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13-letter words containing t, s, v, e

  • saint vincent — Saint, died a.d. 304, Spanish martyr: patron saint of winegrowers.
  • salvage costs — the costs involved in salvaging goods or property from fire, shipwreck, etc
  • scarlet fever — a contagious febrile disease caused by streptococci and characterized by a scarlet eruption.
  • sciatic nerve — either of a pair of nerves, the largest in the body, that originate in the sacral plexus of the lower back and extend down the buttocks to the back of the knees, where they divide into other nerves: the sciatic nerve and its branches innervate large areas of the pelvis, leg, and foot.
  • scotch lovage — a similar and related plant, Ligusticum scoticum, of N Europe
  • scratch video — the technique or practice of recycling images from films or television to make collages
  • sea vegetable — an edible seaweed
  • seaton valley — a region in NE England, in SE Northumberland: consists of a group of former coal-mining villages
  • second advent — Second Coming.
  • seductiveness — tending to seduce; enticing; beguiling; captivating: a seductive smile.
  • self-devotion — intense devotion of oneself to an activity or to a field or profession, as art or science.
  • self-punitive — serving for, concerned with, or inflicting punishment: punitive laws; punitive action.
  • self-reverent — feeling, exhibiting, or characterized by reverence; deeply respectful: a reverent greeting.
  • semi-vitreous — partially vitreous.
  • sensitiveness — the state or quality of being sensitive.
  • sensitivities — a tendency to have a strong emotional reaction, esp to be offended or upset
  • service court — the part of the court into which a player must serve in various games, as tennis, badminton, handball, or squash.
  • serving hatch — a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room
  • set-in sleeve — a sleeve joined to the body of a garment at the shoulder and having a seam at that juncture.
  • seventeenthly — in the seventeenth place
  • seventh chord — a chord formed by the superposition of three thirds.
  • seventh grade — school year: age 12-13
  • seventy-eight — a cardinal number, 70 plus 8.
  • seventy-fifth — next after the seventy-fourth; being the ordinal number for 75.
  • seventy-first — next after the seventieth; being the ordinal number for 71.
  • seventy-ninth — next after the seventy-eighth; being the ordinal number for 79.
  • seventy-seven — a cardinal number, 70 plus 7.
  • seventy-sixth — next after the seventy-fifth; being the ordinal number for 76.
  • seventy-third — next after the seventy-second; being the ordinal number for 73.
  • seventy-three — a cardinal number, 70 plus 3.
  • severance tax — a tax levied by a state on the extraction and use of a natural product, as coal, that is sold outside the state or during a certain period.
  • severodonetsk — a city in E Ukraine, NE of Donetsk.
  • shaver outlet — a point in a wall, esp in a bathroom, where you can connect an electric razor to the power supply
  • shelving unit — A shelving unit is a flexible display system which can be moved and adjusted to accommodate different product dimensions.
  • shirt-sleeves — not wearing a jacket; informally dressed: a shirt-sleeve mob.
  • short-sleeved — having short sleeves
  • significative — serving to signify.
  • silver bullet — direct or immediate solution
  • silver doctor — a type of artificial fly, used chiefly for trout and salmon.
  • silver iodate — a white, crystalline, slightly water-soluble powder, AgIO 3 , used in medicine chiefly as an antiseptic and as an astringent.
  • 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-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
  • sixty-seventh — next after the sixty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 67.
  • slave trading — trafficking in people
  • slave traffic — the traffic of slaves
  • smooth-shaven — having the beard and mustache shaved off; clean-shaven.
  • society verse — light, graceful, entertaining poetry considered as appealing to polite society.
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