13-letter words containing v, a, r
- contravention — an act of contravening; action counter to something; violation or opposition.
- contraversial — Misspelling of controversial.
- contraversion — A turning to the opposite side; antistrophe.
- controversary — (obsolete) controversial.
- controversial — If you describe something or someone as controversial, you mean that they are the subject of intense public argument, disagreement, or disapproval.
- conventionary — (of a form of tenure) fixed by convention as opposed to custom
- conversations — Plural form of conversation.
- conversazione — a social gathering for discussion of the arts, literature, etc
- convertiplane — an aircraft that can land and take off vertically by temporarily directing its propulsive thrust downwards
- convulsionary — of or affected with convulsion.
- cooperatively — working or acting together willingly for a common purpose or benefit.
- cooperativity — an interaction between structural units within a molecule or between molecules in an assemblage that enables the system to respond more sharply to an external change than would isolated units
- copperas cove — a town in central Texas.
- corel ventura — (text, graphics) (Previously "Ventura Publisher") The first full-featured desktop publishing program available for the IBM personal computer and compatibles. Ventura Publisher was originally distributed by Ventura, a wholy owned subsiduary of Xerox Corporation but was acquired by Corel Corporation in September 1993.
- coronary vein — any of several veins that receive blood from the heart wall and empty into the coronary sinus.
- coronaviruses — Plural form of coronavirus.
- corporativism — corporatism
- correlatively — so related that each implies or complements the other.
- corroborative — Corroborative evidence or information supports an idea, account, or argument.
- cottage grove — a town in E Minnesota.
- counteractive — to act in opposition to; frustrate by contrary action.
- countervailed — Simple past tense and past participle of countervail.
- covent garden — a district of central London: famous for its former fruit, vegetable, and flower market, now a shopping precinct
- covered wagon — A covered wagon is a wagon that has an arched canvas roof and is pulled by horses. Covered wagons were used by the early American settlers as they travelled across the country.
- covert action — a secret action undertaken to influence the course of political events, as a government intelligence operation.
- cranial nerve — any of the 12 paired nerves that have their origin in the brain and reach the periphery through natural openings in the skull
- crevalle jack — any of various portable devices for raising or lifting heavy objects short heights, using various mechanical, pneumatic, or hydraulic methods.
- cup and cover — a turning used in Elizabethan and Jacobean furniture and resembling a goblet with a domed cover.
- cupboard love — a show of love inspired only by some selfish or greedy motive
- curvilinearly — In a curvilinear way.
- cut-and-cover — designating a method of constructing a tunnel by excavating a cutting to the required depth and then backfilling the excavation over the tunnel roof
- cyberactivism — Activism facilitated by the Internet.
- damage survey — an inspection by an insurance company of something that has been damaged and for which an insurance claim has been made, in order to determine the extent and cause of damage
- darling river — a river in SE Australia, rising in the Eastern Highlands and flowing southwest to the Murray River. Length: 2740 km (1702 miles)
- dasht-e-kavir — large salt-desert plateau in NC Iran: c. 18,000 sq mi (46,620 sq km)
- dasht-i-kavir — a salt waste on the central plateau of Iran: a treacherous marsh beneath a salt crust
- declaratively — serving to declare, make known, or explain: a declarative statement.
- demand driven — A demand driven architecture/language performs computations when the result is required by some other computation. E.g. Imperial College's ALICE running HOPE. See also data flow, lazy evaluation, reduction.
- demonstrative — Someone who is demonstrative shows affection freely and openly.
- denmark vesey — Denmark, 1767–1822, black freedman, born probably on St. Thomas, Danish West Indies: hanged as alleged leader of a slave insurrection, in Charleston, S.C.
- deprivatizing — Present participle of deprivatize.
- derivationist — a person who believes that it is possible to derive knowledge of what is good for humans from a metaphysical study of humans themselves
- deteriorative — tending to deteriorate
- determinative — able to or serving to settle or determine; deciding
- devirgination — The loss of a girl or woman's virginity.
- devolutionary — the act or fact of devolving; passage onward from stage to stage.
- diaz de bivar — Rodrigo [raw-th ree-gaw] /rɔˈðri gɔ/ (Show IPA), or Ruy [rwee] /rwi/ (Show IPA), Cid, The.
- díaz de vivar — Rodrigo (rɔˈðriɣo). the original name of El Cid
- digitinervate — (of a leaf) having veins that radiate from the petiole like the fingers of a hand.
- discovery bay — an inlet of the Indian Ocean in SE Australia