13-letter words containing a, d, v, e, r, s
- overhead-shot — over one's head; aloft; up in the air or sky, especially near the zenith: There was a cloud overhead.
- oversaturated — to cause (a substance) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance, through solution, chemical combination, or the like.
- private study — the act or process of studying outwith classes
- radius vector — Mathematics. the length of the line segment joining a fixed point or origin to a given point.
- reserve-grade — denoting a sporting team of the second rank in a club
- road surveyor — a person who does surveying work for road building
- roosevelt dam — a dam on the Salt River, in central Arizona. 284 feet (87 meters) high; 1080 feet (329 meters) long.
- rose d'anvers — a gem having a rose cut of 12 or fewer facets.
- salad servers — kitchen utensils used as tongs to serve salad
- 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.
- scratch video — the technique or practice of recycling images from films or television to make collages
- self-depraved — corrupt, wicked, or perverted.
- seventh grade — school year: age 12-13
- shrove monday — the Monday before Ash Wednesday.
- shrove sunday — the Sunday before Ash Wednesday; Quinquagesima.
- sierra nevada — a mountain range in E California. Highest peak, Mt. Whitney, 14,495 feet (4420 meters).
- silver dollar — A silver dollar is an American coin, worth one dollar, that is made of silver.
- silver halide — a compound in which silver is combined with a halogen, as silver chloride, bromide, or iodide.
- silver iodate — a white, crystalline, slightly water-soluble powder, AgIO 3 , used in medicine chiefly as an antiseptic and as an astringent.
- silver-haired — having silver coloured hair
- silver-plated — Something that is silver-plated is covered with a very thin layer of silver.
- 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)
- standover man — a person who extorts money by intimidation
- subderivative — a word derived from a derivative.
- subordinative — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
- sunday driver — a person who drives a car inexpertly, especially slowly or overcautiously, in the manner of one who drives infrequently.
- superelevated — (of a curve in a road, railroad track, etc.) banked.
- the adversary — Satan
- unadventurous — inclined or willing to engage in adventures; enjoying adventures.
- unscavengered — lacking the qualities of having been scavenged
- vagodepressor — decreasing or mimicking the decrease of the activity of the vagus nerve.
- van der waals — Johannes Diderik (joːˈhɑnəs ˈdiːdərik). 1837–1923, Dutch physicist, noted for his research on the equations of state of gases and liquids: Nobel prize for physics in 1910
- varied thrush — a plump thrush, Ixoreus naevius, of western North America, resembling a robin with a dark band across the chest.
- vide ut supra — (used to direct a reader to a specified place in a text) see as above
- western dvina — a river rising in W Russia, in the Valdai Hills and flowing south and southwest then northwest to the Gulf of Riga. Length: 1021 km (634 miles)