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13-letter words containing v, y, s

  • prospectively — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
  • provisionally — providing or serving for the time being only; existing only until permanently or properly replaced; temporary: a provisional government.
  • re-entry visa — a visa that allows someone to enter a country again several times
  • recovery ship — a naval vessel designed to participate in the retrieval of a satellite, instrument package, or spaceship after it has re-entered the atmosphere and landed in the ocean
  • restless cavy — a wild guinea pig.
  • restoratively — in a restorative manner
  • restrictively — tending or serving to restrict.
  • reversibility — capable of reversing or of being reversed.
  • river estuary — a river mouth
  • 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
  • schuylerville — a village in E New York, on the Hudson: scene of Burgoyne's defeat and surrender in the Battle of Saratoga 1777.
  • 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
  • seventeenthly — in the seventeenth place
  • seventy-eight — a cardinal number, 70 plus 8.
  • seventy-fifth — next after the seventy-fourth; being the ordinal number for 75.
  • seventy-first — next after the seventieth; being the ordinal number for 71.
  • seventy-ninth — next after the seventy-eighth; being the ordinal number for 79.
  • seventy-seven — a cardinal number, 70 plus 7.
  • seventy-sixth — next after the seventy-fifth; being the ordinal number for 76.
  • 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
  • sixty-seventh — next after the sixty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 67.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • subserviently — serving or acting in a subordinate capacity; subordinate.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • tenosynovitis — inflammation of a tendon sheath, as from trauma, repeated strain, or systemic disease.
  • the adversary — Satan
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