13-letter words containing v, e, r, n, i, c
- projection tv — a system made up of lenses, mirrors, and a cathode-ray tube, for projecting video images onto a large screen
- provincialise — to make provincial in character.
- provincialize — to make provincial in character.
- puncture vine — a caltrop, Tribulus terrestris, having spiny fruit that can puncture tires.
- racing driver — someone who drives a racing car in motor car races
- ratiocinative — the process of logical reasoning.
- re-activation — to render active again; revive.
- receiving end — the position in which one is subject to some kind of action or effect, especially an unpleasant one (usually used in the phrase at or on the receiving end): The corporation is on the receiving end of many complaints about its advertising.
- receiving set — a radio receiver.
- receptiveness — having the quality of receiving, taking in, or admitting.
- recessiveness — tending to go, move, or slant back; receding.
- reclusiveness — the state or quality of being reclusive
- recording van — a van containing sound and image recording equipment, used as a mobile recording studio
- recultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
- recursiveness — pertaining to or using a rule or procedure that can be applied repeatedly.
- reductiveness — of or relating to reduction; serving to reduce or abridge: an urgent need for reductive measures.
- revaccination — the act or practice of vaccinating; inoculation with vaccine.
- revendication — the process or act of revendicating
- revictualling — victuals, food supplies; provisions.
- revindication — the act of vindicating.
- rocking valve — (on a steam engine) a valve mechanism oscillating through an arc to open and close.
- romantic love — love characterized by romance and involving sexual attraction
- 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.
- scrivenership — the position of being a scrivener or scribe; scribing
- serviceperson — a person who is a member of the armed forces of a country.
- serving hatch — a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room
- shaving cream — a preparation, as of soap and free fatty acid, that is lathered and applied to the face to soften and condition the beard for shaving.
- silver screen — motion pictures; the motion-picture industry: a star of the silver screen.
- sir-reverence — (used as an expression of apology, as before unseemly or indelicate words.)
- sperry univac — (company) One of the divisions of Sperry Corporation at the time that company merged with the Burroughs Corporation to form Unisys Corporation.
- the provinces — those parts of a country lying outside the capital and other large cities and regarded as outside the mainstream of sophisticated culture
- 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.
- ultraviolence — acts of extreme violence, esp those shown on television or film
- unconvertible — capable of being converted.
- uncooperative — working or acting together willingly for a common purpose or benefit.
- underachiever — a student who performs less well in school than would be expected on the basis of abilities indicated by intelligence and aptitude tests, etc.
- underactivity — insufficient activity
- undescriptive — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
- uninstructive — not conveying information or serving to instruct
- unobstructive — to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
- unperceivable — imperceptible
- unperceivably — imperceptibly
- unperceivedly — without being perceived; so as not to be perceived
- unprovocative — tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
- unserviceable — not suitable to be used
- vaginal cream — A vaginal cream is cream for treating vaginal infections, applied with a special applicator.
- valedictorian — a student, usually the one ranking highest academically in a school graduating class, who delivers the valedictory at the commencement exercises.
- varicose vein — Varicose veins are swollen and painful veins in a person's legs, which sometimes require a medical operation.
- vaunt-courier — a person who goes in advance, as a herald.