13-letter words containing v, e, s, i, c
- semicivilized — half or partly civilized.
- service break — an instance of a player winning a game against a server.
- service clasp — clasp (def 4).
- service court — the part of the court into which a player must serve in various games, as tennis, badminton, handball, or squash.
- service dress — a khaki army uniform more formal than khakis but less formal than full army dress
- service rifle — a rifle that is issued as standard to soldiers of an army or armed force
- serviceperson — a person who is a member of the armed forces of a country.
- serving hatch — a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room
- shaving cream — a preparation, as of soap and free fatty acid, that is lathered and applied to the face to soften and condition the beard for shaving.
- significative — serving to signify.
- silver doctor — a type of artificial fly, used chiefly for trout and salmon.
- silver screen — motion pictures; the motion-picture industry: a star of the silver screen.
- silvichemical — any of a number of chemicals derived from a tree.
- singing voice — the musical quality of a voice when a person is singing
- sir-reverence — (used as an expression of apology, as before unseemly or indelicate words.)
- slave traffic — the traffic of slaves
- society verse — light, graceful, entertaining poetry considered as appealing to polite society.
- speculatively — pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by speculation, contemplation, conjecture, or abstract reasoning: a speculative approach.
- sperry univac — (company) One of the divisions of Sperry Corporation at the time that company merged with the Burroughs Corporation to form Unisys Corporation.
- subindicative — of or relating to subindicating
- suction valve — a nonreturn valve in a pump suction to prevent the pump draining or depriming when not in service
- superachiever — someone who achieves more than most; high achiever
- superactivity — extreme activity; hyperactivity
- the provinces — those parts of a country lying outside the capital and other large cities and regarded as outside the mainstream of sophisticated culture
- thieves' cant — slang used by thieves
- 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.
- traverse city — a city in NW Michigan.
- unconsecutive — following one another in uninterrupted succession or order; successive: six consecutive numbers, such as 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
- undescriptive — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
- undistinctive — not distinctive; bland
- unexclusively — in an unexclusive manner
- uninstructive — not conveying information or serving to instruct
- unobstructive — to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
- unselectively — in an unselective manner
- unserviceable — not suitable to be used
- unspeculative — not characterized by speculation
- valet service — a cleaning service, in which your clothes are collected for cleaning, from your house or hotel, and returned to you
- variable cost — a cost that varies with a change in the volume of output while remaining uniform on a per-unit basis, as cost of labor (distinguished from fixed cost).
- varicose vein — Varicose veins are swollen and painful veins in a person's legs, which sometimes require a medical operation.
- vascularities — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
- venire facias — a writ directing the appropriate official to summon a jury.
- veraciousness — characterized by truthfulness; true, accurate, or honest in content: a veracious statement; a veracious account.
- vernacularism — a vernacular word or expression.
- vernacularist — someone who uses vernacular speech
- vernier scale — Also, vernier scale. a small, movable, graduated scale running parallel to the fixed graduated scale of a sextant, theodolite, barometer, etc., and used for measuring a fractional part of one of the divisions of the fixed scale.
- versicoloured — of variable or various colours
- versification — the act of versifying.
- vesica piscis — an elliptical figure in pointed form, usually one made by the intersection of two arcs and used, especially in early Christian art, as an emblem of Christ.
- vicariousness — performed, exercised, received, or suffered in place of another: vicarious punishment.