13-letter words containing v, y, a
- river lamprey — Lampetra fluviatilis; a jawless fish
- road surveyor — a person who does surveying work for road building
- safety device — A safety device is a piece of equipment such as a fire extinguisher, safety belt, or burglar alarm that reduces loss or damage from a fire, accident, or break-in.
- salary review — the, often annual, assessment or review of the salary or paid to an employee, where decisions are taken on whether the employee's pay should be increased, etc
- sample survey — a survey of particular examples of sth, intended as representative of the whole category
- sandfly fever — a usually mild viral disease occurring in hot, dry areas, characterized by fever, eye pain, and sometimes a rash, transmitted by sandflies of the genus Phlebotomus.
- savoy cabbage — a variety of cabbage having a compact head of crinkled, blistered leaves.
- scarcely ever — almost never, seldom
- seaton valley — a region in NE England, in SE Northumberland: consists of a group of former coal-mining villages
- self-advocacy — the practice of having mentally handicapped people speak for themselves and control their own affairs, rather than having nonhandicapped people automatically assume responsibility for them
- 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.
- 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.
- speculatively — pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by speculation, contemplation, conjecture, or abstract reasoning: a speculative approach.
- 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.
- substantively — a noun.
- substantivity — the quality or state of being substantive
- 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.
- survivability — able to be survived: Would an atomic war be survivable?
- sylvicultural — relating to sylviculture
- terminatively — in a finalizing manner
- the adversary — Satan
- the heavy mob — a group of heavies or enforcers
- to play havoc — If one thing plays havoc with another or wreaks havoc on it, it prevents it from continuing or functioning as normal, or damages it.
- 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.
- ultravirility — the quality or state of extreme virility
- unapprovingly — in an unapproving manner
- unassertively — in an unassertive manner
- unconceivably — inconceivably
- underactivity — insufficient activity
- undeviatingly — to turn aside, as from a route, way, course, etc.
- unequivocally — in a way that is clear and unambiguous: The theme is unequivocally religious.
- unperceivably — imperceptibly
- 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.
- vaginomycosis — a fungous infection of the vagina.
- valley stream — a village on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- valued policy — a policy in which the company and the policyholder agree to the amount to be paid in the event of total loss of property, regardless of the value of the property.
- vandyke beard — a short, pointed beard.
- vandyke brown — a medium brown color.