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13-letter words containing u, v, e, d

  • medium octavo — a size of book, about 6 × 9½ inches (15 × 24 cm), untrimmed. Abbreviation: medium 8vo.
  • midsummer eve — the evening preceding Midsummer Day: formerly believed to be a time when witches and other supernatural beings caused widespread mischief.
  • misadventured — (obsolete) unfortunate.
  • misadventurer — a person who experiences misadventure or misfortune
  • misadventures — Plural form of misadventure.
  • modus vivendi — manner of living; way of life; lifestyle.
  • mourning dove — variety of pigeon
  • much-traveled — A much-traveled person has traveled a lot in foreign countries.
  • mundificative — a cleansing medicine or preparation
  • non-conducive — tending to produce; contributive; helpful; favorable (usually followed by to): Good eating habits are conducive to good health.
  • non-deductive — based on deduction from accepted premises, as in deductive argument; deductive reasoning.
  • non-inductive — not inductive: a noninductive resistance.
  • nonconductive — having the property or capability of conducting.
  • noncultivated — relating to natural resources that are not under institutional or managed cultivation
  • nondiscursive — passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling.
  • nondisruptive — causing, tending to cause, or caused by disruption; disrupting: the disruptive effect of their rioting.
  • nonproductive — not productive; unproductive.
  • old favourite — If you refer to something as an old favourite, you mean that it has been in existence for a long time and everyone knows it or likes it.
  • olduvai gorge — a gorge in Tanzania in which is located a site containing Australopithecine and human skeletal and cultural remains.
  • outmaneuvered — Simple past tense and past participle of outmaneuver.
  • outmanoeuvred — Simple past tense and past participle of outmanoeuvre.
  • output device — (hardware)   Electronic or electromechanical equipment connected to a computer and used to transfer data out of the computer in the form of text, images, sounds or other media to a display screen, printer, loudspeaker or storage device. Most modern storage devices such as disk drives and magnetic tape drives act as both input and output devices, others such as CD-ROM are input only.
  • over-abundant — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
  • over-educated — to develop the faculties and powers of (a person) by teaching, instruction, or schooling. Synonyms: instruct, school, drill, indoctrinate.
  • over-occupied — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
  • overabundance — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
  • overburdening — Present participle of overburden.
  • overcredulity — Excessive credulity.
  • overcredulous — willing to believe or trust too readily, especially without proper or adequate evidence; gullible.
  • overeducation — the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.
  • overenamoured — excessively fond
  • overmultitude — to exceed in number
  • overnourished — to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth.
  • overpopulated — to fill with an excessive number of people, straining available resources and facilities: Expanding industry has overpopulated the western suburbs.
  • overqualified — having more education, training, or experience than is required for a job or position.
  • oversaturated — to cause (a substance) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance, through solution, chemical combination, or the like.
  • prejudicative — tending to prejudge
  • private study — the act or process of studying outwith classes
  • quadrumvirate — a governing or managing group, coalition, or the like, of four persons.
  • radius vector — Mathematics. the length of the line segment joining a fixed point or origin to a given point.
  • reduced level — lesser degree or amount
  • reductiveness — of or relating to reduction; serving to reduce or abridge: an urgent need for reductive measures.
  • reduplicative — tending to reduplicate.
  • rendezvousing — an agreement between two or more persons to meet at a certain time and place.
  • river red gum — a large Australian red gum tree, Eucalyptus camaldulensis, growing along river banks
  • road surveyor — a person who does surveying work for road building
  • seductiveness — tending to seduce; enticing; beguiling; captivating: a seductive smile.
  • shrove sunday — the Sunday before Ash Wednesday; Quinquagesima.
  • single-valued — (of a function) having the property that each element in the domain has corresponding to it exactly one element in the range.
  • subderivative — a word derived from a derivative.
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