13-letter words containing d, e, r, v
- prejudicative — tending to prejudge
- private brand — a product marketed under a private label.
- private study — the act or process of studying outwith classes
- quadrumvirate — a governing or managing group, coalition, or the like, of four persons.
- racing driver — someone who drives a racing car in motor car races
- radioactivate — to make (a substance) radioactive.
- radius vector — Mathematics. the length of the line segment joining a fixed point or origin to a given point.
- receiving end — the position in which one is subject to some kind of action or effect, especially an unpleasant one (usually used in the phrase at or on the receiving end): The corporation is on the receiving end of many complaints about its advertising.
- record sleeve — the outer covering of a phonograph record
- recording van — a van containing sound and image recording equipment, used as a mobile recording studio
- red river war — a punitive campaign (1874–75) led by General Sheridan against hostile Indians in the region of the Red River and the Llano Estacado.
- red-eye gravy — a gravy made from the pan juices of fried country ham, thickened with flour and sometimes containing coffee for color and flavor.
- redevelopment — the act or process of redeveloping.
- reduced level — lesser degree or amount
- reductiveness — of or relating to reduction; serving to reduce or abridge: an urgent need for reductive measures.
- reduplicative — tending to reduplicate.
- reinvigorated — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
- relative wind — the velocity or direction of airflow with respect to the body it surrounds, especially an airfoil.
- rendezvousing — an agreement between two or more persons to meet at a certain time and place.
- reserve-grade — denoting a sporting team of the second rank in a club
- reserved list — a list of retired naval, army, or air-force officers available for recall to active service in an emergency
- reserved word — a word in a programming language or computer system that has a fixed meaning and therefore cannot be redefined by a programmer
- revendication — the process or act of revendicating
- reverse video — a mode on the display screen of a computer in which the colors normally used for characters and background are reversed.
- revindication — the act of vindicating.
- ride the wave — to enjoy a period of success and good fortune
- ringed plover — any of several cosmopolitan plovers of the genus Charadrius, especially C. hiaticula, brownish above and white below with a black band around the breast.
- river dolphin — any freshwater cetacean of the family Platanistidae, inhabiting rivers of North and South America and S Asia. They are smaller than marine dolphins and have a longer narrower snout
- river red gum — a large Australian red gum tree, Eucalyptus camaldulensis, growing along river banks
- road surveyor — a person who does surveying work for road building
- roosevelt dam — a dam on the Salt River, in central Arizona. 284 feet (87 meters) high; 1080 feet (329 meters) long.
- rose d'anvers — a gem having a rose cut of 12 or fewer facets.
- salad servers — kitchen utensils used as tongs to serve salad
- sandfly fever — a usually mild viral disease occurring in hot, dry areas, characterized by fever, eye pain, and sometimes a rash, transmitted by sandflies of the genus Phlebotomus.
- scratch video — the technique or practice of recycling images from films or television to make collages
- self-depraved — corrupt, wicked, or perverted.
- self-governed — governed by itself or having self-government, as a state or community; independent.
- self-observed — to see, watch, perceive, or notice: He observed the passersby in the street.
- service dress — a khaki army uniform more formal than khakis but less formal than full army dress
- seventh chord — a chord formed by the superposition of three thirds.
- seventh grade — school year: age 12-13
- seventy-third — next after the seventy-second; being the ordinal number for 73.
- severodonetsk — a city in E Ukraine, NE of Donetsk.
- short-sleeved — having short sleeves
- shrove monday — the Monday before Ash Wednesday.
- shrove sunday — the Sunday before Ash Wednesday; Quinquagesima.
- sierra nevada — a mountain range in E California. Highest peak, Mt. Whitney, 14,495 feet (4420 meters).
- silver doctor — a type of artificial fly, used chiefly for trout and salmon.
- silver dollar — A silver dollar is an American coin, worth one dollar, that is made of silver.
- silver halide — a compound in which silver is combined with a halogen, as silver chloride, bromide, or iodide.