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13-letter words containing e, l, v

  • reverse fault — a fault in which the rock above the fault plane is displaced upward relative to the rock below the fault plane (opposed to gravity fault).
  • reverse plate — a plate for printing a reverse.
  • reversibility — capable of reversing or of being reversed.
  • revictualling — victuals, food supplies; provisions.
  • revolutionary — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change: a revolutionary junta.
  • revolutionise — to bring about a revolution in; effect a radical change in: to revolutionize petroleum refining methods.
  • revolutionism — a belief in revolution or revolutionary ideas
  • revolutionist — a person who advocates or takes part in a revolution.
  • revolutionize — to bring about a revolution in; effect a radical change in: to revolutionize petroleum refining methods.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • rivalrousness — characterized by rivalry; competitive: the rivalrous aspect of their friendship.
  • 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 lamprey — Lampetra fluviatilis; a jawless fish
  • rocking valve — (on a steam engine) a valve mechanism oscillating through an arc to open and close.
  • role reversal — Role reversal is a situation in which two people have chosen or been forced to exchange their duties and responsibilities, so that each is now doing what the other used to do.
  • roll-over arm — an upholstered chair or sofa arm that curves outward and downward.
  • romantic love — love characterized by romance and involving sexual attraction
  • roosevelt dam — a dam on the Salt River, in central Arizona. 284 feet (87 meters) high; 1080 feet (329 meters) long.
  • rosenkavalier — an opera (1911) by Richard Strauss.
  • rubber gloves — gloves made of rubber, worn to protect the hands while washing up, gardening, etc
  • russian olive — oleaster.
  • salad servers — kitchen utensils used as tongs to serve salad
  • salary review — the, often annual, assessment or review of the salary or paid to an employee, where decisions are taken on whether the employee's pay should be increased, etc
  • sales revenue — the gross income for a business derived from sales of its products or services
  • salvage costs — the costs involved in salvaging goods or property from fire, shipwreck, etc
  • salviniaceous — relating to the genus Salviniaceae
  • sample survey — a survey of particular examples of sth, intended as representative of the whole category
  • 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.
  • saving clause — a clause which denotes a reservation or exception
  • scarcely ever — almost never, seldom
  • scarlet fever — a contagious febrile disease caused by streptococci and characterized by a scarlet eruption.
  • school leaver — School leavers are young people who have just left school, because they have completed their time there.
  • schuylerville — a village in E New York, on the Hudson: scene of Burgoyne's defeat and surrender in the Battle of Saratoga 1777.
  • scotch lovage — a similar and related plant, Ligusticum scoticum, of N Europe
  • sea vegetable — an edible seaweed
  • seaton valley — a region in NE England, in SE Northumberland: consists of a group of former coal-mining villages
  • seclusiveness — tending to seclude, especially oneself.
  • self-adhesive — having a side or surface coated with an adhesive substance to permit sticking without glue, paste, or the like: a self-adhesive label; self-adhesive ceramic tiles.
  • self-advocacy — the practice of having mentally handicapped people speak for themselves and control their own affairs, rather than having nonhandicapped people automatically assume responsibility for them
  • self-approval — the act of approving; approbation.
  • self-deceived — holding an erroneous opinion of oneself, one's own effort, or the like.
  • self-depraved — corrupt, wicked, or perverted.
  • self-devotion — intense devotion of oneself to an activity or to a field or profession, as art or science.
  • self-evolving — to develop gradually: to evolve a scheme.
  • self-governed — governed by itself or having self-government, as a state or community; independent.
  • self-improver — improvement of one's mind, character, etc., through one's own efforts.
  • self-involved — self-centered; preoccupied with oneself
  • self-oblivion — the state of being completely forgotten or unknown: a former movie star now in oblivion.
  • self-observed — to see, watch, perceive, or notice: He observed the passersby in the street.
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