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16-letter words containing r, v

  • service families — families which have a member serving in the armed forces
  • service industry — business providing a service
  • service provider — company: provides internet
  • seven weeks' war — the war (1866) in which Prussia, Italy, and some minor German states opposed Austria, Saxony, Hanover, and the states of southern Germany.
  • seven years' war — the war (1756–63) in which England and Prussia defeated France, Austria, Russia, Sweden, and Saxony.
  • severance motion — an application made to a judge or court for the division into separate parts of a joint estate, contract, etc
  • severnaya zemlya — an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, between the Kara Sea and Laptev Sea, in N Russia. 14,175 sq. mi. (36,712 sq. km).
  • sevruga (caviar) — caviar prepared from the small, grayish or black roe of a sturgeon chiefly from the Caspian Sea
  • shaker and mover — mover and shaker
  • sheet-web weaver — any of numerous spiders of the family Linyphiidae, characterized by a closely woven, sheetlike web.
  • shoemaker-levy 9 — a comet that was captured into an orbit around Jupiter and later broke up, the fragments colliding with Jupiter in July 1995
  • shortfin corvina — See under corvina.
  • shrinking violet — a shy, modest, or self-effacing person.
  • sicilian vespers — a general massacre of the French in Sicily by the local population, begun at the sound of the vesper bell on Easter Monday, 1282.
  • silver medallist — a competitor who comes second in a contest or race and is awarded a medal of silver
  • silver-lace vine — a hardy, twining, woody plant, Polygonum auberti, of the buckwheat family, native to western China and Tibet, having greenish-white, fragrant flowers in drooping clusters.
  • slave labor camp — labor camp (def 1).
  • slip one over on — to hoodwink or trick
  • slugging average — a measure of the effectiveness of a batter in making base hits, obtained by dividing the total bases reached by hitting by the number of official times at bat and carrying out the result to three decimal places. A batter making 275 total bases in 500 times at bat has a slugging average of .550.
  • sparking voltage — the minimum voltage required to produce a spark across a given spark gap.
  • special delivery — (in the U.S. Postal Service) delivery of mail outside the regularly scheduled hours, by a special messenger, upon the payment of an extra fee.
  • specific gravity — the ratio of the density of any substance to the density of some other substance taken as standard, water being the standard for liquids and solids, and hydrogen or air being the standard for gases.
  • spiritus vinosus — (in prescriptions) spirits of wine; alcohol.
  • splanchnic nerve — Anatomy. any of several nerves to the viscera and blood vessels of the chest and pelvic areas.
  • state university — a university maintained by the government of a state.
  • stevedore's knot — a knot that forms a lump in a line to prevent it from passing through a hole or grommet.
  • stevenson screen — a shelter for meteorological instruments, consisting of a raised white louvred box
  • strawberry guava — a shrub or small tree, Psidium littorale, of the myrtle family, native to Brazil, having smooth, grayish-brown bark, leathery leaves, white flowers, and edible, white-fleshed, purplish-red fruit.
  • substantive rank — a permanent rank in the armed services obtained by length of service, selection, etc
  • superheavyweight — an amateur boxer weighing more than 91 kg
  • supersensitivity — extremely or excessively sensitive; hypersensitive: a supersensitive smoke detector.
  • superserviceable — overly disposed to be of service; officious.
  • surveyor's chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
  • surveyor's level — level (def 8a).
  • tarragon vinegar — a white vinegar flavoured with the herb tarragon, used in cooking, esp in salad dressings
  • terms of service — the contract for acceptable use of digital media as defined by the developer. Abbreviation: TOS, ToS.
  • texas revolution — a revolutionary movement, 1832–36, in which U.S. settlers asserted their independence from Mexico and established the republic of Texas.
  • the beaver state — a name for the state of Oregon
  • the moving party — a person who applies to a court or judge with the aim of obtaining a ruling in their favour
  • the renosterveld — an area of high altitude in SW South Africa, having fertile ground
  • the silver ferns — the women's international netball team of New Zealand
  • the silver state — the nickname of the US state of Nevada, which comes from the large amount of silver discovered and mined there
  • the unobservable — something that cannot be observed
  • the virgin queen — another name for Queen Elizabeth I of England
  • thermionic valve — vacuum tube.
  • time sovereignty — control by an employee of the use of his or her time, involving flexibility of working hours
  • to overabound in — to have or contain too large a quantity or number of something
  • to rant and rave — If you say that someone rants and raves, you mean that they talk loudly and angrily in an uncontrolled way.
  • tomorrow evening — on the evening of the day after today
  • top drive system — A top drive system is a system which includes a motor that turns the drill string, used instead of the kelly.
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