13-letter words containing r, e, v, o
- revolutionise — to bring about a revolution in; effect a radical change in: to revolutionize petroleum refining methods.
- revolutionism — a belief in revolution or revolutionary ideas
- revolutionist — a person who advocates or takes part in a revolution.
- revolutionize — to bring about a revolution in; effect a radical change in: to revolutionize petroleum refining methods.
- ring-a-lievio — a game played usually between two teams in which the members of one team attempt to find, capture, and imprison the members of the other, who can be freed only by a teammate not yet captured.
- ringed plover — any of several cosmopolitan plovers of the genus Charadrius, especially C. hiaticula, brownish above and white below with a black band around the breast.
- risk aversion — a strong disinclination to take risks
- rivalrousness — characterized by rivalry; competitive: the rivalrous aspect of their friendship.
- river dolphin — any freshwater cetacean of the family Platanistidae, inhabiting rivers of North and South America and S Asia. They are smaller than marine dolphins and have a longer narrower snout
- road surveyor — a person who does surveying work for road building
- rocking valve — (on a steam engine) a valve mechanism oscillating through an arc to open and close.
- role reversal — Role reversal is a situation in which two people have chosen or been forced to exchange their duties and responsibilities, so that each is now doing what the other used to do.
- roll-over arm — an upholstered chair or sofa arm that curves outward and downward.
- romantic love — love characterized by romance and involving sexual attraction
- roosevelt dam — a dam on the Salt River, in central Arizona. 284 feet (87 meters) high; 1080 feet (329 meters) long.
- rose d'anvers — a gem having a rose cut of 12 or fewer facets.
- rosenkavalier — an opera (1911) by Richard Strauss.
- rubber gloves — gloves made of rubber, worn to protect the hands while washing up, gardening, etc
- russian olive — oleaster.
- school leaver — School leavers are young people who have just left school, because they have completed their time there.
- scratch video — the technique or practice of recycling images from films or television to make collages
- self-approval — the act of approving; approbation.
- self-governed — governed by itself or having self-government, as a state or community; independent.
- self-improver — improvement of one's mind, character, etc., through one's own efforts.
- self-observed — to see, watch, perceive, or notice: He observed the passersby in the street.
- semi-vitreous — partially vitreous.
- semioviparous — bearing young in an incomplete state of development, as a marsupial.
- service court — the part of the court into which a player must serve in various games, as tennis, badminton, handball, or squash.
- serviceperson — a person who is a member of the armed forces of a country.
- serving spoon — utensil used to serve food
- seventh chord — a chord formed by the superposition of three thirds.
- severodonetsk — a city in E Ukraine, NE of Donetsk.
- shaver outlet — a point in a wall, esp in a bathroom, where you can connect an electric razor to the power supply
- shaving horse — a trestle for supporting and steadying a piece of work being shaved.
- shivering owl — screech owl.
- short-sleeved — having short sleeves
- shrove monday — the Monday before Ash Wednesday.
- shrove sunday — the Sunday before Ash Wednesday; Quinquagesima.
- silver doctor — a type of artificial fly, used chiefly for trout and salmon.
- silver dollar — A silver dollar is an American coin, worth one dollar, that is made of silver.
- silver iodate — a white, crystalline, slightly water-soluble powder, AgIO 3 , used in medicine chiefly as an antiseptic and as an astringent.
- silver iodide — a pale-yellow, water-insoluble solid, AgI, which darkens on exposure to light: used chiefly in medicine, photography, and artificial rainmaking.
- silver polish — a type of polishing medium that is suitable for silver
- silver poplar — white poplar (def 1).
- silver salmon — coho salmon.
- silver tongue — the characteristic of being skilful at persuading people to believe what they say or to do what they want them to do
- silver-y moth — a brownish noctuid moth, Plusia gamma, having a light Y-shaped marking on each forewing; it migrates in large flocks
- slasher movie — a film in which victims, often women, are slashed with knives, razors, etc
- slieve donard — a mountain in SE Northern Ireland, in the Mourne Mountains: highest peak in Northern Ireland. Height: 853 m (2798 ft)
- society verse — light, graceful, entertaining poetry considered as appealing to polite society.