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13-letter words containing v, i, l, e

  • ringed plover — any of several cosmopolitan plovers of the genus Charadrius, especially C. hiaticula, brownish above and white below with a black band around the breast.
  • rivalrousness — characterized by rivalry; competitive: the rivalrous aspect of their friendship.
  • river dolphin — any freshwater cetacean of the family Platanistidae, inhabiting rivers of North and South America and S Asia. They are smaller than marine dolphins and have a longer narrower snout
  • river lamprey — Lampetra fluviatilis; a jawless fish
  • rocking valve — (on a steam engine) a valve mechanism oscillating through an arc to open and close.
  • romantic love — love characterized by romance and involving sexual attraction
  • rosenkavalier — an opera (1911) by Richard Strauss.
  • russian olive — oleaster.
  • salary review — the, often annual, assessment or review of the salary or paid to an employee, where decisions are taken on whether the employee's pay should be increased, etc
  • salviniaceous — relating to the genus Salviniaceae
  • saving clause — a clause which denotes a reservation or exception
  • schuylerville — a village in E New York, on the Hudson: scene of Burgoyne's defeat and surrender in the Battle of Saratoga 1777.
  • seclusiveness — tending to seclude, especially oneself.
  • self-adhesive — having a side or surface coated with an adhesive substance to permit sticking without glue, paste, or the like: a self-adhesive label; self-adhesive ceramic tiles.
  • self-deceived — holding an erroneous opinion of oneself, one's own effort, or the like.
  • self-devotion — intense devotion of oneself to an activity or to a field or profession, as art or science.
  • self-evolving — to develop gradually: to evolve a scheme.
  • self-improver — improvement of one's mind, character, etc., through one's own efforts.
  • self-involved — self-centered; preoccupied with oneself
  • self-oblivion — the state of being completely forgotten or unknown: a former movie star now in oblivion.
  • self-punitive — serving for, concerned with, or inflicting punishment: punitive laws; punitive action.
  • self-violence — swift and intense force: the violence of a storm.
  • semicivilized — half or partly civilized.
  • service clasp — clasp (def 4).
  • service rifle — a rifle that is issued as standard to soldiers of an army or armed force
  • set-in sleeve — a sleeve joined to the body of a garment at the shoulder and having a seam at that juncture.
  • shelving unit — A shelving unit is a flexible display system which can be moved and adjusted to accommodate different product dimensions.
  • shirt-sleeves — not wearing a jacket; informally dressed: a shirt-sleeve mob.
  • shivering owl — screech owl.
  • silver bullet — direct or immediate solution
  • silver doctor — a type of artificial fly, used chiefly for trout and salmon.
  • silver dollar — A silver dollar is an American coin, worth one dollar, that is made of silver.
  • silver halide — a compound in which silver is combined with a halogen, as silver chloride, bromide, or iodide.
  • silver iodate — a white, crystalline, slightly water-soluble powder, AgIO 3 , used in medicine chiefly as an antiseptic and as an astringent.
  • silver iodide — a pale-yellow, water-insoluble solid, AgI, which darkens on exposure to light: used chiefly in medicine, photography, and artificial rainmaking.
  • silver lining — a sign of hope in an unfortunate or gloomy situation; a bright prospect: Every cloud has a silver lining.
  • silver polish — a type of polishing medium that is suitable for silver
  • silver poplar — white poplar (def 1).
  • silver salmon — coho salmon.
  • silver screen — motion pictures; the motion-picture industry: a star of the silver screen.
  • silver spring — a town in central Maryland, near Washington, D.C.
  • silver surfer — elderly internet user
  • 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-haired — having silver coloured hair
  • 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
  • silvichemical — any of a number of chemicals derived from a tree.
  • single-valued — (of a function) having the property that each element in the domain has corresponding to it exactly one element in the range.
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