13-letter words containing v, s, i
- expensiveness — The state of being expensive; entailing great expense.
- explosiveness — The state of being explosive.
- extensiveness — The degree or property of being extensive.
- extravasating — Present participle of extravasate.
- extravasation — The exudation of blood, lymph or urine from a vessel into the tissues.
- extroversions — Plural form of extroversion.
- false vampire — any large, carnivorous bat of the families Megadermatidae and Phyllostomatidae, of Africa, Asia, and Australia, erroneously reputed to suck the blood of animals and humans.
- family values — belief in traditional family unit
- fast dissolve — a transition that fades out one scene and replaces it with another, merging the two scenes imperceptibly
- favrile glass — a type of iridescent glass developed by L.C. Tiffany
- festival hall — a concert hall in London, on the South Bank of the Thames: constructed for the 1951 Festival of Britain; completed 1964–65
- festivalgoers — Plural form of festivalgoer.
- 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.
- fifty-seventh — next after the fifty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 57.
- film festival — a festival devoted to film
- fingal's cave — a cave on the island of Staffa, in the Hebrides, Scotland. 227 feet (69 meters) long; 42 feet (13 meters) wide.
- flavoproteins — Plural form of flavoprotein.
- forgivingness — disposed to forgive; indicating forgiveness: a forgiving soul; a forgiving smile.
- formicivorous — ant-eating.
- fosamprenavir — (pharmaceutical drug) An anti-retroviral prodrug of the protease inhibitor amprenavir. It is used to treat HIV infected patients.
- friendsgiving — a gathering of friends to celebrate Thanksgiving with a feast, falling near or on Thanksgiving Day, in contrast to the traditional celebrations that typically involve family.
- frivolousness — characterized by lack of seriousness or sense: frivolous conduct.
- galvanisation — Alternative form of galvanization.
- 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.
- german silver — any of various alloys of copper, zinc, and nickel, usually white and used for utensils, drawing instruments, etc.; nickel silver.
- gesticulative — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
- give it heaps — to try very hard
- give pause to — to cause to hesitate
- give sb heart — If something gives you heart, it makes you feel more confident or happy about something.
- give the slip — to move, flow, pass, or go smoothly or easily; glide; slide: Water slips off a smooth surface.
- goods service — a transport service in which goods are sent by train from one location to another
- gram-positive — (of bacteria) retaining the violet dye when stained by Gram's method.
- graminivorous — feeding or subsisting on grass: a graminivorous bird.
- gravity scale — a scale giving the relative density of fluids
- grimes graves — an area of Neolithic flint mines in Suffolk, England, comprising more than 300 mine shafts and galleries.
- 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
- harvest index — a measurement of crop yield: the weight of a harvested product as a percentage of the total plant weight of a crop.
- have its uses — If you say that being something or knowing someone has its uses, you mean that it makes it possible for you to do what you otherwise would not be able to do.
- have occasion — If you have occasion to do something, it is necessary for you to do it.
- heavy cruiser — a naval cruiser having 8-inch (20.3-cm) guns as its main armament.
- herpesviruses — Plural form of herpesvirus.
- home invasion — an act or instance of entering an occupied residence with the intent to commit a burglary or other crime.
- hypertensives — Plural form of hypertensive.
- hyposensitive — low or diminished sensitivity to stimulation.
- imitativeness — imitating; copying; given to imitation.
- immersiveness — The quality or degree of being immersive.
- immovableness — The quality of being immovable.