14-letter words containing a, v, i, r
- 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.
- relieving arch — discharging arch.
- 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.
- retrievability — to recover or regain: to retrieve the stray ball.
- 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.
- 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.
- revitalization — to give new life to.
- revivification — to restore to life; give new life to; revive; reanimate.
- rievaulx abbey — a ruined Cistercian abbey near Helmsley in Yorkshire: built in the 12th century and abandoned at the dissolution of the monasteries; landscaped in the 18th century
- rip van winkle — (in a story by Washington Irving) a ne'er-do-well who sleeps 20 years and upon waking is startled to find how much the world has changed.
- rural delivery — a mail service in a country area, often run by contractors for the Post Office
- salivary gland — any of several glands, as the submaxillary glands, that secrete saliva.
- salva veritate — without affecting truth-value
- 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.
- 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
- shaving mirror — small adjustable mirror
- 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.
- 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.
- 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