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14-letter words containing r, e, v, s, a, l

  • like a dervish — If you say that someone is like a dervish, you mean that they are turning round and round, waving their arms about, or working very quickly.
  • marvellousness — The quality or state of being marvellous.
  • non-reservable — to keep back or save for future use, disposal, treatment, etc.
  • nonassertively — In a nonassertive way.
  • over-socialize — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
  • over-stimulate — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
  • overallotments — Plural form of overallotment.
  • overcautiously — in such a way as to be too cautious, wary, or careful
  • overland stage — a stagecoach used in the western U.S. during the middle of the 19th century.
  • oversocialized — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
  • overspecialize — to specialize to an excessive degree
  • persian violet — any of several plants belonging to the genus Exacum, native to the Old World, as E. affine, having glossy, ovate leaves, and fragrant, bluish flowers: cultivated as a houseplant.
  • pleasant grove — a town in central Utah.
  • policy adviser — a person who provides ideas or plans that are used by an organization or government as a basis for making decisions
  • postal service — organized handling and delivery of mail
  • private school — a school founded, conducted, and maintained by a private group rather than by the government, usually charging tuition and often following a particular philosophy, viewpoint, etc.
  • provincialised — to make provincial in character.
  • public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
  • quaquaversally — in a quaquaversal manner
  • reactor vessel — the container surrounding and protecting the core of a nuclear reactor.
  • receivableness — the fact or condition of being receivable; receivability
  • recurvirostral — with a beak which is bent upwards
  • removable disk — removable hard disk
  • reserve clause — the clause in the contract of a professional player in some sports that binds the player to a team for a season beyond the expiration of the contract in the event a new contract has not been made meanwhile or the player has not been sent to another team.
  • reserve player — a member of a sports team who plays in place of another player if they are injured, etc
  • reversal plate — a plate developed by the reversal process.
  • saavedra lamas — Carlos [kahr-laws] /ˈkɑr lɔs/ (Show IPA), 1878?–1959, Argentine statesman and diplomat: Nobel Peace Prize 1936.
  • salva veritate — without affecting truth-value
  • sand lovegrass — any grass of the genus Eragrostis, as E. curvula (weeping lovegrass) and E. trichodes (sand lovegrass) cultivated as forage and ground cover.
  • savi's warbler — a type of warbler; Locustella luscinioides.
  • scarcity value — increased value due to the inadequate supply of something
  • self assertive — insistence on or an expression of one's own importance, wishes, needs, opinions, or the like.
  • self-assertive — insistence on or an expression of one's own importance, wishes, needs, opinions, or the like.
  • self-operative — automatic.
  • self-revealing — displaying, exhibiting, or disclosing one's most private feelings, thoughts, etc.: an embarrassingly self-revealing autobiography.
  • serviceability — capable of or being of service; useful.
  • seville orange — a globose, reddish-yellow, bitter or sweet, edible citrus fruit.
  • silver nitrate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble, bitter, corrosive, poisonous powder, AgNO 3 , produced by the reaction of silver and dilute nitric acid: used chiefly in the manufacture of photographic emulsions and mirrors, as a laboratory reagent, and in medicine as an antiseptic, astringent, and in the routine prophylaxis of ophthalmia neonatorum.
  • slave bracelet — a braceletlike, ornamental circlet or chain worn around the ankle.
  • 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
  • slit fricative — a fricative, as (f) or (th), in which the tongue is relatively flat, with air channeled over it through a shallow slit.
  • 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)
  • spike lavender — a lavender, Lavandula latifolia, having spikes of pale-purple flowers, and yielding an oil used in painting.
  • 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.
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