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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
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