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

  • san buenaventura — a city in SW California.
  • saturation level — carrying capacity.
  • save as you earn — (in Britain) a savings scheme which offers a tax-free bonus and allows employees to buy shares in the company they work for at a fixed price
  • scavenger beetle — any beetle of the mostly aquatic family Hydrophilidae, having clubbed antennae and long palps, and usually feeding on decaying vegetation
  • scrovegni chapel — Arena Chapel.
  • security vetting — the process of investigating somebody to establish their trustworthiness
  • self-advertising — the act or practice of calling public attention to one's product, service, need, etc., especially by paid announcements in newspapers and magazines, over radio or television, on billboards, etc.: to get more customers by advertising.
  • self-deliverance — suicide.
  • self-deprivation — the act of depriving.
  • self-improvement — improvement of one's mind, character, etc., through one's own efforts.
  • self-observation — an act or instance of noticing or perceiving.
  • self-sovereignty — the quality or state of being sovereign, or of having supreme power or authority.
  • semiconservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
  • send to coventry — to ostracize or ignore
  • senior executive — someone in a senior position in a business, who makes decisions and puts them into action
  • sensory overload — being overwhelmed by sights, sounds, etc.
  • service contract — law: between employer and employee
  • service engineer — someone who maintains and repairs equipment
  • service entrance — an entrance for the use of servants, delivery people, or the like.
  • service industry — business providing a service
  • seven weeks' war — the war (1866) in which Prussia, Italy, and some minor German states opposed Austria, Saxony, Hanover, and the states of southern Germany.
  • seven years' war — the war (1756–63) in which England and Prussia defeated France, Austria, Russia, Sweden, and Saxony.
  • severance motion — an application made to a judge or court for the division into separate parts of a joint estate, contract, etc
  • severnaya zemlya — an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, between the Kara Sea and Laptev Sea, in N Russia. 14,175 sq. mi. (36,712 sq. km).
  • shaker and mover — mover and shaker
  • shrinking violet — a shy, modest, or self-effacing person.
  • sicilian vespers — a general massacre of the French in Sicily by the local population, begun at the sound of the vesper bell on Easter Monday, 1282.
  • silver-lace vine — a hardy, twining, woody plant, Polygonum auberti, of the buckwheat family, native to western China and Tibet, having greenish-white, fragrant flowers in drooping clusters.
  • slip one over on — to hoodwink or trick
  • slugging average — a measure of the effectiveness of a batter in making base hits, obtained by dividing the total bases reached by hitting by the number of official times at bat and carrying out the result to three decimal places. A batter making 275 total bases in 500 times at bat has a slugging average of .550.
  • sparking voltage — the minimum voltage required to produce a spark across a given spark gap.
  • splanchnic nerve — Anatomy. any of several nerves to the viscera and blood vessels of the chest and pelvic areas.
  • state university — a university maintained by the government of a state.
  • stevedore's knot — a knot that forms a lump in a line to prevent it from passing through a hole or grommet.
  • stevenson screen — a shelter for meteorological instruments, consisting of a raised white louvred box
  • substantive rank — a permanent rank in the armed services obtained by length of service, selection, etc
  • supersensitivity — extremely or excessively sensitive; hypersensitive: a supersensitive smoke detector.
  • surveyor's chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
  • tarragon vinegar — a white vinegar flavoured with the herb tarragon, used in cooking, esp in salad dressings
  • texas revolution — a revolutionary movement, 1832–36, in which U.S. settlers asserted their independence from Mexico and established the republic of Texas.
  • the moving party — a person who applies to a court or judge with the aim of obtaining a ruling in their favour
  • the renosterveld — an area of high altitude in SW South Africa, having fertile ground
  • the silver ferns — the women's international netball team of New Zealand
  • the unobservable — something that cannot be observed
  • the virgin queen — another name for Queen Elizabeth I of England
  • thermionic valve — vacuum tube.
  • time sovereignty — control by an employee of the use of his or her time, involving flexibility of working hours
  • to overabound in — to have or contain too large a quantity or number of something
  • to rant and rave — If you say that someone rants and raves, you mean that they talk loudly and angrily in an uncontrolled way.
  • tomorrow evening — on the evening of the day after today
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