13-letter words containing v, e, r
- provincialize — to make provincial in character.
- provocatively — tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
- pulverization — to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.
- puncture vine — a caltrop, Tribulus terrestris, having spiny fruit that can puncture tires.
- quadrumvirate — a governing or managing group, coalition, or the like, of four persons.
- quarterstaves — Plural form of quarterstaff.
- quasi-private — belonging to some particular person: private property.
- racing driver — someone who drives a racing car in motor car races
- radioactivate — to make (a substance) radioactive.
- radius vector — Mathematics. the length of the line segment joining a fixed point or origin to a given point.
- raglan sleeve — a sleeve that begins at the neck and has a long, slanting seam line from the neck to the armhole, giving the garment a relatively undefined shoulder.
- ratable value — (formerly) a fixed value assigned to a property by a local authority, on the basis of which variable annual rates are charged
- ratbite fever — either of two relapsing febrile diseases, widely distributed geographically, caused by infection with Streptobacillus moniliformis or Spirillum minor and transmitted by rats.
- ratiocinative — the process of logical reasoning.
- rayleigh wave — a wave along the surface of a solid, elastic body, especially along the surface of the earth.
- re-activation — to render active again; revive.
- re-entry visa — a visa that allows someone to enter a country again several times
- re-evaluating — to determine or set the value or amount of; appraise: to evaluate property.
- re-evaluation — an act or instance of evaluating or appraising.
- real variable — a variable to which only real numbers are assigned as values.
- rebarbatively — in a rebarbative manner
- receivability — the fact or condition of being receivable
- 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.
- reciprocative — to give, feel, etc., in return.
- reclusiveness — the state or quality of being reclusive
- reconvergence — an act or instance of converging.
- record sleeve — the outer covering of a phonograph record
- recording van — a van containing sound and image recording equipment, used as a mobile recording studio
- recovery room — a room near the operating or delivery room of a hospital, equipped with specific apparatus and staffed by specially trained personnel for emergencies, used for the recovery from anesthesia of a postoperative or obstetrical patient before being brought to a hospital room or ward.
- recovery ship — a naval vessel designed to participate in the retrieval of a satellite, instrument package, or spaceship after it has re-entered the atmosphere and landed in the ocean
- recovery team — a team engaged in locating and retrieving bodies, cargo, etc, esp following a crash, explosion or natural disaster
- recultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
- recursiveness — pertaining to or using a rule or procedure that can be applied repeatedly.
- red river war — a punitive campaign (1874–75) led by General Sheridan against hostile Indians in the region of the Red River and the Llano Estacado.
- red-eye gravy — a gravy made from the pan juices of fried country ham, thickened with flour and sometimes containing coffee for color and flavor.
- redevelopment — the act or process of redeveloping.
- reduced level — lesser degree or amount
- reductiveness — of or relating to reduction; serving to reduce or abridge: an urgent need for reductive measures.
- reduplicative — tending to reduplicate.
- reflexiveness — Grammar. (of a verb) taking a subject and object with identical referents, as shave in I shave myself. (of a pronoun) used as an object to refer to the subject of a verb, as myself in I shave myself.
- regular bevel — the bevel of a bolt or lock on a door opening into the building, room, etc., to which the doorway leads (opposed to reverse bevel).
- reinnervation — the restoration of a nerve supply by surgery or by regeneration
- reintegrative — characterized by integration; tending to restore unity
- reinvestigate — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
- reinvigorated — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
- reinvigorator — something that gives new life and energy (to something)
- reinvolvement — to include as a necessary circumstance, condition, or consequence; imply; entail: This job involves long hours and hard work.