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13-letter words containing a, v, e, i, r, o

  • remonstrative — to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval.
  • restoratively — in a restorative manner
  • retroactively — operative with respect to past occurrences, as a statute; retrospective: a retroactive law.
  • revaccination — the act or practice of vaccinating; inoculation with vaccine.
  • revelationist — a person who believes in divine revelation.
  • revendication — the process or act of revendicating
  • reverberation — a reechoed sound.
  • revindication — the act of vindicating.
  • revolutionary — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change: a revolutionary junta.
  • 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.
  • risk aversion — a strong disinclination to take risks
  • rivalrousness — characterized by rivalry; competitive: the rivalrous aspect of their friendship.
  • rocking valve — (on a steam engine) a valve mechanism oscillating through an arc to open and close.
  • romantic love — love characterized by romance and involving sexual attraction
  • rosenkavalier — an opera (1911) by Richard Strauss.
  • russian olive — oleaster.
  • scratch video — the technique or practice of recycling images from films or television to make collages
  • semioviparous — bearing young in an incomplete state of development, as a marsupial.
  • shaving horse — a trestle for supporting and steadying a piece of work being shaved.
  • silver dollar — A silver dollar is an American coin, worth one dollar, that is made of silver.
  • silver iodate — a white, crystalline, slightly water-soluble powder, AgIO 3 , used in medicine chiefly as an antiseptic and as an astringent.
  • silver poplar — white poplar (def 1).
  • silver salmon — coho salmon.
  • slasher movie — a film in which victims, often women, are slashed with knives, razors, etc
  • slieve donard — a mountain in SE Northern Ireland, in the Mourne Mountains: highest peak in Northern Ireland. Height: 853 m (2798 ft)
  • solitary wave — a localized disturbance that propagates like a wave but resembles a particle in that it does not disperse, even if it collides with other such waves.
  • soviet russia — a conventional name of the Soviet Union.
  • stain remover — a substance designed for removing stains or dirty marks, as from clothes, carpets, etc
  • subordinative — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
  • suovetaurilia — (in ancient Rome) a sacrifice of a hog, a ram, and a bull.
  • tergiversator — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
  • tractor drive — a mechanism that feeds paper through a printer, using studs on a rotating wheel that engage with holes along the side of the paper
  • ultra-violent — acting with or characterized by uncontrolled, strong, rough force: a violent earthquake.
  • ultraviolence — acts of extreme violence, esp those shown on television or film
  • uncooperative — working or acting together willingly for a common purpose or benefit.
  • uninformative — not educational
  • unprovocative — tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
  • valedictorian — a student, usually the one ranking highest academically in a school graduating class, who delivers the valedictory at the commencement exercises.
  • vapor barrier — a layer of material, as plastic film or foil, used to protect installed insulation by retarding the transmission of moisture from the interior environment.
  • vapor tension — vapor pressure.
  • vapourishness — the quality or state of being vapourish
  • variable cost — a cost that varies with a change in the volume of output while remaining uniform on a per-unit basis, as cost of labor (distinguished from fixed cost).
  • varicose vein — Varicose veins are swollen and painful veins in a person's legs, which sometimes require a medical operation.
  • variety store — a retail store, as a five-and-ten, carrying a large variety of goods, especially low-priced articles.
  • vaunt-courier — a person who goes in advance, as a herald.
  • vectorization — the process of converting from a bitmap image to a vector representation
  • venetian door — a doorway having a form similar to that of a Palladian window.
  • ventriloquial — of, relating to, or using ventriloquism.
  • veraciousness — characterized by truthfulness; true, accurate, or honest in content: a veracious statement; a veracious account.
  • verbalization — to express in words: He couldn't verbalize his feelings.
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