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14-letter words containing s, t, r, a, v

  • self-assertive — insistence on or an expression of one's own importance, wishes, needs, opinions, or the like.
  • self-operative — automatic.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • serviceability — capable of or being of service; useful.
  • seventh-grader — a student in the seventh year of school, usually 11 to 13 years old
  • sheva brachoth — the seven blessings said during the marriage service and repeated at the celebration thereafter
  • shrove tuesday — the last day of Shrovetide, long observed as a season of merrymaking before Lent.
  • 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.
  • slave bracelet — a braceletlike, ornamental circlet or chain worn around the ankle.
  • slit fricative — a fricative, as (f) or (th), in which the tongue is relatively flat, with air channeled over it through a shallow slit.
  • solar activity — the sum of all variable and short-lived disturbances on the sun, as sunspots, prominences, and solar flares.
  • solitary vireo — a vireo, Vireo solitarius, of North and Central America, having the top and sides of the head bluish-gray.
  • 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)
  • spirit varnish — a preparation consisting of resinous matter, as copal or lac, dissolved in an oil (oil varnish) or in alcohol (spirit varnish) or other volatile liquid. When applied to the surface of wood, metal, etc., it dries and leaves a hard, more or less glossy, usually transparent coating.
  • splatter movie — a film containing many scenes of violent and gruesome murders.
  • 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)
  • state services — services appointed to commemorate days of national celebration or deliverance such as the accession of a sovereign
  • storage device — a device used to store digital data or information, as a hard disk or CD.
  • store of value — the function of money that enables goods and services to be paid for a considerable time after they have been acquired
  • superelevation — bank1 (def 6).
  • superovulation — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
  • surface-active — (of a substance, esp a detergent) capable of lowering the surface tension of a liquid, usually water
  • tergiversation — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
  • tergiversatory — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
  • the everglades — a subtropical marshy region of Florida, south of Lake Okeechobee: contains the Everglades National Park established to preserve the flora and fauna of the swamps. Area: over 13 000 sq km (5000 sq miles)
  • transactivator — to activate the replication of (a viral gene) through the presence of a gene at another locus, especially following a viral infection.
  • transformative — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
  • transmissivity — a measure of the ability of a material or medium to transmit electromagnetic energy, as light.
  • transmittivity — the transmittance of unit thickness of a substance, neglecting any scattering effects
  • transvaluation — to reestimate the value of, especially on a basis differing from accepted standards; reappraise; reevaluate.
  • transversality — the state of being transversal
  • travel-stained — dirty or soiled as a result of travelling
  • traveler's-joy — a woody vine, Clematis vitalba, of the buttercup family, native to Europe and northern Africa, having long-plumed fruit and slightly fragrant, white flowers.
  • treasure trove — If you describe something or someone as a treasure trove of a particular thing, you mean that they are a very good or rich source of that thing.
  • treasure-trove — anything of the nature of treasure or a treasury that one finds: Mother's attic was a treasure-trove of memorabilia.
  • trial division — trial department
  • ultraexclusive — extremely exclusive
  • ultrasensitive — endowed with sensation; having perception through the senses.
  • unconservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
  • universal city — a city in S central Texas.
  • universal time — (time, standard)   (UT) The mean solar time along the prime meridian (0 longitude) that runs through the Greenwich Observatory outside of London, UK, where the current system originated. UT is tied to the rotation of the Earth in respect to the fictitious "mean Sun". There are three separate definitions, UT0, UT1, and UT2, depending on which corrections have been applied to the Earth's motion. Coordinated Universal Time is kept within 0.9 seconds of UT1, by addition of leap seconds to International Atomic Time.
  • universitarian — an institution of learning of the highest level, having a college of liberal arts and a program of graduate studies together with several professional schools, as of theology, law, medicine, and engineering, and authorized to confer both undergraduate and graduate degrees. Continental European universities usually have only graduate or professional schools.
  • vapour density — the ratio of the density of a gas or vapour to that of hydrogen at the same temperature and pressure
  • variable costs — Variable costs are costs that vary depending on how much of a product is made.
  • varsity sports — sports involving the main or first teams at a high school, college, or university
  • vascular plant — a plant having a vascular system.
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