13-letter words containing v, e, n, l, a
- overvaluation — to value too highly; put too high a value on: They should be careful not to overvalue the property.
- penetratively — in a penetrative manner
- pennsylvanian — of or relating to the state of Pennsylvania.
- plano-concave — pertaining to or noting a lens that is plane on one side and concave on the other.
- platonic love — Platonism. love of the Idea of beauty, seen as terminating an evolution from the desire for an individual and the love of physical beauty to the love and contemplation of spiritual or ideal beauty.
- pleasantville — a city in SE New Jersey.
- pole-vaulting — a field sport in which competitors attempt to clear a high bar with the aid of an extremely flexible long pole
- polio vaccine — a vaccine administered to induce specific active immunity to poliomyelitis.
- present value — current monetary worth
- prevocational — of, relating to, or constituting preliminary vocational training.
- prevolitional — the act of willing, choosing, or resolving; exercise of willing: She left of her own volition.
- provincialise — to make provincial in character.
- provincialize — to make provincial in character.
- pulverization — to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.
- quantivalence — quantitative equivalence
- quinquevalent — pentavalent.
- raglan sleeve — a sleeve that begins at the neck and has a long, slanting seam line from the neck to the armhole, giving the garment a relatively undefined shoulder.
- re-evaluating — to determine or set the value or amount of; appraise: to evaluate property.
- re-evaluation — an act or instance of evaluating or appraising.
- recultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
- relative wind — the velocity or direction of airflow with respect to the body it surrounds, especially an airfoil.
- revelationist — a person who believes in divine revelation.
- reverentially — of the nature of or characterized by reverence; reverent: reverential awe.
- revictualling — victuals, food supplies; provisions.
- revolutionary — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change: a revolutionary junta.
- ring-a-lievio — a game played usually between two teams in which the members of one team attempt to find, capture, and imprison the members of the other, who can be freed only by a teammate not yet captured.
- rivalrousness — characterized by rivalry; competitive: the rivalrous aspect of their friendship.
- rocking valve — (on a steam engine) a valve mechanism oscillating through an arc to open and close.
- romantic love — love characterized by romance and involving sexual attraction
- rosenkavalier — an opera (1911) by Richard Strauss.
- russian olive — oleaster.
- sales revenue — the gross income for a business derived from sales of its products or services
- salviniaceous — relating to the genus Salviniaceae
- sandfly fever — a usually mild viral disease occurring in hot, dry areas, characterized by fever, eye pain, and sometimes a rash, transmitted by sandflies of the genus Phlebotomus.
- saving clause — a clause which denotes a reservation or exception
- seaton valley — a region in NE England, in SE Northumberland: consists of a group of former coal-mining villages
- silver salmon — coho salmon.
- single-valued — (of a function) having the property that each element in the domain has corresponding to it exactly one element in the range.
- slave trading — trafficking in people
- slieve donard — a mountain in SE Northern Ireland, in the Mourne Mountains: highest peak in Northern Ireland. Height: 853 m (2798 ft)
- solvent abuse — Solvent abuse is the dangerous practice of breathing in the gases from substances such as glue in order to feel as if you are drunk.
- spring valley — a city in SW California, near San Diego.
- substantively — a noun.
- suction valve — a nonreturn valve in a pump suction to prevent the pump draining or depriming when not in service
- talkativeness — inclined to talk a great deal: One drink and she became very talkative.
- televangelism — Christian preaching on TV
- televangelist — an evangelist who regularly conducts religious services on television.
- terminatively — in a finalizing manner
- transfusively — in a transfusive manner
- transversally — transverse.