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13-letter words containing a, g, v, e

  • revenue agent — a government official who is responsible for the collection of revenue.
  • revictualling — victuals, food supplies; provisions.
  • 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.
  • rocking valve — (on a steam engine) a valve mechanism oscillating through an arc to open and close.
  • salvage costs — the costs involved in salvaging goods or property from fire, shipwreck, etc
  • saving clause — a clause which denotes a reservation or exception
  • savoy cabbage — a variety of cabbage having a compact head of crinkled, blistered leaves.
  • scavenge pump — an oil pump used in some internal-combustion engines to return oil from the crankcase to the oil tank
  • scotch lovage — a similar and related plant, Ligusticum scoticum, of N Europe
  • sea vegetable — an edible seaweed
  • serving hatch — a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room
  • seventh grade — school year: age 12-13
  • shaving cream — a preparation, as of soap and free fatty acid, that is lathered and applied to the face to soften and condition the beard for shaving.
  • shaving horse — a trestle for supporting and steadying a piece of work being shaved.
  • significative — serving to signify.
  • 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
  • spring valley — a city in SW California, near San Diego.
  • standing wave — a wave in a medium in which each point on the axis of the wave has an associated constant amplitude ranging from zero at the nodes to a maximum at the antinodes.
  • televangelism — Christian preaching on TV
  • televangelist — an evangelist who regularly conducts religious services on television.
  • tenovaginitis — the inflammation of the sheath around a tendon
  • tergiversator — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
  • transgressive — to violate a law, command, moral code, etc.; offend; sin.
  • travel agency — a business that accommodates travelers, as by securing tickets, arranging for reservations, and giving information.
  • traveling bag — a small bag, as a valise or suitcase, usually made of leather, having an oblong shape, and used chiefly to hold clothes.
  • undeviatingly — to turn aside, as from a route, way, course, etc.
  • unevangelical — not religiously orthodox; not in accordance with the Christian gospel
  • unimaginative — characterized by or bearing evidence of imagination: an imaginative tale.
  • unsalvageable — the act of saving a ship or its cargo from perils of the seas.
  • unscavengered — lacking the qualities of having been scavenged
  • vaginal cream — A vaginal cream is cream for treating vaginal infections, applied with a special applicator.
  • vaginal smear — a smear sample taken from vaginal mucous for cytological analysis
  • vagodepressor — decreasing or mimicking the decrease of the activity of the vagus nerve.
  • valet parking — a service offered by a hotel, restaurant, etc., by which patrons' cars are parked by an attendant.
  • vantage point — a position or place that affords a wide or advantageous perspective; viewpoint: to survey a valley from the vantage point of a high hill.
  • vegetable fat — oil from plant source
  • vegetable oil — any of a large group of oils that are esters of fatty acids and glycerol, obtained from the leaves, fruit, or seeds of plants.
  • vegetable wax — a wax, or a substance resembling wax, obtained from various plants, as the wax palm.
  • vegetarianism — the beliefs or practices of a vegetarian.
  • verbigeration — the condition or instances of repeating the same word or sentence against one's will as a symptom of a psychiatric disorder
  • vestal virgin — (in ancient Rome) one of four, later six, virgins consecrated to Vesta and to the tending of the sacred fire on her altar.
  • vicar general — Roman Catholic Church. a priest deputized by a bishop to assist him in the administration of a diocese.
  • vicar-general — Roman Catholic Church. a priest deputized by a bishop to assist him in the administration of a diocese.
  • village green — park or common in a village
  • village idiot — someone who is well known in their community for their stupidity and ignorant behaviour
  • villeggiatura — a (country) holiday
  • vindhya range — a mountain range in central India: separates the Ganges basin from the Deccan, marking the limits of northern and peninsular India. Greatest height: 1113 m (3651 ft)
  • virginia dare — Virginia, 1587–? first child born of English parents in the Western Hemisphere.
  • virginia deer — the common white-tailed deer, Odocoileus virginianus, of eastern North America.
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