13-letter words containing v, o, l, t, a
- electrovalent — (of bonding) resulting from electrostatic attraction between positive and negative ions; ionic.
- elevator shoe — a shoe designed to increase the wearer's height
- environmental — Relating to the natural world and the impact of human activity on its condition.
- exploratively — in an explorative manner
- extrapolative — That serves to extrapolate.
- fast dissolve — a transition that fades out one scene and replaces it with another, merging the two scenes imperceptibly
- festivalgoers — Plural form of festivalgoer.
- flavoproteins — Plural form of flavoprotein.
- floating vote — those voters collectively who are not permanently attached to any political party.
- galvanisation — Alternative form of galvanization.
- galvanization — to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
- galvanometers — Plural form of galvanometer.
- galvanometric — Of or pertaining to galvanometry.
- galvanoplasty — electrotypy.
- galveston bay — an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico.
- glove factory — a factory where gloves are made
- glove leather — a soft, smooth, pliable, stretchable leather.
- governability — to rule over by right of authority: to govern a nation.
- grave clothes — the wrappings in which a dead body is interred
- 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.
- heave the log — to determine a ship's speed with such a device
- hypoventilate — (intransitive) To undergo hypoventilation.
- improvability — to bring into a more desirable or excellent condition: He took vitamins to improve his health.
- incultivation — (obsolete) Want of cultivation.
- informal vote — an invalid vote or ballot
- informatively — giving information; instructive: an informative book.
- interpolative — to introduce (something additional or extraneous) between other things or parts; interject; interpose; intercalate.
- intravenously — through or within a vein. Abbreviation: IV.
- inventoriable — a complete listing of merchandise or stock on hand, work in progress, raw materials, finished goods on hand, etc., made each year by a business concern.
- inviolability — prohibiting violation; secure from destruction, violence, infringement, or desecration: an inviolable sanctuary; an inviolable promise.
- inviolateness — The state of being inviolate.
- invitationals — Plural form of invitational.
- involuntarily — not voluntary; independent of one's will; not by one's own choice: an involuntary listener; involuntary servitude.
- involute gear — a gear tooth form that is generated by involute geometry
- jovian planet — any of the four large outer planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
- laevorotation — a rotation to the left
- laevorotatory — Alternative spelling of levorotatory.
- lake victoria — the ancient Roman goddess of victory, identified with the Greek goddess Nike.
- lateroversion — abnormal lateral displacement of a bodily organ or part, esp of the uterus
- lavatory bowl — the part inside a lavatory containing water and fitted with a water-flushing device and connected to a drain
- lavatory seat — the part on a toilet or lavatory which can be moved up or down and which is used for sitting on
- levant dollar — a silver coin, either a Maria Theresa thaler or an imitation of one, formerly used for trade with Abyssinia, Eritrea, Aden, etc. Imitations bear the date 1780 regardless of the year of minting.
- levant storax — a solid resin with a vanillalike odor, obtained from a small tree, Styrax officinalis: formerly used in medicine and perfumery.
- loan-to-value — the ratio between the sum of money lent in a mortgage agreement and the lender's valuation of the property involved
- long vacation — the summer vacation customary in the law courts and universities.
- lord advocate — (in Scotland) the chief law officer of the Crown who acts as public prosecutor and is in charge of the administration of criminal justice
- love triangle — relationship between three people
- love-entangle — the stonecrop, Sedum acre.
- metaevolution — (philosophy, biology) The evolution of the elements of evolutionary systems.