13-letter words containing v, i, n, o, l
- overflowingly — to an excessive degree
- 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).
- overland mail — a government mail service, started in 1848, for sending mail from the Mississippi to the Far West.
- overpedalling — the overuse of the piano's pedals
- overpotential — overvoltage.
- overvaluation — to value too highly; put too high a value on: They should be careful not to overvalue the property.
- ovipositional — pertaining to the laying of eggs through an ovipositor
- pavilion roof — a pyramidal hip roof.
- petrol-driven — (of a car, engine, etc) powered by petrol
- platonic love — Platonism. love of the Idea of beauty, seen as terminating an evolution from the desire for an individual and the love of physical beauty to the love and contemplation of spiritual or ideal beauty.
- plural voting — right to vote more than once
- pole-vaulting — a field sport in which competitors attempt to clear a high bar with the aid of an extremely flexible long pole
- polio vaccine — a vaccine administered to induce specific active immunity to poliomyelitis.
- prerevolution — of the period before a revolution
- pretelevision — occurring before the arrival of television
- prevocational — of, relating to, or constituting preliminary vocational training.
- prevolitional — the act of willing, choosing, or resolving; exercise of willing: She left of her own volition.
- privy council — a board or select body of personal advisers, as of a sovereign.
- provincialise — to make provincial in character.
- provincialism — narrowness of mind, ignorance, or the like, considered as resulting from lack of exposure to cultural or intellectual activity.
- provincialist — a native or inhabitant of a province.
- provinciality — provincial character.
- provincialize — to make provincial in character.
- provisionally — providing or serving for the time being only; existing only until permanently or properly replaced; temporary: a provisional government.
- provocational — the act of provoking.
- pulverization — to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.
- re-evaluation — an act or instance of evaluating or appraising.
- recultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
- reinvolvement — to include as a necessary circumstance, condition, or consequence; imply; entail: This job involves long hours and hard work.
- revelationist — a person who believes in divine revelation.
- revolutionary — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change: a revolutionary junta.
- revolutionise — to bring about a revolution in; effect a radical change in: to revolutionize petroleum refining methods.
- revolutionism — a belief in revolution or revolutionary ideas
- revolutionist — a person who advocates or takes part in a revolution.
- revolutionize — to bring about a revolution in; effect a radical change in: to revolutionize petroleum refining methods.
- ring-a-lievio — a game played usually between two teams in which the members of one team attempt to find, capture, and imprison the members of the other, who can be freed only by a teammate not yet captured.
- ringed plover — any of several cosmopolitan plovers of the genus Charadrius, especially C. hiaticula, brownish above and white below with a black band around the breast.
- rivalrousness — characterized by rivalry; competitive: the rivalrous aspect of their friendship.
- river dolphin — any freshwater cetacean of the family Platanistidae, inhabiting rivers of North and South America and S Asia. They are smaller than marine dolphins and have a longer narrower snout
- rocking valve — (on a steam engine) a valve mechanism oscillating through an arc to open and close.
- romantic love — love characterized by romance and involving sexual attraction
- rosenkavalier — an opera (1911) by Richard Strauss.
- russian olive — oleaster.
- salviniaceous — relating to the genus Salviniaceae
- 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-involved — self-centered; preoccupied with oneself
- self-oblivion — the state of being completely forgotten or unknown: a former movie star now in oblivion.
- self-violence — swift and intense force: the violence of a storm.
- shivering owl — screech owl.