15-letter words containing r, e, s, v, t, a
- semi-vegetarian — a person who eats mostly plant foods, dairy products, and eggs, and occasionally chicken, fish, and red meat.
- sentence adverb — an adverb modifying or commenting upon the content of a sentence as a whole or upon the conditions under which it is uttered, as frankly in Frankly, he can't be trusted.
- service station — Also called gas station. a place equipped for servicing automobiles, as by selling gasoline and oil, making repairs, etc.
- seven-card stud — a variety of poker in which each player is dealt one card face down in each of the first two rounds, one card face up in each of the next four rounds, and one card face down in the last round, each of the last five rounds being followed by a betting interval. Compare stud poker (def 1).
- seven-year itch — scabies.
- shortwave radio — a radio that transmits or receives shortwaves.
- silver standard — a monetary standard or system using silver of specified weight and fineness to define the basic unit of currency.
- simple interval — an interval of an octave or less.
- sled cultivator — go-devil (def 5).
- starvation diet — insufficient food to stay alive
- stationary wave — standing wave.
- steak au poivre — pepper steak (def 2).
- steel engraving — a method of incising letters, designs, etc., on steel.
- strait of dover — a strait between SE England and N France, linking the English Channel with the North Sea. Width: about 32 km (20 miles)
- string variable — data on which arithmetical operations will not be performed
- subcontraoctave — the octave below the contraoctave, which is three octaves below the middle C octave on a standard keyboard
- the everlasting — God
- transitive verb — a verb accompanied by a direct object and from which a passive can be formed, as deny, rectify, elect.
- transverse arch — a supporting arch or rib that runs across a vault from side to side, dividing the bays.
- transverse axis — the axis of a hyperbola that passes through the two foci.
- transverse wave — a wave in which the direction of displacement is perpendicular to the direction of propagation, as a surface wave of water.
- travel sickness — nausea caused by motion
- traveler's-tree — a bananalike tree, Ravenala madagascariensis, of Madagascar, having large leaves, the petioles of which contain a clear, watery sap.
- traveller's joy — a ranunculaceous Old World climbing plant, Clematis vitalba, having white flowers and heads of feathery plumed fruits
- tricuspid valve — the valve, consisting of three triangular flaps of tissue between the right auricle and ventricle of the heart, that keeps blood from flowing back into the auricle.
- unadventurously — in an unadventurous manner
- uncontroversial — of, relating to, or characteristic of controversy, or prolonged public dispute, debate, or contention; polemical: a controversial book.
- undemonstrative — not given to open exhibition or expression of emotion, especially of affection.
- universal joint — piece that couples two rotating shafts
- universal motor — a series-wound motor, of one-half horsepower or less, using alternating or direct current.
- universal stage — a small theodolite mounted on the stage of a polarizing microscope and used in the petrographic analysis of rocks.
- university park — a city in N Texas.
- vacation course — a course of study undertaken during a vacation, usually combined with other activities
- vascular system — plant tissue consisting of ducts or vessels, that, in the higher plants, forms the system (vascular system) by which sap is conveyed through the plant.
- vascular tissue — plant tissue consisting of ducts or vessels, that, in the higher plants, forms the system (vascular system) by which sap is conveyed through the plant.
- vector analysis — the branch of calculus that deals with vectors and processes involving vectors.
- velcro fastener — a fastener made of Velcro
- venus hairstone — a variety of rutilated quartz, used as a gemstone.
- venus's-flytrap — a carnivorous plant, Dionaea muscipula, native to bogs of North and South Carolina, having roundish leaves with two lobes that close like a trap when certain delicate hairs on them are irritated, as by a fly: the range is now reduced, though the plants are still locally abundant.
- vermouth cassis — a mixed drink made with dry vermouth, crème de cassis, soda or mineral water, and cracked ice.
- vertical angles — one of two opposite and equal angles formed by the intersection of two lines.
- vestimentiferan — any of various marine tubeworms of the phylum Vestimentifera or Pogonophora, which live in upright tubes near hydrothermal vents.
- virtual storage — a system whereby addressable memory is extended beyond main storage through the use of secondary storage managed by system software in such a way that programs can treat all of the designated storage as addressable main storage.
- visual literacy — the ability to apprehend or interpret pictures or other visual images.
- vitreous silica — silica glass
- volunteer state — Tennessee (used as a nickname).
- voyeuristically — of, relating to, or characteristic of a voyeur or of voyeurism.
- vulnerabilities — capable of or susceptible to being wounded or hurt, as by a weapon: a vulnerable part of the body.
- well-advertised — to announce or praise (a product, service, etc.) in some public medium of communication in order to induce people to buy or use it: to advertise a new brand of toothpaste.
- wolverine state — Michigan (used as a nickname).