13-letter words containing n, e, r, v
- prove a point — If you prove a point, you show other people that you know something or can do something, although your action may have no other purpose.
- provence rose — an erect Eurasian shrub, Rosa gallica, of the rose family, having a creeping rootstock, densely prickly and bristly stems, and large, solitary, pink or crimson flowers.
- provincialise — to make provincial in character.
- provincialize — to make provincial in character.
- pulverization — to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.
- puncture vine — a caltrop, Tribulus terrestris, having spiny fruit that can puncture tires.
- racing driver — someone who drives a racing car in motor car races
- raglan sleeve — a sleeve that begins at the neck and has a long, slanting seam line from the neck to the armhole, giving the garment a relatively undefined shoulder.
- ratiocinative — the process of logical reasoning.
- re-activation — to render active again; revive.
- re-entry visa — a visa that allows someone to enter a country again several times
- re-evaluating — to determine or set the value or amount of; appraise: to evaluate property.
- re-evaluation — an act or instance of evaluating or appraising.
- receiving end — the position in which one is subject to some kind of action or effect, especially an unpleasant one (usually used in the phrase at or on the receiving end): The corporation is on the receiving end of many complaints about its advertising.
- receiving set — a radio receiver.
- receptiveness — having the quality of receiving, taking in, or admitting.
- recessiveness — tending to go, move, or slant back; receding.
- reclusiveness — the state or quality of being reclusive
- reconvergence — an act or instance of converging.
- recording van — a van containing sound and image recording equipment, used as a mobile recording studio
- recultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
- recursiveness — pertaining to or using a rule or procedure that can be applied repeatedly.
- redevelopment — the act or process of redeveloping.
- reductiveness — of or relating to reduction; serving to reduce or abridge: an urgent need for reductive measures.
- reflexiveness — Grammar. (of a verb) taking a subject and object with identical referents, as shave in I shave myself. (of a pronoun) used as an object to refer to the subject of a verb, as myself in I shave myself.
- reinnervation — the restoration of a nerve supply by surgery or by regeneration
- reintegrative — characterized by integration; tending to restore unity
- reinvestigate — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
- reinvigorated — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
- reinvigorator — something that gives new life and energy (to something)
- reinvolvement — to include as a necessary circumstance, condition, or consequence; imply; entail: This job involves long hours and hard work.
- rejuvenescent — becoming young again.
- relative wind — the velocity or direction of airflow with respect to the body it surrounds, especially an airfoil.
- remonstrative — to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval.
- rendezvousing — an agreement between two or more persons to meet at a certain time and place.
- resistiveness — the quality or state of being resistive or offering resistance
- revaccination — the act or practice of vaccinating; inoculation with vaccine.
- revelationist — a person who believes in divine revelation.
- revendication — the process or act of revendicating
- revenue agent — a government official who is responsible for the collection of revenue.
- revenue stamp — a stamp showing that a governmental tax has been paid.
- reverberation — a reechoed sound.
- reverentially — of the nature of or characterized by reverence; reverent: reverential awe.
- reverse swing — a type of swing in which a ball that has been scuffed on one side will move in the opposite direction to that of a new ball
- revictualling — victuals, food supplies; provisions.
- revindication — the act of vindicating.
- revolutionary — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change: a revolutionary junta.
- revolutionise — to bring about a revolution in; effect a radical change in: to revolutionize petroleum refining methods.
- revolutionism — a belief in revolution or revolutionary ideas
- revolutionist — a person who advocates or takes part in a revolution.