13-letter words containing c, r, e, s, i, v
- pollice verso — with thumbs turned downward: the sign made by spectators calling for the death of a defeated gladiator in the ancient Roman circus.
- proactiveness — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- prospectively — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
- provincialise — to make provincial in character.
- radius vector — Mathematics. the length of the line segment joining a fixed point or origin to a given point.
- receiving set — a radio receiver.
- receptiveness — having the quality of receiving, taking in, or admitting.
- recessiveness — tending to go, move, or slant back; receding.
- reclusiveness — the state or quality of being reclusive
- recovery ship — a naval vessel designed to participate in the retrieval of a satellite, instrument package, or spaceship after it has re-entered the atmosphere and landed in the ocean
- recursiveness — pertaining to or using a rule or procedure that can be applied repeatedly.
- reductiveness — of or relating to reduction; serving to reduce or abridge: an urgent need for reductive measures.
- reserve price — floor price.
- restrictively — tending or serving to restrict.
- retrospective — directed to the past; contemplative of past situations, events, etc.
- revascularize — to surgically improve the blood circulation of (an organ or area of the body).
- schuylerville — a village in E New York, on the Hudson: scene of Burgoyne's defeat and surrender in the Battle of Saratoga 1777.
- sciatic nerve — either of a pair of nerves, the largest in the body, that originate in the sacral plexus of the lower back and extend down the buttocks to the back of the knees, where they divide into other nerves: the sciatic nerve and its branches innervate large areas of the pelvis, leg, and foot.
- scratch video — the technique or practice of recycling images from films or television to make collages
- scrivenership — the position of being a scrivener or scribe; scribing
- service break — an instance of a player winning a game against a server.
- service clasp — clasp (def 4).
- service court — the part of the court into which a player must serve in various games, as tennis, badminton, handball, or squash.
- service dress — a khaki army uniform more formal than khakis but less formal than full army dress
- service rifle — a rifle that is issued as standard to soldiers of an army or armed force
- serviceperson — a person who is a member of the armed forces of a country.
- serving hatch — a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room
- shaving cream — a preparation, as of soap and free fatty acid, that is lathered and applied to the face to soften and condition the beard for shaving.
- silver doctor — a type of artificial fly, used chiefly for trout and salmon.
- silver screen — motion pictures; the motion-picture industry: a star of the silver screen.
- sir-reverence — (used as an expression of apology, as before unseemly or indelicate words.)
- slave traffic — the traffic of slaves
- society verse — light, graceful, entertaining poetry considered as appealing to polite society.
- sperry univac — (company) One of the divisions of Sperry Corporation at the time that company merged with the Burroughs Corporation to form Unisys Corporation.
- superachiever — someone who achieves more than most; high achiever
- superactivity — extreme activity; hyperactivity
- the provinces — those parts of a country lying outside the capital and other large cities and regarded as outside the mainstream of sophisticated culture
- train service — provision of railway transport
- transactivate — to activate the replication of (a viral gene) through the presence of a gene at another locus, especially following a viral infection.
- traverse city — a city in NW Michigan.
- undescriptive — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
- uninstructive — not conveying information or serving to instruct
- unobstructive — to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
- unserviceable — not suitable to be used
- valet service — a cleaning service, in which your clothes are collected for cleaning, from your house or hotel, and returned to you
- 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.
- vascularities — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
- venire facias — a writ directing the appropriate official to summon a jury.
- veraciousness — characterized by truthfulness; true, accurate, or honest in content: a veracious statement; a veracious account.