13-letter words containing v, e, n, o, l
- invoice clerk — a worker, esp in an office, who deals with invoices
- involute gear — a gear tooth form that is generated by involute geometry
- jovian planet — any of the four large outer planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
- l-d converter — a vessel in which steel is made from pig iron by blowing oxygen into the molten metal through a water-cooled tube
- ladino clover — a giant variety of white clover, Trifolium repens lodigense, used for pasture and hay.
- laevorotation — a rotation to the left
- lateroversion — abnormal lateral displacement of a bodily organ or part, esp of the uterus
- lemon verbena — a plant, Aloysia triphylla, having long, slender leaves with a lemonlike fragrance.
- leonine verse — a form of verse, based upon an earlier Latin form, with a rhyme scheme that requires the last word in a line to rhyme with the word just before a caesura or with a word near the middle of the line.
- 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.
- levelling rod — a graduated rod that is used to determine differences in elevation
- living stones — any of various succulent plants of the genus Lithops, native to Africa, having solitary yellow or white flowers and thick leaves that resemble stones.
- loan-to-value — the ratio between the sum of money lent in a mortgage agreement and the lender's valuation of the property involved
- love triangle — relationship between three people
- love-entangle — the stonecrop, Sedum acre.
- love-stricken — If you describe someone as love-stricken, you mean that they are so much in love that they are behaving in a strange and foolish way.
- manhole cover — a removable metal plate covering a shaft that leads down to a sewer or drain
- marvelousness — The quality or state of being marvelous.
- 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.
- milford haven — a bay in SW Wales.
- misevaluation — an act or instance of evaluating or appraising.
- moreno valley — city in S Calif.: pop. 142,000
- naval college — training institution for the navy
- naval officer — member of navy staff
- 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 pole — the south-seeking pole of a magnet
- nerve oneself — to collect one's energies or courage for an effort
- nervomuscular — (physiology) Of or pertaining to both nerves and muscles.
- neurovascular — of, relating to, or involving the nerves and blood vessels.
- 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.
- nicholasville — a town in central Kentucky.
- nicoise olive — a small variety of olive with a rich, nutty flavor.
- nolens volens — whether willing or not; willy-nilly.
- 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-favorable — characterized by approval or support; positive: a favorable report.
- non-lucrative — profitable; moneymaking; remunerative: a lucrative business.
- non-navigable — deep and wide enough to provide passage to ships: a navigable channel.
- non-removable — that may be removed.
- non-revocable — that may be revoked.
- 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.
- nonobservable — capable of being or liable to be observed; noticeable; visible; discernible: an observable change in attitude.
- nonreflective — Not reflective.