13-letter words containing v, e, n, r, a
- misobservance — a failure to observe thoroughly or properly
- moravian gate — a mountain pass between the Sudeten Mountains and the Tatra range of the Carpathians, leading from S Poland into N Moravia in the NE Czech Republic.
- moreno valley — city in S Calif.: pop. 142,000
- 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 officer — member of navy staff
- navy register — (in the US) an annual publication giving genealogical information about the commissioned and warrant officers in the US Navy.
- nectarivorous — feeding on nectar
- nerve-racking — extremely irritating, annoying, or trying: a nerve-racking day; a nerve-racking noise.
- nervewracking — Alternative form of nerve-wracking.
- nervomuscular — (physiology) Of or pertaining to both nerves and muscles.
- neurovascular — of, relating to, or involving the nerves and blood vessels.
- never say die — to cease to live; undergo the complete and permanent cessation of all vital functions; become dead.
- never-failing — that does not fail ever; unfailing
- nigger heaven — peanut gallery (def 1).
- non-accretive — an increase by natural growth or by gradual external addition; growth in size or extent.
- non-assertive — confidently aggressive or self-assured; positive: aggressive; dogmatic: He is too assertive as a salesman.
- non-favorable — characterized by approval or support; positive: a favorable report.
- non-lucrative — profitable; moneymaking; remunerative: a lucrative business.
- non-narrative — a story or account of events, experiences, or the like, whether true or fictitious.
- non-observant — absence or lack of observance.
- non-removable — that may be removed.
- non-revocable — that may be revoked.
- non-vesicular — of or relating to a vesicle or vesicles.
- nonabsorptive — Not absorptive.
- nonadsorptive — Not adsorptive.
- nonaggressive — Not aggressive.
- nonattractive — Not attractive.
- nonconversant — Not conversant.
- noncreativity — a lack of creativity
- nonderivative — Not derivative.
- nonfigurative — of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, especially a metaphor; metaphorical and not literal: The word “head” has several figurative senses, as in “She's the head of the company.”. Synonyms: metaphorical, not literal, symbolic.
- nonobservable — capable of being or liable to be observed; noticeable; visible; discernible: an observable change in attitude.
- nonobservance — absence or lack of observance.
- nonpejorative — Not pejorative.
- nontransitive — Grammar. having the nature of a transitive verb.
- nonvegetarian — a person who is not vegetarian
- normativeness — The quality or state of being normative.
- north andover — a city in NE Massachusetts.
- north vietnam — that part of Vietnam N of about 17° N; formerly a part of French Indochina; separate republic 1954–75.
- nouveau riche — a person who is newly rich: the ostentation of the nouveaux riches of the 1920s.
- novocentenary — a nine-hundredth anniversary
- novocherkassk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Rostov.
- observational — of, relating to, or founded on observation, especially founded on observation rather than experiment.
- old man river — a name for the Mississippi River
- old provencal — the Provençal language as found in documents from the 11th to the 16th centuries. Abbreviation: OPr.
- on every hand — on all sides; in all directions
- open interval — (mathematics) A type of interval (range of numbers) that does not include either of its endpoints. For example, when mixing red and blue paint, the proportion of red lies in the interval 0% to 100% but can't be exactly 0% or 100% or it wouldn't be a mixture.
- operativeness — (uncountable) The state or quality of being operative.
- ordinary wave — Radio. (of the two waves into which a radio wave is divided in the ionosphere under the influence of the earth's magnetic field) the wave with characteristics more nearly resembling those that the undivided wave would have exhibited in the absence of the magnetic field.