13-letter words containing v, e, l, a
- leave sb cold — If something leaves you cold, it fails to excite or interest you.
- legal adviser — a lawyer who gives advice
- legal reserve — the amount of cash assets that a bank, insurance company, etc., is required by law to set aside as reserves.
- legislatively — By legislation, by the method of enacting laws.
- lemon verbena — a plant, Aloysia triphylla, having long, slender leaves with a lemonlike fragrance.
- levant dollar — a silver coin, either a Maria Theresa thaler or an imitation of one, formerly used for trade with Abyssinia, Eritrea, Aden, etc. Imitations bear the date 1780 regardless of the year of minting.
- levant storax — a solid resin with a vanillalike odor, obtained from a small tree, Styrax officinalis: formerly used in medicine and perfumery.
- level 1 cache — primary cache
- level 2 cache — secondary cache
- levy en masse — the conscription of the civilian population in large numbers in the face of impending invasion
- liver extract — an extract of mammalian liver, especially hog or beef, for treating pernicious anemia.
- liver sausage — liverwurst.
- livery stable — a stable where horses and vehicles are cared for or rented out for pay.
- loan-to-value — the ratio between the sum of money lent in a mortgage agreement and the lender's valuation of the property involved
- lord advocate — (in Scotland) the chief law officer of the Crown who acts as public prosecutor and is in charge of the administration of criminal justice
- love triangle — relationship between three people
- love-entangle — the stonecrop, Sedum acre.
- lucrativeness — profitable; moneymaking; remunerative: a lucrative business.
- machiavellian — of, like, or befitting Machiavelli.
- machiavellism — of, like, or befitting Machiavelli.
- make a living — earn money
- malinvestment — An incorrect or unwise investment.
- manhole cover — a removable metal plate covering a shaft that leads down to a sewer or drain
- manipulatives — influencing or attempting to influence the behavior or emotions of others for one’s own purposes: a manipulative boss.
- mantelshelves — Plural form of mantelshelf.
- marvelousness — The quality or state of being marvelous.
- massage glove — a type of glove with special surfaces on the palm and fingers, worn by someone giving a massage to improve the effectiveness of the massage
- 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.
- 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
- mira variable — any of a group of long-period variable stars having a variability similar to that of the star Mira.
- misevaluation — an act or instance of evaluating or appraising.
- moreno valley — city in S Calif.: pop. 142,000
- movable feast — a religious feast that does not occur on the same date each year.
- much-traveled — A much-traveled person has traveled a lot in foreign countries.
- 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.
- natural levee — a deposit of sand or mud built up along, and sloping away from, either side of the flood plain of a river or stream.
- naval academy — a collegiate institution for training naval officers.
- naval college — training institution for the navy
- 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
- nervomuscular — (physiology) Of or pertaining to both nerves and muscles.