13-letter words containing v, e, t, r
- revenue agent — a government official who is responsible for the collection of revenue.
- revenue stamp — a stamp showing that a governmental tax has been paid.
- reverberation — a reechoed sound.
- reverberative — reverberating or tending to reverberate
- reverberatory — characterized or produced by reverberation.
- reverentially — of the nature of or characterized by reverence; reverent: reverential awe.
- reverse fault — a fault in which the rock above the fault plane is displaced upward relative to the rock below the fault plane (opposed to gravity fault).
- reverse plate — a plate for printing a reverse.
- reversibility — capable of reversing or of being reversed.
- revictualling — victuals, food supplies; provisions.
- revindication — the act of vindicating.
- revolutionary — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change: a revolutionary junta.
- revolutionise — to bring about a revolution in; effect a radical change in: to revolutionize petroleum refining methods.
- revolutionism — a belief in revolution or revolutionary ideas
- revolutionist — a person who advocates or takes part in a revolution.
- revolutionize — to bring about a revolution in; effect a radical change in: to revolutionize petroleum refining methods.
- ride the wave — to enjoy a period of success and good fortune
- river estuary — a river mouth
- river traffic — the boats that sail on a river
- romantic love — love characterized by romance and involving sexual attraction
- roosevelt dam — a dam on the Salt River, in central Arizona. 284 feet (87 meters) high; 1080 feet (329 meters) long.
- scarlet fever — a contagious febrile disease caused by streptococci and characterized by a scarlet eruption.
- sciatic nerve — either of a pair of nerves, the largest in the body, that originate in the sacral plexus of the lower back and extend down the buttocks to the back of the knees, where they divide into other nerves: the sciatic nerve and its branches innervate large areas of the pelvis, leg, and foot.
- scratch video — the technique or practice of recycling images from films or television to make collages
- self-reverent — feeling, exhibiting, or characterized by reverence; deeply respectful: a reverent greeting.
- semi-vitreous — partially vitreous.
- service court — the part of the court into which a player must serve in various games, as tennis, badminton, handball, or squash.
- serving hatch — a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room
- seventh chord — a chord formed by the superposition of three thirds.
- seventh grade — school year: age 12-13
- seventy-first — next after the seventieth; being the ordinal number for 71.
- seventy-third — next after the seventy-second; being the ordinal number for 73.
- seventy-three — a cardinal number, 70 plus 3.
- severance tax — a tax levied by a state on the extraction and use of a natural product, as coal, that is sold outside the state or during a certain period.
- severodonetsk — a city in E Ukraine, NE of Donetsk.
- shaver outlet — a point in a wall, esp in a bathroom, where you can connect an electric razor to the power supply
- shirt-sleeves — not wearing a jacket; informally dressed: a shirt-sleeve mob.
- short-sleeved — having short sleeves
- silver bullet — direct or immediate solution
- silver doctor — a type of artificial fly, used chiefly for trout and salmon.
- silver iodate — a white, crystalline, slightly water-soluble powder, AgIO 3 , used in medicine chiefly as an antiseptic and as an astringent.
- silver tongue — the characteristic of being skilful at persuading people to believe what they say or to do what they want them to do
- silver wattle — a tree, Acacia dealbata, of the legume family, native to Australia and Tasmania, having feathery, silver-gray foliage and fragrant yellow flowers.
- silver-bullet — a quick solution to a difficult problem.
- silver-plated — Something that is silver-plated is covered with a very thin layer of silver.
- silver-y moth — a brownish noctuid moth, Plusia gamma, having a light Y-shaped marking on each forewing; it migrates in large flocks
- slave trading — trafficking in people
- slave traffic — the traffic of slaves
- society verse — light, graceful, entertaining poetry considered as appealing to polite society.
- solitary wave — a localized disturbance that propagates like a wave but resembles a particle in that it does not disperse, even if it collides with other such waves.