13-letter words containing v, e, i, l
- melvin conway — (person) An early proto-hacker who wrote an assembler for the Burroughs 220 called SAVE and (probably) formulated Conway's Law.
- metaevolution — (philosophy, biology) The evolution of the elements of evolutionary systems.
- methyl violet — gentian violet
- mezzo-relievo — sculptured relief intermediate between high relief and bas-relief.
- microwaveable — Alternative spelling of microwavable.
- milford haven — a bay in SW Wales.
- miliary fever — an acute infectious fever characterized by profuse sweating and the formation on the skin of minute fluid-filled vesicles
- milledgeville — a city in central Georgia: state capital 1807–68.
- mira variable — any of a group of long-period variable stars having a variability similar to that of the star Mira.
- mischievously — maliciously or playfully annoying.
- misevaluation — an act or instance of evaluating or appraising.
- mobile device — a portable, wireless computing device that is small enough to be used while held in the hand; a handheld: a large selection of smartphones, PDAs, and other mobile devices.
- motor vehicle — an automobile, truck, bus, or similar motor-driven conveyance.
- multivariable — having, involving or relying upon two or more variables, esp in statistics
- myeloablative — Of, pertaining to, or causing myeloablation.
- naive realism — the theory that the world is perceived exactly as it is.
- naval officer — member of navy staff
- navigableness — Quality of being navigable.
- negative flag — the letter N in the International Code of Signals, signifying “no” when flown by itself: a square flag having four rows of alternate blue and white squares.
- 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
- nerve impulse — a progressive wave of electric and chemical activity along a nerve fiber that stimulates or inhibits the action of a muscle, gland, or other nerve cell.
- never offline — (software) (NOL) /noh-el/ A software service provided by America's Multimedia Online that allows Internet users to be constantly connected to the Internet.
- never-failing — that does not fail ever; unfailing
- nicholasville — a town in central Kentucky.
- nickel silver — German silver.
- nicoise olive — a small variety of olive with a rich, nutty flavor.
- nominal value — book or par value, as of securities; face value.
- non-exclusive — not admitting of something else; incompatible: mutually exclusive plans of action.
- 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.
- 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.
- nonequivalent — Not equivalent; different.
- nonevaluative — not evaluative or involving subjective judgement
- noninvasively — In a noninvasive manner.
- nonreflective — Not reflective.
- nonreversible — capable of reversing or of being reversed.
- nowheresville — a remote or isolated town or village.
- nun's veiling — a thin, plain-woven, worsted fabric, originally for nuns' veils but now also for dresses, coats, etc.
- objurgatively — In an objurgative or reproving manner.
- obliviousness — unmindful; unconscious; unaware (usually followed by of or to): She was oblivious of his admiration.
- observability — capable of being or liable to be observed; noticeable; visible; discernible: an observable change in attitude.
- observational — of, relating to, or founded on observation, especially founded on observation rather than experiment.
- obstructively — In an obstructive manner.
- 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.
- old man river — a name for the Mississippi River
- olduvai gorge — a gorge in Tanzania in which is located a site containing Australopithecine and human skeletal and cultural remains.