13-letter words containing v, e, r
- downconverter — A device that converts a signal to a lower frequency, especially in television reception.
- downers grove — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- draft version — a preliminary version
- drive a wedge — If someone drives a wedge between two people who are close, they cause ill feelings between them in order to weaken their relationship.
- drive-through — the act of driving through a specified locality or place, especially driving into a place of business, completing a transaction from one's car, and driving out: a quick drive-through of Beverly Hills; The bank has outside tellers' windows to accept deposits by drive-through.
- driver's seat — the seat from which a vehicle is operated.
- driving force — impetus
- driving range — a tract of land for practicing long golf shots, especially drives, with clubs and balls available for rent from the management.
- driving wheel — Machinery. a main wheel that communicates motion to others.
- dronkverdriet — drunk and maudlin
- drummondville — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- early-evening — taking place or being presented in the early part of the evening
- easterly wave — a westward-moving, wavelike disturbance of low atmospheric pressure embedded in tropical easterly winds.
- eastern 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)
- eavesdroppers — Plural form of eavesdropper.
- eavesdropping — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
- ebola (virus) — an RNA virus (family Filoviridae) that causes fever, internal bleeding, and, often, death
- economy drive — a campaign by the government or a firm to reduce expenditure and make savings
- effervescence — to give off bubbles of gas, as fermenting liquors.
- effervescency — (archaic) effervescence.
- electroactive — (of living tissue) exhibiting electrical activity or responsive to electrical stimuli
- electromotive — Producing or tending to produce an electric current.
- electron volt — a unit of energy equal to that attained by an electron falling unimpeded through a potential difference of one volt; 1.602 × 10-19 joule
- electrovalent — (of bonding) resulting from electrostatic attraction between positive and negative ions; ionic.
- elevator shoe — a shoe designed to increase the wearer's height
- eleventh hour — If someone does something at the eleventh hour, they do it at the last possible moment.
- endeavourment — the act of endeavouring
- energy saving — the fact of saving energy, or amount of energy saved
- energy-giving — containing ingredients designed to boost the eater's or drinker's energy, esp before, during, or after exercise
- engine driver — sb who drives a train
- enteric fever — typhoid
- enteroviruses — Plural form of enterovirus.
- environmental — Relating to the natural world and the impact of human activity on its condition.
- escort vessel — ship that accompanies another
- ethchlorvynol — A sedative and hypnotic drug used to treat insomnia.
- evangelistary — a book containing passages from the gospels to be used as part of the liturgy
- even-tempered — mild mannered
- evening dress — formal clothing
- evening paper — a newspaper that comes out in the evening
- event horizon — the surface around a black hole enclosing the space from which electromagnetic radiation cannot escape due to gravitational attraction. For a non-rotating black hole, the radius is proportional to the mass of the black hole
- event theatre — spectacular and extravagantly-mounted theatrical productions collectively
- ever and anon — now and then
- everlastingly — In an everlasting manner; so as to be everlasting.
- evidentiarily — In an evidentiary way.
- ex-serviceman — An ex-serviceman is a man who used to be in a country's army, navy, or air force.
- excursiveness — The quality of being discursive.
- expectorative — an expectorant medicine
- expert advice — advice given by someone who has studied a subject thoroughly or who is very skilled at a particular job
- exploratively — in an explorative manner
- exteroceptive — Relating to stimuli that are external to an organism.