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14-letter words containing v, e, r, n, a

  • receivableness — the fact or condition of being receivable; receivability
  • redintegrative — to make whole again; restore to a perfect state; renew; reestablish.
  • reinvigorating — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
  • reinvigoration — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
  • relative minor — the minor key whose tonic is the sixth degree of a given major key.
  • relativization — to regard as or make relative.
  • relieving arch — discharging arch.
  • 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.
  • revenue stream — method of income
  • revenue tariff — a tariff or duty imposed on imports primarily to produce public revenue.
  • reverberations — remote or indirect consequences of an action; repercussions
  • reverification — the act of verifying.
  • revitalization — to give new life to.
  • revivification — to restore to life; give new life to; revive; reanimate.
  • rip van winkle — (in a story by Washington Irving) a ne'er-do-well who sleeps 20 years and upon waking is startled to find how much the world has changed.
  • rose of heaven — a plant, Lychnis coeli-rosa, of the pink family, native to the Mediterranean region, having solitary terminal, rose-pink flowers.
  • sand lovegrass — any grass of the genus Eragrostis, as E. curvula (weeping lovegrass) and E. trichodes (sand lovegrass) cultivated as forage and ground cover.
  • scavenger hunt — a game in which individuals or teams are sent out to accumulate, without purchasing, a series of common, outlandish, or humorous objects, the winner being the person or team returning first with all the items.
  • secondary wave — a transverse earthquake wave that travels through the interior of the earth and is usually the second conspicuous wave to reach a seismograph.
  • self-revealing — displaying, exhibiting, or disclosing one's most private feelings, thoughts, etc.: an embarrassingly self-revealing autobiography.
  • semi-narrative — a story or account of events, experiences, or the like, whether true or fictitious.
  • semistarvation — the state of being nearly starved.
  • semivegetarian — a person who eats mostly plant foods, dairy products, and eggs, and occasionally chicken, fish, and red meat.
  • seronegativity — the quality or state of being seronegative
  • servant church — the attitude or practices of a church whose avowed purpose is to serve the world.
  • servomechanism — an electronic control system in which a hydraulic, pneumatic, or other type of controlling mechanism is actuated and controlled by a low-energy signal.
  • seventh-grader — a student in the seventh year of school, usually 11 to 13 years old
  • seville orange — a globose, reddish-yellow, bitter or sweet, edible citrus fruit.
  • sherry vinegar — a gourmet wine vinegar produced in the Jerez region of S Spain
  • silver nitrate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble, bitter, corrosive, poisonous powder, AgNO 3 , produced by the reaction of silver and dilute nitric acid: used chiefly in the manufacture of photographic emulsions and mirrors, as a laboratory reagent, and in medicine as an antiseptic, astringent, and in the routine prophylaxis of ophthalmia neonatorum.
  • slave cylinder — a small cylinder containing a piston that operates the brake shoes or pads in hydraulic brakes or the working part in any other hydraulically operated system
  • sound archives — official records or files (as in a library) of sound recordings, broadcasts, or performances, esp those from radio programmes
  • southern slavs — one of a group of peoples in eastern, southeastern, and central Europe, including the Russians and Ruthenians (Eastern Slavs) the Bulgars, Serbs, Croats, Slavonians, Slovenes, etc. (Southern Slavs) and the Poles, Czechs, Moravians, Slovaks, etc. (Western Slavs)
  • space invaders — a video or computer game, the object of which is to destroy attacking alien spacecraft
  • spike lavender — a lavender, Lavandula latifolia, having spikes of pale-purple flowers, and yielding an oil used in painting.
  • stanovoi range — a mountain range in SE Russia; forms part of the watershed between rivers flowing to the Arctic and the Pacific. Highest peak: Mount Skalisty, 2482 m (8143 ft)
  • superelevation — bank1 (def 6).
  • superovulation — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
  • take inventory — count stock or belongings
  • tergiversation — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
  • terminal leave — the final leave granted to a member of the armed forces just before discharge, equal to the total unused leave accumulated during active service.
  • the ordovician — the Ordovician period or rock system
  • the vernacular — the commonly spoken language or dialect of a particular people or place
  • transformative — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
  • transversality — the state of being transversal
  • travel-stained — dirty or soiled as a result of travelling
  • tree of heaven — an Asiatic tree, Ailanthus altissima, having large oblong leaves and rank-smelling flowers, often planted as a shade tree.
  • ultrasensitive — endowed with sensation; having perception through the senses.
  • unappreciative — feeling or showing appreciation: an appreciative audience at the concert.
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