13-letter words containing r, e, s, v, t, a
- operativeness — (uncountable) The state or quality of being operative.
- ovariectomies — Plural form of ovariectomy.
- over-abstract — thought of apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances: an abstract idea.
- over-cautious — excessively or unnecessarily cautious: Sometimes it doesn't pay to be overcautious in business.
- over-estimate — to estimate at too high a value, amount, rate, or the like: Don't overestimate the car's trade-in value.
- over-standing — overreach (def 13).
- overacuteness — sharp or severe in effect; intense: acute sorrow; an acute pain.
- overambitious — having ambition; eagerly desirous of achieving or obtaining success, power, wealth, a specific goal, etc.: ambitious students.
- overassertion — assertion of something to an excessive or unnecessary degree
- overassertive — excessively assertive, esp in an unpleasant way
- overcast seam — a hem with long stitches passing successively over the edge
- overdramatise — Alternative spelling of overdramatize.
- overestimated — Simple past tense and past participle of overestimate.
- overestimates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overestimate.
- overhastiness — the condition of being overhasty
- overhead-shot — over one's head; aloft; up in the air or sky, especially near the zenith: There was a cloud overhead.
- oversaturated — to cause (a substance) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance, through solution, chemical combination, or the like.
- overspeculate — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
- overstability — the state of being excessively stable
- overstatement — to state too strongly; exaggerate: to overstate one's position in a controversy.
- overstimulate — to stimulate too much
- perseveration — the act or process of perseverating.
- perseverative — to repeat something insistently or redundantly: to perseverate in reminding children of their responsibilities.
- petropavlovsk — a city in N Kazakhstan on the Ishim River. Pop: 190 000 (2005 est)
- postoperative — occurring after a surgical operation.
- postvertebral — of or relating to a vertebra or the vertebrae; spinal.
- present value — current monetary worth
- preservations — to keep alive or in existence; make lasting: to preserve our liberties as free citizens.
- private parts — genitalia
- private press — a printing establishment primarily run as a pastime
- private study — the act or process of studying outwith classes
- private trust — a trust designed for the benefit of a designated or known individual (opposed to charitable trust).
- privateersman — an officer or sailor of a privateer.
- proactiveness — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- proverbialist — a person who composes, records or uses proverbial expressions
- quarterstaves — Plural form of quarterstaff.
- quasi-private — belonging to some particular person: private property.
- radius vector — Mathematics. the length of the line segment joining a fixed point or origin to a given point.
- re-entry visa — a visa that allows someone to enter a country again several times
- reinvestigate — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
- remonstrative — to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval.
- restless cavy — a wild guinea pig.
- restoratively — in a restorative manner
- revelationist — a person who believes in divine revelation.
- revenue stamp — a stamp showing that a governmental tax has been paid.
- 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.
- river estuary — a river mouth
- roosevelt dam — a dam on the Salt River, in central Arizona. 284 feet (87 meters) high; 1080 feet (329 meters) long.
- scarlet fever — a contagious febrile disease caused by streptococci and characterized by a scarlet eruption.