14-letter words containing v, s, g
- psychogalvanic — pertaining to or involving electric changes in the body resulting from reactions to mental or emotional stimuli.
- quasi-negative — expressing or containing negation or denial: a negative response to the question.
- quicksilvering — the mercury on the back of a mirror
- re-investigate — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
- regressive tax — a tax which is levied or graduated so that the rate decreases as the amount taxed increases
- reprovisioning — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- reverse-charge — (of a telephone call) made at the recipient's expense
- salivary gland — any of several glands, as the submaxillary glands, that secrete saliva.
- salvage vessel — a ship that is used in salvaging goods or property from a shipwreck
- salvageability — the act of saving a ship or its cargo from perils of the seas.
- sand lovegrass — any grass of the genus Eragrostis, as E. curvula (weeping lovegrass) and E. trichodes (sand lovegrass) cultivated as forage and ground cover.
- scavenger hunt — a game in which individuals or teams are sent out to accumulate, without purchasing, a series of common, outlandish, or humorous objects, the winner being the person or team returning first with all the items.
- self-deceiving — subject to self-deception; tending to deceive or fool oneself: a self-deceiving person.
- self-deserving — qualified for or having a claim to reward, assistance, etc., because of one's actions, qualities, or situation: the deserving poor; a deserving applicant.
- self-governing — governed by itself or having self-government, as a state or community; independent.
- self-levelling — having no part higher than another; having a flat or even surface.
- self-revealing — displaying, exhibiting, or disclosing one's most private feelings, thoughts, etc.: an embarrassingly self-revealing autobiography.
- semi-evergreen — retaining green, unwithered leaves for part of the winter or through comparatively mild winters.
- semivegetarian — a person who eats mostly plant foods, dairy products, and eggs, and occasionally chicken, fish, and red meat.
- sergiyev posad — a city in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Moscow.
- seronegativity — the quality or state of being seronegative
- serve sb right — If you say it serves someone right when something unpleasant happens to them, you mean that it is their own fault and you have no sympathy for them.
- service charge — a fee charged for a service, sometimes in addition to a basic charge.
- serviette ring — a ring used to hold a cloth serviette or napkin neatly in a cylinder
- seventh-grader — a student in the seventh year of school, usually 11 to 13 years old
- seventy-eighth — next after the seventy-seventh; being the ordinal number for 78.
- seville orange — a globose, reddish-yellow, bitter or sweet, edible citrus fruit.
- shaving mirror — small adjustable mirror
- sherry vinegar — a gourmet wine vinegar produced in the Jerez region of S Spain
- shipping fever — a respiratory disease of cattle, caused by Pasteurella haemolytica, often spread during the shipment of livestock.
- short covering — purchases that close out short sales on stocks or commodities.
- silver wedding — a twenty-fifth wedding anniversary.
- silver-tongued — persuasive; eloquent: a silver-tongued orator.
- sivananda yoga — a gentle form of yoga which concentrates on breathing control, stretching, and silent meditation
- sliding vector — a vector having specified magnitude and lying on a given line.
- snifting valve — a valve for releasing small quantities of steam, compressed air, or condensate, as from the cylinder of a steam engine.
- social evening — a social gathering for the purpose of promoting companionship, communal activities, etc
- sovereign debt — the debt of a national government, esp debt that is issued in a foreign currency
- sovietological — of or relating to Sovietology
- speaking voice — a person's normal voice in which they speak
- 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)
- storage device — a device used to store digital data or information, as a hard disk or CD.
- 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.
- suggestiveness — that suggests; referring to other thoughts, persons, etc.: His recommendation was suggestive of his boss's thinking.
- 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
- swivel weaving — the process of weaving on a loom equipped with a swivel.
- tendovaginitis — the swelling of both a tendon and its sheath
- 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.