13-letter words containing s, a, l, v, e
- televangelism — Christian preaching on TV
- televangelist — an evangelist who regularly conducts religious services on television.
- time reversal — the mathematical operation of reversing the direction of time. Symbol: T.
- toll traverse — a payment made for the right to cross privately owned property.
- transfusively — in a transfusive manner
- transversally — transverse.
- unassertively — in an unassertive manner
- unconversable — inappropriate for conversation
- universal set — the set of all objects or elements considered in a given problem
- universalness — of, relating to, or characteristic of all or the whole: universal experience.
- unsalvageable — the act of saving a ship or its cargo from perils of the seas.
- unserviceable — not suitable to be used
- unspeculative — not characterized by speculation
- untraversable — to pass or move over, along, or through.
- vaginal smear — a smear sample taken from vaginal mucous for cytological analysis
- valence-shell — an electron of an atom, located in the outermost shell (valence shell) of the atom, that can be transferred to or shared with another atom.
- valet service — a cleaning service, in which your clothes are collected for cleaning, from your house or hotel, and returned to you
- valle d'aosta — a region in NW Italy. 1259 sq. mi. (3260 sq. km).
- valley stream — a village on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- van der waals — Johannes Diderik (joːˈhɑnəs ˈdiːdərik). 1837–1923, Dutch physicist, noted for his research on the equations of state of gases and liquids: Nobel prize for physics in 1910
- vanity plates — a vehicle license plate bearing a combination of letters or numbers requested by the licensee, as a name or occupation.
- variabilities — apt or liable to vary or change; changeable: variable weather; variable moods.
- variable cost — a cost that varies with a change in the volume of output while remaining uniform on a per-unit basis, as cost of labor (distinguished from fixed cost).
- variable star — a star that varies markedly in brightness from time to time.
- vascularities — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
- venus flytrap — firewall machine
- vernacularism — a vernacular word or expression.
- vernacularist — someone who uses vernacular speech
- vernier scale — Also, vernier scale. a small, movable, graduated scale running parallel to the fixed graduated scale of a sextant, theodolite, barometer, etc., and used for measuring a fractional part of one of the divisions of the fixed scale.
- vestal virgin — (in ancient Rome) one of four, later six, virgins consecrated to Vesta and to the tending of the sacred fire on her altar.
- visceral arch — Embryology. branchial arch.
- visual cortex — the portion of the cerebral cortex of the brain that receives and processes impulses from the optic nerves.
- visual effect — Usually, visual effects. a special effect that is added to a film or video in post-production, as computer-generated imagery. Abbreviation: VFX.
- visual purple — rhodopsin.
- voluntariness — done, made, brought about, undertaken, etc., of one's own accord or by free choice: a voluntary contribution.
- vraisemblance — verisimilitude; appearance of truth
- wallcoverings — Plural form of wallcovering.
- western 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)
- white slavery — the condition of or traffic in white slaves.
- white-slaving — traffic in white slaves.
- wilhelmshaven — a seaport in NW Germany, NW of Bremen, on the North Sea.