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14-letter words containing r, v, a

  • providentially — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
  • provincialised — to make provincial in character.
  • provisionality — providing or serving for the time being only; existing only until permanently or properly replaced; temporary: a provisional government.
  • public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
  • pulmonary vein — a vein conveying oxygenated blood from the lungs to the left atrium of the heart.
  • quadrumvirates — Plural form of quadrumvirate.
  • quaquaversally — in a quaquaversal manner
  • rabies vaccine — substance that inoculates against rabies
  • radio receiver — an apparatus that receives incoming modulated radio waves and converts them into sound
  • radiosensitive — (of certain tissues or organisms) sensitive to or destructible by various types of radiant energy, as x-rays, rays from radioactive material, or the like.
  • rancho cordova — a town in central California.
  • rat-bite fever — either of two relapsing febrile diseases, widely distributed geographically, caused by infection with Streptobacillus moniliformis or Spirillum minor and transmitted by rats.
  • rateable value — In Britain, the rateable value of a building was a value based on its size and facilities, which was used in calculating local taxes called rates.
  • re-investigate — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
  • reactive power — Reactive power is the part of complex power that corresponds to storage and retrieval of energy rather than consumption.
  • reactor vessel — the container surrounding and protecting the core of a nuclear reactor.
  • recapitulative — the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated.
  • receivableness — the fact or condition of being receivable; receivability
  • recoverability — able to recover or be recovered: a patient now believed to be recoverable; recoverable losses on his investments.
  • recurvirostral — with a beak which is bent upwards
  • redintegrative — to make whole again; restore to a perfect state; renew; reestablish.
  • regressive tax — a tax which is levied or graduated so that the rate decreases as the amount taxed increases
  • rehabilitative — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
  • reinvigorating — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
  • reinvigoration — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
  • relative major — the major key whose tonic is the third degree of a given minor key.
  • relative minor — the minor key whose tonic is the sixth degree of a given major key.
  • relative pitch — the pitch of a tone as determined by its relationship to other tones in a scale.
  • relativization — to regard as or make relative.
  • relieving arch — discharging arch.
  • removable disk — removable hard disk
  • representative — a person or thing that represents another or others.
  • 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
  • retrievability — to recover or regain: to retrieve the stray ball.
  • 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.
  • revitalization — to give new life to.
  • revivification — to restore to life; give new life to; revive; reanimate.
  • 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
  • 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
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