13-letter words containing v, a, r, e
- privy chamber — a private apartment in a royal residence.
- 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.
- proces-verbal — a report of proceedings, as of an assembly.
- prove a point — If you prove a point, you show other people that you know something or can do something, although your action may have no other purpose.
- proverbialism — a proverbial expression
- proverbialist — a person who composes, records or uses proverbial expressions
- proverbialize — to use in a proverbial way
- provincialise — to make provincial in character.
- provincialize — to make provincial in character.
- provocatively — tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
- pulverization — to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.
- quadrumvirate — a governing or managing group, coalition, or the like, of four persons.
- quarterstaves — Plural form of quarterstaff.
- quasi-private — belonging to some particular person: private property.
- racing driver — someone who drives a racing car in motor car races
- radioactivate — to make (a substance) radioactive.
- radius vector — Mathematics. the length of the line segment joining a fixed point or origin to a given point.
- raglan sleeve — a sleeve that begins at the neck and has a long, slanting seam line from the neck to the armhole, giving the garment a relatively undefined shoulder.
- ratable value — (formerly) a fixed value assigned to a property by a local authority, on the basis of which variable annual rates are charged
- ratbite fever — either of two relapsing febrile diseases, widely distributed geographically, caused by infection with Streptobacillus moniliformis or Spirillum minor and transmitted by rats.
- ratiocinative — the process of logical reasoning.
- rayleigh wave — a wave along the surface of a solid, elastic body, especially along the surface of the earth.
- re-activation — to render active again; revive.
- re-entry visa — a visa that allows someone to enter a country again several times
- re-evaluating — to determine or set the value or amount of; appraise: to evaluate property.
- re-evaluation — an act or instance of evaluating or appraising.
- real variable — a variable to which only real numbers are assigned as values.
- rebarbatively — in a rebarbative manner
- receivability — the fact or condition of being receivable
- reciprocative — to give, feel, etc., in return.
- recording van — a van containing sound and image recording equipment, used as a mobile recording studio
- recovery team — a team engaged in locating and retrieving bodies, cargo, etc, esp following a crash, explosion or natural disaster
- recultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
- red river war — a punitive campaign (1874–75) led by General Sheridan against hostile Indians in the region of the Red River and the Llano Estacado.
- red-eye gravy — a gravy made from the pan juices of fried country ham, thickened with flour and sometimes containing coffee for color and flavor.
- reduplicative — tending to reduplicate.
- regular bevel — the bevel of a bolt or lock on a door opening into the building, room, etc., to which the doorway leads (opposed to reverse bevel).
- reinnervation — the restoration of a nerve supply by surgery or by regeneration
- reintegrative — characterized by integration; tending to restore unity
- reinvestigate — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
- reinvigorated — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
- reinvigorator — something that gives new life and energy (to something)
- rejective art — minimal art.
- relative wind — the velocity or direction of airflow with respect to the body it surrounds, especially an airfoil.
- remonstrative — to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval.
- reserve-grade — denoting a sporting team of the second rank in a club
- restless cavy — a wild guinea pig.
- restoratively — in a restorative manner
- retroactively — operative with respect to past occurrences, as a statute; retrospective: a retroactive law.
- revaccination — the act or practice of vaccinating; inoculation with vaccine.