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14-letter words containing l, e, v, r

  • public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
  • public service — the business of supplying an essential commodity, as gas or electricity, or a service, as transportation, to the general public.
  • pulmonary vein — a vein conveying oxygenated blood from the lungs to the left atrium of the heart.
  • quaquaversally — in a quaquaversal manner
  • quicksilvering — the mercury on the back of a mirror
  • quicksilverish — resembling quicksilver
  • rateable value — In Britain, the rateable value of a building was a value based on its size and facilities, which was used in calculating local taxes called rates.
  • reactor vessel — the container surrounding and protecting the core of a nuclear reactor.
  • recapitulative — the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated.
  • receivableness — the fact or condition of being receivable; receivability
  • receiving line — a row formed by the hosts, guests of honor, or the like, for receiving guests formally at a ball, reception, etc.
  • recoverability — able to recover or be recovered: a patient now believed to be recoverable; recoverable losses on his investments.
  • recurvirostral — with a beak which is bent upwards
  • reflectiveness — that reflects; reflecting.
  • reflexive verb — A reflexive verb is a transitive verb whose subject and object always refer to the same person or thing, so the object is always a reflexive pronoun. An example is 'to enjoy yourself', as in 'Did you enjoy yourself?'.
  • rehabilitative — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
  • relative major — the major key whose tonic is the third degree of a given minor key.
  • relative minor — the minor key whose tonic is the sixth degree of a given major key.
  • relative pitch — the pitch of a tone as determined by its relationship to other tones in a scale.
  • relativization — to regard as or make relative.
  • relieving arch — discharging arch.
  • removable disk — removable hard disk
  • reserve clause — the clause in the contract of a professional player in some sports that binds the player to a team for a season beyond the expiration of the contract in the event a new contract has not been made meanwhile or the player has not been sent to another team.
  • reserve player — a member of a sports team who plays in place of another player if they are injured, etc
  • retrievability — to recover or regain: to retrieve the stray ball.
  • reversal plate — a plate developed by the reversal process.
  • revitalization — to give new life to.
  • revolutionised — to bring about a revolution in; effect a radical change in: to revolutionize petroleum refining methods.
  • revolutionizer — to bring about a revolution in; effect a radical change in: to revolutionize petroleum refining methods.
  • revolving door — an entrance door for excluding drafts from the interior of a building, usually consisting of four rigid leaves set in the form of a cross and rotating about a central, vertical pivot in the doorway.
  • revolving fund — any loan fund intended to be maintained by the repayment of past loans.
  • revolving-door — an entrance door for excluding drafts from the interior of a building, usually consisting of four rigid leaves set in the form of a cross and rotating about a central, vertical pivot in the doorway.
  • rievaulx abbey — a ruined Cistercian abbey near Helmsley in Yorkshire: built in the 12th century and abandoned at the dissolution of the monasteries; landscaped in the 18th century
  • rip van winkle — (in a story by Washington Irving) a ne'er-do-well who sleeps 20 years and upon waking is startled to find how much the world has changed.
  • root vegetable — edible starchy tuber
  • rule of eleven — the rule that when a player leads his or her fourth-highest card in any suit its numerical value subtracted from eleven gives the number of higher cards of that suit held by the other players.
  • rural delivery — a mail service in a country area, often run by contractors for the Post Office
  • saavedra lamas — Carlos [kahr-laws] /ˈkɑr lɔs/ (Show IPA), 1878?–1959, Argentine statesman and diplomat: Nobel Peace Prize 1936.
  • salva veritate — without affecting truth-value
  • sand lovegrass — any grass of the genus Eragrostis, as E. curvula (weeping lovegrass) and E. trichodes (sand lovegrass) cultivated as forage and ground cover.
  • savi's warbler — a type of warbler; Locustella luscinioides.
  • scarcity value — increased value due to the inadequate supply of something
  • school voucher — a government cash grant or tax credit for parents, equal to all or part of the cost of educating their child at an elementary or secondary school of their choice.
  • 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.
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