13-letter words containing a, v, o, t
- get a move on — to pass from one place or position to another.
- give pause to — to cause to hesitate
- glove factory — a factory where gloves are made
- glove leather — a soft, smooth, pliable, stretchable leather.
- governability — to rule over by right of authority: to govern a nation.
- gram-positive — (of bacteria) retaining the violet dye when stained by Gram's method.
- grave clothes — the wrappings in which a dead body is interred
- gravitational — Physics. the force of attraction between any two masses. Compare law of gravitation. an act or process caused by this force.
- gravity clock — a clock driven by its own weight as it descends a rack, cord, incline, etc.
- harvest mouse — an Old World field mouse, Micromys minutus, that builds a spherical nest among the stems of grains and other plants.
- heave the log — to determine a ship's speed with such a device
- host an event — If a hotel or organization hosts an event, it provides the facilities for the event to take place.
- hot and heavy — having or giving off heat; having a high temperature: a hot fire; hot coffee.
- hypoventilate — (intransitive) To undergo hypoventilation.
- improvability — to bring into a more desirable or excellent condition: He took vitamins to improve his health.
- 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.
- incorporative — Tending to incorporate or include things.
- incultivation — (obsolete) Want of cultivation.
- individuation — the act of individuating.
- informal vote — an invalid vote or ballot
- informatively — giving information; instructive: an informative book.
- inobservation — lack of observation
- interpolative — to introduce (something additional or extraneous) between other things or parts; interject; interpose; intercalate.
- interrogative — of, relating to, or conveying a question.
- intravasation — the entrance of foreign matter into a blood vessel of the body.
- intravenously — through or within a vein. Abbreviation: IV.
- invaginations — Plural form of invagination.
- inventoriable — a complete listing of merchandise or stock on hand, work in progress, raw materials, finished goods on hand, etc., made each year by a business concern.
- investigation — the act or process of investigating or the condition of being investigated.
- investigators — Plural form of investigator.
- investigatory — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
- inviolability — prohibiting violation; secure from destruction, violence, infringement, or desecration: an inviolable sanctuary; an inviolable promise.
- inviolateness — The state of being inviolate.
- invitationals — Plural form of invitational.
- involuntarily — not voluntary; independent of one's will; not by one's own choice: an involuntary listener; involuntary servitude.
- involute gear — a gear tooth form that is generated by involute geometry
- it governance — information technology governance
- jovian planet — any of the four large outer planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
- laevorotation — a rotation to the left
- laevorotatory — Alternative spelling of levorotatory.
- lake victoria — the ancient Roman goddess of victory, identified with the Greek goddess Nike.
- lateroversion — abnormal lateral displacement of a bodily organ or part, esp of the uterus
- lavatory bowl — the part inside a lavatory containing water and fitted with a water-flushing device and connected to a drain
- lavatory seat — the part on a toilet or lavatory which can be moved up or down and which is used for sitting on
- levant dollar — a silver coin, either a Maria Theresa thaler or an imitation of one, formerly used for trade with Abyssinia, Eritrea, Aden, etc. Imitations bear the date 1780 regardless of the year of minting.
- levant storax — a solid resin with a vanillalike odor, obtained from a small tree, Styrax officinalis: formerly used in medicine and perfumery.
- loan-to-value — the ratio between the sum of money lent in a mortgage agreement and the lender's valuation of the property involved