12-letter words containing v, e, r
- reinvitation — the act of inviting.
- rejuvenating — making young again
- rejuvenation — to make young again; restore to youthful vigor, appearance, etc.: That vacation has certainly rejuvenated him.
- rejuvenative — to make young again; restore to youthful vigor, appearance, etc.: That vacation has certainly rejuvenated him.
- relativeness — the state or fact of being relative.
- relativistic — of or relating to relativity or relativism.
- relief valve — a device that, when actuated by static pressure above a predetermined level, opens in proportion to the excess above this level and reduces the pressure to it. Compare safety valve (def 1).
- remotivation — the act or an instance of motivating, or providing with a reason to act in a certain way: I don't understand what her motivation was for quitting her job. Synonyms: motive, inspiration, inducement, cause, impetus.
- remunerative — affording remuneration; profitable: remunerative work.
- renal pelvis — a small funnel-shaped cavity of the kidney into which urine is discharged before passing into the ureter
- rendezvouses — an agreement between two or more persons to meet at a certain time and place.
- renovascular — of or relating to the blood vessels of the kidneys.
- renversement — a reversal, an inversion, the act of reversing
- repercussive — causing repercussion; reverberating.
- repetitively — pertaining to or characterized by repetition.
- replevisable — capable of being replevied.
- reprehensive — the act of reprehending; reproof; censure.
- repressively — tending or serving to repress: repressive laws.
- reproductive — serving to reproduce.
- reputatively — according to reckoning; by repute; putatively
- resale value — the price which something can achieve when sold in the future
- reserve bank — one of the 12 principal banks of the U.S. Federal Reserve System.
- reserve tank — the tank or part of a tank in a car engine that reserves fuel in case the main fuel supply runs out
- reserve team — a second team of a sports club, such as a football club, made up of emerging and young players
- reservedness — kept or set apart for some particular use or purpose.
- respectively — in precisely the order given; sequentially.
- responsively — responding especially readily and sympathetically to appeals, efforts, influences, etc.: a responsive government.
- responsivity — the quality or state of being responsive.
- resurrective — of or relating to resurrection
- retractively — in a retractive manner
- retrievement — a retrieval
- retrodictive — of or relating to retrodicting or retrodiction
- retropulsive — of or relating to retropulsion
- retroversion — a looking or turning back.
- return visit — If you make a return visit, you visit someone who has already visited you, or you go back to a place where you have already been once.
- revalidation — to make valid; substantiate; confirm: Time validated our suspicions.
- revegetation — to cause vegetation to grow again on: to revegetate eroded lands.
- revelational — the act of revealing or disclosing; disclosure.
- revenge porn — sexually suggestive images of someone, typically a former romantic partner, that are posted online or otherwise shared without the person's consent.
- revenue bond — a bond issued, as by a municipal utility, to finance a specific project, the income from which will be used for repaying the bond.
- reverberator — to reecho or resound: Her singing reverberated through the house.
- reverse arms — to turn one's arms upside down, esp as a token of mourning
- reverse dive — any dive in which the diver leaves the board facing the water, then rotates in the air to enter the water facing the board.
- reverse gear — The reverse gear of a vehicle is the gear which you use in order to make the vehicle go backwards.
- reverse shot — a shot that views the action from the opposite side of the previous shot, as during a conversation between two actors, giving the effect of looking from one actor to the other.
- reverse snob — a person overly proud of being one of or sympathetic to the common people, and who denigrates or shuns those of superior ability, education, social standing, etc.
- reverse turn — a manoeuvre which makes a vehicle move backwards and to the left or right
- reversionary — of, relating to, or involving a reversion.
- reversionist — a person who advocates reverting to the conditions, customs, ideals, etc., of an earlier era.
- revictualled — victuals, food supplies; provisions.