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14-letter words containing v, e, r, t, u, s

  • presuppurative — noting or pertaining to the stage of inflammation before the formation of pus.
  • productiveness — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
  • productivities — the quality, state, or fact of being able to generate, create, enhance, or bring forth goods and services: The productivity of the group's effort surprised everyone.
  • proventriculus — the glandular portion of the stomach of birds, in which food is partially digested before passing to the ventriculus or gizzard.
  • public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
  • quadrumvirates — Plural form of quadrumvirate.
  • reconstitutive — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
  • reconstructive — tending to reconstruct.
  • recursive type — A data type which contains itself. The commonest example is the list type, in Haskell: data List a = Nil | Cons a (List a) which says a list of a's is either an empty list or a cons cell containing an 'a' (the "head" of the list) and another list (the "tail"). Recursion is not allowed in Miranda or Haskell synonym types, so the following Haskell types are illegal: type Bad = (Int, Bad) type Evil = Bool -> Evil whereas the seeminly equivalent algebraic data types are acceptable:
  • recurvirostral — with a beak which is bent upwards
  • redistributive — favoring, supporting, or practicing income redistribution: the redistributive effects of public spending.
  • revenue stream — method of income
  • revolutionised — to bring about a revolution in; effect a radical change in: to revolutionize petroleum refining methods.
  • scarcity value — increased value due to the inadequate supply of something
  • 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.
  • security video — a video recording taken by a security camera
  • servant church — the attitude or practices of a church whose avowed purpose is to serve the world.
  • service tunnel — a tunnel alongside another which is used for services such as maintenance, repairs, etc
  • seventy-fourth — next after the seventy-third; being the ordinal number for 74.
  • shrove tuesday — the last day of Shrovetide, long observed as a season of merrymaking before Lent.
  • silver-tongued — persuasive; eloquent: a silver-tongued orator.
  • situs inversus — a congenital defect in which an organ is on the side opposite from its normal position.
  • 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)
  • souvenir sheet — a single stamp or a pair, block, or set of stamps having the same or different designs commemorating a stamp exhibition or other event and having inscriptions in one or all four margins.
  • stock turnover — the rate at which stock is sold and replenished
  • store of value — the function of money that enables goods and services to be paid for a considerable time after they have been acquired
  • student driver — someone who is learning to drive
  • sub-government — 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.
  • summer visitor — a person, animal or bird who come to a place in summer
  • supereffective — very or extremely effective
  • superelevation — bank1 (def 6).
  • superovulation — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
  • supersensitive — extremely or excessively sensitive; hypersensitive: a supersensitive smoke detector.
  • superstructive — built onto a structure
  • supportiveness — giving support.
  • supreme soviet — the bicameral legislature, comprising the Soviet of the Union and the Soviet of the Nationalities; officially the highest organ of state power
  • surface-active — (of a substance, esp a detergent) capable of lowering the surface tension of a liquid, usually water
  • sweet viburnum — the sheepberry, Viburnum lentago.
  • treasure trove — If you describe something or someone as a treasure trove of a particular thing, you mean that they are a very good or rich source of that thing.
  • treasure-trove — anything of the nature of treasure or a treasury that one finds: Mother's attic was a treasure-trove of memorabilia.
  • turn of events — If there is a particular turn of events, a particular series of things happen.
  • ultraexclusive — extremely exclusive
  • ultrasensitive — endowed with sensation; having perception through the senses.
  • unconservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
  • unconstructive — helping to improve; promoting further development or advancement (opposed to destructive): constructive criticism.
  • universal city — a city in S central Texas.
  • universal time — (time, standard)   (UT) The mean solar time along the prime meridian (0 longitude) that runs through the Greenwich Observatory outside of London, UK, where the current system originated. UT is tied to the rotation of the Earth in respect to the fictitious "mean Sun". There are three separate definitions, UT0, UT1, and UT2, depending on which corrections have been applied to the Earth's motion. Coordinated Universal Time is kept within 0.9 seconds of UT1, by addition of leap seconds to International Atomic Time.
  • universitarian — an institution of learning of the highest level, having a college of liberal arts and a program of graduate studies together with several professional schools, as of theology, law, medicine, and engineering, and authorized to confer both undergraduate and graduate degrees. Continental European universities usually have only graduate or professional schools.
  • vapour density — the ratio of the density of a gas or vapour to that of hydrogen at the same temperature and pressure
  • vaulting horse — a padded, somewhat cylindrical floor-supported apparatus, braced horizontally at an adjustable height, used for hand support and pushing off in vaulting.
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