14-letter words containing v, a, r, s
- passive reason — the reasoning faculty existing only within an individual mind, limited in scope and perishing with the body.
- passive-matrix — of or relating to a relatively low-resolution liquid-crystal display (LCD) with low contrast, a type of flat-panel display.
- pauper's grave — a grave paid for at public expense because the deceased person's family could not afford one
- persian violet — any of several plants belonging to the genus Exacum, native to the Old World, as E. affine, having glossy, ovate leaves, and fragrant, bluish flowers: cultivated as a houseplant.
- persuasiveness — able, fitted, or intended to persuade: a very persuasive argument.
- pleasant grove — a town in central Utah.
- policy adviser — a person who provides ideas or plans that are used by an organization or government as a basis for making decisions
- positive organ — a small pipe organ of the Middle Ages.
- post operative — occurring after a surgical operation.
- post-operative — occurring after a surgical operation.
- post-victorian — of or relating to Queen Victoria or the period of her reign: Victorian poets.
- postal service — organized handling and delivery of mail
- predestinative — predestinating; of the nature of or concerned with predestination
- preserving pan — a pan specially designed for preserving fruit
- presuppurative — noting or pertaining to the stage of inflammation before the formation of pus.
- private school — a school founded, conducted, and maintained by a private group rather than by the government, usually charging tuition and often following a particular philosophy, viewpoint, etc.
- private sector — the area of the nation's economy under private rather than governmental control.
- 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.
- provincialised — to make provincial in character.
- provisionality — providing or serving for the time being only; existing only until permanently or properly replaced; temporary: a provisional government.
- public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
- quadrumvirates — Plural form of quadrumvirate.
- quaquaversally — in a quaquaversal manner
- rabies vaccine — substance that inoculates against rabies
- 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.
- reactor vessel — the container surrounding and protecting the core of a nuclear reactor.
- receivableness — the fact or condition of being receivable; receivability
- recurvirostral — with a beak which is bent upwards
- regressive tax — a tax which is levied or graduated so that the rate decreases as the amount taxed increases
- removable disk — removable hard disk
- 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.
- reserve a room — If you reserve a room at a hotel, you keep it for a person who is going to arrive on an agreed date.
- reserve clause — the clause in the contract of a professional player in some sports that binds the player to a team for a season beyond the expiration of the contract in the event a new contract has not been made meanwhile or the player has not been sent to another team.
- reserve player — a member of a sports team who plays in place of another player if they are injured, etc
- revenue stream — method of income
- reverberations — remote or indirect consequences of an action; repercussions
- reversal plate — a plate developed by the reversal process.
- reverse racism — a perceived discrimination against a dominant group or political majority
- reverse-charge — (of a telephone call) made at the recipient's expense
- reverse-racism — intolerance or prejudice directed at members of historically dominant racial groups.
- rose of heaven — a plant, Lychnis coeli-rosa, of the pink family, native to the Mediterranean region, having solitary terminal, rose-pink flowers.
- saavedra lamas — Carlos [kahr-laws] /ˈkɑr lɔs/ (Show IPA), 1878?–1959, Argentine statesman and diplomat: Nobel Peace Prize 1936.
- salivary gland — any of several glands, as the submaxillary glands, that secrete saliva.
- salva veritate — without affecting truth-value
- 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.
- sand lovegrass — any grass of the genus Eragrostis, as E. curvula (weeping lovegrass) and E. trichodes (sand lovegrass) cultivated as forage and ground cover.
- savi's warbler — a type of warbler; Locustella luscinioides.
- scarcity value — increased value due to the inadequate supply of something