14-letter words containing r, e, i, n, v
- reservationist — a person who makes or takes reservations, as at an airline office; reservation clerk.
- responsiveness — the quality or state of being responsive.
- revenue tariff — a tariff or duty imposed on imports primarily to produce public revenue.
- reverberations — remote or indirect consequences of an action; repercussions
- reverification — the act of verifying.
- revitalization — to give new life to.
- revivification — to restore to life; give new life to; revive; reanimate.
- 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.
- rhine province — a former province in W Germany, mostly W of the Rhine: now divided between Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine–Westphalia.
- right reverend — an official form of address for abbots, abbesses, Anglican bishops, and other prelates.
- 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.
- scenic reserve — an area of natural beauty, set aside for public recreation
- scrip dividend — a dividend issued in the form of a note entitling the holder to a cash payment at a specified later date.
- second service — the communion service: so called because it follows Morning Prayer.
- 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-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.
- self-provision — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- self-revealing — displaying, exhibiting, or disclosing one's most private feelings, thoughts, etc.: an embarrassingly self-revealing autobiography.
- semi-evergreen — retaining green, unwithered leaves for part of the winter or through comparatively mild winters.
- semi-narrative — a story or account of events, experiences, or the like, whether true or fictitious.
- semistarvation — the state of being nearly starved.
- semivegetarian — a person who eats mostly plant foods, dairy products, and eggs, and occasionally chicken, fish, and red meat.
- senior service — the Royal Navy
- sensitive fern — a common, widely distributed fern, Onoclea sensibilis, having large, triangular leaves and beadlike spikes that contain the spores.
- seroconversion — the process of producing antibodies in response to a specific antigen
- seronegativity — the quality or state of being seronegative
- service center — an authorized commercial establishment for repairs and replacement parts for appliances or cars.
- service tunnel — a tunnel alongside another which is used for services such as maintenance, repairs, etc
- serviette ring — a ring used to hold a cloth serviette or napkin neatly in a cylinder
- 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.
- seville orange — a globose, reddish-yellow, bitter or sweet, edible citrus fruit.
- sherry vinegar — a gourmet wine vinegar produced in the Jerez region of S Spain
- shipping fever — a respiratory disease of cattle, caused by Pasteurella haemolytica, often spread during the shipment of livestock.
- short covering — purchases that close out short sales on stocks or commodities.
- silent service — the submarine service (usually preceded by the).
- silver nitrate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble, bitter, corrosive, poisonous powder, AgNO 3 , produced by the reaction of silver and dilute nitric acid: used chiefly in the manufacture of photographic emulsions and mirrors, as a laboratory reagent, and in medicine as an antiseptic, astringent, and in the routine prophylaxis of ophthalmia neonatorum.
- silver protein — any of several colloidal silver solutions containing silver and a protein, as albumin: formerly used in treating inflammation of mucous membranes
- silver wedding — a twenty-fifth wedding anniversary.
- silver-spooned — born into, of, or relating to a wealthy upper-class family
- silver-tongued — persuasive; eloquent: a silver-tongued orator.
- situs inversus — a congenital defect in which an organ is on the side opposite from its normal position.
- slave cylinder — a small cylinder containing a piston that operates the brake shoes or pads in hydraulic brakes or the working part in any other hydraulically operated system
- sliding vector — a vector having specified magnitude and lying on a given line.
- sound archives — official records or files (as in a library) of sound recordings, broadcasts, or performances, esp those from radio programmes
- souvenir sheet — a single stamp or a pair, block, or set of stamps having the same or different designs commemorating a stamp exhibition or other event and having inscriptions in one or all four margins.