13-letter words containing v, s, i
- beverly hills — a town in SW California, near Los Angeles: famous as the home of film stars. Pop: 34 941 (2003 est)
- bioconversion — the use of biological processes or materials to change organic substances into a new form, such as the conversion of waste into methane by fermentation
- bishop sleeve — a full sleeve gathered at the wrist
- bishop violet — a reddish purple.
- black-a-vised — having a dark complexion.
- bois de vache — dried buffalo dung, used as fuel by Canadian and U.S. fur trappers in the 18th and 19th centuries.
- boris godunov — Boris Fedorovich [bawr-is fi-dawr-uh-vich,, bohr-,, bor-;; Russian buh-ryees fyaw-duh-ruh-vyich] /ˈbɔr ɪs fɪˈdɔr ə vɪtʃ,, ˈboʊr-,, ˈbɒr-;; Russian bʌˈryis ˈfyɔ də rə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1552–1605, regent of Russia 1584–98 and czar 1598–1605.
- break service — to win a game in which an opponent is serving
- brest litovsk — former name (until 1921) of Brest.
- brevirostrate — having a short beak or bill
- camping stove — a portable stove powered by butane gas canisters, designed to be used for cooking while camping
- caprivi strip — narrow strip of land, c. 50 mi (80 km) wide, of NE Namibia, extending eastward to the Zambezi River: c. 300 mi (483 km) long
- caravansaries — Plural form of caravansary.
- caravanserais — Plural form of caravanserai.
- cardioversion — restoring the rhythm of the heart to normal by applying direct-current electrical shock.
- carnivalesque — characteristic of, suitable for, or like a carnival
- carnivorously — In a carnivorous manner.
- carol service — a service, held in a church around Christmas, at which Christmas carols are sung
- cassivelaunus — 1st century bc, British chieftain, king of the Catuvellauni tribe, who organized resistance to Caesar's invasion of Britain (54 bc)
- caustic curve — a curve formed by the intersection of a caustic surface with a plane
- cavernicolous — inhabiting caves or cavelike places
- cell division — the division of a cell into two new cells during growth or reproduction
- cheviot hills — a range of hills on the border between England and Scotland, mainly in Northumberland
- child version — (system management) In change management, a configuration item derived by altering another item (its parent version).
- christmas eve — Christmas Eve is the 24th of December, the day before Christmas Day.
- church slavic — a liturgical language used in Eastern Orthodox churches in Slavic countries since the 11th or 12th century, representing a development of Old Church Slavonic through contact with the national Slavic languages.
- civic society — an organization founded to promote the interests of a local community
- civil defense — Civil defense is the organization and training of the ordinary people in a country so that they can help the armed forces, medical services, or police force, for example if the country is attacked by an enemy.
- civil servant — A civil servant is a person who works in the Civil Service in Britain and some other countries, or for the local, state, or federal government in the United States.
- civil service — The Civil Service of a country consists of its government departments and all the people who work in them. In many countries, the departments concerned with military and legal affairs are not part of the Civil Service.
- civil society — the elements such as freedom of speech, an independent judiciary, etc, that make up a democratic society
- civilisations — Plural form of civilisation.
- civilizations — Plural form of civilization.
- civilizedness — having an advanced or humane culture, society, etc.
- clavichordist — Someone who plays the clavichord.
- client-server — (programming) A common form of distributed system in which software is split between server tasks and client tasks. A client sends requests to a server, according to some protocol, asking for information or action, and the server responds. This is analogous to a customer (client) who sends an order (request) on an order form to a supplier (server) who despatches the goods and an invoice (response). The order form and invoice are part of the "protocol" used to communicate in this case. There may be either one centralised server or several distributed ones. This model allows clients and servers to be placed independently on nodes in a network, possibly on different hardware and operating systems appropriate to their function, e.g. fast server/cheap client. Examples are the name-server/name-resolver relationship in DNS, the file-server/file-client relationship in NFS and the screen server/client application split in the X Window System.
- clishmaclaver — idle talk; gossip
- coextensively — To the same extent.
- cohesive soil — sticky soil such as clay or clayey silt whose strength depends on the surface tension of capillary water
- collectivised — Simple past tense and past participle of collectivise.
- collectivizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of collectivize.
- combativeness — The state of being combative.
- commiserative — to feel or express sorrow or sympathy for; empathize with; pity.
- comparativist — a comparatist
- comprehensive — Something that is comprehensive includes everything that is needed or relevant.
- conduciveness — tending to produce; contributive; helpful; favorable (usually followed by to): Good eating habits are conducive to good health.
- connellsville — a town in SW Pennsylvania.
- consecutively — following one another in uninterrupted succession or order; successive: six consecutive numbers, such as 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
- conservancies — Plural form of conservancy.
- conservatives — Plural form of conservative.