13-letter words containing s, n, i, v
- 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.
- investigatory — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
- invidiousness — (rare) Malevolent provocation of dislike or resentment; the state or quality of being invidious.
- inviolateness — The state of being inviolate.
- invisible ink — sympathetic ink.
- invisible man — a novel (1897) by H.G. Wells.
- invisibleness — The state of being invisible; invisibility.
- invitationals — Plural form of invitational.
- irrelevancies — irrelevance.
- labour-saving — A labour-saving device or idea makes it possible for you to do something with less effort than usual.
- landgraviates — Plural form of landgraviate.
- lateroversion — abnormal lateral displacement of a bodily organ or part, esp of the uterus
- 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.
- living fossil — an organism that is a living example of an otherwise extinct group and that has remained virtually unchanged in structure and function over a long period of time, as the coelacanth and the horseshoe crab.
- living stones — any of various succulent plants of the genus Lithops, native to Africa, having solitary yellow or white flowers and thick leaves that resemble stones.
- long division — division, usually by a number of two or more digits, in which each step of the process is written down.
- 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.
- malinvestment — An incorrect or unwise investment.
- manifestative — manifesting; showing clearly or conclusively.
- manipulatives — influencing or attempting to influence the behavior or emotions of others for one’s own purposes: a manipulative boss.
- misadventured — (obsolete) unfortunate.
- misadventurer — a person who experiences misadventure or misfortune
- misadventures — Plural form of misadventure.
- misadvertence — inadvertence
- miscegenative — (rare) Miscegenous.
- misconceiving — Present participle of misconceive.
- misevaluation — an act or instance of evaluating or appraising.
- 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.
- mission viejo — a city in SW California.
- modus vivendi — manner of living; way of life; lifestyle.
- mosaic vision — a type of vision hypothesized for the insect compound eye, in which the image is formed by hundreds of separate ommatidia.
- 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
- neopositivism — A resurgent positivism, or an updated version of it.
- 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.
- nicholasville — a town in central Kentucky.