13-letter words containing r, e, l, v
- real variable — a variable to which only real numbers are assigned as values.
- rebarbatively — in a rebarbative manner
- receivability — the fact or condition of being receivable
- reclusiveness — the state or quality of being reclusive
- record sleeve — the outer covering of a phonograph record
- recultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
- redevelopment — the act or process of redeveloping.
- reduced level — lesser degree or amount
- reduplicative — tending to reduplicate.
- 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.
- regular bevel — the bevel of a bolt or lock on a door opening into the building, room, etc., to which the doorway leads (opposed to reverse bevel).
- reinvolvement — to include as a necessary circumstance, condition, or consequence; imply; entail: This job involves long hours and hard work.
- relative wind — the velocity or direction of airflow with respect to the body it surrounds, especially an airfoil.
- reserved list — a list of retired naval, army, or air-force officers available for recall to active service in an emergency
- restless cavy — a wild guinea pig.
- restoratively — in a restorative manner
- restrictively — tending or serving to restrict.
- retroactively — operative with respect to past occurrences, as a statute; retrospective: a retroactive law.
- revascularize — to surgically improve the blood circulation of (an organ or area of the body).
- revelationist — a person who believes in divine revelation.
- reverentially — of the nature of or characterized by reverence; reverent: reverential awe.
- reversal film — film developed by the reversal process.
- reverse bevel — the bevel of a bolt or lock on a door opening outward from the building, room, closet, etc., to which the doorway leads (opposed to regular bevel).
- reverse fault — a fault in which the rock above the fault plane is displaced upward relative to the rock below the fault plane (opposed to gravity fault).
- reverse plate — a plate for printing a reverse.
- reversibility — capable of reversing or of being reversed.
- revictualling — victuals, food supplies; provisions.
- 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.
- revolutionize — to bring about a revolution in; effect a radical change in: to revolutionize petroleum refining methods.
- ring-a-lievio — a game played usually between two teams in which the members of one team attempt to find, capture, and imprison the members of the other, who can be freed only by a teammate not yet captured.
- ringed plover — any of several cosmopolitan plovers of the genus Charadrius, especially C. hiaticula, brownish above and white below with a black band around the breast.
- rivalrousness — characterized by rivalry; competitive: the rivalrous aspect of their friendship.
- river dolphin — any freshwater cetacean of the family Platanistidae, inhabiting rivers of North and South America and S Asia. They are smaller than marine dolphins and have a longer narrower snout
- river lamprey — Lampetra fluviatilis; a jawless fish
- rocking valve — (on a steam engine) a valve mechanism oscillating through an arc to open and close.
- role reversal — Role reversal is a situation in which two people have chosen or been forced to exchange their duties and responsibilities, so that each is now doing what the other used to do.
- roll-over arm — an upholstered chair or sofa arm that curves outward and downward.
- romantic love — love characterized by romance and involving sexual attraction
- roosevelt dam — a dam on the Salt River, in central Arizona. 284 feet (87 meters) high; 1080 feet (329 meters) long.
- rosenkavalier — an opera (1911) by Richard Strauss.
- rubber gloves — gloves made of rubber, worn to protect the hands while washing up, gardening, etc
- russian olive — oleaster.
- salad servers — kitchen utensils used as tongs to serve salad
- salary review — the, often annual, assessment or review of the salary or paid to an employee, where decisions are taken on whether the employee's pay should be increased, etc
- sales revenue — the gross income for a business derived from sales of its products or services
- sample survey — a survey of particular examples of sth, intended as representative of the whole category
- sandfly fever — a usually mild viral disease occurring in hot, dry areas, characterized by fever, eye pain, and sometimes a rash, transmitted by sandflies of the genus Phlebotomus.