13-letter words containing s, a, v, e
- copperas cove — a town in central Texas.
- coronaviruses — Plural form of coronavirus.
- cyberactivism — Activism facilitated by the Internet.
- damage survey — an inspection by an insurance company of something that has been damaged and for which an insurance claim has been made, in order to determine the extent and cause of damage
- dame's violet — a Eurasian hairy perennial plant, Hesperis matronalis, cultivated in gardens for its mauve or white fragrant flowers: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- dasht-e-kavir — large salt-desert plateau in NC Iran: c. 18,000 sq mi (46,620 sq km)
- demonstrative — Someone who is demonstrative shows affection freely and openly.
- denmark vesey — Denmark, 1767–1822, black freedman, born probably on St. Thomas, Danish West Indies: hanged as alleged leader of a slave insurrection, in Charleston, S.C.
- derivationist — a person who believes that it is possible to derive knowledge of what is good for humans from a metaphysical study of humans themselves
- devastatingly — tending or threatening to devastate: a devastating fire.
- devotionalist — a devotee
- disadvantaged — lacking the normal or usual necessities and comforts of life, as proper housing, educational opportunities, job security, adequate medical care, etc.: The government extends help to disadvantaged minorities.
- disadvantages — Plural form of disadvantage.
- discovery bay — an inlet of the Indian Ocean in SE Australia
- discovery day — Columbus Day.
- disinvigorate — to deprive of vigour
- dispurveyance — the lack of provisions
- disseminative — to scatter or spread widely, as though sowing seed; promulgate extensively; broadcast; disperse: to disseminate information about preventive medicine.
- dissimilative — to modify by dissimilation.
- diversifiable — to make diverse, as in form or character; give variety or diversity to; variegate.
- dolman sleeve — a sleeve tapered from a very large armhole to fit closely at the wrist, used on women's garments.
- draft version — a preliminary version
- driver's seat — the seat from which a vehicle is operated.
- easterly wave — a westward-moving, wavelike disturbance of low atmospheric pressure embedded in tropical easterly winds.
- eastern 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)
- eavesdroppers — Plural form of eavesdropper.
- eavesdropping — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
- ebola (virus) — an RNA virus (family Filoviridae) that causes fever, internal bleeding, and, often, death
- elevator shoe — a shoe designed to increase the wearer's height
- energy saving — the fact of saving energy, or amount of energy saved
- equivocalness — The state of being equivocal; ambiguity.
- equivocations — Plural form of equivocation.
- escape device — a device with a collapsible extensible slide, used as an emergency exit, eg from a burning tall building
- evangelistary — a book containing passages from the gospels to be used as part of the liturgy
- evening class — An evening class is a course for adults that is taught in the evening rather than during the day.
- eventualities — Plural form of eventuality.
- everlastingly — In an everlasting manner; so as to be everlasting.
- evocativeness — The state or condition of being evocative.
- ex-serviceman — An ex-serviceman is a man who used to be in a country's army, navy, or air force.
- exhaust valve — An exhaust valve is a valve that releases burned gases from a cylinder.
- expansiveness — The state of being expansive.
- extravagances — Plural form of extravagance.
- extravagantes — decretals circulating outside some recognized collection of canon law. Those of John XXII and the so-called Extravagantes communes form part of the Corpus Juris Canonici
- extravaganzas — Plural form of extravaganza.
- extravasating — Present participle of extravasate.
- extravasation — The exudation of blood, lymph or urine from a vessel into the tissues.
- extravascular — Situated or happening outside of the blood vessels or lymph vessels.
- false vampire — any large, carnivorous bat of the families Megadermatidae and Phyllostomatidae, of Africa, Asia, and Australia, erroneously reputed to suck the blood of animals and humans.
- family values — belief in traditional family unit
- fast dissolve — a transition that fades out one scene and replaces it with another, merging the two scenes imperceptibly