14-letter words containing s, a, v, o, i, r
- post-operative — occurring after a surgical operation.
- post-victorian — of or relating to Queen Victoria or the period of her reign: Victorian poets.
- postal service — organized handling and delivery of mail
- private school — a school founded, conducted, and maintained by a private group rather than by the government, usually charging tuition and often following a particular philosophy, viewpoint, etc.
- private sector — the area of the nation's economy under private rather than governmental control.
- proactiveness' — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- 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.
- 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.
- recurvirostral — with a beak which is bent upwards
- removable disk — removable hard disk
- reservationist — a person who makes or takes reservations, as at an airline office; reservation clerk.
- reverberations — remote or indirect consequences of an action; repercussions
- salvation army — an international Christian organization founded in England in 1865 by William Booth, organized along quasi-military lines and devoted chiefly to evangelism and to providing social services, especially to the poor.
- self-operative — automatic.
- semistarvation — the state of being nearly starved.
- sergiyev posad — a city in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Moscow.
- seronegativity — the quality or state of being seronegative
- service a room — If you service a room, you clean it and change the towels and bed linen in it.
- servomechanism — an electronic control system in which a hydraulic, pneumatic, or other type of controlling mechanism is actuated and controlled by a low-energy signal.
- seville orange — a globose, reddish-yellow, bitter or sweet, edible citrus fruit.
- share of voice — the proportion of the total audience or readership commanded by a media group across its full range of publishing and broadcasting activities
- shaving mirror — small adjustable mirror
- social service — organized welfare efforts carried on under professional auspices by trained personnel.
- solar activity — the sum of all variable and short-lived disturbances on the sun, as sunspots, prominences, and solar flares.
- solitary vireo — a vireo, Vireo solitarius, of North and Central America, having the top and sides of the head bluish-gray.
- sound archives — official records or files (as in a library) of sound recordings, broadcasts, or performances, esp those from radio programmes
- splatter movie — a film containing many scenes of violent and gruesome murders.
- stanovoi range — a mountain range in SE Russia; forms part of the watershed between rivers flowing to the Arctic and the Pacific. Highest peak: Mount Skalisty, 2482 m (8143 ft)
- storage device — a device used to store digital data or information, as a hard disk or CD.
- superelevation — bank1 (def 6).
- superior ovary — Botany. an ovary positioned above a receptacle of a flower, as in members of the mint family.
- superovulation — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
- tergiversation — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
- tergiversatory — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
- transactivator — to activate the replication of (a viral gene) through the presence of a gene at another locus, especially following a viral infection.
- transformative — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
- transvaluation — to reestimate the value of, especially on a basis differing from accepted standards; reappraise; reevaluate.
- trial division — trial department
- unchivalrously — in an unchivalrous manner
- unconservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
- undiscoverable — unable to be discovered or found out
- undiscoverably — in an undiscoverable manner
- universal soul — Brahman in its aspect as the sacred syllable Om, the eternal and spiritual principle that permeates the universe
- vaingloriously — in a vainglorious manner
- valcour island — an island in NE New York, in Lake Champlain: battle 1776.
- valerianaceous — belonging to the plant family Valerianaceae.
- van conversion — van2 (def 4).
- vapour density — the ratio of the density of a gas or vapour to that of hydrogen at the same temperature and pressure
- variable costs — Variable costs are costs that vary depending on how much of a product is made.