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13-letter words containing s, l, e, v, i

  • silver halide — a compound in which silver is combined with a halogen, as silver chloride, bromide, or iodide.
  • silver iodate — a white, crystalline, slightly water-soluble powder, AgIO 3 , used in medicine chiefly as an antiseptic and as an astringent.
  • silver iodide — a pale-yellow, water-insoluble solid, AgI, which darkens on exposure to light: used chiefly in medicine, photography, and artificial rainmaking.
  • silver lining — a sign of hope in an unfortunate or gloomy situation; a bright prospect: Every cloud has a silver lining.
  • silver polish — a type of polishing medium that is suitable for silver
  • silver poplar — white poplar (def 1).
  • silver salmon — coho salmon.
  • silver screen — motion pictures; the motion-picture industry: a star of the silver screen.
  • silver spring — a town in central Maryland, near Washington, D.C.
  • silver surfer — elderly internet user
  • silver tongue — the characteristic of being skilful at persuading people to believe what they say or to do what they want them to do
  • silver wattle — a tree, Acacia dealbata, of the legume family, native to Australia and Tasmania, having feathery, silver-gray foliage and fragrant yellow flowers.
  • silver-bullet — a quick solution to a difficult problem.
  • silver-haired — having silver coloured hair
  • silver-plated — Something that is silver-plated is covered with a very thin layer of silver.
  • silver-y moth — a brownish noctuid moth, Plusia gamma, having a light Y-shaped marking on each forewing; it migrates in large flocks
  • silvichemical — any of a number of chemicals derived from a tree.
  • single-valued — (of a function) having the property that each element in the domain has corresponding to it exactly one element in the range.
  • slasher movie — a film in which victims, often women, are slashed with knives, razors, etc
  • slave trading — trafficking in people
  • slave traffic — the traffic of slaves
  • slieve donard — a mountain in SE Northern Ireland, in the Mourne Mountains: highest peak in Northern Ireland. Height: 853 m (2798 ft)
  • slow dissolve — a transition that fades out one scene and replaces it with another over a period of about three of four seconds
  • solitary wave — a localized disturbance that propagates like a wave but resembles a particle in that it does not disperse, even if it collides with other such waves.
  • sovietologist — Kremlinology.
  • speculatively — pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by speculation, contemplation, conjecture, or abstract reasoning: a speculative approach.
  • spring valley — a city in SW California, near San Diego.
  • subserviently — serving or acting in a subordinate capacity; subordinate.
  • substantively — a noun.
  • suction valve — a nonreturn valve in a pump suction to prevent the pump draining or depriming when not in service
  • suovetaurilia — (in ancient Rome) a sacrifice of a hog, a ram, and a bull.
  • superlatively — of the highest kind, quality, or order; surpassing all else or others; supreme; extreme: superlative wisdom.
  • supervirulent — extremely virulent
  • swivel-hipped — characterized by an exaggeratedly swinging or extremely free motion of the hips.
  • talkativeness — inclined to talk a great deal: One drink and she became very talkative.
  • televangelism — Christian preaching on TV
  • televangelist — an evangelist who regularly conducts religious services on television.
  • the invisible — God
  • time reversal — the mathematical operation of reversing the direction of time. Symbol: T.
  • transfusively — in a transfusive manner
  • tunnel vision — a drastically narrowed field of vision, as in looking through a tube, symptomatic of retinitis pigmentosa.
  • unassertively — in an unassertive manner
  • undeservingly — in an undeserving manner
  • unexclusively — in an unexclusive manner
  • 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.
  • unobtrusively — not obtrusive; inconspicuous, unassertive, or reticent.
  • unselectively — in an unselective manner
  • unserviceable — not suitable to be used
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