13-letter words containing v
- advocacy tank — a research and development institution that works to lobby government officials to adopt the institution's viewpoints.
- aerial survey — a survey carried out from the air, using an aeroplane or helicopter
- aerodigestive — of or relating to the organs and tissues of the respiratory tract and the upper part of the digestive tract
- affectiveness — The property of being affective.
- affirmatively — affirming or assenting; asserting the truth, validity, or fact of something.
- agglomerative — gathered together into a cluster or mass.
- agglutinative — tending to join or capable of joining
- aggravatingly — in a manner that is aggravating
- aggregatively — in an aggregative manner
- airport novel — People sometimes refer to long novels such as thrillers and romances that are written in a popular style as airport novels.
- aleksandrovsk — a city in SE Ukraine, on the Dnieper River.
- alexander vii — (Fabio Chigi) 1599–1667, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1655–67.
- alkali-loving — (of a plant) requiring a pH of 7.1 to 9 for optimal growth.
- all over with — above in place or position: the roof over one's head.
- all very well — You use all very well to suggest that you do not really approve of something or you think that it is unreasonable.
- all-inclusive — All-inclusive is used to indicate that a price, especially the price of a holiday, includes all the charges and all the services offered.
- all-pervading — spreading through or into everything
- alluvial cone — a steep, narrow, cone-shaped alluvial fan formed where a swift stream suddenly slows down, as where an upland stream emerges abruptly into a level plain
- alsike clover — a European clover, Trifolium hybridum, having pink flowers, grown in the U.S. for forage.
- alternatively — You use alternatively to introduce a suggestion or to mention something different to what has just been stated.
- alternativism — The rejection of a social normality through the pursuit of alternatives.
- alternativity — A characteristic of something having alternative connotations, akin to the representation of choice between two or more possibilities.
- alveolar arch — the part of the upper or lower jawbone in which the teeth are set.
- amplificative — Amplificatory.
- andersonville — town in SW central Ga.: site of a Confederate prison in the Civil War
- andrei markov — (person) 1856-1922. The Russian mathematician, after who Markov chains were named.
- angle of view — the angle that corresponds to the field of view provided by a lens
- animadversion — criticism or censure
- animadverting — Present participle of animadvert.
- anna ivanovna — 1693–1740, empress of Russia 1730–40.
- anniversaries — Plural form of anniversary.
- anti-universe — a universe made up of antimatter, postulated to exist far out in space
- anticorrosive — preventing corrosion
- antievolution — a system of thought which argues against the biological theory of evolution
- antiinfective — Antiinfection.
- antinarrative — a narrative which does not adhere to the usual conventions of narrative
- antioxidative — That functions as an antioxidant.
- antireflexive — noting a relation in which no element is in relation to itself, as “less than.”.
- antivaccinist — One opposed to vaccination.
- apicoalveolar — articulated with the tip of the tongue in contact with or in approximation to the alveolar ridge.
- appellatively — (grammar) After the manner of appellative nouns; so as to express whole classes or species.
- applicatively — In an applicative manner.
- appropriative — suitable or fitting for a particular purpose, person, occasion, etc.: an appropriate example; an appropriate dress.
- approval code — An approval code is a PIN or other verification code needed to authorize a payment going through the cash register.
- approximative — (of a method, description, etc.) giving only an approximation to something.
- arachnivorous — Spider-eating.
- argumentative — Someone who is argumentative is always ready to disagree or start quarrelling with other people.
- armstand dive — a dive starting from a handstand at the end of a springboard or a platform with the diver's back to the water.
- arrivals hall — the area of an airport where incoming passengers arrive
- arteriovenous — of, relating to, or affecting an artery and a vein