13-letter words containing p, r, e, s, v
- self-improver — improvement of one's mind, character, etc., through one's own efforts.
- semioviparous — bearing young in an incomplete state of development, as a marsupial.
- service clasp — clasp (def 4).
- serviceperson — a person who is a member of the armed forces of a country.
- serving spoon — utensil used to serve food
- 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.
- silver polish — a type of polishing medium that is suitable for silver
- silver poplar — white poplar (def 1).
- silver spring — a town in central Maryland, near Washington, D.C.
- silver-plated — Something that is silver-plated is covered with a very thin layer of silver.
- 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
- spanish river — a river in S Ontario, Canada, flowing S into the North Channel of Lake Huron. 150 miles (241 km) long.
- sperry univac — (company) One of the divisions of Sperry Corporation at the time that company merged with the Burroughs Corporation to form Unisys Corporation.
- spotted fever — any of several fevers characterized by spots on the skin, especially as in cerebrospinal meningitis or typhus fever.
- spring valley — a city in SW California, near San Diego.
- superachiever — someone who achieves more than most; high achiever
- superactivity — extreme activity; hyperactivity
- superelevated — (of a curve in a road, railroad track, etc.) banked.
- superlatively — of the highest kind, quality, or order; surpassing all else or others; supreme; extreme: superlative wisdom.
- supervirtuoso — a highly accomplished virtuoso
- supervirulent — extremely virulent
- support level — a minimum price below which a specific stock is not supposed to fall, as because of the stock's inherent worth.
- surplus value — (in Marxian economics) the part of the value of a commodity that exceeds the cost of labor, regarded as the profit of the capitalist.
- the provinces — those parts of a country lying outside the capital and other large cities and regarded as outside the mainstream of sophisticated culture
- undescriptive — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
- unprogressive — favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters: a progressive mayor.
- unprovisioned — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- vagodepressor — decreasing or mimicking the decrease of the activity of the vagus nerve.
- vapor tension — vapor pressure.
- vapourishness — the quality or state of being vapourish
- venus flytrap — firewall machine
- vide ut supra — (used to direct a reader to a specified place in a text) see as above
- violin spider — brown recluse spider.
- visceroptosis — a downward displacement of the intestine
- visual purple — rhodopsin.
- vivisepulture — the burying of something while still alive
- volute spring — a coil spring, conical in shape, extending in the direction of the axis of the coil.