14-letter words containing e, v, i, l, r
- scarcity value — increased value due to the inadequate supply of something
- self assertive — insistence on or an expression of one's own importance, wishes, needs, opinions, or the like.
- self-assertive — insistence on or an expression of one's own importance, wishes, needs, opinions, or the like.
- self-deserving — qualified for or having a claim to reward, assistance, etc., because of one's actions, qualities, or situation: the deserving poor; a deserving applicant.
- self-directive — serving to direct; directing: a directive board.
- self-discovery — process of understanding oneself
- self-governing — governed by itself or having self-government, as a state or community; independent.
- self-interview — a formal meeting in which one or more persons question, consult, or evaluate another person: a job interview.
- self-operative — automatic.
- self-provision — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- self-reflexive — self-referential
- self-revealing — displaying, exhibiting, or disclosing one's most private feelings, thoughts, etc.: an embarrassingly self-revealing autobiography.
- service module — (often initial capital letters) U.S. Aerospace. the section of an Apollo spacecraft containing the principal propulsion system, electrical system, water, and other supplies.
- service tunnel — a tunnel alongside another which is used for services such as maintenance, repairs, etc
- serviceability — capable of or being of service; useful.
- seville orange — a globose, reddish-yellow, bitter or sweet, edible citrus fruit.
- silent service — the submarine service (usually preceded by the).
- silver bromide — a yellowish, water-insoluble powder, AgBr, which darkens on exposure to light, produced by the reaction of silver nitrate with a bromide: used chiefly in the manufacture of photographic emulsions.
- silver jubilee — the celebration of any of certain anniversaries, as the twenty-fifth (silver jubilee) fiftieth (golden jubilee) or sixtieth or seventy-fifth (diamond jubilee)
- silver nitrate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble, bitter, corrosive, poisonous powder, AgNO 3 , produced by the reaction of silver and dilute nitric acid: used chiefly in the manufacture of photographic emulsions and mirrors, as a laboratory reagent, and in medicine as an antiseptic, astringent, and in the routine prophylaxis of ophthalmia neonatorum.
- silver protein — any of several colloidal silver solutions containing silver and a protein, as albumin: formerly used in treating inflammation of mucous membranes
- silver service — formal method of serving dinner
- silver wedding — a twenty-fifth wedding anniversary.
- silver-spooned — born into, of, or relating to a wealthy upper-class family
- silver-tongued — persuasive; eloquent: a silver-tongued orator.
- slave cylinder — a small cylinder containing a piston that operates the brake shoes or pads in hydraulic brakes or the working part in any other hydraulically operated system
- sliding vector — a vector having specified magnitude and lying on a given line.
- slit fricative — a fricative, as (f) or (th), in which the tongue is relatively flat, with air channeled over it through a shallow slit.
- social service — organized welfare efforts carried on under professional auspices by trained personnel.
- solitary vireo — a vireo, Vireo solitarius, of North and Central America, having the top and sides of the head bluish-gray.
- spike lavender — a lavender, Lavandula latifolia, having spikes of pale-purple flowers, and yielding an oil used in painting.
- splatter movie — a film containing many scenes of violent and gruesome murders.
- stirred vessel — A stirred vessel is a vessel in which a device moves to mix something.
- supercivilized — (of a person or society) highly or excessively civilized
- superelevation — bank1 (def 6).
- superovulation — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
- survival curve — a line or curve plotted on a graph indicating survival rates of a specific population, as breast-cancer patients, over a period of time.
- survival value — the utility of a behavioral trait or of a physical feature of an organism in aiding the survival and reproduction of the organism.
- target vehicle — a spacecraft used to develop and practise orbital space rendezvous and docking techniques in preparation for the lunar missions
- terminal leave — the final leave granted to a member of the armed forces just before discharge, equal to the total unused leave accumulated during active service.
- the very devil — something very difficult or awkward
- to overflowing — If a place or container is filled to overflowing, it is so full of people or things that no more can fit in.
- transversality — the state of being transversal
- travel trailer — trailer (def 2).
- travel-stained — dirty or soiled as a result of travelling
- ultracivilized — showing a high degree of cultural or social development
- ultraexclusive — extremely exclusive
- ultrasensitive — endowed with sensation; having perception through the senses.
- unattractively — in an unattractive manner
- undiscoverable — unable to be discovered or found out