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13-letter words containing e, v, n

  • 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 tongue — the characteristic of being skilful at persuading people to believe what they say or to do what they want them to do
  • singing voice — the musical quality of a voice when a person is singing
  • single-valued — (of a function) having the property that each element in the domain has corresponding to it exactly one element in the range.
  • sir-reverence — (used as an expression of apology, as before unseemly or indelicate words.)
  • sixty-seventh — next after the sixty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 67.
  • slave trading — trafficking in people
  • slieve donard — a mountain in SE Northern Ireland, in the Mourne Mountains: highest peak in Northern Ireland. Height: 853 m (2798 ft)
  • smooth-shaven — having the beard and mustache shaved off; clean-shaven.
  • sneak preview — a preview of a motion picture, often shown in addition to an announced film, in order to observe the reaction of the audience.
  • 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.
  • south vietnam — a former country in SE Asia that comprised Vietnam S of about 17° N latitude; a separate state 1954–75; now part of reunified Vietnam. Capital: Saigon.
  • souvenir shop — a shop that sells trivial gift items, such as T-shirts, coffee mugs, keyrings etc, esp aimed at tourists
  • sovereigntist — a supporter of sovereignty association
  • spanish river — a river in S Ontario, Canada, flowing S into the North Channel of Lake Huron. 150 miles (241 km) long.
  • sperry univac — (company)   One of the divisions of Sperry Corporation at the time that company merged with the Burroughs Corporation to form Unisys Corporation.
  • spring valley — a city in SW California, near San Diego.
  • stain remover — a substance designed for removing stains or dirty marks, as from clothes, carpets, etc
  • standing wave — a wave in a medium in which each point on the axis of the wave has an associated constant amplitude ranging from zero at the nodes to a maximum at the antinodes.
  • standover man — a person who extorts money by intimidation
  • steve wozniak — (person)   Co-founder of Apple Computer with Steve Jobs on 01 April 1976 and the inventor of the Apple II personal computer.
  • stevens point — a city in central Wisconsin.
  • sub-sovereign — a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler.
  • subgovernment — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
  • subindicative — of or relating to subindicating
  • subordinative — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
  • subserviently — serving or acting in a subordinate capacity; subordinate.
  • substantively — a noun.
  • substantivize — to use (an adjective, verb, etc.) as a substantive; convert into a substantive: a substantivized participle.
  • suction valve — a nonreturn valve in a pump suction to prevent the pump draining or depriming when not in service
  • sunday driver — a person who drives a car inexpertly, especially slowly or overcautiously, in the manner of one who drives infrequently.
  • supervirulent — extremely virulent
  • talkativeness — inclined to talk a great deal: One drink and she became very talkative.
  • tax avoidance — Tax avoidance is the use of legal methods to pay the smallest possible amount of tax.
  • tax incentive — measure to encourage activity
  • tea-of-heaven — a shrub, Hydrangea macrophylla serrata, of the saxifrage family, native to Japan and Korea, having hairy, ovate leaves and flat or slightly arched clusters of blue or white flowers.
  • teleconverter — a person or thing that converts.
  • televangelism — Christian preaching on TV
  • televangelist — an evangelist who regularly conducts religious services on television.
  • tenosynovitis — inflammation of a tendon sheath, as from trauma, repeated strain, or systemic disease.
  • tenovaginitis — the inflammation of the sheath around a tendon
  • tentativeness — of the nature of or made or done as a trial, experiment, or attempt; experimental: a tentative report on her findings.
  • terminatively — in a finalizing manner
  • tet offensive — an offensive by Vietcong and North Vietnamese forces against South Vietnamese and U.S. positions in South Vietnam, beginning on Jan. 31, 1968, the start of Tet.
  • thank heavens — used as an exclamation of gratitude and relief
  • the invisible — God
  • the narrative — the part of a literary work that relates events
  • the offensive — an attitude or position of aggression
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