14-letter words containing s, a, v, e, d, r
- provincialised — to make provincial in character.
- quadrumvirates — Plural form of quadrumvirate.
- 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.
- removable disk — removable hard disk
- saavedra lamas — Carlos [kahr-laws] /ˈkɑr lɔs/ (Show IPA), 1878?–1959, Argentine statesman and diplomat: Nobel Peace Prize 1936.
- sand lovegrass — any grass of the genus Eragrostis, as E. curvula (weeping lovegrass) and E. trichodes (sand lovegrass) cultivated as forage and ground cover.
- secondary wave — a transverse earthquake wave that travels through the interior of the earth and is usually the second conspicuous wave to reach a seismograph.
- sergiyev posad — a city in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Moscow.
- seventh-grader — a student in the seventh year of school, usually 11 to 13 years old
- shrove tuesday — the last day of Shrovetide, long observed as a season of merrymaking before Lent.
- slave cylinder — a small cylinder containing a piston that operates the brake shoes or pads in hydraulic brakes or the working part in any other hydraulically operated system
- sound archives — official records or files (as in a library) of sound recordings, broadcasts, or performances, esp those from radio programmes
- 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.
- storage device — a device used to store digital data or information, as a hard disk or CD.
- 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)
- travel-stained — dirty or soiled as a result of travelling
- undiscoverable — unable to be discovered or found out
- undiscoverably — in an undiscoverable manner
- v-shaped curve — a curve on a graph that shows a sharp fall followed by a correspondingly sharp rise
- vacuum residue — Vacuum residue is the substance which is obtained by vacuum distillation (= a process of separating substances by reducing pressure to less than atmospheric pressure).
- vapour density — the ratio of the density of a gas or vapour to that of hydrogen at the same temperature and pressure
- vat-registered — (of a company or individual) registered as being liable to pay VAT
- ville-de-paris — a department in N France. 41 sq. mi. (106 sq. km). Capital: Paris.