14-letter words containing r, e, v, o, l
- revolutionised — to bring about a revolution in; effect a radical change in: to revolutionize petroleum refining methods.
- revolutionizer — to bring about a revolution in; effect a radical change in: to revolutionize petroleum refining methods.
- revolving door — an entrance door for excluding drafts from the interior of a building, usually consisting of four rigid leaves set in the form of a cross and rotating about a central, vertical pivot in the doorway.
- revolving fund — any loan fund intended to be maintained by the repayment of past loans.
- revolving-door — an entrance door for excluding drafts from the interior of a building, usually consisting of four rigid leaves set in the form of a cross and rotating about a central, vertical pivot in the doorway.
- root vegetable — edible starchy tuber
- rule of eleven — the rule that when a player leads his or her fourth-highest card in any suit its numerical value subtracted from eleven gives the number of higher cards of that suit held by the other players.
- sand lovegrass — any grass of the genus Eragrostis, as E. curvula (weeping lovegrass) and E. trichodes (sand lovegrass) cultivated as forage and ground cover.
- school voucher — a government cash grant or tax credit for parents, equal to all or part of the cost of educating their child at an elementary or secondary school of their choice.
- self-discovery — process of understanding oneself
- self-governing — governed by itself or having self-government, as a state or community; independent.
- self-operative — automatic.
- self-provision — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- 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.
- seville orange — a globose, reddish-yellow, bitter or sweet, edible citrus fruit.
- 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 protein — any of several colloidal silver solutions containing silver and a protein, as albumin: formerly used in treating inflammation of mucous membranes
- silver-spooned — born into, of, or relating to a wealthy upper-class family
- silver-tongued — persuasive; eloquent: a silver-tongued orator.
- sliding vector — a vector having specified magnitude and lying on a given line.
- social service — organized welfare efforts carried on under professional auspices by trained personnel.
- solitary vireo — a vireo, Vireo solitarius, of North and Central America, having the top and sides of the head bluish-gray.
- solvay process — a process for manufacturing sodium carbonate whereby a concentrated solution of sodium chloride is saturated with ammonia, carbon dioxide is passed through it, and the product is calcined.
- southern slavs — one of a group of peoples in eastern, southeastern, and central Europe, including the Russians and Ruthenians (Eastern Slavs) the Bulgars, Serbs, Croats, Slavonians, Slovenes, etc. (Southern Slavs) and the Poles, Czechs, Moravians, Slovaks, etc. (Western Slavs)
- splatter movie — a film containing many scenes of violent and gruesome murders.
- store of value — the function of money that enables goods and services to be paid for a considerable time after they have been acquired
- superelevation — bank1 (def 6).
- superovulation — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
- the world over — If you say that something happens or exists the world over, you mean that it happens or exists in every part of the world.
- throttle lever — throttle (def 1).
- throttle valve — a valve for throttling the working fluid of an engine, refrigerator, etc.
- to overflowing — If a place or container is filled to overflowing, it is so full of people or things that no more can fit in.
- travel voucher — a voucher, usually bought from a travel agency or won in a competition, etc, which can be used to pay for travel costs such as flights, accommodation, etc
- traveler's-joy — a woody vine, Clematis vitalba, of the buttercup family, native to Europe and northern Africa, having long-plumed fruit and slightly fragrant, white flowers.
- underdeveloped — improperly or insufficiently developed.
- undiscoverable — unable to be discovered or found out
- undiscoverably — in an undiscoverable manner
- universal soul — Brahman in its aspect as the sacred syllable Om, the eternal and spiritual principle that permeates the universe
- unresolvedness — the state of being unresolved or irresolute
- unresponsively — in an unresponsive manner
- valerianaceous — belonging to the plant family Valerianaceae.
- valve trombone — a trombone equipped with three or four valves in place of a slide.
- vandyke collar — a wide collar of lace and linen with the edge formed into scallops or deep points.
- variable costs — Variable costs are costs that vary depending on how much of a product is made.
- vaulting horse — a padded, somewhat cylindrical floor-supported apparatus, braced horizontally at an adjustable height, used for hand support and pushing off in vaulting.
- velasco ibarra — José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1893–1979, Ecuadorean political leader: president 1934–35, 1944–47, 1952–56, 1960–61, 1968–72.
- 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
- venereological — of or relating to the study of sexually transmitted diseases
- vernal equinox — the time when the sun crosses the plane of the earth's equator, making night and day of approximately equal length all over the earth and occurring about March 21 (vernal equinox or spring equinox) and September 22 (autumnal equinox)
- vertical union — industrial union.