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14-letter words containing v, e, t, r, a

  • rateable value — In Britain, the rateable value of a building was a value based on its size and facilities, which was used in calculating local taxes called rates.
  • re-investigate — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
  • reactive power — Reactive power is the part of complex power that corresponds to storage and retrieval of energy rather than consumption.
  • reactor vessel — the container surrounding and protecting the core of a nuclear reactor.
  • recapitulative — the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated.
  • recoverability — able to recover or be recovered: a patient now believed to be recoverable; recoverable losses on his investments.
  • recurvirostral — with a beak which is bent upwards
  • redintegrative — to make whole again; restore to a perfect state; renew; reestablish.
  • regressive tax — a tax which is levied or graduated so that the rate decreases as the amount taxed increases
  • rehabilitative — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
  • reinvigorating — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
  • reinvigoration — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
  • relative major — the major key whose tonic is the third degree of a given minor key.
  • relative minor — the minor key whose tonic is the sixth degree of a given major key.
  • relative pitch — the pitch of a tone as determined by its relationship to other tones in a scale.
  • relativization — to regard as or make relative.
  • representative — a person or thing that represents another or others.
  • reservationist — a person who makes or takes reservations, as at an airline office; reservation clerk.
  • retrievability — to recover or regain: to retrieve the stray ball.
  • revenue stream — method of income
  • revenue tariff — a tariff or duty imposed on imports primarily to produce public revenue.
  • reverberations — remote or indirect consequences of an action; repercussions
  • reverification — the act of verifying.
  • reversal plate — a plate developed by the reversal process.
  • revitalization — to give new life to.
  • revivification — to restore to life; give new life to; revive; reanimate.
  • root vegetable — edible starchy tuber
  • salva veritate — without affecting truth-value
  • scarcity value — increased value due to the inadequate supply of something
  • scavenger hunt — a game in which individuals or teams are sent out to accumulate, without purchasing, a series of common, outlandish, or humorous objects, the winner being the person or team returning first with all the items.
  • self assertive — insistence on or an expression of one's own importance, wishes, needs, opinions, or the like.
  • self-assertive — insistence on or an expression of one's own importance, wishes, needs, opinions, or the like.
  • self-operative — automatic.
  • semi-narrative — a story or account of events, experiences, or the like, whether true or fictitious.
  • semistarvation — the state of being nearly starved.
  • semivegetarian — a person who eats mostly plant foods, dairy products, and eggs, and occasionally chicken, fish, and red meat.
  • seronegativity — the quality or state of being seronegative
  • servant church — the attitude or practices of a church whose avowed purpose is to serve the world.
  • serviceability — capable of or being of service; useful.
  • seventh-grader — a student in the seventh year of school, usually 11 to 13 years old
  • sheva brachoth — the seven blessings said during the marriage service and repeated at the celebration thereafter
  • shrove tuesday — the last day of Shrovetide, long observed as a season of merrymaking before Lent.
  • silver nitrate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble, bitter, corrosive, poisonous powder, AgNO 3 , produced by the reaction of silver and dilute nitric acid: used chiefly in the manufacture of photographic emulsions and mirrors, as a laboratory reagent, and in medicine as an antiseptic, astringent, and in the routine prophylaxis of ophthalmia neonatorum.
  • slave bracelet — a braceletlike, ornamental circlet or chain worn around the ankle.
  • slit fricative — a fricative, as (f) or (th), in which the tongue is relatively flat, with air channeled over it through a shallow slit.
  • solitary vireo — a vireo, Vireo solitarius, of North and Central America, having the top and sides of the head bluish-gray.
  • southern 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)
  • splatter movie — a film containing many scenes of violent and gruesome murders.
  • stanovoi range — a mountain range in SE Russia; forms part of the watershed between rivers flowing to the Arctic and the Pacific. Highest peak: Mount Skalisty, 2482 m (8143 ft)
  • state services — services appointed to commemorate days of national celebration or deliverance such as the accession of a sovereign
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