13-letter words containing v, m
- quadrumvirate — a governing or managing group, coalition, or the like, of four persons.
- recovery room — a room near the operating or delivery room of a hospital, equipped with specific apparatus and staffed by specially trained personnel for emergencies, used for the recovery from anesthesia of a postoperative or obstetrical patient before being brought to a hospital room or ward.
- recovery team — a team engaged in locating and retrieving bodies, cargo, etc, esp following a crash, explosion or natural disaster
- redevelopment — the act or process of redeveloping.
- reinvolvement — to include as a necessary circumstance, condition, or consequence; imply; entail: This job involves long hours and hard work.
- remonstrative — to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval.
- retributivism — a policy or theory of criminal justice that advocates the punishment of criminals in retribution for the harm they have inflicted.
- revenue stamp — a stamp showing that a governmental tax has been paid.
- reversal film — film developed by the reversal process.
- revolutionism — a belief in revolution or revolutionary ideas
- river lamprey — Lampetra fluviatilis; a jawless fish
- river red gum — a large Australian red gum tree, Eucalyptus camaldulensis, growing along river banks
- roll-over arm — an upholstered chair or sofa arm that curves outward and downward.
- 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.
- sample survey — a survey of particular examples of sth, intended as representative of the whole category
- savings stamp — a stamp which can be bought (for example at a machine in a supermarket), saved, and then redeemed against the cost of goods later (for example at Christmas)
- scavenge pump — an oil pump used in some internal-combustion engines to return oil from the crankcase to the oil tank
- seismic waves — a wave of energy that is generated by an earthquake or other earth vibration and that travels within the earth or along its surface.
- self-improver — improvement of one's mind, character, etc., through one's own efforts.
- semi-vitreous — partially vitreous.
- semicivilized — half or partly civilized.
- semievergreen — retaining green, unwithered leaves for part of the winter or through comparatively mild winters.
- semioviparous — bearing young in an incomplete state of development, as a marsupial.
- 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.
- shrove monday — the Monday before Ash Wednesday.
- silver salmon — coho salmon.
- 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.
- simon bolivar — Simón [sahy-muh n;; Spanish see-mawn] /ˈsaɪ mən;; Spanish siˈmɔn/ (Show IPA), ("El Libertador") 1783–1830, Venezuelan statesman: leader of revolt of South American colonies against Spanish rule.
- slasher movie — a film in which victims, often women, are slashed with knives, razors, etc
- smooth-shaven — having the beard and mustache shaved off; clean-shaven.
- 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.
- speak volumes — a collection of written or printed sheets bound together and constituting a book.
- stain remover — a substance designed for removing stains or dirty marks, as from clothes, carpets, etc
- standover man — a person who extorts money by intimidation
- subgovernment — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
- summer savory — See under savory2 .
- taedium vitae — the feeling that life is boring and dull
- televangelism — Christian preaching on TV
- terminatively — in a finalizing manner
- the heavy mob — a group of heavies or enforcers
- thermic fever — sunstroke.
- time reversal — the mathematical operation of reversing the direction of time. Symbol: T.
- timing device — a device that can be set to detonate a bomb at a particular time
- to come alive — If people, places, or events come alive, they start to be lively again after a quiet period. If someone or something brings them alive, they cause them to come alive.
- transmutative — the act or process of transmuting.
- uncompetitive — of, pertaining to, involving, or decided by competition: competitive sports; a competitive examination.
- unimaginative — characterized by or bearing evidence of imagination: an imaginative tale.
- uninformative — not educational