13-letter words containing s, n, i, v
- overextension — to extend, reach, or expand beyond a proper, safe, or reasonable point: a company that overextended its credit to diversify.
- overhastiness — the condition of being overhasty
- overingenious — ingenious to a fault
- overinsistent — excessively insistent
- overinsurance — (of goods or property) insurance in excess of actual value
- overintensity — the state of being too intense
- overnourished — to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth.
- overprovision — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- oversecretion — (in a cell or gland) the act or process of separating, elaborating, and releasing a substance that fulfills some function within the organism or undergoes excretion.
- oversensitive — excessively or unduly sensitive.
- ovipositional — pertaining to the laying of eggs through an ovipositor
- pennsylvanian — of or relating to the state of Pennsylvania.
- perseveration — the act or process of perseverating.
- perseveringly — displaying perseverance; resolutely persistent; steadfast: a persevering student.
- pervasiveness — spread throughout: The corruption is so pervasive that it is accepted as the way to do business.
- pleasantville — a city in SE New Jersey.
- point shaving — (especially in basketball) the illegal practice, by one or more bribed players, of deliberately limiting the number of points scored to conform to the desires of corrupt gamblers.
- point-shaving — (especially in basketball) the illegal practice, by one or more bribed players, of deliberately limiting the number of points scored to conform to the desires of corrupt gamblers.
- positive sign — the sign (+) used to indicate a positive quantity
- pre-provision — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- preservations — to keep alive or in existence; make lasting: to preserve our liberties as free citizens.
- pretelevision — occurring before the arrival of television
- preuniversity — of the period before attending university
- primitiveness — being the first or earliest of the kind or in existence, especially in an early age of the world: primitive forms of life.
- privateersman — an officer or sailor of a privateer.
- proactiveness — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- provincialise — to make provincial in character.
- provincialism — narrowness of mind, ignorance, or the like, considered as resulting from lack of exposure to cultural or intellectual activity.
- provincialist — a native or inhabitant of a province.
- provisionally — providing or serving for the time being only; existing only until permanently or properly replaced; temporary: a provisional government.
- re-entry visa — a visa that allows someone to enter a country again several times
- receiving set — a radio receiver.
- receptiveness — having the quality of receiving, taking in, or admitting.
- recessiveness — tending to go, move, or slant back; receding.
- reclusiveness — the state or quality of being reclusive
- recursiveness — pertaining to or using a rule or procedure that can be applied repeatedly.
- reductiveness — of or relating to reduction; serving to reduce or abridge: an urgent need for reductive measures.
- reflexiveness — Grammar. (of a verb) taking a subject and object with identical referents, as shave in I shave myself. (of a pronoun) used as an object to refer to the subject of a verb, as myself in I shave myself.
- reinvestigate — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
- remonstrative — to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval.
- rendezvousing — an agreement between two or more persons to meet at a certain time and place.
- resistiveness — the quality or state of being resistive or offering resistance
- revelationist — a person who believes in divine revelation.
- reverse swing — a type of swing in which a ball that has been scuffed on one side will move in the opposite direction to that of a new ball
- revolutionise — to bring about a revolution in; effect a radical change in: to revolutionize petroleum refining methods.
- revolutionism — a belief in revolution or revolutionary ideas
- revolutionist — a person who advocates or takes part in a revolution.
- risk aversion — a strong disinclination to take risks
- rivalrousness — characterized by rivalry; competitive: the rivalrous aspect of their friendship.
- river fishing — the sport of fishing in rivers