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13-letter words containing v

  • ashlar veneer — a thin dressed stone with straight edges, used to face a wall
  • assentiveness — the tendency to concur or comply
  • assertiveness — confidently aggressive or self-assured; positive: aggressive; dogmatic: He is too assertive as a salesman.
  • associatively — in an associative or connective manner
  • associativity — the quality of being associative
  • assortatively — In an assortative way.
  • assortativity — (mathematics) The extent to which nodes of a graph link to others of the same degree.
  • at every turn — If you say that something happens at every turn, you are emphasizing that it happens frequently or all the time, usually so that it prevents you from achieving what you want.
  • at face value — If you take something at face value, you accept it and believe it without thinking about it very much, even though it might be untrue.
  • atavistically — In an atavistic manner.
  • atomic volume — the atomic weight (relative atomic mass) of an element divided by its density
  • attentiveness — characterized by or giving attention; observant: an attentive audience.
  • attributively — pertaining to or having the character of attribution or an attribute.
  • aubervilliers — an industrial suburb of Paris, on the Seine. Pop: 63 136 (1999)
  • authoritative — Someone or something that is authoritative gives an impression of power and importance and is likely to be obeyed.
  • availableness — Competent power; validity; efficacy; as, the availableness of a title.
  • avant-gardism — the attitudes, techniques, etc., of the cultural avant-garde.
  • average speed — a scalar measure of the rate of movement of a body expressed as the distance travelled divided by the time taken
  • averruncation — the act of averting or turning away
  • aviation fuel — fuel used to power airplanes
  • avila camacho — Manuel [mah-nwel] /mɑˈnwɛl/ (Show IPA), 1897–1955, president of Mexico 1940–46.
  • avocationally — in one's leisure time
  • ayurvedically — As a practitioner of Ayurveda; in an Ayurvedic way.
  • baal shem tov — original name Israel ben Eliezer ?1700–60, Jewish religious leader, teacher, and healer in Poland: founder of modern Hasidism
  • baal-shem-tov — (Israel ben Eliezer"Besht") c1700–60, Ukrainian teacher and religious leader: founder of the Hasidic movement of Judaism.
  • back walkover — Racing. a walking or trotting over the course by a contestant who is the only starter.
  • balsam capivi — copaiba.
  • basso rilievo — bas-relief
  • basso-relievo — bas-relief
  • bathtub curve — Common term for the curve (resembling an end-to-end section of one of those claw-footed antique bathtubs) that describes the expected failure rate of electronics with time: initially high, dropping to near 0 for most of the system's lifetime, then rising again as it "tires out". See also burn-in period, infant mortality.
  • bcg (vaccine) — a vaccine prepared from an attenuated strain of the tubercle bacillus, used for immunization against tuberculosis
  • beehive house — a prehistoric circular building found in various parts of Europe, usually of stone and having a dome-shaped roof
  • beehive round — an artillery shell that ejects thousands of naillike metal projectiles on exploding.
  • beehive state — Utah (used as a nickname).
  • behavioristic — the theory or doctrine that human or animal psychology can be accurately studied only through the examination and analysis of objectively observable and quantifiable behavioral events, in contrast with subjective mental states.
  • behaviourally — from a behavioural point of view
  • believability — to have confidence in the truth, the existence, or the reliability of something, although without absolute proof that one is right in doing so: Only if one believes in something can one act purposefully.
  • benedict viii — died 1024, pope 1012–24.
  • bevelled edge — an inclined edge; one not at 90 degrees
  • beverage room — a room in a tavern, hotel, etc, in which alcoholic drinks are served
  • beverly hills — a town in SW California, near Los Angeles: famous as the home of film stars. Pop: 34 941 (2003 est)
  • bhagavad gita — a portion of the Mahabharata, having the form of a dialogue between the hero Arjuna and his charioteer, the avatar Krishna, in which a doctrine combining Brahmanical and other elements is evolved.
  • bhagavad-gita — a sacred Hindu text composed about 200 bc and incorporated into the Mahabharata, a Sanskrit epic
  • bighorn-river — a river flowing from central Wyoming to the Yellowstone River in S Montana. 336 miles (540 km) long.
  • biobehavioral — of or relating to the application of biological methods and ideas to the study of behavior in an attempt to understand emotions and reactions in terms of brain and physiological function.
  • 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
  • bioequivalent — the condition in which different formulations of the same drug or chemical are equally absorbed when taken into the body.
  • bishop sleeve — a full sleeve gathered at the wrist
  • bishop violet — a reddish purple.
  • black vulture — the Eurasian vulture, Aegypius monachus, of the family Accipitridae
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