13-letter words containing s, e, v, r
- undeservingly — in an undeserving manner
- undiversified — distinguished by various forms or by a variety of objects: diversified activity.
- uninstructive — not conveying information or serving to instruct
- unintrusively — tending or apt to intrude; coming without invitation or welcome: intrusive memories of a lost love.
- universal set — the set of all objects or elements considered in a given problem
- universalness — of, relating to, or characteristic of all or the whole: universal experience.
- unobstructive — to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
- unobtrusively — not obtrusive; inconspicuous, unassertive, or reticent.
- unprogressive — favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters: a progressive mayor.
- unprovisioned — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- unscavengered — lacking the qualities of having been scavenged
- unserviceable — not suitable to be used
- untraversable — to pass or move over, along, or through.
- vaginal smear — a smear sample taken from vaginal mucous for cytological analysis
- vagodepressor — decreasing or mimicking the decrease of the activity of the vagus nerve.
- valet service — a cleaning service, in which your clothes are collected for cleaning, from your house or hotel, and returned to you
- valley stream — a village on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- van der waals — Johannes Diderik (joːˈhɑnəs ˈdiːdərik). 1837–1923, Dutch physicist, noted for his research on the equations of state of gases and liquids: Nobel prize for physics in 1910
- vannevar bush — (person) Dr. Vannevar Bush, 1890-1974. The man who invented hypertext, which he called memex, in the 1930s. Bush did his undergraduate work at Tufts College, where he later taught. His masters thesis (1913) included the invention of the Profile Tracer, used in surveying work to measure distances over uneven ground. In 1919, he joined MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering, where he stayed for twenty-five years. In 1932, he was appointed vice-president and dean. At this time, Bush worked on optical and photocomposition devices, as well as a machine for rapid selection from banks of microfilm. Further positions followed: president of the Carnegie Institute in Washington, DC (1939); chair of National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (1939); director of Office of Scientific Research and Development. This last role was as presidential science advisor, which made him personally responsible for the 6,000 scientists involved in the war effort. During World War II, Bush worked on radar antenna profiles and the calculation of artillery firing tables. He proposed the development of an analogue computer, which later became the Rockefeller Differential Analyser. Bush is the pivotal figure in hypertext research. His ground-breaking 1945 paper, "As We May Think," speculated on how a machine might be created to assist human reasoning, and introduced the idea of an easily accessible, individually configurable storehouse of knowledge. This machine, which he dubbed "memex," in various ways anticipated hypermedia and the World Wide Web by nearly half a century.
- vapor tension — vapor pressure.
- vapourishness — the quality or state of being vapourish
- variabilities — apt or liable to vary or change; changeable: variable weather; variable moods.
- variable cost — a cost that varies with a change in the volume of output while remaining uniform on a per-unit basis, as cost of labor (distinguished from fixed cost).
- variable star — a star that varies markedly in brightness from time to time.
- varicose vein — Varicose veins are swollen and painful veins in a person's legs, which sometimes require a medical operation.
- varied thrush — a plump thrush, Ixoreus naevius, of western North America, resembling a robin with a dark band across the chest.
- variety meats — processed meat, such as sausage, or offal
- variety store — a retail store, as a five-and-ten, carrying a large variety of goods, especially low-priced articles.
- vascularities — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
- vegetarianism — the beliefs or practices of a vegetarian.
- velvet scoter — a European sea duck, Melanitta fusca, the male of which has a black plumage with white patches below the eyes and on the wings
- venereologist — the branch of medicine dealing with the study and treatment of venereal, or sexually transmitted, disease.
- venire facias — a writ directing the appropriate official to summon a jury.
- ventriloquism — the art or practice of speaking, with little or no lip movement, in such a manner that the voice does not appear to come from the speaker but from another source, as from a wooden dummy.
- ventriloquist — a person who performs or is skilled in ventriloquism.
- ventriloquous — of or relating to ventriloquism or a ventriloquist
- venture scout — a young man or woman, aged 16–20, who is a member of the senior branch of the Scouts
- venturesomely — in a venturesome manner
- venus flytrap — firewall machine
- veraciousness — characterized by truthfulness; true, accurate, or honest in content: a veracious statement; a veracious account.
- verkhneudinsk — former name of Ulan Ude.
- vernacularism — a vernacular word or expression.
- vernacularist — someone who uses vernacular speech
- vernier scale — Also, vernier scale. a small, movable, graduated scale running parallel to the fixed graduated scale of a sextant, theodolite, barometer, etc., and used for measuring a fractional part of one of the divisions of the fixed scale.
- vernis martin — a finish for furniture, invented in France in the 18th century in imitation of Chinese lacquer.
- vers-libriste — vers-librist.
- versicoloured — of variable or various colours
- versification — the act of versifying.
- vestal virgin — (in ancient Rome) one of four, later six, virgins consecrated to Vesta and to the tending of the sacred fire on her altar.
- vicariousness — performed, exercised, received, or suffered in place of another: vicarious punishment.