13-letter words containing v, e, r, t, u, s
- retributivist — a policy or theory of criminal justice that advocates the punishment of criminals in retribution for the harm they have inflicted.
- revenue stamp — a stamp showing that a governmental tax has been paid.
- 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).
- 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
- 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.
- shaver outlet — a point in a wall, esp in a bathroom, where you can connect an electric razor to the power supply
- silver bullet — direct or immediate solution
- 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-bullet — a quick solution to a difficult problem.
- soviet russia — a conventional name of the Soviet Union.
- subderivative — a word derived from a derivative.
- subgovernment — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
- 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
- superelevated — (of a curve in a road, railroad track, etc.) banked.
- 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
- support level — a minimum price below which a specific stock is not supposed to fall, as because of the stock's inherent worth.
- transfusively — in a transfusive manner
- transmutative — the act or process of transmuting.
- traverse jury — petty jury.
- unadventurous — inclined or willing to engage in adventures; enjoying adventures.
- 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.
- untraversable — to pass or move over, along, or through.
- varied thrush — a plump thrush, Ixoreus naevius, of western North America, resembling a robin with a dark band across the chest.
- vascularities — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
- 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
- venture scout — a young man or woman, aged 16–20, who is a member of the senior branch of the Scouts
- venturesomely — in a venturesome manner
- venus flytrap — firewall machine
- vernacularist — someone who uses vernacular speech
- vide ut supra — (used to direct a reader to a specified place in a text) see as above
- virgo cluster — a cluster of about 2500 galaxies in the constellation Virgo, the nearest cluster to our galaxy.
- visual cortex — the portion of the cerebral cortex of the brain that receives and processes impulses from the optic nerves.
- vitreous body — a transparent gelatinous substance, permeated by fine fibrils, that fills the interior of the eyeball between the lens and the retina