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13-letter words containing v, e, c, t

  • silver doctor — a type of artificial fly, used chiefly for trout and salmon.
  • slave traffic — the traffic of slaves
  • society verse — light, graceful, entertaining poetry considered as appealing to polite society.
  • speculatively — pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by speculation, contemplation, conjecture, or abstract reasoning: a speculative approach.
  • subindicative — of or relating to subindicating
  • suction valve — a nonreturn valve in a pump suction to prevent the pump draining or depriming when not in service
  • superactivity — extreme activity; hyperactivity
  • sweet cassava — any of several tropical American plants belonging to the genus Manihot, of the spurge family, as M. esculenta (bitter cassava) and M. dulcis (sweet cassava) cultivated for their tuberous roots, which yield important food products.
  • tax avoidance — Tax avoidance is the use of legal methods to pay the smallest possible amount of tax.
  • tax incentive — measure to encourage activity
  • teleconverter — a person or thing that converts.
  • the civil war — the war between the North (the Union) and the South (the Confederacy) in the U.S. (1861-65)
  • the provinces — those parts of a country lying outside the capital and other large cities and regarded as outside the mainstream of sophisticated culture
  • thermic fever — sunstroke.
  • thieves' cant — slang used by thieves
  • throw a curve — a continuously bending line, without angles.
  • timing device — a device that can be set to detonate a bomb at a particular time
  • 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 take cover — If you take cover, you shelter from gunfire, bombs, or the weather.
  • touch a nerve — to mention or bring to mind a sensitive issue or subject
  • tractor drive — a mechanism that feeds paper through a printer, using studs on a rotating wheel that engage with holes along the side of the paper
  • train service — provision of railway transport
  • transactivate — to activate the replication of (a viral gene) through the presence of a gene at another locus, especially following a viral infection.
  • travel agency — a business that accommodates travelers, as by securing tickets, arranging for reservations, and giving information.
  • traverse city — a city in NW Michigan.
  • trophic level — any class of organisms that occupy the same position in a food chain, as primary consumers, secondary consumers, and tertiary consumers.
  • tuva republic — a constituent republic of S Russia: mountainous. Capital: Kizyl. Pop: 305 500 (2002). Area: 170 500 sq km (65 800 sq miles)
  • ultraviolence — acts of extreme violence, esp those shown on television or film
  • un-convoluted — twisted; coiled.
  • un-indicative — showing, signifying, or pointing out; expressive or suggestive (usually followed by of): behavior indicative of mental disorder.
  • uncompetitive — of, pertaining to, involving, or decided by competition: competitive sports; a competitive examination.
  • unconjunctive — unable to be joined
  • unconsecutive — following one another in uninterrupted succession or order; successive: six consecutive numbers, such as 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
  • unconvertible — capable of being converted.
  • uncooperative — working or acting together willingly for a common purpose or benefit.
  • underactivity — insufficient activity
  • undescriptive — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
  • undistinctive — not distinctive; bland
  • uninstructive — not conveying information or serving to instruct
  • unobstructive — to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
  • unprovocative — tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
  • unselectively — in an unselective manner
  • unspeculative — not characterized by speculation
  • vaccine point — a thin, pointed, vaccine-coated piece of bone or the like, for use in vaccinating.
  • 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.
  • valedictorian — a student, usually the one ranking highest academically in a school graduating class, who delivers the valedictory at the commencement exercises.
  • valet service — a cleaning service, in which your clothes are collected for cleaning, from your house or hotel, and returned to you
  • 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).
  • vascularities — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
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