13-letter words containing v, e, s
- effectivities — adequate to accomplish a purpose; producing the intended or expected result: effective teaching methods; effective steps toward peace.
- effervescence — to give off bubbles of gas, as fermenting liquors.
- effervescency — (archaic) effervescence.
- elevator shoe — a shoe designed to increase the wearer's height
- energy saving — the fact of saving energy, or amount of energy saved
- enteroviruses — Plural form of enterovirus.
- equivocalness — The state of being equivocal; ambiguity.
- equivocations — Plural form of equivocation.
- escape device — a device with a collapsible extensible slide, used as an emergency exit, eg from a burning tall building
- escort vessel — ship that accompanies another
- evangelistary — a book containing passages from the gospels to be used as part of the liturgy
- eve's pudding — a baked sponge pudding with a layer of apple at the bottom
- evening class — An evening class is a course for adults that is taught in the evening rather than during the day.
- evening dress — formal clothing
- evening stock — a plant, Matthiola incana, of the genus Matthiola, of the Mediterranean region, cultivated for its brightly coloured flowers: Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- eventualities — Plural form of eventuality.
- everlastingly — In an everlasting manner; so as to be everlasting.
- evil-smelling — having an very offensive smell
- evocativeness — The state or condition of being evocative.
- ex-serviceman — An ex-serviceman is a man who used to be in a country's army, navy, or air force.
- excessiveness — The property of being excessive.
- exclusiveness — The state of being exclusive; exclusivity.
- excursiveness — The quality of being discursive.
- exhaust valve — An exhaust valve is a valve that releases burned gases from a cylinder.
- expansiveness — The state of being expansive.
- expensiveness — The state of being expensive; entailing great expense.
- explosiveness — The state of being explosive.
- extensiveness — The degree or property of being extensive.
- extravagances — Plural form of extravagance.
- extravagantes — decretals circulating outside some recognized collection of canon law. Those of John XXII and the so-called Extravagantes communes form part of the Corpus Juris Canonici
- extravaganzas — Plural form of extravaganza.
- extravasating — Present participle of extravasate.
- extravasation — The exudation of blood, lymph or urine from a vessel into the tissues.
- extravascular — Situated or happening outside of the blood vessels or lymph vessels.
- extroversions — Plural form of extroversion.
- false vampire — any large, carnivorous bat of the families Megadermatidae and Phyllostomatidae, of Africa, Asia, and Australia, erroneously reputed to suck the blood of animals and humans.
- family values — belief in traditional family unit
- fast dissolve — a transition that fades out one scene and replaces it with another, merging the two scenes imperceptibly
- favorableness — Alternative spelling of favourableness.
- favrile glass — a type of iridescent glass developed by L.C. Tiffany
- festival hall — a concert hall in London, on the South Bank of the Thames: constructed for the 1951 Festival of Britain; completed 1964–65
- festivalgoers — Plural form of festivalgoer.
- fever blister — cold sore.
- field service — military service performed in the field
- field servoid — (jargon, abuse) /fee'ld ser'voyd/ A play on "android", a derogatory term for a representative of a field service organisation (see field circus), suggesting an unintelligent rule-driven approach to servicing computer hardware.
- fifty-seventh — next after the fifty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 57.
- film festival — a festival devoted to film
- fingal's cave — a cave on the island of Staffa, in the Hebrides, Scotland. 227 feet (69 meters) long; 42 feet (13 meters) wide.
- flavoproteins — Plural form of flavoprotein.
- for values of — (jargon) A common rhetorical maneuver at MIT is to use any of the canonical random numbers as placeholders for variables. "The max function takes 42 arguments, for arbitrary values of 42". "There are 69 ways to leave your lover, for 69 = 50". This is especially likely when the speaker has uttered a random number and realises that it was not recognised as such, but even "non-random" numbers are occasionally used in this fashion. A related joke is that pi equals 3 - for small values of pi and large values of 3. This usage probably derives from the programming language MAD (Michigan Algorithm Decoder), an ALGOL-like language that was the most common choice among mainstream (non-hacker) users at MIT in the mid-1960s. It had a control structure FOR VALUES OF X = 3, 7, 99 DO ... that would repeat the indicated instructions for each value in the list (unlike the usual FOR that generates an arithmetic sequence of values). MAD is long extinct, but similar for-constructs still flourish (e.g. in Unix's shell languages).