12-letter words containing v, e, r
- service flat — an apartment with complete hotel services.
- service game — a game in which a particular tennis player is the one who serves
- service lift — a lift which carries heavy goods in a place of business, as for example, plates in a restaurant
- service line — Tennis. the rear boundary of a service court.
- service mark — a proprietary term, such as Blue Cross and Blue Shield, American Express, or Planned Parenthood, that is registered with the Patent and Trademark Office. Abbreviation: SM.
- service pipe — a pipe connecting a building with a water or gas main.
- service road — frontage road.
- service tree — either of two European trees, Sorbus domestica, bearing a small, acid fruit that is edible when overripe, or S. torminalis (wild service tree) bearing a similar fruit.
- serviceberry — the fruit of any service tree.
- servicewoman — a woman who is a member of the armed forces of a country.
- servile work — work of a physical nature that is forbidden on Sundays and on certain holidays
- serving dish — a dish in which food is presented or served, esp before being shared into individual portions
- servitorship — the office or position of a servitor; the condition of being a servitor
- servo system — a system using a servomechanism.
- servocontrol — control by means of a servomechanism.
- seventy-four — a cardinal number, 70 plus 4.
- severability — capability of being separated, as of a clause in an agreement
- several-fold — comprising several parts or members.
- severna park — a city in central Maryland.
- severodvinsk — a city in the N Russian Federation in Europe, on Dvina Gulf, E of Archangel.
- shevardnadze — Eduard A [ed-werd;; Russian ed-wahrt] /ˈɛd wərd;; Russian ɛdˈwɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1928–2014, Soviet foreign minister 1985–91; president of his native Georgian Republic 1995–2003.
- shirt-sleeve — not wearing a jacket; informally dressed: a shirt-sleeve mob.
- shirtsleeved — not wearing a jacket or coat
- shovel-ready — of or relating to a construction project that is ready to start immediately
- sierra vista — a town in S Arizona.
- silver belly — a freshwater eel
- silver birch — tree with silvery-white bark
- silver bream — a type of ray-finned fish from the family Cyprinidae
- silver frost — glaze (def 17).
- silver jenny — a silvery mojarra, Eucinostomus gula, inhabiting warm waters of the western Atlantic Ocean, along sandy shores.
- silver maple — a maple, Acer saccharinum, having leaves that are light green above and silvery white beneath.
- silver medal — a medal, traditionally of silver or silver in color, awarded to a person or team finishing second in a competition, meet, or tournament.
- silver mound — a perennial Japanese herb, Artemisia schmidtiana, having silver-green leaves forming a moundlike shape.
- silver paper — silver foil.
- silver perch — Also called mademoiselle. Ichthyology. a drum, Bairdiella chrysoura, of southern U.S. waters.
- silver plate — thin coat of silver
- silver point — the melting point of silver, equal to 960.8°C, used as a fixed point on the international temperature scale.
- silver spoon — spoon (def 16).
- silver state — Nevada (used as a nickname).
- silver trout — a variety of cutthroat trout, Salmo clarki henshawi, having silvery coloration, inhabiting Lake Tahoe.
- silver-plate — to coat (base metal) with silver, especially by electroplating.
- silvester ii — (Gerbert) died 1003, French ecclesiastic: pope 999–1003.
- silviculture — the cultivation of forest trees; forestry.
- sir bedivere — (in Arthurian legend) a knight who took the dying King Arthur to the barge in which he was carried to Avalon
- slave driver — an overseer of slaves.
- slave labour — Slave labour refers to slaves or to work done by slaves.
- slave trader — sb who traffics in people
- slave-driver — an overseer of slaves.
- sleeve board — a small-scale ironing board for pressing sleeves, especially a narrow board that fits inside a coat sleeve.
- smother-love — a relationship between a parent and child in which the parent is over-protective to the extent that the child's normal psychological development is inhibited