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