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14-letter words containing r, e, v, i, d

  • self-discovery — process of understanding oneself
  • sergiyev posad — a city in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Moscow.
  • service module — (often initial capital letters) U.S. Aerospace. the section of an Apollo spacecraft containing the principal propulsion system, electrical system, water, and other supplies.
  • silver bromide — a yellowish, water-insoluble powder, AgBr, which darkens on exposure to light, produced by the reaction of silver nitrate with a bromide: used chiefly in the manufacture of photographic emulsions.
  • silver wedding — a twenty-fifth wedding anniversary.
  • silver-spooned — born into, of, or relating to a wealthy upper-class family
  • silver-tongued — persuasive; eloquent: a silver-tongued orator.
  • slave cylinder — a small cylinder containing a piston that operates the brake shoes or pads in hydraulic brakes or the working part in any other hydraulically operated system
  • sliding vector — a vector having specified magnitude and lying on a given line.
  • sound archives — official records or files (as in a library) of sound recordings, broadcasts, or performances, esp those from radio programmes
  • sovereign debt — the debt of a national government, esp debt that is issued in a foreign currency
  • space invaders — a video or computer game, the object of which is to destroy attacking alien spacecraft
  • spike lavender — a lavender, Lavandula latifolia, having spikes of pale-purple flowers, and yielding an oil used in painting.
  • stirred vessel — A stirred vessel is a vessel in which a device moves to mix something.
  • storage device — a device used to store digital data or information, as a hard disk or CD.
  • student driver — someone who is learning to drive
  • supercivilized — (of a person or society) highly or excessively civilized
  • the ordovician — the Ordovician period or rock system
  • the very devil — something very difficult or awkward
  • the very idea! — that is preposterous, unreasonable, etc
  • totidem verbis — with just so many words; in these words.
  • tractor driver — a person who drives a motor vehicle used to pull heavy loads, esp farm machinery such as a plough or harvester
  • travel-stained — dirty or soiled as a result of travelling
  • ultracivilized — showing a high degree of cultural or social development
  • under-achiever — a student who performs less well in school than would be expected on the basis of abilities indicated by intelligence and aptitude tests, etc.
  • under-activity — insufficiently active: an underactive thyroid gland.
  • undiscoverable — unable to be discovered or found out
  • undiscoverably — in an undiscoverable manner
  • unprovided for — without income or means
  • vacuum residue — Vacuum residue is the substance which is obtained by vacuum distillation (= a process of separating substances by reducing pressure to less than atmospheric pressure).
  • valentine card — a card expressing love or affection, sent, often anonymously, to your sweetheart or satirically to a friend, on Saint Valentine's Day
  • valetudinarian — an invalid.
  • vapour density — the ratio of the density of a gas or vapour to that of hydrogen at the same temperature and pressure
  • vat-registered — (of a company or individual) registered as being liable to pay VAT
  • vendor placing — a method of financing the purchase of one company by another in which the purchasing company pays for the target company in its own shares, on condition that the vendor places these shares with investors for cash payment
  • venus's girdle — an iridescent blue-and-green comb jelly, Cestum veneris, having a ribbon-shaped, gelatinous body.
  • venus's-girdle — an iridescent blue-and-green comb jelly, Cestum veneris, having a ribbon-shaped, gelatinous body.
  • verisimilitude — the appearance or semblance of truth; likelihood; probability: The play lacked verisimilitude.
  • vespertilionid — any of a large family (Vespertilionidae) of long-tailed bats that are widely distributed, esp. in temperate regions, including most of the small, insect-eating species
  • vice president — an officer next in rank to a president who serves as president in the president's absence.
  • vice-president — an officer next in rank to a president who serves as president in the president's absence.
  • victory garden — a vegetable garden, especially a home garden, cultivated to increase food production during a war or period of shortages.
  • video recorder — A video recorder or a video cassette recorder is the same as a VCR.
  • ville-de-paris — a department in N France. 41 sq. mi. (106 sq. km). Capital: Paris.
  • vinyl chloride — a colorless, easily liquefied, flammable, slightly water-soluble gas, C 2 H 3 Cl, having a pleasant, etherlike odor: used in the manufacture of plastics, as a refrigerant, and in the synthesis of polyvinyl chloride and other organic compounds.
  • warning device — alarm or danger signal
  • water divining — the location of water with a divining rod
  • well-delivered — to carry and turn over (letters, goods, etc.) to the intended recipient or recipients: to deliver mail; to deliver a package.
  • wood engraving — the art or process of engraving designs in relief with a burin on the end grain of wood, for printing.
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