13-letter words containing v, e, c, t
- preconviction — a conviction or assurance formed beforehand; a preconceived conviction
- prejudicative — tending to prejudge
- prevarication — the act of prevaricating, or lying: Seeing the expression on his mother's face, Nathan realized this was no time for prevarication.
- prevaricative — to speak falsely or misleadingly; deliberately misstate or create an incorrect impression; lie.
- prevocational — of, relating to, or constituting preliminary vocational training.
- 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.
- projection tv — a system made up of lenses, mirrors, and a cathode-ray tube, for projecting video images onto a large screen
- prospectively — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
- provocatively — tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
- puncture vine — a caltrop, Tribulus terrestris, having spiny fruit that can puncture tires.
- qualificative — That which qualifies, modifies, or restricts; a qualifying term or statement.
- quantivalence — quantitative equivalence
- radioactivate — to make (a substance) radioactive.
- radius vector — Mathematics. the length of the line segment joining a fixed point or origin to a given point.
- ratiocinative — the process of logical reasoning.
- re-activation — to render active again; revive.
- receivability — the fact or condition of being receivable
- receiving set — a radio receiver.
- receptiveness — having the quality of receiving, taking in, or admitting.
- reciprocative — to give, feel, etc., in return.
- recovery team — a team engaged in locating and retrieving bodies, cargo, etc, esp following a crash, explosion or natural disaster
- recultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
- reductiveness — of or relating to reduction; serving to reduce or abridge: an urgent need for reductive measures.
- reduplicative — tending to reduplicate.
- rejective art — minimal art.
- rejuvenescent — becoming young again.
- restless cavy — a wild guinea pig.
- restrictively — tending or serving to restrict.
- retroactively — operative with respect to past occurrences, as a statute; retrospective: a retroactive law.
- retrospective — directed to the past; contemplative of past situations, events, etc.
- revaccination — the act or practice of vaccinating; inoculation with vaccine.
- revendication — the process or act of revendicating
- revictualling — victuals, food supplies; provisions.
- revindication — the act of vindicating.
- river traffic — the boats that sail on a river
- romantic love — love characterized by romance and involving sexual attraction
- safety device — A safety device is a piece of equipment such as a fire extinguisher, safety belt, or burglar alarm that reduces loss or damage from a fire, accident, or break-in.
- saint vincent — Saint, died a.d. 304, Spanish martyr: patron saint of winegrowers.
- salvage costs — the costs involved in salvaging goods or property from fire, shipwreck, etc
- scarlet fever — a contagious febrile disease caused by streptococci and characterized by a scarlet eruption.
- sciatic nerve — either of a pair of nerves, the largest in the body, that originate in the sacral plexus of the lower back and extend down the buttocks to the back of the knees, where they divide into other nerves: the sciatic nerve and its branches innervate large areas of the pelvis, leg, and foot.
- scotch lovage — a similar and related plant, Ligusticum scoticum, of N Europe
- scratch video — the technique or practice of recycling images from films or television to make collages
- second advent — Second Coming.
- seductiveness — tending to seduce; enticing; beguiling; captivating: a seductive smile.
- service court — the part of the court into which a player must serve in various games, as tennis, badminton, handball, or squash.
- serving hatch — a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room
- seventh chord — a chord formed by the superposition of three thirds.
- severance tax — a tax levied by a state on the extraction and use of a natural product, as coal, that is sold outside the state or during a certain period.
- significative — serving to signify.