14-letter words containing s, o, v, e, r, i
- photoresistive — photoconductive
- policy adviser — a person who provides ideas or plans that are used by an organization or government as a basis for making decisions
- positive organ — a small pipe organ of the Middle Ages.
- post operative — occurring after a surgical operation.
- post-operative — occurring after a surgical operation.
- postal service — organized handling and delivery of mail
- prerevisionist — preceding revisionism
- private school — a school founded, conducted, and maintained by a private group rather than by the government, usually charging tuition and often following a particular philosophy, viewpoint, etc.
- private sector — the area of the nation's economy under private rather than governmental control.
- 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.
- productiveness — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- productivities — the quality, state, or fact of being able to generate, create, enhance, or bring forth goods and services: The productivity of the group's effort surprised everyone.
- progressivists — the principles and practices of progressives.
- proof positive — To be proof positive of a particular fact or quality means to be evidence that it is true or that it exists.
- protectiveness — having the quality or function of protecting: a protective covering.
- proventriculus — the glandular portion of the stomach of birds, in which food is partially digested before passing to the ventriculus or gizzard.
- provincialised — to make provincial in character.
- radiosensitive — (of certain tissues or organisms) sensitive to or destructible by various types of radiant energy, as x-rays, rays from radioactive material, or the like.
- reconstitutive — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
- reconstructive — tending to reconstruct.
- recurvirostral — with a beak which is bent upwards
- removable disk — removable hard disk
- reprovisioning — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- reservationist — a person who makes or takes reservations, as at an airline office; reservation clerk.
- reservoir rock — rock that has sufficient porosity to contain accumulations of oil or gas.
- responsiveness — the quality or state of being responsive.
- reverberations — remote or indirect consequences of an action; repercussions
- revolutionised — to bring about a revolution in; effect a radical change in: to revolutionize petroleum refining methods.
- scotch verdict — a verdict of not proven: acceptable in certain cases in Scottish criminal law.
- second service — the communion service: so called because it follows Morning Prayer.
- security video — a video recording taken by a security camera
- self-discovery — process of understanding oneself
- self-governing — governed by itself or having self-government, as a state or community; independent.
- self-operative — automatic.
- self-provision — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- semistarvation — the state of being nearly starved.
- senior service — the Royal Navy
- sergiyev posad — a city in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Moscow.
- seroconversion — the process of producing antibodies in response to a specific antigen
- seronegativity — the quality or state of being seronegative
- seropositivity — the quality or state of being seropositive
- service a room — If you service a room, you clean it and change the towels and bed linen in it.
- service module — (often initial capital letters) U.S. Aerospace. the section of an Apollo spacecraft containing the principal propulsion system, electrical system, water, and other supplies.
- service sector — the sector of the economy that provides services rather than products, etc
- servomechanism — an electronic control system in which a hydraulic, pneumatic, or other type of controlling mechanism is actuated and controlled by a low-energy signal.
- seville orange — a globose, reddish-yellow, bitter or sweet, edible citrus fruit.
- share of voice — the proportion of the total audience or readership commanded by a media group across its full range of publishing and broadcasting activities
- short covering — purchases that close out short sales on stocks or commodities.
- silver bromide — a yellowish, water-insoluble powder, AgBr, which darkens on exposure to light, produced by the reaction of silver nitrate with a bromide: used chiefly in the manufacture of photographic emulsions.
- silver protein — any of several colloidal silver solutions containing silver and a protein, as albumin: formerly used in treating inflammation of mucous membranes