13-letter words containing r, e, v, a, c
- sciatic nerve — either of a pair of nerves, the largest in the body, that originate in the sacral plexus of the lower back and extend down the buttocks to the back of the knees, where they divide into other nerves: the sciatic nerve and its branches innervate large areas of the pelvis, leg, and foot.
- scratch video — the technique or practice of recycling images from films or television to make collages
- service break — an instance of a player winning a game against a server.
- service clasp — clasp (def 4).
- serving hatch — a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room
- severance pay — money, exclusive of wages, back pay, etc., paid to an employee who has tenure and who is dismissed because of lack of work or other reasons beyond the employee's control.
- severance tax — a tax levied by a state on the extraction and use of a natural product, as coal, that is sold outside the state or during a certain period.
- shaving cream — a preparation, as of soap and free fatty acid, that is lathered and applied to the face to soften and condition the beard for shaving.
- slave traffic — the traffic of slaves
- sperry univac — (company) One of the divisions of Sperry Corporation at the time that company merged with the Burroughs Corporation to form Unisys Corporation.
- superachiever — someone who achieves more than most; high achiever
- superactivity — extreme activity; hyperactivity
- the civil war — the war between the North (the Union) and the South (the Confederacy) in the U.S. (1861-65)
- throw a curve — a continuously bending line, without angles.
- to take cover — If you take cover, you shelter from gunfire, bombs, or the weather.
- touch a nerve — to mention or bring to mind a sensitive issue or subject
- tractor drive — a mechanism that feeds paper through a printer, using studs on a rotating wheel that engage with holes along the side of the paper
- train service — provision of railway transport
- transactivate — to activate the replication of (a viral gene) through the presence of a gene at another locus, especially following a viral infection.
- travel agency — a business that accommodates travelers, as by securing tickets, arranging for reservations, and giving information.
- traverse city — a city in NW Michigan.
- tuva republic — a constituent republic of S Russia: mountainous. Capital: Kizyl. Pop: 305 500 (2002). Area: 170 500 sq km (65 800 sq miles)
- ultraviolence — acts of extreme violence, esp those shown on television or film
- unconversable — inappropriate for conversation
- uncooperative — working or acting together willingly for a common purpose or benefit.
- underachiever — a student who performs less well in school than would be expected on the basis of abilities indicated by intelligence and aptitude tests, etc.
- underactivity — insufficient activity
- unperceivable — imperceptible
- unperceivably — imperceptibly
- unprovocative — tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
- unrecoverable — able to recover or be recovered: a patient now believed to be recoverable; recoverable losses on his investments.
- unrecoverably — in an unrecoverable or irrecoverable manner
- unscavengered — lacking the qualities of having been scavenged
- unserviceable — not suitable to be used
- vacuum filter — A vacuum filter is a filter in which the liquid passes through more easily because of a vacuum on the liquid output side.
- vaginal cream — A vaginal cream is cream for treating vaginal infections, applied with a special applicator.
- valedictorian — a student, usually the one ranking highest academically in a school graduating class, who delivers the valedictory at the commencement exercises.
- valet service — a cleaning service, in which your clothes are collected for cleaning, from your house or hotel, and returned to you
- 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.
- vascularities — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
- vaunt-courier — a person who goes in advance, as a herald.
- vectorization — the process of converting from a bitmap image to a vector representation
- velvet carpet — a carpet or rug of pile weave resembling Wilton.
- venire facias — a writ directing the appropriate official to summon a jury.
- veraciousness — characterized by truthfulness; true, accurate, or honest in content: a veracious statement; a veracious account.
- vermiculation — to work or ornament with wavy lines or markings resembling the form or tracks of a worm.
- vernacularism — a vernacular word or expression.
- vernacularist — someone who uses vernacular speech
- vernacularity — the quality or state of being vernacular