13-letter words containing a, v, e, m
- shrove monday — the Monday before Ash Wednesday.
- silver salmon — coho salmon.
- silvichemical — any of a number of chemicals derived from a tree.
- slasher movie — a film in which victims, often women, are slashed with knives, razors, etc
- smooth-shaven — having the beard and mustache shaved off; clean-shaven.
- south vietnam — a former country in SE Asia that comprised Vietnam S of about 17° N latitude; a separate state 1954–75; now part of reunified Vietnam. Capital: Saigon.
- speak volumes — a collection of written or printed sheets bound together and constituting a book.
- stain remover — a substance designed for removing stains or dirty marks, as from clothes, carpets, etc
- standover man — a person who extorts money by intimidation
- summer savory — See under savory2 .
- taedium vitae — the feeling that life is boring and dull
- televangelism — Christian preaching on TV
- terminatively — in a finalizing manner
- the heavy mob — a group of heavies or enforcers
- time reversal — the mathematical operation of reversing the direction of time. Symbol: T.
- to come alive — If people, places, or events come alive, they start to be lively again after a quiet period. If someone or something brings them alive, they cause them to come alive.
- transmutative — the act or process of transmuting.
- unimaginative — characterized by or bearing evidence of imagination: an imaginative tale.
- uninformative — not educational
- vacuum bottle — a bottle or flask having a vacuum liner that prevents the escape of heat from hot contents, usually liquids, or the entrance of heat into cold contents; thermos.
- vacuum filter — A vacuum filter is a filter in which the liquid passes through more easily because of a vacuum on the liquid output side.
- vacuum-packed — packed and sealed in a container, as a can or jar, with as much air as possible evacuated before sealing, chiefly to preserve freshness.
- 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
- vale of tempe — a wooded valley in E Greece, in Thessaly between the mountains Olympus and Ossa
- valley stream — a village on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- van der merwe — a stereotypical figure humorously representing Boer stupidity and prejudice
- vapourer moth — a tussock moth, Orgyia antiqua, of hedgerows and trees, the female of which is wingless and lays her eggs on her former cocoon
- variety meats — processed meat, such as sausage, or offal
- vegetarianism — the beliefs or practices of a vegetarian.
- vermiculation — to work or ornament with wavy lines or markings resembling the form or tracks of a worm.
- vernacularism — a vernacular word or expression.
- vernis martin — a finish for furniture, invented in France in the 18th century in imitation of Chinese lacquer.
- vice-chairman — a member of a committee, board, group, etc., designated as immediately subordinate to a chairman and serving as such in the latter's absence; a person who acts for and assists a chairman.
- victory medal — a round bronze medal awarded to all those who served in the armed forces of the U.S. during World War I.
- viola d'amore — a treble viol with numerous sympathetic strings and several gut strings, producing a resonant sound.
- violet family — the plant family Violaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants and some tropical shrubs and trees having alternate, usually simple leaves, solitary flowers with five usually irregular petals, the lower petal often spurred, and a berry or many-seeded capsule, and including the Johnny-jump-up, pansy, and numerous species of violet.
- vip treatment — preferential or special treatment, as or as if given to famous or rich people
- virtual image — an optical image formed by the apparent divergence of rays from a point, rather than their actual divergence from a point
- visiting team — sports team playing away from home ground
- vowel harmony — a phonological rule in some languages, as Hungarian and Turkish, requiring that the vowels of a word all share a specified feature, such as front or back articulation, thereby conditioning the form that affixes may take, as in forming the Turkish plurals evler “houses” from ev “house” and adamlar “men” from adam “man.”.
- vraisemblance — verisimilitude; appearance of truth
- white van man — a male van driver, often of a white van, whose driving is selfish and aggressive
- wilhelmshaven — a seaport in NW Germany, NW of Bremen, on the North Sea.
- wolverhampton — a city in West Midlands, in W England.