13-letter words containing e, l, v
- self-punitive — serving for, concerned with, or inflicting punishment: punitive laws; punitive action.
- self-reverent — feeling, exhibiting, or characterized by reverence; deeply respectful: a reverent greeting.
- self-violence — swift and intense force: the violence of a storm.
- semicivilized — half or partly civilized.
- service clasp — clasp (def 4).
- service rifle — a rifle that is issued as standard to soldiers of an army or armed force
- set-in sleeve — a sleeve joined to the body of a garment at the shoulder and having a seam at that juncture.
- seventeenthly — in the seventeenth place
- shaver outlet — a point in a wall, esp in a bathroom, where you can connect an electric razor to the power supply
- shelving unit — A shelving unit is a flexible display system which can be moved and adjusted to accommodate different product dimensions.
- shirt-sleeves — not wearing a jacket; informally dressed: a shirt-sleeve mob.
- shivering owl — screech owl.
- short-sleeved — having short sleeves
- silver bullet — direct or immediate solution
- 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.
- silver iodate — a white, crystalline, slightly water-soluble powder, AgIO 3 , used in medicine chiefly as an antiseptic and as an astringent.
- silver iodide — a pale-yellow, water-insoluble solid, AgI, which darkens on exposure to light: used chiefly in medicine, photography, and artificial rainmaking.
- silver lining — a sign of hope in an unfortunate or gloomy situation; a bright prospect: Every cloud has a silver lining.
- silver polish — a type of polishing medium that is suitable for silver
- silver poplar — white poplar (def 1).
- silver salmon — coho salmon.
- silver screen — motion pictures; the motion-picture industry: a star of the silver screen.
- silver spring — a town in central Maryland, near Washington, D.C.
- silver surfer — elderly internet user
- silver tongue — the characteristic of being skilful at persuading people to believe what they say or to do what they want them to do
- silver wattle — a tree, Acacia dealbata, of the legume family, native to Australia and Tasmania, having feathery, silver-gray foliage and fragrant yellow flowers.
- silver-bullet — a quick solution to a difficult problem.
- silver-haired — having silver coloured hair
- silver-plated — Something that is silver-plated is covered with a very thin layer of silver.
- silver-y moth — a brownish noctuid moth, Plusia gamma, having a light Y-shaped marking on each forewing; it migrates in large flocks
- silvichemical — any of a number of chemicals derived from a tree.
- single-valued — (of a function) having the property that each element in the domain has corresponding to it exactly one element in the range.
- slasher movie — a film in which victims, often women, are slashed with knives, razors, etc
- slave trading — trafficking in people
- slave traffic — the traffic of slaves
- slieve donard — a mountain in SE Northern Ireland, in the Mourne Mountains: highest peak in Northern Ireland. Height: 853 m (2798 ft)
- slow dissolve — a transition that fades out one scene and replaces it with another over a period of about three of four seconds
- solitary wave — a localized disturbance that propagates like a wave but resembles a particle in that it does not disperse, even if it collides with other such waves.
- solvent abuse — Solvent abuse is the dangerous practice of breathing in the gases from substances such as glue in order to feel as if you are drunk.
- sovietologist — Kremlinology.
- speak volumes — a collection of written or printed sheets bound together and constituting a book.
- speculatively — pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by speculation, contemplation, conjecture, or abstract reasoning: a speculative approach.
- spring valley — a city in SW California, near San Diego.
- steve's shell — (operating system) (ssh) A Unix shell with many csh- and ksh-like features, by Steve Baker <[email protected]> and Thomas Moore. Version 1.7 has been ported to Sequent, Sun, NeXT, Ultrix, BSDI and is available from comp.sources.unix volume 26.
- subserviently — serving or acting in a subordinate capacity; subordinate.
- substantively — a noun.
- suction valve — a nonreturn valve in a pump suction to prevent the pump draining or depriming when not in service
- suovetaurilia — (in ancient Rome) a sacrifice of a hog, a ram, and a bull.