13-letter words containing v, i, s, c
- lucrativeness — profitable; moneymaking; remunerative: a lucrative business.
- machiavellism — of, like, or befitting Machiavelli.
- microvascular — Of or relating to the smallest blood vessels.
- misadvertence — inadvertence
- miscegenative — (rare) Miscegenous.
- mischievously — maliciously or playfully annoying.
- misconceiving — Present participle of misconceive.
- misgovernance — to govern or manage badly.
- misobservance — a failure to observe thoroughly or properly
- misperceiving — Present participle of misperceive.
- mosaic vision — a type of vision hypothesized for the insect compound eye, in which the image is formed by hundreds of separate ommatidia.
- movie actress — a female who acts in films or movies
- necessitative — to make necessary or unavoidable: The breakdown of the car necessitated a change in our plans.
- nectarivorous — feeding on nectar
- nicholasville — a town in central Kentucky.
- nickel silver — German silver.
- nicoise olive — a small variety of olive with a rich, nutty flavor.
- non-causative — acting as a cause; producing (often followed by of): a causative agency; an event causative of war.
- non-corrosive — having the quality of corroding or eating away; erosive.
- non-exclusive — not admitting of something else; incompatible: mutually exclusive plans of action.
- non-vesicular — of or relating to a vesicle or vesicles.
- nonchauvinist — a person who is not a chauvinist
- nondiscursive — passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling.
- nonsubjective — Not subjective.
- nonsuccessive — Not successive; not part of a succession.
- objectiveness — something that one's efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish; purpose; goal; target: the objective of a military attack; the objective of a fund-raising drive.
- objectivistic — Of or pertaining to objectivism.
- objectivities — Plural form of objectivity.
- obstructively — In an obstructive manner.
- ovariectomies — Plural form of ovariectomy.
- over-cautious — excessively or unnecessarily cautious: Sometimes it doesn't pay to be overcautious in business.
- over-exercise — bodily or mental exertion, especially for the sake of training or improvement of health: Walking is good exercise.
- overachievers — Plural form of overachiever.
- overconscious — excessively conscious
- overinsurance — (of goods or property) insurance in excess of actual value
- overprescribe — to lay down, in writing or otherwise, as a rule or a course of action to be followed; appoint, ordain, or enjoin.
- oversecretion — (in a cell or gland) the act or process of separating, elaborating, and releasing a substance that fulfills some function within the organism or undergoes excretion.
- oversocialize — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
- oversubscribe — to subscribe for more of than is available, expected, or required: The charity drive was oversubscribed by several thousand dollars.
- passive voice — grammar: verb form takes when subject acted upon
- paucis verbis — in or by few words; with brevity.
- perspectively — a technique of depicting volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surface. Compare aerial perspective, linear perspective.
- perspectivism — the doctrine that reality is known only in terms of the perspectives of it seen by individuals or groups at particular moments.
- perspectivist — the doctrine that reality is known only in terms of the perspectives of it seen by individuals or groups at particular moments.
- photovoltaics — (used with a singular verb) a field of semiconductor technology involving the direct conversion of electromagnetic radiation as sunlight, into electricity.
- pollice verso — with thumbs turned downward: the sign made by spectators calling for the death of a defeated gladiator in the ancient Roman circus.
- primitivistic — a recurrent theory or belief, as in philosophy or art, that the qualities of primitive or chronologically early cultures are superior to those of contemporary civilization.
- proactiveness — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- prospectively — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
- provincialise — to make provincial in character.