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13-letter words containing e, v, r, n

  • 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.
  • risk aversion — a strong disinclination to take risks
  • rivalrousness — characterized by rivalry; competitive: the rivalrous aspect of their friendship.
  • river bugging — the activity or sport of rafting down fast-flowing rivers on a small inflatable single-seat craft, a river bug, that resembles an armchair
  • 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 fishing — the sport of fishing in rivers
  • rocking valve — (on a steam engine) a valve mechanism oscillating through an arc to open and close.
  • romantic love — love characterized by romance and involving sexual attraction
  • rose d'anvers — a gem having a rose cut of 12 or fewer facets.
  • rosenkavalier — an opera (1911) by Richard Strauss.
  • russian olive — oleaster.
  • sales revenue — the gross income for a business derived from sales of its products or services
  • 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.
  • sciatic nerve — either of a pair of nerves, the largest in the body, that originate in the sacral plexus of the lower back and extend down the buttocks to the back of the knees, where they divide into other nerves: the sciatic nerve and its branches innervate large areas of the pelvis, leg, and foot.
  • screen server — (spelling)   Do you mean "screen saver"?
  • scrivenership — the position of being a scrivener or scribe; scribing
  • self-governed — governed by itself or having self-government, as a state or community; independent.
  • self-reverent — feeling, exhibiting, or characterized by reverence; deeply respectful: a reverent greeting.
  • semievergreen — retaining green, unwithered leaves for part of the winter or through comparatively mild winters.
  • 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
  • serving spoon — utensil used to serve food
  • seventh chord — a chord formed by the superposition of three thirds.
  • seventh grade — school year: age 12-13
  • seventy-first — next after the seventieth; being the ordinal number for 71.
  • seventy-third — next after the seventy-second; being the ordinal number for 73.
  • seventy-three — a cardinal number, 70 plus 3.
  • 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.
  • severodonetsk — a city in E Ukraine, NE of Donetsk.
  • 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.
  • shaving horse — a trestle for supporting and steadying a piece of work being shaved.
  • shivering owl — screech owl.
  • shrove monday — the Monday before Ash Wednesday.
  • shrove sunday — the Sunday before Ash Wednesday; Quinquagesima.
  • sierra nevada — a mountain range in E California. Highest peak, Mt. Whitney, 14,495 feet (4420 meters).
  • silver lining — a sign of hope in an unfortunate or gloomy situation; a bright prospect: Every cloud has a silver lining.
  • 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
  • sir-reverence — (used as an expression of apology, as before unseemly or indelicate words.)
  • 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)
  • 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.
  • 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.
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