13-letter words containing v, a, l, i, n
- negative glow — the luminous region between the Crookes dark space and the Faraday dark space in a vacuum tube, occurring when the pressure is low.
- 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 pole — the south-seeking pole of a magnet
- never-failing — that does not fail ever; unfailing
- nicholasville — a town in central Kentucky.
- nominal value — book or par value, as of securities; face value.
- non-lucrative — profitable; moneymaking; remunerative: a lucrative business.
- non-navigable — deep and wide enough to provide passage to ships: a navigable channel.
- non-vesicular — of or relating to a vesicle or vesicles.
- non-viability — not capable of living, growing, and developing, as an embryo, seed, or plant.
- noncultivated — relating to natural resources that are not under institutional or managed cultivation
- noncumulative — of or relating to preferred stock the dividends of which are skipped and not accrued.
- nondivisional — Not divisional.
- nonequivalent — Not equivalent; different.
- nonevaluative — not evaluative or involving subjective judgement
- nonindividual — an entity that is not an individual
- noninvasively — In a noninvasive manner.
- nonprovincial — Not restricted to a small region; not done in isolation.
- nonvocational — not relating to a particular job or profession
- norwalk virus — a norovirus.
- null and void — without value, effect, consequence, or significance.
- observational — of, relating to, or founded on observation, especially founded on observation rather than experiment.
- old man river — a name for the Mississippi River
- open interval — (mathematics) A type of interval (range of numbers) that does not include either of its endpoints. For example, when mixing red and blue paint, the proportion of red lies in the interval 0% to 100% but can't be exactly 0% or 100% or it wouldn't be a mixture.
- originatively — in an originative manner
- over-analytic — pertaining to or proceeding by analysis (opposed to synthetic).
- over-planning — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- over-rational — agreeable to reason; reasonable; sensible: a rational plan for economic development.
- over-reliance — confident or trustful dependence.
- overanalyzing — Present participle of overanalyze.
- overbalancing — Present participle of overbalance.
- overbearingly — domineering; dictatorial; haughtily or rudely arrogant.
- overemotional — pertaining to or involving emotion or the emotions.
- overinflation — Economics. a persistent, substantial rise in the general level of prices related to an increase in the volume of money and resulting in the loss of value of currency (opposed to deflation).
- overland mail — a government mail service, started in 1848, for sending mail from the Mississippi to the Far West.
- overpedalling — the overuse of the piano's pedals
- overpotential — overvoltage.
- overvaluation — to value too highly; put too high a value on: They should be careful not to overvalue the property.
- ovipositional — pertaining to the laying of eggs through an ovipositor
- pavilion roof — a pyramidal hip roof.
- penetratively — in a penetrative manner
- pennsylvanian — of or relating to the state of Pennsylvania.
- plain vanilla — having no embellishments, extra equipment, elaborate packaging, etc.; plain; simple; down-to-earth: I want a plain-vanilla car without a lot of chrome trim.
- plain-vanilla — having no embellishments, extra equipment, elaborate packaging, etc.; plain; simple; down-to-earth: I want a plain-vanilla car without a lot of chrome trim.
- platonic love — Platonism. love of the Idea of beauty, seen as terminating an evolution from the desire for an individual and the love of physical beauty to the love and contemplation of spiritual or ideal beauty.
- pleasantville — a city in SE New Jersey.
- plural voting — right to vote more than once
- pole-vaulting — a field sport in which competitors attempt to clear a high bar with the aid of an extremely flexible long pole
- polio vaccine — a vaccine administered to induce specific active immunity to poliomyelitis.
- prevocational — of, relating to, or constituting preliminary vocational training.