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14-letter words containing s, t, e, v, n

  • quasi-negative — expressing or containing negation or denial: a negative response to the question.
  • 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.
  • re-investigate — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
  • reconstitutive — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
  • reconstructive — tending to reconstruct.
  • reflectiveness — that reflects; reflecting.
  • repetitiveness — pertaining to or characterized by repetition.
  • representative — a person or thing that represents another or others.
  • reservationist — a person who makes or takes reservations, as at an airline office; reservation clerk.
  • revenue stream — method of income
  • 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.
  • scavenger hunt — a game in which individuals or teams are sent out to accumulate, without purchasing, a series of common, outlandish, or humorous objects, the winner being the person or team returning first with all the items.
  • scout movement — the group of people who set up the Scout Association and those who currently are involved with it, considered with their organized action
  • self-interview — a formal meeting in which one or more persons question, consult, or evaluate another person: a job interview.
  • self-valuation — an estimated value or worth.
  • semi-narrative — a story or account of events, experiences, or the like, whether true or fictitious.
  • semistarvation — the state of being nearly starved.
  • semivegetarian — a person who eats mostly plant foods, dairy products, and eggs, and occasionally chicken, fish, and red meat.
  • sensitive fern — a common, widely distributed fern, Onoclea sensibilis, having large, triangular leaves and beadlike spikes that contain the spores.
  • seronegativity — the quality or state of being seronegative
  • servant church — the attitude or practices of a church whose avowed purpose is to serve the world.
  • service center — an authorized commercial establishment for repairs and replacement parts for appliances or cars.
  • service tunnel — a tunnel alongside another which is used for services such as maintenance, repairs, etc
  • serviette ring — a ring used to hold a cloth serviette or napkin neatly in a cylinder
  • seventh avenue — an avenue in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City.
  • seventh heaven — (especially in Islam and the cabala) the highest heaven, where God and the most exalted angels dwell.
  • seventh-grader — a student in the seventh year of school, usually 11 to 13 years old
  • seventy-eighth — next after the seventy-seventh; being the ordinal number for 78.
  • seventy-fourth — next after the seventy-third; being the ordinal number for 74.
  • seventy-second — next after the seventy-first; being the ordinal number for 72.
  • short covering — purchases that close out short sales on stocks or commodities.
  • silent service — the submarine service (usually preceded by the).
  • silver nitrate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble, bitter, corrosive, poisonous powder, AgNO 3 , produced by the reaction of silver and dilute nitric acid: used chiefly in the manufacture of photographic emulsions and mirrors, as a laboratory reagent, and in medicine as an antiseptic, astringent, and in the routine prophylaxis of ophthalmia neonatorum.
  • silver protein — any of several colloidal silver solutions containing silver and a protein, as albumin: formerly used in treating inflammation of mucous membranes
  • silver-tongued — persuasive; eloquent: a silver-tongued orator.
  • situs inversus — a congenital defect in which an organ is on the side opposite from its normal position.
  • sleep movement — the folding together of leaflets, petals, etc, that occurs at night in certain plants, such as the prayer plant (Maranta leuconura)
  • sliding vector — a vector having specified magnitude and lying on a given line.
  • snifting valve — a valve for releasing small quantities of steam, compressed air, or condensate, as from the cylinder of a steam engine.
  • southern 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)
  • souvenir sheet — a single stamp or a pair, block, or set of stamps having the same or different designs commemorating a stamp exhibition or other event and having inscriptions in one or all four margins.
  • sovereign debt — the debt of a national government, esp debt that is issued in a foreign currency
  • spuyten duyvil — ship canal between N Manhattan Island & the mainland, connecting the Hudson & Harlem rivers
  • st. john's eve — Midsummer Eve.
  • stanovoi range — a mountain range in SE Russia; forms part of the watershed between rivers flowing to the Arctic and the Pacific. Highest peak: Mount Skalisty, 2482 m (8143 ft)
  • stock dividend — a form of dividend collected by a stockholder in extra shares of the corporation's stock rather than in cash.
  • stock turnover — the rate at which stock is sold and replenished
  • student driver — someone who is learning to drive
  • sub-government — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
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