13-letter words containing v, i, r, l
- fever blister — cold sore.
- fibrovascular — composed of fibrous and conductive tissue, as in the vascular systems of higher plants: a fibrovascular bundle.
- 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.
- flavoproteins — Plural form of flavoprotein.
- flavopurpurin — a yellow, crystalline anthraquinone dye, C 14 H 8 O 5 , isomeric with purpurin.
- floorcovering — A covering for a floor.
- formal review — (project) A technical review conducted with the customer including the types of reviews called for in DOD-STD-2167A (Preliminary Design Review, Critical Design Review, etc.)
- 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.
- free variable — (in functional calculus) a variable occurring in a sentential function and not within the scope of any quantifier containing it.
- frivolousness — characterized by lack of seriousness or sense: frivolous conduct.
- galvanometric — Of or pertaining to galvanometry.
- german silver — any of various alloys of copper, zinc, and nickel, usually white and used for utensils, drawing instruments, etc.; nickel silver.
- governability — to rule over by right of authority: to govern a nation.
- gram-variable — of or relating to bacteria that stain irregularly with Gram's stain, being neither Gram-positive nor Gram-negative.
- graphic novel — a novel in the form of comic strips.
- gravel-voiced — speaking in a rough and rasping tone
- gravitational — Physics. the force of attraction between any two masses. Compare law of gravitation. an act or process caused by this force.
- gravity clock — a clock driven by its own weight as it descends a rack, cord, incline, etc.
- gravity fault — a fault along an inclined plane in which the upper side or hanging wall appears to have moved downward with respect to the lower side or footwall (opposed to reverse fault).
- gravity scale — a scale giving the relative density of fluids
- greek revival — a style of architecture, furnishings, and decoration prevalent in the U.S. and in parts of Europe in the first half of the 19th century, characterized by a more or less close imitation of ancient Greek designs and ornamented motifs.
- green vitriol — a bluish-green, crystalline, saline-tasting, water-soluble heptahydrated solid, FeSO 4 ⋅7H 2 O, used chiefly in the manufacture of other iron salts, in water purification, fertilizer, inks, pigments, tanning, photography, and in medicine in the treatment of anemia.
- 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
- home delivery — delivery to one's home
- hyperactively — In a hyperactive manner.
- hypervelocity — extremely high velocity, as of projectiles, space vehicles, or accelerated nuclear particles.
- hypervigilant — keenly watchful to detect danger; wary: a vigilant sentry.
- hypervirulent — actively poisonous; intensely noxious: a virulent insect bite.
- imperceivable — That cannot be perceived; imperceptible.
- improvability — to bring into a more desirable or excellent condition: He took vitamins to improve his health.
- improvidently — In an improvident manner.
- inadvertently — unintentional: an inadvertent insult.
- inconversable — (obsolete) uncommunicative; reserved.
- inconvertible — (of paper money) not capable of being converted into specie.
- inconvertibly — In an inconvertible manner.
- informal vote — an invalid vote or ballot
- informatively — giving information; instructive: an informative book.
- inobtrusively — in an unobtrusive manner
- instructively — In an instructive manner.
- interactively — acting one upon or with the other.
- interclavicle — a median membrane bone developed between the collarbones, or in front of the breastbone, in many vertebrates.
- interpolative — to introduce (something additional or extraneous) between other things or parts; interject; interpose; intercalate.
- intervalvular — Between valves.
- intervolution — (rare) The state of being intervolved or coiled up; a convolution; as, the intervolutions of a snake.
- intravalvular — Between valves.
- intravascular — within the blood vessels.
- intravenously — through or within a vein. Abbreviation: IV.
- introversible — able to be introverted
- introvertedly — In an introverted manner.