13-letter words containing r, s, v, p
- provincialism — narrowness of mind, ignorance, or the like, considered as resulting from lack of exposure to cultural or intellectual activity.
- provincialist — a native or inhabitant of a province.
- provisionally — providing or serving for the time being only; existing only until permanently or properly replaced; temporary: a provisional government.
- provost court — a military court convened in occupied territory under military government, usually composed of one officer and empowered to try military personnel and civilians for minor offenses.
- provost guard — a detachment of soldiers assigned to police duties under the provost marshal.
- quasi-private — belonging to some particular person: private property.
- receptiveness — having the quality of receiving, taking in, or admitting.
- 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
- reserve price — floor price.
- retrospective — directed to the past; contemplative of past situations, events, etc.
- revenue stamp — a stamp showing that a governmental tax has been paid.
- reverse plate — a plate for printing a reverse.
- sample survey — a survey of particular examples of sth, intended as representative of the whole category
- scrivenership — the position of being a scrivener or scribe; scribing
- self-approval — the act of approving; approbation.
- self-depraved — corrupt, wicked, or perverted.
- self-improver — improvement of one's mind, character, etc., through one's own efforts.
- semioviparous — bearing young in an incomplete state of development, as a marsupial.
- service clasp — clasp (def 4).
- serviceperson — a person who is a member of the armed forces of a country.
- serving spoon — utensil used to serve food
- 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.
- silver polish — a type of polishing medium that is suitable for silver
- silver poplar — white poplar (def 1).
- silver spring — a town in central Maryland, near Washington, D.C.
- silver-plated — Something that is silver-plated is covered with a very thin layer of silver.
- sneak preview — a preview of a motion picture, often shown in addition to an announced film, in order to observe the reaction of the audience.
- souvenir shop — a shop that sells trivial gift items, such as T-shirts, coffee mugs, keyrings etc, esp aimed at tourists
- spanish river — a river in S Ontario, Canada, flowing S into the North Channel of Lake Huron. 150 miles (241 km) long.
- sperry univac — (company) One of the divisions of Sperry Corporation at the time that company merged with the Burroughs Corporation to form Unisys Corporation.
- spotted fever — any of several fevers characterized by spots on the skin, especially as in cerebrospinal meningitis or typhus fever.
- spring valley — a city in SW California, near San Diego.
- superachiever — someone who achieves more than most; high achiever
- superactivity — extreme activity; hyperactivity
- superelevated — (of a curve in a road, railroad track, etc.) banked.
- superlatively — of the highest kind, quality, or order; surpassing all else or others; supreme; extreme: superlative wisdom.
- supervirtuoso — a highly accomplished virtuoso
- supervirulent — extremely virulent
- support level — a minimum price below which a specific stock is not supposed to fall, as because of the stock's inherent worth.
- surplus value — (in Marxian economics) the part of the value of a commodity that exceeds the cost of labor, regarded as the profit of the capitalist.
- the provinces — those parts of a country lying outside the capital and other large cities and regarded as outside the mainstream of sophisticated culture
- undescriptive — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
- unprogressive — favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters: a progressive mayor.
- unprovisioned — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- vagodepressor — decreasing or mimicking the decrease of the activity of the vagus nerve.
- vapor tension — vapor pressure.
- vapourishness — the quality or state of being vapourish
- venus flytrap — firewall machine
- vide ut supra — (used to direct a reader to a specified place in a text) see as above
- violin spider — brown recluse spider.