12-letter words containing s, e, v, r, t
- preservation — to keep alive or in existence; make lasting: to preserve our liberties as free citizens.
- preservative — something that preserves or tends to preserve.
- preservatory — a preservative
- print server — (printer) A server device that is set up on a network to route print requests and status information between computers and printers connected by a network. A typical print server routes print requests for multiple computers and printers on a network. For example, a networked workstation user submits a print command that includes a print file and information about the printer to be used, usually a nearby printer for convenience. The print server sends the print file to the requested printer. The printer spools the print file and provides job status. The print server relays the status of the printer back to the workstation and makes this status information available to other devices on the network.
- proclivities — natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition: a proclivity to meticulousness.
- proscriptive — the act of proscribing.
- protensively — in the manner of duration
- protest vote — a ballot cast for a candidate with a minimal chance of winning, to register dislike for the other candidates.
- pseudovector — a variable quantity, such as angular momentum, that has magnitude and orientation with respect to an axis. The components are even functions of the coordinates
- reactiveness — tending to react.
- reactivities — the quality or condition of being reactive.
- recidivistic — repeated or habitual relapse, as into crime.
- regressivity — regressing or tending to regress; retrogressive.
- reinvestment — putting money into sth again
- relativeness — the state or fact of being relative.
- relativistic — of or relating to relativity or relativism.
- renversement — a reversal, an inversion, the act of reversing
- reserve tank — the tank or part of a tank in a car engine that reserves fuel in case the main fuel supply runs out
- reserve team — a second team of a sports club, such as a football club, made up of emerging and young players
- respectively — in precisely the order given; sequentially.
- responsivity — the quality or state of being responsive.
- resurrective — of or relating to resurrection
- retropulsive — of or relating to retropulsion
- retroversion — a looking or turning back.
- return visit — If you make a return visit, you visit someone who has already visited you, or you go back to a place where you have already been once.
- reverse shot — a shot that views the action from the opposite side of the previous shot, as during a conversation between two actors, giving the effect of looking from one actor to the other.
- reverse turn — a manoeuvre which makes a vehicle move backwards and to the left or right
- reversionist — a person who advocates reverting to the conditions, customs, ideals, etc., of an earlier era.
- revisitation — the act of visiting.
- river forest — a city in NE Illinois.
- rooseveltian — of, pertaining to, advocating, or following the principles, views, or policies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt or of Theodore Roosevelt.
- root version — The initial value of an object in a change management system.
- route survey — a survey for determining the route, grades, etc., of a railroad, highway, or power line.
- sb's travels — the journeys someone makes to places a long way from their home
- security van — an armoured van used to transport money or other valuables
- self-starved — to die or perish from lack of food or nourishment.
- semivitreous — partially vitreous.
- septemvirate — the ruling body of septemvirs.
- seronegative — showing no significant level of serum antibodies, or other immunologic marker in the serum, that would indicate previous exposure to the infectious agent being tested.
- seropositive — showing a significant level of serum antibodies, or other immunologic marker in the serum, indicating previous exposure to the infectious agent being tested.
- servant girl — a girl or woman employed as a servant who performs household duties
- serve notice — to give formal warning or information, as of intentions; announce
- service flat — an apartment with complete hotel services.
- service lift — a lift which carries heavy goods in a place of business, as for example, plates in a restaurant
- service tree — either of two European trees, Sorbus domestica, bearing a small, acid fruit that is edible when overripe, or S. torminalis (wild service tree) bearing a similar fruit.
- servitorship — the office or position of a servitor; the condition of being a servitor
- servo system — a system using a servomechanism.
- servocontrol — control by means of a servomechanism.
- seventy-four — a cardinal number, 70 plus 4.
- severability — capability of being separated, as of a clause in an agreement