13-letter words containing s, e, r, v
- descriptivity — The quality or state of being descriptive.
- deservingness — qualified for or having a claim to reward, assistance, etc., because of one's actions, qualities, or situation: the deserving poor; a deserving applicant.
- destructively — tending to destroy; causing destruction or much damage (often followed by of or to): a very destructive windstorm.
- destructivism — the theory that a part of a whole may be considered a principle part if the destruction of that part would lead to the destruction of the whole
- destructivist — a person who holds to the theory of destructivism
- devil worship — the worship of Satan or of a demon
- 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
- disrespective — (obsolete) Showing a lack of respect; disrespectful.
- distributives — Plural form of distributive.
- diversifiable — to make diverse, as in form or character; give variety or diversity to; variegate.
- diversionists — Plural form of diversionist.
- divertisement — (archaic) diversion; amusement; recreation.
- downers grove — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- 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
- effervescence — to give off bubbles of gas, as fermenting liquors.
- effervescency — (archaic) effervescence.
- elevator shoe — a shoe designed to increase the wearer's height
- energy saving — the fact of saving energy, or amount of energy saved
- enteroviruses — Plural form of enterovirus.
- escort vessel — ship that accompanies another
- evangelistary — a book containing passages from the gospels to be used as part of the liturgy
- evening dress — formal clothing
- everlastingly — In an everlasting manner; so as to be everlasting.
- ex-serviceman — An ex-serviceman is a man who used to be in a country's army, navy, or air force.
- excursiveness — The quality of being discursive.
- 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.
- extroversions — Plural form of extroversion.
- 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.
- favorableness — Alternative spelling of favourableness.
- favrile glass — a type of iridescent glass developed by L.C. Tiffany
- festivalgoers — Plural form of festivalgoer.
- fever blister — cold sore.
- field service — military service performed in the field
- field servoid — (jargon, abuse) /fee'ld ser'voyd/ A play on "android", a derogatory term for a representative of a field service organisation (see field circus), suggesting an unintelligent rule-driven approach to servicing computer hardware.
- flavoproteins — Plural form of flavoprotein.
- for values of — (jargon) A common rhetorical maneuver at MIT is to use any of the canonical random numbers as placeholders for variables. "The max function takes 42 arguments, for arbitrary values of 42". "There are 69 ways to leave your lover, for 69 = 50". This is especially likely when the speaker has uttered a random number and realises that it was not recognised as such, but even "non-random" numbers are occasionally used in this fashion. A related joke is that pi equals 3 - for small values of pi and large values of 3. This usage probably derives from the programming language MAD (Michigan Algorithm Decoder), an ALGOL-like language that was the most common choice among mainstream (non-hacker) users at MIT in the mid-1960s. It had a control structure FOR VALUES OF X = 3, 7, 99 DO ... that would repeat the indicated instructions for each value in the list (unlike the usual FOR that generates an arithmetic sequence of values). MAD is long extinct, but similar for-constructs still flourish (e.g. in Unix's shell languages).