13-letter words containing v, i, s, t, u
- over-cautious — excessively or unnecessarily cautious: Sometimes it doesn't pay to be overcautious in business.
- over-trusting — reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence.
- overambitious — having ambition; eagerly desirous of achieving or obtaining success, power, wealth, a specific goal, etc.: ambitious students.
- overstimulate — to stimulate too much
- presumptively — affording ground for presumption: presumptive evidence.
- preuniversity — of the period before attending university
- private study — the act or process of studying outwith classes
- private trust — a trust designed for the benefit of a designated or known individual (opposed to charitable trust).
- quasi-private — belonging to some particular person: private property.
- radius vector — Mathematics. the length of the line segment joining a fixed point or origin to a given point.
- reductiveness — of or relating to reduction; serving to reduce or abridge: an urgent need for reductive measures.
- retributivism — a policy or theory of criminal justice that advocates the punishment of criminals in retribution for the harm they have inflicted.
- retributivist — a policy or theory of criminal justice that advocates the punishment of criminals in retribution for the harm they have inflicted.
- 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.
- river estuary — a river mouth
- seductiveness — tending to seduce; enticing; beguiling; captivating: a seductive smile.
- self-punitive — serving for, concerned with, or inflicting punishment: punitive laws; punitive action.
- 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.
- shelving unit — A shelving unit is a flexible display system which can be moved and adjusted to accommodate different product dimensions.
- silver bullet — direct or immediate solution
- 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-bullet — a quick solution to a difficult problem.
- south vietnam — a former country in SE Asia that comprised Vietnam S of about 17° N latitude; a separate state 1954–75; now part of reunified Vietnam. Capital: Saigon.
- soviet russia — a conventional name of the Soviet Union.
- speculatively — pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by speculation, contemplation, conjecture, or abstract reasoning: a speculative approach.
- subderivative — a word derived from a derivative.
- subindicative — of or relating to subindicating
- subinvolution — (of organs) a partial return to normal size
- subordinative — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
- subserviently — serving or acting in a subordinate capacity; subordinate.
- substantively — a noun.
- substantivity — the quality or state of being substantive
- substantivize — to use (an adjective, verb, etc.) as a substantive; convert into a substantive: a substantivized participle.
- suction valve — a nonreturn valve in a pump suction to prevent the pump draining or depriming when not in service
- suovetaurilia — (in ancient Rome) a sacrifice of a hog, a ram, and a bull.
- superactivity — extreme activity; hyperactivity
- superlatively — of the highest kind, quality, or order; surpassing all else or others; supreme; extreme: superlative wisdom.
- supervirtuoso — a highly accomplished virtuoso
- supervirulent — extremely virulent
- survivability — able to be survived: Would an atomic war be survivable?
- sylvicultural — relating to sylviculture
- totis viribus — with all one's might.
- transfusively — in a transfusive manner
- transmutative — the act or process of transmuting.
- tunnel vision — a drastically narrowed field of vision, as in looking through a tube, symptomatic of retinitis pigmentosa.
- unassertively — in an unassertive manner
- unconsecutive — following one another in uninterrupted succession or order; successive: six consecutive numbers, such as 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.