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13-letter words containing v, e, r, i, t, s

  • stain remover — a substance designed for removing stains or dirty marks, as from clothes, carpets, etc
  • subderivative — a word derived from a derivative.
  • subordinative — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
  • subserviently — serving or acting in a subordinate capacity; subordinate.
  • suovetaurilia — (in ancient Rome) a sacrifice of a hog, a ram, and a bull.
  • superactivity — extreme activity; hyperactivity
  • superlatively — of the highest kind, quality, or order; surpassing all else or others; supreme; extreme: superlative wisdom.
  • supervirtuoso — a highly accomplished virtuoso
  • supervirulent — extremely virulent
  • tergiversator — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
  • the provinces — those parts of a country lying outside the capital and other large cities and regarded as outside the mainstream of sophisticated culture
  • time reversal — the mathematical operation of reversing the direction of time. Symbol: T.
  • train service — provision of railway transport
  • transactivate — to activate the replication of (a viral gene) through the presence of a gene at another locus, especially following a viral infection.
  • transfusively — in a transfusive manner
  • transgressive — to violate a law, command, moral code, etc.; offend; sin.
  • transmutative — the act or process of transmuting.
  • traverse city — a city in NW Michigan.
  • unassertively — in an unassertive manner
  • undescriptive — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
  • uninstructive — not conveying information or serving to instruct
  • unintrusively — tending or apt to intrude; coming without invitation or welcome: intrusive memories of a lost love.
  • universal set — the set of all objects or elements considered in a given problem
  • unobstructive — to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
  • unobtrusively — not obtrusive; inconspicuous, unassertive, or reticent.
  • valet service — a cleaning service, in which your clothes are collected for cleaning, from your house or hotel, and returned to you
  • vapor tension — vapor pressure.
  • variabilities — apt or liable to vary or change; changeable: variable weather; variable moods.
  • variable cost — a cost that varies with a change in the volume of output while remaining uniform on a per-unit basis, as cost of labor (distinguished from fixed cost).
  • variable star — a star that varies markedly in brightness from time to time.
  • varied thrush — a plump thrush, Ixoreus naevius, of western North America, resembling a robin with a dark band across the chest.
  • variety meats — processed meat, such as sausage, or offal
  • variety store — a retail store, as a five-and-ten, carrying a large variety of goods, especially low-priced articles.
  • vascularities — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
  • vegetarianism — the beliefs or practices of a vegetarian.
  • venereologist — the branch of medicine dealing with the study and treatment of venereal, or sexually transmitted, disease.
  • ventriloquism — the art or practice of speaking, with little or no lip movement, in such a manner that the voice does not appear to come from the speaker but from another source, as from a wooden dummy.
  • ventriloquist — a person who performs or is skilled in ventriloquism.
  • ventriloquous — of or relating to ventriloquism or a ventriloquist
  • vernacularist — someone who uses vernacular speech
  • vernis martin — a finish for furniture, invented in France in the 18th century in imitation of Chinese lacquer.
  • vers-libriste — vers-librist.
  • versification — the act of versifying.
  • vestal virgin — (in ancient Rome) one of four, later six, virgins consecrated to Vesta and to the tending of the sacred fire on her altar.
  • vide ut supra — (used to direct a reader to a specified place in a text) see as above
  • violent storm — Meteorology. storm (def 3).
  • virgin forest — a forest in its natural state, before it has been explored or exploited by man
  • virgo cluster — a cluster of about 2500 galaxies in the constellation Virgo, the nearest cluster to our galaxy.
  • visceroptosis — a downward displacement of the intestine
  • visual cortex — the portion of the cerebral cortex of the brain that receives and processes impulses from the optic nerves.
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