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13-letter words containing v, o, t, r, e, s

  • 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
  • short-sleeved — having short sleeves
  • 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-y moth — a brownish noctuid moth, Plusia gamma, having a light Y-shaped marking on each forewing; it migrates in large flocks
  • 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.
  • sovereigntist — a supporter of sovereignty association
  • soviet russia — a conventional name of the Soviet Union.
  • spotted fever — any of several fevers characterized by spots on the skin, especially as in cerebrospinal meningitis or typhus fever.
  • 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.
  • subordinative — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
  • suovetaurilia — (in ancient Rome) a sacrifice of a hog, a ram, and a bull.
  • supervirtuoso — a highly accomplished virtuoso
  • support level — a minimum price below which a specific stock is not supposed to fall, as because of the stock's inherent worth.
  • tergiversator — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
  • the provinces — those parts of a country lying outside the capital and other large cities and regarded as outside the mainstream of sophisticated culture
  • toll traverse — a payment made for the right to cross privately owned property.
  • unadventurous — inclined or willing to engage in adventures; enjoying adventures.
  • unobstructive — to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
  • unobtrusively — not obtrusive; inconspicuous, unassertive, or reticent.
  • vapor tension — vapor pressure.
  • variable cost — a cost that varies with a change in the volume of output while remaining uniform on a per-unit basis, as cost of labor (distinguished from fixed cost).
  • variety store — a retail store, as a five-and-ten, carrying a large variety of goods, especially low-priced articles.
  • velvet scoter — a European sea duck, Melanitta fusca, the male of which has a black plumage with white patches below the eyes and on the wings
  • venereologist — the branch of medicine dealing with the study and treatment of venereal, or sexually transmitted, disease.
  • ventriloquism — the art or practice of speaking, with little or no lip movement, in such a manner that the voice does not appear to come from the speaker but from another source, as from a wooden dummy.
  • ventriloquist — a person who performs or is skilled in ventriloquism.
  • ventriloquous — of or relating to ventriloquism or a ventriloquist
  • venture scout — a young man or woman, aged 16–20, who is a member of the senior branch of the Scouts
  • venturesomely — in a venturesome manner
  • versification — the act of versifying.
  • violent storm — Meteorology. storm (def 3).
  • virgin forest — a forest in its natural state, before it has been explored or exploited by man
  • virgo cluster — a cluster of about 2500 galaxies in the constellation Virgo, the nearest cluster to our galaxy.
  • visceroptosis — a downward displacement of the intestine
  • visual cortex — the portion of the cerebral cortex of the brain that receives and processes impulses from the optic nerves.
  • vitreous body — a transparent gelatinous substance, permeated by fine fibrils, that fills the interior of the eyeball between the lens and the retina
  • vivisectorium — the location where vivisection takes place
  • voluntariness — done, made, brought about, undertaken, etc., of one's own accord or by free choice: a voluntary contribution.
  • volute spring — a coil spring, conical in shape, extending in the direction of the axis of the coil.
  • von sternberg — Josef [joh-zuh f,, -suh f] /ˈdʒoʊ zəf,, -səf/ (Show IPA), or Joseph (Josef Stern) 1894–1969, U.S. film director and screenwriter, born in Austria.
  • vortex street — a regular stream of vortices or parallel streams of vortices carried downstream by the flow of a fluid over a body. These are sometimes made visible by vapour condensation as in the vortex trails from the wing tips of an aeroplane
  • whithersoever — Wherever.
  • winter savory — See under savory2 .
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