized by speculation
- valet service — a cleaning service, in which your clothes are collected for cleaning, from your house or hotel, and returned to you
- 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).
- vascularities — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
- vernacularism — a vernacular word or expression.
- vernacularist — someone who uses vernacular speech
- vernier scale — Also, vernier scale. a small, movable, graduated scale running parallel to the fixed graduated scale of a sextant, theodolite, barometer, etc., and used for measuring a fractional part of one of the divisions of the fixed scale.
- versicoloured — of variable or various colours
- violoncellist — cellist.
- virgo cluster — a cluster of about 2500 galaxies in the constellation Virgo, the nearest cluster to our galaxy.
- visceral arch — Embryology. branchial arch.
- visual cortex — the portion of the cerebral cortex of the brain that receives and processes impulses from the optic nerves.
- visual effect — Usually, visual effects. a special effect that is added to a film or video in post-production, as computer-generated imagery. Abbreviation: VFX.
- vraisemblance — verisimilitude; appearance of truth
- wallcoverings — Plural form of wallcovering.