13-letter words containing v, r, y
- schuylerville — a village in E New York, on the Hudson: scene of Burgoyne's defeat and surrender in the Battle of Saratoga 1777.
- seventy-first — next after the seventieth; being the ordinal number for 71.
- seventy-third — next after the seventy-second; being the ordinal number for 73.
- seventy-three — a cardinal number, 70 plus 3.
- severance pay — money, exclusive of wages, back pay, etc., paid to an employee who has tenure and who is dismissed because of lack of work or other reasons beyond the employee's control.
- shrove monday — the Monday before Ash Wednesday.
- shrove sunday — the Sunday before Ash Wednesday; Quinquagesima.
- 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.
- sperry univac — (company) One of the divisions of Sperry Corporation at the time that company merged with the Burroughs Corporation to form Unisys Corporation.
- spring valley — a city in SW California, near San Diego.
- subserviently — serving or acting in a subordinate capacity; subordinate.
- summer savory — See under savory2 .
- sunday driver — a person who drives a car inexpertly, especially slowly or overcautiously, in the manner of one who drives infrequently.
- superactivity — extreme activity; hyperactivity
- superlatively — of the highest kind, quality, or order; surpassing all else or others; supreme; extreme: superlative wisdom.
- survey course — an introductory course of study that provides a general view of an academic subject.
- survivability — able to be survived: Would an atomic war be survivable?
- sylvicultural — relating to sylviculture
- terminatively — in a finalizing manner
- the adversary — Satan
- transfusively — in a transfusive manner
- transversally — transverse.
- travel agency — a business that accommodates travelers, as by securing tickets, arranging for reservations, and giving information.
- traverse city — a city in NW Michigan.
- traverse jury — petty jury.
- typhoid fever — Also called typhoid fever. an infectious, often fatal, febrile disease, usually of the summer months, characterized by intestinal inflammation and ulceration, caused by the typhoid bacillus, which is usually introduced with food or drink.
- ultravirility — the quality or state of extreme virility
- unapprovingly — in an unapproving manner
- unassertively — in an unassertive manner
- underactivity — insufficient activity
- undeservingly — in an undeserving manner
- unintrusively — tending or apt to intrude; coming without invitation or welcome: intrusive memories of a lost love.
- unobtrusively — not obtrusive; inconspicuous, unassertive, or reticent.
- unperceivably — imperceptibly
- unperceivedly — without being perceived; so as not to be perceived
- unprovokingly — serving to provoke; causing annoyance.
- unrecoverably — in an unrecoverable or irrecoverable manner
- unvoluntarily — done, made, brought about, undertaken, etc., of one's own accord or by free choice: a voluntary contribution.
- vacuum drying — the removal of liquid from a solution or mixture at reduced air pressure so that it dries at a lower temperature than would be required at full pressure.
- valley stream — a village on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- vandyke beard — a short, pointed beard.
- vandyke brown — a medium brown color.
- vanity mirror — a small mirror contained in the sun visor of a car
- variable type — type that can be varied to fit a page, screen, etc
- variety meats — processed meat, such as sausage, or offal
- variety store — a retail store, as a five-and-ten, carrying a large variety of goods, especially low-priced articles.
- venturesomely — in a venturesome manner
- venus flytrap — firewall machine