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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.
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