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14-letter words containing t, o, v

  • reactor vessel — the container surrounding and protecting the core of a nuclear reactor.
  • reconstitutive — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
  • reconstructive — tending to reconstruct.
  • recoverability — able to recover or be recovered: a patient now believed to be recoverable; recoverable losses on his investments.
  • recovery stock — a security that has fallen in price but is believed to have the ability to recover
  • recurvirostral — with a beak which is bent upwards
  • reintervention — the act or fact of intervening.
  • reinvigorating — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
  • reinvigoration — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
  • relative major — the major key whose tonic is the third degree of a given minor key.
  • relative minor — the minor key whose tonic is the sixth degree of a given major key.
  • relativization — to regard as or make relative.
  • reservationist — a person who makes or takes reservations, as at an airline office; reservation clerk.
  • retrodirective — (of a mirror, reflector, etc.) having three reflecting surfaces so oriented that a ray of light is reflected in a direction parallel but opposite to its original direction.
  • reverberations — remote or indirect consequences of an action; repercussions
  • reverification — the act of verifying.
  • revert to type — go back to one's usual behaviour
  • revitalization — to give new life to.
  • revivification — to restore to life; give new life to; revive; reanimate.
  • revolutionised — to bring about a revolution in; effect a radical change in: to revolutionize petroleum refining methods.
  • revolutionizer — to bring about a revolution in; effect a radical change in: to revolutionize petroleum refining methods.
  • root vegetable — edible starchy tuber
  • salvation army — an international Christian organization founded in England in 1865 by William Booth, organized along quasi-military lines and devoted chiefly to evangelism and to providing social services, especially to the poor.
  • scotch verdict — a verdict of not proven: acceptable in certain cases in Scottish criminal law.
  • 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
  • security video — a video recording taken by a security camera
  • self-motivated — initiative to undertake or continue a task or activity without another's prodding or supervision.
  • self-operative — automatic.
  • self-valuation — an estimated value or worth.
  • semi-objective — something that one's efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish; purpose; goal; target: the objective of a military attack; the objective of a fund-raising drive.
  • semistarvation — the state of being nearly starved.
  • seronegativity — the quality or state of being seronegative
  • seropositivity — the quality or state of being seropositive
  • service sector — the sector of the economy that provides services rather than products, etc
  • 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.
  • sheva brachoth — the seven blessings said during the marriage service and repeated at the celebration thereafter
  • short covering — purchases that close out short sales on stocks or commodities.
  • short division — division, especially by a one-digit divisor, in which the steps of the process are performed mentally and are not written down.
  • shrove tuesday — the last day of Shrovetide, long observed as a season of merrymaking before Lent.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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)
  • 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
  • sovietological — of or relating to Sovietology
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