14-letter words containing r, e, v
- removable disk — removable hard disk
- repetitiveness — pertaining to or characterized by repetition.
- representative — a person or thing that represents another or others.
- reprovisioning — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- reservationist — a person who makes or takes reservations, as at an airline office; reservation clerk.
- reserve a room — If you reserve a room at a hotel, you keep it for a person who is going to arrive on an agreed date.
- 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
- reserved power — a political power that a constitution reserves exclusively to the jurisdiction of a particular political authority.
- reservoir rock — rock that has sufficient porosity to contain accumulations of oil or gas.
- responsiveness — the quality or state of being responsive.
- retrievability — to recover or regain: to retrieve the stray ball.
- retrodirective — (of a mirror, reflector, etc.) having three reflecting surfaces so oriented that a ray of light is reflected in a direction parallel but opposite to its original direction.
- revenue cutter — cutter (def 4).
- revenue stream — method of income
- revenue tariff — a tariff or duty imposed on imports primarily to produce public revenue.
- reverberations — remote or indirect consequences of an action; repercussions
- reverification — the act of verifying.
- reversal plate — a plate developed by the reversal process.
- reverse racism — a perceived discrimination against a dominant group or political majority
- reverse-charge — (of a telephone call) made at the recipient's expense
- reverse-racism — intolerance or prejudice directed at members of historically dominant racial groups.
- revert to type — go back to one's usual behaviour
- revitalization — to give new life to.
- revivification — to restore to life; give new life to; revive; reanimate.
- 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.
- rhine province — a former province in W Germany, mostly W of the Rhine: now divided between Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine–Westphalia.
- rievaulx abbey — a ruined Cistercian abbey near Helmsley in Yorkshire: built in the 12th century and abandoned at the dissolution of the monasteries; landscaped in the 18th century
- right reverend — an official form of address for abbots, abbesses, Anglican bishops, and other prelates.
- rip van winkle — (in a story by Washington Irving) a ne'er-do-well who sleeps 20 years and upon waking is startled to find how much the world has changed.
- root vegetable — edible starchy tuber
- rose of heaven — a plant, Lychnis coeli-rosa, of the pink family, native to the Mediterranean region, having solitary terminal, rose-pink flowers.
- 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.
- rural delivery — a mail service in a country area, often run by contractors for the Post Office
- 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
- scavenger hunt — a game in which individuals or teams are sent out to accumulate, without purchasing, a series of common, outlandish, or humorous objects, the winner being the person or team returning first with all the items.
- scenic reserve — an area of natural beauty, set aside for public recreation
- 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.
- scotch verdict — a verdict of not proven: acceptable in certain cases in Scottish criminal law.
- screw conveyor — a device for moving loose materials, consisting of a shaft with a broad, helically wound blade rotating in a tube or trough.
- scrip dividend — a dividend issued in the form of a note entitling the holder to a cash payment at a specified later date.
- second service — the communion service: so called because it follows Morning Prayer.