14-letter words containing o, v, e
- rhine province — a former province in W Germany, mostly W of the Rhine: now divided between Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine–Westphalia.
- root vegetable — edible starchy tuber
- rose of heaven — a plant, Lychnis coeli-rosa, of the pink family, native to the Mediterranean region, having solitary terminal, rose-pink flowers.
- 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.
- sand lovegrass — any grass of the genus Eragrostis, as E. curvula (weeping lovegrass) and E. trichodes (sand lovegrass) cultivated as forage and ground cover.
- saphenous vein — either of two large veins near the surface of the foot, leg, and thigh, one on the inner side and the other on the outer and posterior sides.
- savanna monkey — any of several common, closely allied long-tailed monkeys of African savannas ranging from Senegal to South Africa, including the green monkey, grivet, tantalus, and vervet, which are sometimes considered subspecies and classified together as Cercopithecus aethiops.
- 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.
- scotch verdict — a verdict of not proven: acceptable in certain cases in Scottish criminal law.
- scout movement — the group of people who set up the Scout Association and those who currently are involved with it, considered with their organized action
- screw conveyor — a device for moving loose materials, consisting of a shaft with a broad, helically wound blade rotating in a tube or trough.
- second service — the communion service: so called because it follows Morning Prayer.
- secondary wave — a transverse earthquake wave that travels through the interior of the earth and is usually the second conspicuous wave to reach a seismograph.
- security video — a video recording taken by a security camera
- self-discovery — process of understanding oneself
- self-governing — governed by itself or having self-government, as a state or community; independent.
- self-motivated — initiative to undertake or continue a task or activity without another's prodding or supervision.
- self-oblivious — unmindful; unconscious; unaware (usually followed by of or to): She was oblivious of his admiration.
- self-operative — automatic.
- self-provision — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- self-valuation — an estimated value or worth.
- semi-objective — something that one's efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish; purpose; goal; target: the objective of a military attack; the objective of a fund-raising drive.
- semistarvation — the state of being nearly starved.
- senior service — the Royal Navy
- sergiyev posad — a city in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Moscow.
- seroconversion — the process of producing antibodies in response to a specific antigen
- seronegativity — the quality or state of being seronegative
- seropositivity — the quality or state of being seropositive
- service a room — If you service a room, you clean it and change the towels and bed linen in it.
- service module — (often initial capital letters) U.S. Aerospace. the section of an Apollo spacecraft containing the principal propulsion system, electrical system, water, and other supplies.
- service sector — the sector of the economy that provides services rather than products, etc
- servomechanism — an electronic control system in which a hydraulic, pneumatic, or other type of controlling mechanism is actuated and controlled by a low-energy signal.
- seventy-fourth — next after the seventy-third; being the ordinal number for 74.
- seventy-second — next after the seventy-first; being the ordinal number for 72.
- seville orange — a globose, reddish-yellow, bitter or sweet, edible citrus fruit.
- share of voice — the proportion of the total audience or readership commanded by a media group across its full range of publishing and broadcasting activities
- sheva brachoth — the seven blessings said during the marriage service and repeated at the celebration thereafter
- shield volcano — a broad volcano built up from the repeated nonexplosive eruption of basalt to form a low dome or shield, usually having a large caldera at the summit
- short covering — purchases that close out short sales on stocks or commodities.
- shove-ha'penny — a shuffleboard game played with coins or brass disks that are pushed by the hand and thumb down a board toward a scoring pit.
- shrove tuesday — the last day of Shrovetide, long observed as a season of merrymaking before Lent.
- silicon valley — the area in northern California, southwest of San Francisco in the Santa Clara valley region, where many of the high-technology design and manufacturing companies in the semiconductor industry are concentrated.
- silver bromide — a yellowish, water-insoluble powder, AgBr, which darkens on exposure to light, produced by the reaction of silver nitrate with a bromide: used chiefly in the manufacture of photographic emulsions.
- silver protein — any of several colloidal silver solutions containing silver and a protein, as albumin: formerly used in treating inflammation of mucous membranes
- silver-spooned — born into, of, or relating to a wealthy upper-class family
- silver-tongued — persuasive; eloquent: a silver-tongued orator.
- sleep movement — the folding together of leaflets, petals, etc, that occurs at night in certain plants, such as the prayer plant (Maranta leuconura)
- sliding vector — a vector having specified magnitude and lying on a given line.
- social evening — a social gathering for the purpose of promoting companionship, communal activities, etc
- social service — organized welfare efforts carried on under professional auspices by trained personnel.