13-letter words containing v, e, r
- sub-sovereign — a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler.
- 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.
- summer savory — See under savory2 .
- sunday driver — a person who drives a car inexpertly, especially slowly or overcautiously, in the manner of one who drives infrequently.
- suovetaurilia — (in ancient Rome) a sacrifice of a hog, a ram, and a bull.
- superachiever — someone who achieves more than most; high achiever
- 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.
- surplus value — (in Marxian economics) the part of the value of a commodity that exceeds the cost of labor, regarded as the profit of the capitalist.
- survey course — an introductory course of study that provides a general view of an academic subject.
- teleconverter — a person or thing that converts.
- tergiversator — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
- terminatively — in a finalizing manner
- the adversary — Satan
- the civil war — the war between the North (the Union) and the South (the Confederacy) in the U.S. (1861-65)
- the hué river — a river in central Vietnam that crosses the port of Hué
- the levellers — a radical group on the Parliamentarian side during the Civil War that advocated republicanism, freedom of worship, etc
- the narrative — the part of a literary work that relates events
- the provinces — those parts of a country lying outside the capital and other large cities and regarded as outside the mainstream of sophisticated culture
- theatre lover — sb who enjoys going to plays
- thermic fever — sunstroke.
- throw a curve — a continuously bending line, without angles.
- time reversal — the mathematical operation of reversing the direction of time. Symbol: T.
- to break even — When a company or a person running a business breaks even, they make neither a profit nor a loss.
- to take cover — If you take cover, you shelter from gunfire, bombs, or the weather.
- toll traverse — a payment made for the right to cross privately owned property.
- touch a nerve — to mention or bring to mind a sensitive issue or subject
- tractor drive — a mechanism that feeds paper through a printer, using studs on a rotating wheel that engage with holes along the side of the paper
- train service — provision of railway transport
- transactivate — to activate the replication of (a viral gene) through the presence of a gene at another locus, especially following a viral infection.
- transfusively — in a transfusive manner
- transgressive — to violate a law, command, moral code, etc.; offend; sin.
- transmutative — the act or process of transmuting.
- transversally — transverse.
- travel agency — a business that accommodates travelers, as by securing tickets, arranging for reservations, and giving information.
- traveling bag — a small bag, as a valise or suitcase, usually made of leather, having an oblong shape, and used chiefly to hold clothes.
- traverse city — a city in NW Michigan.
- traverse jury — petty jury.
- triple-nerved — noting a leaf in which two prominent nerves emerge from the middle nerve a little above its base.
- trophic level — any class of organisms that occupy the same position in a food chain, as primary consumers, secondary consumers, and tertiary consumers.
- true believer — a person who has been thoroughly convinced of something.
- truelove knot — a complicated ornamental knot, especially a double knot having two interlacing bows, regarded as an emblem of true love or interwoven affections.
- tuva republic — a constituent republic of S Russia: mountainous. Capital: Kizyl. Pop: 305 500 (2002). Area: 170 500 sq km (65 800 sq miles)