13-letter words containing a, l, v
- easterly wave — a westward-moving, wavelike disturbance of low atmospheric pressure embedded in tropical easterly winds.
- eastern slavs — one of a group of peoples in eastern, southeastern, and central Europe, including the Russians and Ruthenians (Eastern Slavs) the Bulgars, Serbs, Croats, Slavonians, Slovenes, etc. (Southern Slavs) and the Poles, Czechs, Moravians, Slovaks, etc. (Western Slavs)
- ebola (virus) — an RNA virus (family Filoviridae) that causes fever, internal bleeding, and, often, death
- electroactive — (of living tissue) exhibiting electrical activity or responsive to electrical stimuli
- electrovalent — (of bonding) resulting from electrostatic attraction between positive and negative ions; ionic.
- elevator shoe — a shoe designed to increase the wearer's height
- environmental — Relating to the natural world and the impact of human activity on its condition.
- equivalencing — Present participle of equivalence.
- equivocalness — The state of being equivocal; ambiguity.
- evangelically — In an evangelical manner, concerning evangelism.
- evangelistary — a book containing passages from the gospels to be used as part of the liturgy
- evening class — An evening class is a course for adults that is taught in the evening rather than during the day.
- eventualities — Plural form of eventuality.
- everlastingly — In an everlasting manner; so as to be everlasting.
- evidentiarily — In an evidentiary way.
- exhaust valve — An exhaust valve is a valve that releases burned gases from a cylinder.
- explanatively — in an explanative manner
- explicatively — in an explicative or explanatory manner
- exploratively — in an explorative manner
- extrapolative — That serves to extrapolate.
- extravagantly — With lavish expenditure or behaviour.
- extravascular — Situated or happening outside of the blood vessels or lymph vessels.
- face validity — the extent to which a psychological test appears to measure what it is intended to measure
- facultatively — In a facultative manner.
- 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
- favorableness — Alternative spelling of favourableness.
- 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.
- fibrovascular — composed of fibrous and conductive tissue, as in the vascular systems of higher plants: a fibrovascular bundle.
- 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.
- flavopurpurin — a yellow, crystalline anthraquinone dye, C 14 H 8 O 5 , isomeric with purpurin.
- fleming valve — (formerly) a diode.
- floating vote — those voters collectively who are not permanently attached to any political party.
- flow cleavage — cleavage resulting from the parallel alignment of the mineral constituents of a rock when in a plastic condition.
- for values of — (jargon) A common rhetorical maneuver at MIT is to use any of the canonical random numbers as placeholders for variables. "The max function takes 42 arguments, for arbitrary values of 42". "There are 69 ways to leave your lover, for 69 = 50". This is especially likely when the speaker has uttered a random number and realises that it was not recognised as such, but even "non-random" numbers are occasionally used in this fashion. A related joke is that pi equals 3 - for small values of pi and large values of 3. This usage probably derives from the programming language MAD (Michigan Algorithm Decoder), an ALGOL-like language that was the most common choice among mainstream (non-hacker) users at MIT in the mid-1960s. It had a control structure FOR VALUES OF X = 3, 7, 99 DO ... that would repeat the indicated instructions for each value in the list (unlike the usual FOR that generates an arithmetic sequence of values). MAD is long extinct, but similar for-constructs still flourish (e.g. in Unix's shell languages).
- foramen ovale — the small, oval opening in the wall that separates the atria of the heart in a normal fetus: it allows blood to bypass the nonfunctioning fetal lungs until the time of birth when it gradually closes up
- formal review — (project) A technical review conducted with the customer including the types of reviews called for in DOD-STD-2167A (Preliminary Design Review, Critical Design Review, etc.)
- free variable — (in functional calculus) a variable occurring in a sentential function and not within the scope of any quantifier containing it.
- full-flavored — Full-flavored food or wine has a pleasant fairly strong taste.
- galvanic cell — cell1 (def 7a).
- galvanic pile — voltaic pile.
- galvanisation — Alternative form of galvanization.
- galvanization — to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
- galvanometers — Plural form of galvanometer.
- galvanometric — Of or pertaining to galvanometry.