13-letter words containing v, i, d, e
- 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.
- five-and-dime — a shop that sells a wide variety of things at a cheap price
- five-day week — a system in which people work for five days in every seven
- food additive — additive (def 4).
- free delivery — the delivery of mail directly to the recipient's address without charge to the recipient: Before free delivery people had to pick up their mail at the post office or pay a letter carrier to deliver it.
- french endive — endive (def 2).
- friendsgiving — a gathering of friends to celebrate Thanksgiving with a feast, falling near or on Thanksgiving Day, in contrast to the traditional celebrations that typically involve family.
- give and take — the quality or state of being resilient; springiness.
- give evidence — testify in a court of law
- give-and-take — the practice of dealing by compromise or mutual concession; cooperation.
- good behavior — satisfactory, proper, or polite conduct.
- goods service — a transport service in which goods are sent by train from one location to another
- gravel-voiced — speaking in a rough and rasping tone
- half-silvered — (of a mirror) having an incomplete reflective coating, so that half the incident light is reflected and half transmitted: used in optical instruments and two-way mirrors
- hand in glove — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- hand-in-glove — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- harvest index — a measurement of crop yield: the weight of a harvested product as a percentage of the total plant weight of a crop.
- haven't lived — If you tell someone that they haven't lived unless they experience a particular thing, you are telling them that thing is extremely good and should be experienced.
- heaven forbid — You say 'Heaven forbid!' to emphasize that you very much hope that something will not happen.
- home delivery — delivery to one's home
- homing device — a mechanism incorporated into a guided missile, airplane, etc., that aims it toward its objective.
- ill-conceived — badly conceived or planned: an ill-conceived project.
- impredicative — (of a definition) given in terms that require quantification over a range that includes that which is to be defined, as having all the properties of a great general where one of the properties as ascribed must be that property itself
- improvidently — In an improvident manner.
- in advance of — prior to
- inadvertently — unintentional: an inadvertent insult.
- indissolvable — Not dissolvable; incapable of being dissolved or separated.
- indistinctive — without distinctive characteristics.
- individualise — (British spelling) alternative spelling of individualize.
- individualize — to make individual or distinctive; give an individual or distinctive character to.
- introvertedly — In an introverted manner.
- invendibility — the state or quality of being invendible or unsaleable
- inverted snob — a person who scorns the conventions or attitudes of his own class or social group by attempting to identify with people of a supposedly lower class
- invidiousness — (rare) Malevolent provocation of dislike or resentment; the state or quality of being invidious.
- jail delivery — a liberation of persons from prison, especially by force.
- joie de vivre — a delight in being alive; keen, carefree enjoyment of living.
- judah ha-levi — (Judah ben Samuel Halevi) 1085–1140, Spanish rabbi, physician, poet, and philosopher.
- ladino clover — a giant variety of white clover, Trifolium repens lodigense, used for pasture and hay.
- landgraviates — Plural form of landgraviate.
- legal adviser — a lawyer who gives advice
- levelling rod — a graduated rod that is used to determine differences in elevation
- maiden voyage — the first voyage of a ship after its acceptance by the owners from the builders.
- market-driven — controlled and guided by commercial considerations
- medium octavo — a size of book, about 6 × 9½ inches (15 × 24 cm), untrimmed. Abbreviation: medium 8vo.
- midsummer eve — the evening preceding Midsummer Day: formerly believed to be a time when witches and other supernatural beings caused widespread mischief.
- milford haven — a bay in SW Wales.
- milledgeville — a city in central Georgia: state capital 1807–68.
- misadventured — (obsolete) unfortunate.
- misadventurer — a person who experiences misadventure or misfortune