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14-letter words containing v, r, o, t

  • revivification — to restore to life; give new life to; revive; reanimate.
  • revolutionised — to bring about a revolution in; effect a radical change in: to revolutionize petroleum refining methods.
  • revolutionizer — to bring about a revolution in; effect a radical change in: to revolutionize petroleum refining methods.
  • root vegetable — edible starchy tuber
  • salvation army — an international Christian organization founded in England in 1865 by William Booth, organized along quasi-military lines and devoted chiefly to evangelism and to providing social services, especially to the poor.
  • scotch verdict — a verdict of not proven: acceptable in certain cases in Scottish criminal law.
  • security video — a video recording taken by a security camera
  • self-operative — automatic.
  • semistarvation — the state of being nearly starved.
  • seronegativity — the quality or state of being seronegative
  • seropositivity — the quality or state of being seropositive
  • service sector — the sector of the economy that provides services rather than products, etc
  • seventy-fourth — next after the seventy-third; being the ordinal number for 74.
  • sheva brachoth — the seven blessings said during the marriage service and repeated at the celebration thereafter
  • short covering — purchases that close out short sales on stocks or commodities.
  • short division — division, especially by a one-digit divisor, in which the steps of the process are performed mentally and are not written down.
  • shrove tuesday — the last day of Shrovetide, long observed as a season of merrymaking before Lent.
  • silver protein — any of several colloidal silver solutions containing silver and a protein, as albumin: formerly used in treating inflammation of mucous membranes
  • silver-tongued — persuasive; eloquent: a silver-tongued orator.
  • sliding vector — a vector having specified magnitude and lying on a given line.
  • solar activity — the sum of all variable and short-lived disturbances on the sun, as sunspots, prominences, and solar flares.
  • solitary vireo — a vireo, Vireo solitarius, of North and Central America, having the top and sides of the head bluish-gray.
  • southern slavs — one of a group of peoples in eastern, southeastern, and central Europe, including the Russians and Ruthenians (Eastern Slavs) the Bulgars, Serbs, Croats, Slavonians, Slovenes, etc. (Southern Slavs) and the Poles, Czechs, Moravians, Slovaks, etc. (Western Slavs)
  • souvenir sheet — a single stamp or a pair, block, or set of stamps having the same or different designs commemorating a stamp exhibition or other event and having inscriptions in one or all four margins.
  • sovereign debt — the debt of a national government, esp debt that is issued in a foreign currency
  • splatter movie — a film containing many scenes of violent and gruesome murders.
  • stanovoi range — a mountain range in SE Russia; forms part of the watershed between rivers flowing to the Arctic and the Pacific. Highest peak: Mount Skalisty, 2482 m (8143 ft)
  • stock turnover — the rate at which stock is sold and replenished
  • storage device — a device used to store digital data or information, as a hard disk or CD.
  • store of value — the function of money that enables goods and services to be paid for a considerable time after they have been acquired
  • sub-government — 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 visitor — a person, animal or bird who come to a place in summer
  • superelevation — bank1 (def 6).
  • superovulation — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
  • supportiveness — giving support.
  • supreme soviet — the bicameral legislature, comprising the Soviet of the Union and the Soviet of the Nationalities; officially the highest organ of state power
  • survivor guilt — feelings of guilt for having survived a catastrophe in which others died.
  • swinging voter — a person who does not vote consistently for any single political party
  • take inventory — count stock or belongings
  • tergiversation — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
  • tergiversatory — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
  • the ordovician — the Ordovician period or rock system
  • the reverse of — emphatically not; not at all
  • the world over — If you say that something happens or exists the world over, you mean that it happens or exists in every part of the world.
  • throttle lever — throttle (def 1).
  • throttle valve — a valve for throttling the working fluid of an engine, refrigerator, etc.
  • to break cover — If you break cover, you leave a place where you have been hiding or sheltering from attack, usually in order to run to another place.
  • to overflowing — If a place or container is filled to overflowing, it is so full of people or things that no more can fit in.
  • topsy-turvydom — a state of affairs or a region in which everything is topsy-turvy.
  • totidem verbis — with just so many words; in these words.
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