13-letter words containing t, e, l, v, a
- suovetaurilia — (in ancient Rome) a sacrifice of a hog, a ram, and a bull.
- superelevated — (of a curve in a road, railroad track, etc.) banked.
- superlatively — of the highest kind, quality, or order; surpassing all else or others; supreme; extreme: superlative wisdom.
- take leave of — to say goodbye to
- take the veil — to become a nun
- talkativeness — inclined to talk a great deal: One drink and she became very talkative.
- televangelism — Christian preaching on TV
- televangelist — an evangelist who regularly conducts religious services on television.
- terminatively — in a finalizing manner
- the civil war — the war between the North (the Union) and the South (the Confederacy) in the U.S. (1861-65)
- theatre lover — sb who enjoys going to plays
- time reversal — the mathematical operation of reversing the direction of time. Symbol: T.
- to come alive — If people, places, or events come alive, they start to be lively again after a quiet period. If someone or something brings them alive, they cause them to come alive.
- to live a lie — If you say that someone is living a lie, you mean that in every part of their life they are hiding the truth about themselves from other people.
- toll traverse — a payment made for the right to cross privately owned property.
- transfusively — in a transfusive manner
- transversally — transverse.
- travel agency — a business that accommodates travelers, as by securing tickets, arranging for reservations, and giving information.
- traveling bag — a small bag, as a valise or suitcase, usually made of leather, having an oblong shape, and used chiefly to hold clothes.
- tuva republic — a constituent republic of S Russia: mountainous. Capital: Kizyl. Pop: 305 500 (2002). Area: 170 500 sq km (65 800 sq miles)
- ultra-violent — acting with or characterized by uncontrolled, strong, rough force: a violent earthquake.
- ultraviolence — acts of extreme violence, esp those shown on television or film
- unassertively — in an unassertive manner
- undeviatingly — to turn aside, as from a route, way, course, etc.
- universal set — the set of all objects or elements considered in a given problem
- unpreventable — not able to be prevented
- unretrievable — to recover or regain: to retrieve the stray ball.
- unspeculative — not characterized by speculation
- untraversable — to pass or move over, along, or through.
- unvitrifiable — not able to be vitrified
- vacuum bottle — a bottle or flask having a vacuum liner that prevents the escape of heat from hot contents, usually liquids, or the entrance of heat into cold contents; thermos.
- vacuum filter — A vacuum filter is a filter in which the liquid passes through more easily because of a vacuum on the liquid output side.
- vale of tempe — a wooded valley in E Greece, in Thessaly between the mountains Olympus and Ossa
- valedictorian — a student, usually the one ranking highest academically in a school graduating class, who delivers the valedictory at the commencement exercises.
- valentinian i — a.d. 321?–375, emperor of Western Roman Empire 364–375.
- valet parking — a service offered by a hotel, restaurant, etc., by which patrons' cars are parked by an attendant.
- valet service — a cleaning service, in which your clothes are collected for cleaning, from your house or hotel, and returned to you
- valle d'aosta — a region in NW Italy. 1259 sq. mi. (3260 sq. km).
- valley stream — a village on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- vanity plates — a vehicle license plate bearing a combination of letters or numbers requested by the licensee, as a name or occupation.
- variabilities — apt or liable to vary or change; changeable: variable weather; variable moods.
- 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).
- variable star — a star that varies markedly in brightness from time to time.
- variable type — type that can be varied to fit a page, screen, etc
- variable-rate — providing for changes in the interest rate, adjusted periodically in accordance with prevailing market conditions: a variable-rate mortgage.
- vascularities — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
- vegetable fat — oil from plant source
- vegetable oil — any of a large group of oils that are esters of fatty acids and glycerol, obtained from the leaves, fruit, or seeds of plants.
- vegetable wax — a wax, or a substance resembling wax, obtained from various plants, as the wax palm.
- velocity head — the velocity of a fluid expressed in terms of the head or static pressure required to produce that velocity. It equals ρν/2 where ρ is the density of the fluid and ν is the velocity. In hydrology the density of water can be written 1/G where G is the gravitational constant