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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
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