13-letter words containing e, v, c
- seismic waves — a wave of energy that is generated by an earthquake or other earth vibration and that travels within the earth or along its surface.
- 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-deceived — holding an erroneous opinion of oneself, one's own effort, or the like.
- self-violence — swift and intense force: the violence of a storm.
- semicivilized — half or partly civilized.
- 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
- seventh chord — a chord formed by the superposition of three thirds.
- severance pay — money, exclusive of wages, back pay, etc., paid to an employee who has tenure and who is dismissed because of lack of work or other reasons beyond the employee's control.
- severance tax — a tax levied by a state on the extraction and use of a natural product, as coal, that is sold outside the state or during a certain period.
- 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.
- significative — serving to signify.
- 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.
- silvichemical — any of a number of chemicals derived from a tree.
- singing voice — the musical quality of a voice when a person is singing
- 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.
- speculatively — pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by speculation, contemplation, conjecture, or abstract reasoning: a speculative approach.
- sperry univac — (company) One of the divisions of Sperry Corporation at the time that company merged with the Burroughs Corporation to form Unisys Corporation.
- subindicative — of or relating to subindicating
- suction valve — a nonreturn valve in a pump suction to prevent the pump draining or depriming when not in service
- superachiever — someone who achieves more than most; high achiever
- superactivity — extreme activity; hyperactivity
- survey course — an introductory course of study that provides a general view of an academic subject.
- sweet cassava — any of several tropical American plants belonging to the genus Manihot, of the spurge family, as M. esculenta (bitter cassava) and M. dulcis (sweet cassava) cultivated for their tuberous roots, which yield important food products.
- tax avoidance — Tax avoidance is the use of legal methods to pay the smallest possible amount of tax.
- tax incentive — measure to encourage activity
- teleconverter — a person or thing that converts.
- the civil war — the war between the North (the Union) and the South (the Confederacy) in the U.S. (1861-65)
- the provinces — those parts of a country lying outside the capital and other large cities and regarded as outside the mainstream of sophisticated culture
- thermic fever — sunstroke.
- thieves' cant — slang used by thieves
- throw a curve — a continuously bending line, without angles.
- timing device — a device that can be set to detonate a bomb at a particular time
- to come alive — If people, places, or events come alive, they start to be lively again after a quiet period. If someone or something brings them alive, they cause them to come alive.
- to take cover — If you take cover, you shelter from gunfire, bombs, or the weather.
- touch a nerve — to mention or bring to mind a sensitive issue or subject
- tractor drive — a mechanism that feeds paper through a printer, using studs on a rotating wheel that engage with holes along the side of the paper
- 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.
- travel agency — a business that accommodates travelers, as by securing tickets, arranging for reservations, and giving information.
- traverse city — a city in NW Michigan.
- trophic level — any class of organisms that occupy the same position in a food chain, as primary consumers, secondary consumers, and tertiary consumers.