13-letter words containing v, s, t
- 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.
- fifty-seventh — next after the fifty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 57.
- film festival — a festival devoted to film
- flavoproteins — Plural form of flavoprotein.
- forty-seventh — next after the forty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 47.
- galvanisation — Alternative form of galvanization.
- galvanometers — Plural form of galvanometer.
- galvanoplasty — electrotypy.
- galveston bay — an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico.
- 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.
- 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.
- grape harvest — gathering of ripe grapes from the vine
- grave clothes — the wrappings in which a dead body is interred
- gravity scale — a scale giving the relative density of fluids
- harvest index — a measurement of crop yield: the weight of a harvested product as a percentage of the total plant weight of a crop.
- harvest mouse — an Old World field mouse, Micromys minutus, that builds a spherical nest among the stems of grains and other plants.
- harvester ant — any of several red or black ants, especially of the genus Pogonomyrmex, of the southwestern U.S., that feed on and store the seeds of grasses.
- 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 the guts — be brave enough
- host an event — If a hotel or organization hosts an event, it provides the facilities for the event to take place.
- hypertensives — Plural form of hypertensive.
- hyposensitive — low or diminished sensitivity to stimulation.
- imitativeness — imitating; copying; given to imitation.
- imperfectives — Plural form of imperfective.
- imperseverant — lacking the power to perceive
- improvisation — the art or act of improvising, or of composing, uttering, executing, or arranging anything without previous preparation: Musical improvisation involves imagination and creativity.
- improvisatore — An individual who recites impromptu verse, as from a song or poem.
- improvisatori — Plural form of improvisatore.
- improvisatory — of, relating to, or characteristic of an improvisation or improvisator.
- incentivising — Present participle of incentivise.
- inconsecutive — not consecutive.
- indistinctive — without distinctive characteristics.
- individualist — a person who shows great independence or individuality in thought or action.
- inobservation — lack of observation
- inobtrusively — in an unobtrusive manner
- inquisitively — given to inquiry, research, or asking questions; eager for knowledge; intellectually curious: an inquisitive mind.
- insectivorous — adapted to feeding on insects.
- insensitively — In an insensitive manner.
- insensitivity — deficient in human sensibility, acuteness of feeling, or consideration; unfeeling; callous: an insensitive person.
- instinctively — of, relating to, or of the nature of instinct.
- instinctivity — the quality of being instinctive
- instructively — In an instructive manner.
- intensiveness — of, relating to, or characterized by intensity: intensive questioning.