13-letter words containing v, o, a
- cottage grove — a town in E Minnesota.
- counteractive — to act in opposition to; frustrate by contrary action.
- countervailed — Simple past tense and past participle of countervail.
- covalent bond — a type of chemical bond involving the sharing of electrons between atoms in a molecule, esp the sharing of a pair of electrons by two adjacent atoms
- covent garden — a district of central London: famous for its former fruit, vegetable, and flower market, now a shopping precinct
- covered wagon — A covered wagon is a wagon that has an arched canvas roof and is pulled by horses. Covered wagons were used by the early American settlers as they travelled across the country.
- covert action — a secret action undertaken to influence the course of political events, as a government intelligence operation.
- cup and cover — a turning used in Elizabethan and Jacobean furniture and resembling a goblet with a domed cover.
- cupboard love — a show of love inspired only by some selfish or greedy motive
- cut-and-cover — designating a method of constructing a tunnel by excavating a cutting to the required depth and then backfilling the excavation over the tunnel roof
- cut-off valve — a valve that terminates the flow of fluid in a system
- dame's violet — a Eurasian hairy perennial plant, Hesperis matronalis, cultivated in gardens for its mauve or white fragrant flowers: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- de-motivation — the act or an instance of motivating, or providing with a reason to act in a certain way: I don't understand what her motivation was for quitting her job. Synonyms: motive, inspiration, inducement, cause, impetus.
- debt covenant — A debt covenant is a number of restrictions that a borrower agrees to that are set by the lending institution.
- demonstrative — Someone who is demonstrative shows affection freely and openly.
- derivationist — a person who believes that it is possible to derive knowledge of what is good for humans from a metaphysical study of humans themselves
- deteriorative — tending to deteriorate
- developmental — Developmental means relating to the development of someone or something.
- devirgination — The loss of a girl or woman's virginity.
- devolutionary — the act or fact of devolving; passage onward from stage to stage.
- devotionalist — a devotee
- digital video — video output based on digital rather than analogue signals
- discovery bay — an inlet of the Indian Ocean in SE Australia
- discovery day — Columbus Day.
- disinvigorate — to deprive of vigour
- divarications — Plural form of divarication.
- documentative — Of or pertaining to documents or documentation.
- dolman sleeve — a sleeve tapered from a very large armhole to fit closely at the wrist, used on women's garments.
- domical vault — cloistered vault.
- draft version — a preliminary version
- eavesdroppers — Plural form of eavesdropper.
- eavesdropping — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
- ebola (virus) — an RNA virus (family Filoviridae) that causes fever, internal bleeding, and, often, death
- electroactive — (of living tissue) exhibiting electrical activity or responsive to electrical stimuli
- electrovalent — (of bonding) resulting from electrostatic attraction between positive and negative ions; ionic.
- elevator shoe — a shoe designed to increase the wearer's height
- endeavourment — the act of endeavouring
- environmental — Relating to the natural world and the impact of human activity on its condition.
- equivocalness — The state of being equivocal; ambiguity.
- equivocations — Plural form of equivocation.
- ever and anon — now and then
- evocativeness — The state or condition of being evocative.
- expectorative — an expectorant medicine
- exploratively — in an explorative manner
- extrapolative — That serves to extrapolate.
- extravasation — The exudation of blood, lymph or urine from a vessel into the tissues.
- fast dissolve — a transition that fades out one scene and replaces it with another, merging the two scenes imperceptibly
- favorableness — Alternative spelling of favourableness.
- ferrovanadium — a ferroalloy containing up to 55 percent vanadium.
- festivalgoers — Plural form of festivalgoer.