13-letter words containing s, l, a, v
- contraversial — Misspelling of controversial.
- controversial — If you describe something or someone as controversial, you mean that they are the subject of intense public argument, disagreement, or disapproval.
- convalescence — Convalescence is the period or process of becoming healthy and well again after an illness or operation.
- convalescency — convalescence
- convalescents — Plural form of convalescent.
- convulsionary — of or affected with convulsion.
- dame's violet — a Eurasian hairy perennial plant, Hesperis matronalis, cultivated in gardens for its mauve or white fragrant flowers: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- devastatingly — tending or threatening to devastate: a devastating fire.
- devotionalist — a devotee
- dissimilative — to modify by dissimilation.
- diversifiable — to make diverse, as in form or character; give variety or diversity to; variegate.
- dolman sleeve — a sleeve tapered from a very large armhole to fit closely at the wrist, used on women's garments.
- easterly wave — a westward-moving, wavelike disturbance of low atmospheric pressure embedded in tropical easterly winds.
- eastern slavs — one of a group of peoples in eastern, southeastern, and central Europe, including the Russians and Ruthenians (Eastern Slavs) the Bulgars, Serbs, Croats, Slavonians, Slovenes, etc. (Southern Slavs) and the Poles, Czechs, Moravians, Slovaks, etc. (Western Slavs)
- ebola (virus) — an RNA virus (family Filoviridae) that causes fever, internal bleeding, and, often, death
- elevator shoe — a shoe designed to increase the wearer's height
- equivocalness — The state of being equivocal; ambiguity.
- evangelistary — a book containing passages from the gospels to be used as part of the liturgy
- evening class — An evening class is a course for adults that is taught in the evening rather than during the day.
- eventualities — Plural form of eventuality.
- everlastingly — In an everlasting manner; so as to be everlasting.
- exhaust valve — An exhaust valve is a valve that releases burned gases from a cylinder.
- extravascular — Situated or happening outside of the blood vessels or lymph vessels.
- false vampire — any large, carnivorous bat of the families Megadermatidae and Phyllostomatidae, of Africa, Asia, and Australia, erroneously reputed to suck the blood of animals and humans.
- family values — belief in traditional family unit
- fast dissolve — a transition that fades out one scene and replaces it with another, merging the two scenes imperceptibly
- 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.
- fibrovascular — composed of fibrous and conductive tissue, as in the vascular systems of higher plants: a fibrovascular bundle.
- 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).
- galvanisation — Alternative form of galvanization.
- galvanometers — Plural form of galvanometer.
- galvanoplasty — electrotypy.
- galveston bay — an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico.
- 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.
- grave clothes — the wrappings in which a dead body is interred
- gravity scale — a scale giving the relative density of fluids
- 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
- hallux valgus — an abnormal bending or deviation of the big toe towards the other toes of the same foot
- hypervascular — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
- immovableness — The quality of being immovable.
- inconversable — (obsolete) uncommunicative; reserved.
- indissolvable — Not dissolvable; incapable of being dissolved or separated.
- individualise — (British spelling) alternative spelling of individualize.