14-letter words containing a, d, v, e, r
- sergiyev posad — a city in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Moscow.
- seventh-grader — a student in the seventh year of school, usually 11 to 13 years old
- shrove tuesday — the last day of Shrovetide, long observed as a season of merrymaking before Lent.
- slave cylinder — a small cylinder containing a piston that operates the brake shoes or pads in hydraulic brakes or the working part in any other hydraulically operated system
- sound archives — official records or files (as in a library) of sound recordings, broadcasts, or performances, esp those from radio programmes
- space invaders — a video or computer game, the object of which is to destroy attacking alien spacecraft
- spike lavender — a lavender, Lavandula latifolia, having spikes of pale-purple flowers, and yielding an oil used in painting.
- storage device — a device used to store digital data or information, as a hard disk or CD.
- the everglades — a subtropical marshy region of Florida, south of Lake Okeechobee: contains the Everglades National Park established to preserve the flora and fauna of the swamps. Area: over 13 000 sq km (5000 sq miles)
- the ordovician — the Ordovician period or rock system
- the very idea! — that is preposterous, unreasonable, etc
- tractor driver — a person who drives a motor vehicle used to pull heavy loads, esp farm machinery such as a plough or harvester
- travel-stained — dirty or soiled as a result of travelling
- ultracivilized — showing a high degree of cultural or social development
- under-achiever — a student who performs less well in school than would be expected on the basis of abilities indicated by intelligence and aptitude tests, etc.
- under-activity — insufficiently active: an underactive thyroid gland.
- underleveraged — (of a business organization) having an excessively low ratio of debt capital to equity capital
- undiscoverable — unable to be discovered or found out
- undiscoverably — in an undiscoverable manner
- undulant fever — brucellosis.
- v-shaped curve — a curve on a graph that shows a sharp fall followed by a correspondingly sharp rise
- vacuum residue — Vacuum residue is the substance which is obtained by vacuum distillation (= a process of separating substances by reducing pressure to less than atmospheric pressure).
- valentine card — a card expressing love or affection, sent, often anonymously, to your sweetheart or satirically to a friend, on Saint Valentine's Day
- valetudinarian — an invalid.
- van der weyden — Rogier (roːˈxiːr). ?1400–64, Flemish painter, esp of religious works and portraits
- vandyke collar — a wide collar of lace and linen with the edge formed into scallops or deep points.
- vantage ground — a position or place that gives one an advantage, as for action, view, or defense.
- vapour density — the ratio of the density of a gas or vapour to that of hydrogen at the same temperature and pressure
- vat-registered — (of a company or individual) registered as being liable to pay VAT
- vendor placing — a method of financing the purchase of one company by another in which the purchasing company pays for the target company in its own shares, on condition that the vendor places these shares with investors for cash payment
- victory garden — a vegetable garden, especially a home garden, cultivated to increase food production during a war or period of shortages.
- ville-de-paris — a department in N France. 41 sq. mi. (106 sq. km). Capital: Paris.
- warning device — alarm or danger signal
- water divining — the location of water with a divining rod
- well-travelled — traveled.
- wood engraving — the art or process of engraving designs in relief with a burin on the end grain of wood, for printing.