14-letter words containing a, t, v
- rehabilitative — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
- reinvigorating — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
- reinvigoration — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
- relative major — the major key whose tonic is the third degree of a given minor key.
- relative minor — the minor key whose tonic is the sixth degree of a given major key.
- relative pitch — the pitch of a tone as determined by its relationship to other tones in a scale.
- relativization — to regard as or make relative.
- 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.
- retrievability — to recover or regain: to retrieve the stray ball.
- revenue stream — method of income
- revenue tariff — a tariff or duty imposed on imports primarily to produce public revenue.
- reverberations — remote or indirect consequences of an action; repercussions
- reverification — the act of verifying.
- reversal plate — a plate developed by the reversal process.
- revitalization — to give new life to.
- revivification — to restore to life; give new life to; revive; reanimate.
- root vegetable — edible starchy tuber
- sackville-west — Dame Victoria Mary ("Vita") 1892–1962, English poet and novelist (wife of Harold Nicolson).
- salva veritate — without affecting truth-value
- salvageability — the act of saving a ship or its cargo from perils of the seas.
- salvation army — an international Christian organization founded in England in 1865 by William Booth, organized along quasi-military lines and devoted chiefly to evangelism and to providing social services, especially to the poor.
- sauve qui peut — a state of panic or disorder; rout
- scarcity value — increased value due to the inadequate supply of something
- scavenger hunt — a game in which individuals or teams are sent out to accumulate, without purchasing, a series of common, outlandish, or humorous objects, the winner being the person or team returning first with all the items.
- 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-motivated — initiative to undertake or continue a task or activity without another's prodding or supervision.
- self-operative — automatic.
- self-valuation — an estimated value or worth.
- 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.
- seronegativity — the quality or state of being seronegative
- servant church — the attitude or practices of a church whose avowed purpose is to serve the world.
- serviceability — capable of or being of service; useful.
- seventh avenue — an avenue in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City.
- seventh heaven — (especially in Islam and the cabala) the highest heaven, where God and the most exalted angels dwell.
- seventh-grader — a student in the seventh year of school, usually 11 to 13 years old
- sheva brachoth — the seven blessings said during the marriage service and repeated at the celebration thereafter
- shrove tuesday — the last day of Shrovetide, long observed as a season of merrymaking before Lent.
- 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 bracelet — a braceletlike, ornamental circlet or chain worn around the ankle.
- slit fricative — a fricative, as (f) or (th), in which the tongue is relatively flat, with air channeled over it through a shallow slit.
- snifting valve — a valve for releasing small quantities of steam, compressed air, or condensate, as from the cylinder of a steam engine.
- solar activity — the sum of all variable and short-lived disturbances on the sun, as sunspots, prominences, and solar flares.
- solitary vireo — a vireo, Vireo solitarius, of North and Central America, having the top and sides of the head bluish-gray.
- southern slavs — one of a group of peoples in eastern, southeastern, and central Europe, including the Russians and Ruthenians (Eastern Slavs) the Bulgars, Serbs, Croats, Slavonians, Slovenes, etc. (Southern Slavs) and the Poles, Czechs, Moravians, Slovaks, etc. (Western Slavs)
- sovietological — of or relating to Sovietology
- spirit varnish — a preparation consisting of resinous matter, as copal or lac, dissolved in an oil (oil varnish) or in alcohol (spirit varnish) or other volatile liquid. When applied to the surface of wood, metal, etc., it dries and leaves a hard, more or less glossy, usually transparent coating.