13-letter words containing v, f, o
- in sb's favor — If someone makes a judgment in your favor, they say that you are right about something.
- informal vote — an invalid vote or ballot
- informatively — giving information; instructive: an informative book.
- inoffensively — In an inoffensive manner.
- labor of love — work done for the sake of one's own enjoyment or of benefit to others rather than for material rewards: He coached amateur baseball teams as a labor of love.
- living fossil — an organism that is a living example of an otherwise extinct group and that has remained virtually unchanged in structure and function over a long period of time, as the coelacanth and the horseshoe crab.
- love for love — a comedy (1695) by William Congreve.
- milford haven — a bay in SW Wales.
- movable feast — a religious feast that does not occur on the same date each year.
- naval officer — member of navy staff
- nerve oneself — to collect one's energies or courage for an effort
- 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.
- nine-to-fiver — of, relating to, or during the workday, especially the hours from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. when offices are characteristically open for business: the nine-to-five grind.
- non-defective — having a defect or flaw; faulty; imperfect: a defective machine.
- non-defensive — serving to defend; protective: defensive armament.
- non-favorable — characterized by approval or support; positive: a favorable report.
- non-offensive — causing resentful displeasure; highly irritating, angering, or annoying: offensive television commercials.
- nondefinitive — Not definitive.
- 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.
- nonreflective — Not reflective.
- offensiveness — causing resentful displeasure; highly irritating, angering, or annoying: offensive television commercials.
- 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.
- on the eve of — the evening before
- over-effusive — unduly demonstrative; lacking reserve: effusive greetings; an effusive person.
- over-identify — to recognize or establish as being a particular person or thing; verify the identity of: to identify handwriting; to identify the bearer of a check.
- overamplified — amplified too much, causing distortion or discomfort, etc
- overconfident — too confident.
- overfertilize — to apply too much fertilizer to
- overflow flag — overflow bit
- overflow pipe — a pipe which discharges excess or leaking water safely
- overflowingly — to an excessive degree
- overfrequency — Also, frequence. the state or fact of being frequent; frequent occurrence: We are alarmed by the frequency of fires in the neighborhood.
- overinflation — Economics. a persistent, substantial rise in the general level of prices related to an increase in the volume of money and resulting in the loss of value of currency (opposed to deflation).
- overqualified — having more education, training, or experience than is required for a job or position.
- pacific grove — a city in W California, at S end of Monterey Bay.
- pavilion roof — a pyramidal hip roof.
- point of view — a specified or stated manner of consideration or appraisal; standpoint: from the point of view of a doctor.
- potomac fever — the determination or fervor to share in the power and prestige of the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., especially by being appointed or elected to a government position.
- profit motive — the desire for profit that motivates one to engage in business ventures.
- self-advocacy — the practice of having mentally handicapped people speak for themselves and control their own affairs, rather than having nonhandicapped people automatically assume responsibility for them
- self-approval — the act of approving; approbation.
- self-devotion — intense devotion of oneself to an activity or to a field or profession, as art or science.
- self-evolving — to develop gradually: to evolve a scheme.
- self-governed — governed by itself or having self-government, as a state or community; independent.
- self-improver — improvement of one's mind, character, etc., through one's own efforts.
- self-involved — self-centered; preoccupied with oneself
- self-oblivion — the state of being completely forgotten or unknown: a former movie star now in oblivion.
- self-observed — to see, watch, perceive, or notice: He observed the passersby in the street.
- self-violence — swift and intense force: the violence of a storm.
- spotted fever — any of several fevers characterized by spots on the skin, especially as in cerebrospinal meningitis or typhus fever.