13-letter words containing v, e, l, a
- 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
- recultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
- 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).
- relative wind — the velocity or direction of airflow with respect to the body it surrounds, especially an airfoil.
- 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.
- revascularize — to surgically improve the blood circulation of (an organ or area of the body).
- revelationist — a person who believes in divine revelation.
- reverentially — of the nature of or characterized by reverence; reverent: reverential awe.
- reversal film — film developed by the reversal process.
- reverse fault — a fault in which the rock above the fault plane is displaced upward relative to the rock below the fault plane (opposed to gravity fault).
- reverse plate — a plate for printing a reverse.
- revictualling — victuals, food supplies; provisions.
- revolutionary — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change: a revolutionary junta.
- ring-a-lievio — a game played usually between two teams in which the members of one team attempt to find, capture, and imprison the members of the other, who can be freed only by a teammate not yet captured.
- rivalrousness — characterized by rivalry; competitive: the rivalrous aspect of their friendship.
- river lamprey — Lampetra fluviatilis; a jawless fish
- rocking valve — (on a steam engine) a valve mechanism oscillating through an arc to open and close.
- role reversal — Role reversal is a situation in which two people have chosen or been forced to exchange their duties and responsibilities, so that each is now doing what the other used to do.
- roll-over arm — an upholstered chair or sofa arm that curves outward and downward.
- romantic love — love characterized by romance and involving sexual attraction
- roosevelt dam — a dam on the Salt River, in central Arizona. 284 feet (87 meters) high; 1080 feet (329 meters) long.
- rosenkavalier — an opera (1911) by Richard Strauss.
- russian olive — oleaster.
- salad servers — kitchen utensils used as tongs to serve salad
- salary review — the, often annual, assessment or review of the salary or paid to an employee, where decisions are taken on whether the employee's pay should be increased, etc
- sales revenue — the gross income for a business derived from sales of its products or services
- salvage costs — the costs involved in salvaging goods or property from fire, shipwreck, etc
- salviniaceous — relating to the genus Salviniaceae
- sample survey — a survey of particular examples of sth, intended as representative of the whole category
- sandfly fever — a usually mild viral disease occurring in hot, dry areas, characterized by fever, eye pain, and sometimes a rash, transmitted by sandflies of the genus Phlebotomus.
- saving clause — a clause which denotes a reservation or exception
- scarcely ever — almost never, seldom
- scarlet fever — a contagious febrile disease caused by streptococci and characterized by a scarlet eruption.
- school leaver — School leavers are young people who have just left school, because they have completed their time there.
- scotch lovage — a similar and related plant, Ligusticum scoticum, of N Europe
- sea vegetable — an edible seaweed
- seaton valley — a region in NE England, in SE Northumberland: consists of a group of former coal-mining villages
- self-adhesive — having a side or surface coated with an adhesive substance to permit sticking without glue, paste, or the like: a self-adhesive label; self-adhesive ceramic tiles.
- self-advocacy — the practice of having mentally handicapped people speak for themselves and control their own affairs, rather than having nonhandicapped people automatically assume responsibility for them
- self-approval — the act of approving; approbation.
- self-depraved — corrupt, wicked, or perverted.
- service clasp — clasp (def 4).
- shaver outlet — a point in a wall, esp in a bathroom, where you can connect an electric razor to the power supply
- silver dollar — A silver dollar is an American coin, worth one dollar, that is made of silver.
- silver halide — a compound in which silver is combined with a halogen, as silver chloride, bromide, or iodide.