13-letter words containing s, e, r, v, i, n
- overextension — to extend, reach, or expand beyond a proper, safe, or reasonable point: a company that overextended its credit to diversify.
- overhastiness — the condition of being overhasty
- overingenious — ingenious to a fault
- overinsistent — excessively insistent
- overinsurance — (of goods or property) insurance in excess of actual value
- overintensity — the state of being too intense
- overnourished — to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth.
- overprovision — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- oversecretion — (in a cell or gland) the act or process of separating, elaborating, and releasing a substance that fulfills some function within the organism or undergoes excretion.
- oversensitive — excessively or unduly sensitive.
- perseveration — the act or process of perseverating.
- perseveringly — displaying perseverance; resolutely persistent; steadfast: a persevering student.
- pervasiveness — spread throughout: The corruption is so pervasive that it is accepted as the way to do business.
- pre-provision — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- preservations — to keep alive or in existence; make lasting: to preserve our liberties as free citizens.
- pretelevision — occurring before the arrival of television
- preuniversity — of the period before attending university
- primitiveness — being the first or earliest of the kind or in existence, especially in an early age of the world: primitive forms of life.
- privateersman — an officer or sailor of a privateer.
- 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.
- provincialise — to make provincial in character.
- re-entry visa — a visa that allows someone to enter a country again several times
- receiving set — a radio receiver.
- receptiveness — having the quality of receiving, taking in, or admitting.
- recessiveness — tending to go, move, or slant back; receding.
- reclusiveness — the state or quality of being reclusive
- recursiveness — pertaining to or using a rule or procedure that can be applied repeatedly.
- reductiveness — of or relating to reduction; serving to reduce or abridge: an urgent need for reductive measures.
- reflexiveness — Grammar. (of a verb) taking a subject and object with identical referents, as shave in I shave myself. (of a pronoun) used as an object to refer to the subject of a verb, as myself in I shave myself.
- reinvestigate — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
- remonstrative — to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval.
- rendezvousing — an agreement between two or more persons to meet at a certain time and place.
- resistiveness — the quality or state of being resistive or offering resistance
- revelationist — a person who believes in divine revelation.
- reverse swing — a type of swing in which a ball that has been scuffed on one side will move in the opposite direction to that of a new ball
- revolutionise — to bring about a revolution in; effect a radical change in: to revolutionize petroleum refining methods.
- revolutionism — a belief in revolution or revolutionary ideas
- revolutionist — a person who advocates or takes part in a revolution.
- risk aversion — a strong disinclination to take risks
- rivalrousness — characterized by rivalry; competitive: the rivalrous aspect of their friendship.
- river fishing — the sport of fishing in rivers
- rosenkavalier — an opera (1911) by Richard Strauss.
- russian olive — oleaster.
- sciatic nerve — either of a pair of nerves, the largest in the body, that originate in the sacral plexus of the lower back and extend down the buttocks to the back of the knees, where they divide into other nerves: the sciatic nerve and its branches innervate large areas of the pelvis, leg, and foot.
- scrivenership — the position of being a scrivener or scribe; scribing
- semievergreen — retaining green, unwithered leaves for part of the winter or through comparatively mild winters.
- serviceperson — a person who is a member of the armed forces of a country.
- serving hatch — a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room
- serving spoon — utensil used to serve food
- seventy-first — next after the seventieth; being the ordinal number for 71.