13-letter words containing r, e, s, v, o, i
- serving spoon — utensil used to serve food
- shaving horse — a trestle for supporting and steadying a piece of work being shaved.
- shivering owl — screech owl.
- silver doctor — a type of artificial fly, used chiefly for trout and salmon.
- silver dollar — A silver dollar is an American coin, worth one dollar, that is made of silver.
- silver iodate — a white, crystalline, slightly water-soluble powder, AgIO 3 , used in medicine chiefly as an antiseptic and as an astringent.
- silver iodide — a pale-yellow, water-insoluble solid, AgI, which darkens on exposure to light: used chiefly in medicine, photography, and artificial rainmaking.
- silver polish — a type of polishing medium that is suitable for silver
- silver poplar — white poplar (def 1).
- silver salmon — coho salmon.
- silver tongue — the characteristic of being skilful at persuading people to believe what they say or to do what they want them to do
- silver-y moth — a brownish noctuid moth, Plusia gamma, having a light Y-shaped marking on each forewing; it migrates in large flocks
- slasher movie — a film in which victims, often women, are slashed with knives, razors, etc
- slieve donard — a mountain in SE Northern Ireland, in the Mourne Mountains: highest peak in Northern Ireland. Height: 853 m (2798 ft)
- society verse — light, graceful, entertaining poetry considered as appealing to polite society.
- solitary wave — a localized disturbance that propagates like a wave but resembles a particle in that it does not disperse, even if it collides with other such waves.
- souvenir shop — a shop that sells trivial gift items, such as T-shirts, coffee mugs, keyrings etc, esp aimed at tourists
- sovereigntist — a supporter of sovereignty association
- soviet russia — a conventional name of the Soviet Union.
- stain remover — a substance designed for removing stains or dirty marks, as from clothes, carpets, etc
- sub-sovereign — a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler.
- subordinative — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
- suovetaurilia — (in ancient Rome) a sacrifice of a hog, a ram, and a bull.
- supervirtuoso — a highly accomplished virtuoso
- tergiversator — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
- the provinces — those parts of a country lying outside the capital and other large cities and regarded as outside the mainstream of sophisticated culture
- unobstructive — to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
- unobtrusively — not obtrusive; inconspicuous, unassertive, or reticent.
- 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.
- vapor tension — vapor pressure.
- vapourishness — the quality or state of being vapourish
- variable cost — a cost that varies with a change in the volume of output while remaining uniform on a per-unit basis, as cost of labor (distinguished from fixed cost).
- varicose vein — Varicose veins are swollen and painful veins in a person's legs, which sometimes require a medical operation.
- variety store — a retail store, as a five-and-ten, carrying a large variety of goods, especially low-priced articles.
- venereologist — the branch of medicine dealing with the study and treatment of venereal, or sexually transmitted, disease.
- ventriloquism — the art or practice of speaking, with little or no lip movement, in such a manner that the voice does not appear to come from the speaker but from another source, as from a wooden dummy.
- ventriloquist — a person who performs or is skilled in ventriloquism.
- ventriloquous — of or relating to ventriloquism or a ventriloquist
- veraciousness — characterized by truthfulness; true, accurate, or honest in content: a veracious statement; a veracious account.
- versicoloured — of variable or various colours
- versification — the act of versifying.
- vicariousness — performed, exercised, received, or suffered in place of another: vicarious punishment.
- violent storm — Meteorology. storm (def 3).
- violin spider — brown recluse spider.
- virgin forest — a forest in its natural state, before it has been explored or exploited by man
- virgo cluster — a cluster of about 2500 galaxies in the constellation Virgo, the nearest cluster to our galaxy.
- visceroptosis — a downward displacement of the intestine
- visual cortex — the portion of the cerebral cortex of the brain that receives and processes impulses from the optic nerves.
- vitreous body — a transparent gelatinous substance, permeated by fine fibrils, that fills the interior of the eyeball between the lens and the retina