13-letter words containing v, o, r, s
- conversations — Plural form of conversation.
- conversazione — a social gathering for discussion of the arts, literature, etc
- convulsionary — of or affected with convulsion.
- cookery stove — cookstove.
- copperas cove — a town in central Texas.
- coronaviruses — Plural form of coronavirus.
- corporativism — corporatism
- corresponsive — corresponding
- corrosiveness — having the quality of corroding or eating away; erosive.
- cover version — A cover version of a song is a version of it recorded by a singer or band who did not originally perform the song.
- coversed sine — obsolete function in trigonometry
- crossing over — the interchange of sections between pairing homologous chromosomes during the diplotene stage of meiosis. It results in the rearrangement of genes and produces variation in the inherited characteristics of the offspring
- culver's root — a tall North American scrophulariaceous plant, Veronicastrum virginicum, having spikes of small white or purple flowers
- cushion cover — a fabric cover, often with a decorative design, designed to protect a cushion
- 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
- devil worship — the worship of Satan or of a demon
- 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.
- diversionists — Plural form of diversionist.
- division ring — a ring in which the set of nonzero elements is a group with the operation of multiplication.
- downers grove — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- 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
- elevator shoe — a shoe designed to increase the wearer's height
- enteroviruses — Plural form of enterovirus.
- escort vessel — ship that accompanies another
- extravasation — The exudation of blood, lymph or urine from a vessel into the tissues.
- extroversions — Plural form of extroversion.
- favorableness — Alternative spelling of favourableness.
- festivalgoers — Plural form of festivalgoer.
- fibrovascular — composed of fibrous and conductive tissue, as in the vascular systems of higher plants: a fibrovascular bundle.
- 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.
- for values of — (jargon) A common rhetorical maneuver at MIT is to use any of the canonical random numbers as placeholders for variables. "The max function takes 42 arguments, for arbitrary values of 42". "There are 69 ways to leave your lover, for 69 = 50". This is especially likely when the speaker has uttered a random number and realises that it was not recognised as such, but even "non-random" numbers are occasionally used in this fashion. A related joke is that pi equals 3 - for small values of pi and large values of 3. This usage probably derives from the programming language MAD (Michigan Algorithm Decoder), an ALGOL-like language that was the most common choice among mainstream (non-hacker) users at MIT in the mid-1960s. It had a control structure FOR VALUES OF X = 3, 7, 99 DO ... that would repeat the indicated instructions for each value in the list (unlike the usual FOR that generates an arithmetic sequence of values). MAD is long extinct, but similar for-constructs still flourish (e.g. in Unix's shell languages).
- forgivingness — disposed to forgive; indicating forgiveness: a forgiving soul; a forgiving smile.
- formicivorous — ant-eating.
- forty-seventh — next after the forty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 47.
- fosamprenavir — (pharmaceutical drug) An anti-retroviral prodrug of the protease inhibitor amprenavir. It is used to treat HIV infected patients.
- frivolousness — characterized by lack of seriousness or sense: frivolous conduct.
- galvanometers — Plural form of galvanometer.
- gas reversion — Gas reversion is a process which combines thermal cracking or reforming of naphtha with thermal polymerization or alkylation of hydrocarbon gases, which is carried out in the same reaction place.
- goods service — a transport service in which goods are sent by train from one location to another
- governmentese — complicated or obscurantist language thought to be characteristic of government bureaucratic statements; officialese.
- gram-positive — (of bacteria) retaining the violet dye when stained by Gram's method.
- graminivorous — feeding or subsisting on grass: a graminivorous bird.