14-letter words containing a, i, r, v, e, s
- quadrumvirates — Plural form of quadrumvirate.
- rabies vaccine — substance that inoculates against rabies
- radiosensitive — (of certain tissues or organisms) sensitive to or destructible by various types of radiant energy, as x-rays, rays from radioactive material, or the like.
- re-investigate — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
- receivableness — the fact or condition of being receivable; receivability
- recurvirostral — with a beak which is bent upwards
- regressive tax — a tax which is levied or graduated so that the rate decreases as the amount taxed increases
- removable disk — removable hard disk
- representative — a person or thing that represents another or others.
- reservationist — a person who makes or takes reservations, as at an airline office; reservation clerk.
- reverberations — remote or indirect consequences of an action; repercussions
- reverse racism — a perceived discrimination against a dominant group or political majority
- reverse-racism — intolerance or prejudice directed at members of historically dominant racial groups.
- salva veritate — without affecting truth-value
- savi's warbler — a type of warbler; Locustella luscinioides.
- scarcity value — increased value due to the inadequate supply of something
- self assertive — insistence on or an expression of one's own importance, wishes, needs, opinions, or the like.
- self-assertive — insistence on or an expression of one's own importance, wishes, needs, opinions, or the like.
- self-operative — automatic.
- self-revealing — displaying, exhibiting, or disclosing one's most private feelings, thoughts, etc.: an embarrassingly self-revealing autobiography.
- semi-narrative — a story or account of events, experiences, or the like, whether true or fictitious.
- semistarvation — the state of being nearly starved.
- semivegetarian — a person who eats mostly plant foods, dairy products, and eggs, and occasionally chicken, fish, and red meat.
- sergiyev posad — a city in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Moscow.
- seronegativity — the quality or state of being seronegative
- service a room — If you service a room, you clean it and change the towels and bed linen in it.
- service charge — a fee charged for a service, sometimes in addition to a basic charge.
- serviceability — capable of or being of service; useful.
- servomechanism — an electronic control system in which a hydraulic, pneumatic, or other type of controlling mechanism is actuated and controlled by a low-energy signal.
- seville orange — a globose, reddish-yellow, bitter or sweet, edible citrus fruit.
- share of voice — the proportion of the total audience or readership commanded by a media group across its full range of publishing and broadcasting activities
- sherry vinegar — a gourmet wine vinegar produced in the Jerez region of S Spain
- silver nitrate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble, bitter, corrosive, poisonous powder, AgNO 3 , produced by the reaction of silver and dilute nitric acid: used chiefly in the manufacture of photographic emulsions and mirrors, as a laboratory reagent, and in medicine as an antiseptic, astringent, and in the routine prophylaxis of ophthalmia neonatorum.
- 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
- slit fricative — a fricative, as (f) or (th), in which the tongue is relatively flat, with air channeled over it through a shallow slit.
- social service — organized welfare efforts carried on under professional auspices by trained personnel.
- solitary vireo — a vireo, Vireo solitarius, of North and Central America, having the top and sides of the head bluish-gray.
- 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.
- splatter movie — a film containing many scenes of violent and gruesome murders.
- stanovoi range — a mountain range in SE Russia; forms part of the watershed between rivers flowing to the Arctic and the Pacific. Highest peak: Mount Skalisty, 2482 m (8143 ft)
- state services — services appointed to commemorate days of national celebration or deliverance such as the accession of a sovereign
- storage device — a device used to store digital data or information, as a hard disk or CD.
- superelevation — bank1 (def 6).
- superior ovary — Botany. an ovary positioned above a receptacle of a flower, as in members of the mint family.
- superovulation — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
- surface-active — (of a substance, esp a detergent) capable of lowering the surface tension of a liquid, usually water
- survival curve — a line or curve plotted on a graph indicating survival rates of a specific population, as breast-cancer patients, over a period of time.
- survival value — the utility of a behavioral trait or of a physical feature of an organism in aiding the survival and reproduction of the organism.