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14-letter words containing r, s, v

  • 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.
  • spirit varnish — a preparation consisting of resinous matter, as copal or lac, dissolved in an oil (oil varnish) or in alcohol (spirit varnish) or other volatile liquid. When applied to the surface of wood, metal, etc., it dries and leaves a hard, more or less glossy, usually transparent coating.
  • splatter movie — a film containing many scenes of violent and gruesome murders.
  • stanovoi range — a mountain range in SE Russia; forms part of the watershed between rivers flowing to the Arctic and the Pacific. Highest peak: Mount Skalisty, 2482 m (8143 ft)
  • state services — services appointed to commemorate days of national celebration or deliverance such as the accession of a sovereign
  • stirred vessel — A stirred vessel is a vessel in which a device moves to mix something.
  • stock turnover — the rate at which stock is sold and replenished
  • storage device — a device used to store digital data or information, as a hard disk or CD.
  • store of value — the function of money that enables goods and services to be paid for a considerable time after they have been acquired
  • student driver — someone who is learning to drive
  • sub-government — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
  • subversiveness — Also, subversionary [suh b-vur-zhuh-ner-ee, -shuh-] /səbˈvɜr ʒəˌnɛr i, -ʃə-/ (Show IPA). tending or intending to subvert or overthrow, destroy, or undermine an established or existing system, especially a legally constituted government or a set of beliefs.
  • summer visitor — a person, animal or bird who come to a place in summer
  • supercivilized — (of a person or society) highly or excessively civilized
  • supereffective — very or extremely effective
  • superelevation — bank1 (def 6).
  • superexpensive — very or extremely expensive
  • superior ovary — Botany. an ovary positioned above a receptacle of a flower, as in members of the mint family.
  • superovulation — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
  • supersensitive — extremely or excessively sensitive; hypersensitive: a supersensitive smoke detector.
  • superstructive — built onto a structure
  • supportiveness — giving support.
  • supreme soviet — the bicameral legislature, comprising the Soviet of the Union and the Soviet of the Nationalities; officially the highest organ of state power
  • surface-active — (of a substance, esp a detergent) capable of lowering the surface tension of a liquid, usually water
  • survival curve — a line or curve plotted on a graph indicating survival rates of a specific population, as breast-cancer patients, over a period of time.
  • survival value — the utility of a behavioral trait or of a physical feature of an organism in aiding the survival and reproduction of the organism.
  • survivor guilt — feelings of guilt for having survived a catastrophe in which others died.
  • sweet viburnum — the sheepberry, Viburnum lentago.
  • swinging voter — a person who does not vote consistently for any single political party
  • szekesfehervar — a city in W central Hungary.
  • tergiversation — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
  • tergiversatory — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
  • the everglades — a subtropical marshy region of Florida, south of Lake Okeechobee: contains the Everglades National Park established to preserve the flora and fauna of the swamps. Area: over 13 000 sq km (5000 sq miles)
  • the reverse of — emphatically not; not at all
  • thirty-seventh — next after the thirty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 37.
  • topsy-turvydom — a state of affairs or a region in which everything is topsy-turvy.
  • totidem verbis — with just so many words; in these words.
  • transactivator — to activate the replication of (a viral gene) through the presence of a gene at another locus, especially following a viral infection.
  • transformative — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
  • transmissivity — a measure of the ability of a material or medium to transmit electromagnetic energy, as light.
  • transmittivity — the transmittance of unit thickness of a substance, neglecting any scattering effects
  • transvaluation — to reestimate the value of, especially on a basis differing from accepted standards; reappraise; reevaluate.
  • transversality — the state of being transversal
  • travel-stained — dirty or soiled as a result of travelling
  • 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.
  • treasure trove — If you describe something or someone as a treasure trove of a particular thing, you mean that they are a very good or rich source of that thing.
  • treasure-trove — anything of the nature of treasure or a treasury that one finds: Mother's attic was a treasure-trove of memorabilia.
  • trial division — trial department
  • trois-rivieres — French name of Three Rivers.
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