13-letter words containing v, e, r, i, t, s
- privateersman — an officer or sailor of a privateer.
- 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.
- progressivist — the principles and practices of progressives.
- progressivity — favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters: a progressive mayor.
- prospectively — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
- proverbialist — a person who composes, records or uses proverbial expressions
- quasi-private — belonging to some particular person: private property.
- radius vector — Mathematics. the length of the line segment joining a fixed point or origin to a given point.
- re-entry visa — a visa that allows someone to enter a country again several times
- receiving set — a radio receiver.
- receptiveness — having the quality of receiving, taking in, or admitting.
- reductiveness — of or relating to reduction; serving to reduce or abridge: an urgent need for reductive measures.
- reinvestigate — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
- remonstrative — to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval.
- reserved list — a list of retired naval, army, or air-force officers available for recall to active service in an emergency
- resistiveness — the quality or state of being resistive or offering resistance
- restoratively — in a restorative manner
- restrictively — tending or serving to restrict.
- retributivism — a policy or theory of criminal justice that advocates the punishment of criminals in retribution for the harm they have inflicted.
- retributivist — a policy or theory of criminal justice that advocates the punishment of criminals in retribution for the harm they have inflicted.
- retrogressive — characterized by retrogression; degenerating.
- retrospective — directed to the past; contemplative of past situations, events, etc.
- revelationist — a person who believes in divine revelation.
- reversibility — capable of reversing or of being reversed.
- revolutionise — to bring about a revolution in; effect a radical change in: to revolutionize petroleum refining methods.
- revolutionism — a belief in revolution or revolutionary ideas
- revolutionist — a person who advocates or takes part in a revolution.
- river estuary — a river mouth
- 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.
- scratch video — the technique or practice of recycling images from films or television to make collages
- semi-vitreous — partially vitreous.
- 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
- seventy-first — next after the seventieth; being the ordinal number for 71.
- seventy-third — next after the seventy-second; being the ordinal number for 73.
- shirt-sleeves — not wearing a jacket; informally dressed: a shirt-sleeve mob.
- 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
- slave trading — trafficking in people
- slave traffic — the traffic of slaves
- society verse — light, graceful, entertaining poetry considered as appealing to polite society.
- solitary wave — a localized disturbance that propagates like a wave but resembles a particle in that it does not disperse, even if it collides with other such waves.
- sovereigntist — a supporter of sovereignty association
- soviet russia — a conventional name of the Soviet Union.