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13-letter words containing av

  • rosenkavalier — an opera (1911) by Richard Strauss.
  • saint david's — a town in SW Wales, in Pembrokeshire: its cathedral was a place of pilgrimage in medieval times. Pop: 1627 (2001)
  • saving clause — a clause which denotes a reservation or exception
  • savings ratio — the ratio of personal savings to disposable income, esp using the difference between national figures for disposable income and consumer spending as a measure of savings
  • savings stamp — a stamp which can be bought (for example at a machine in a supermarket), saved, and then redeemed against the cost of goods later (for example at Christmas)
  • savoy cabbage — a variety of cabbage having a compact head of crinkled, blistered leaves.
  • scavenge pump — an oil pump used in some internal-combustion engines to return oil from the crankcase to the oil tank
  • school leaver — School leavers are young people who have just left school, because they have completed their time there.
  • seismic waves — a wave of energy that is generated by an earthquake or other earth vibration and that travels within the earth or along its surface.
  • self-depraved — corrupt, wicked, or perverted.
  • shaver outlet — a point in a wall, esp in a bathroom, where you can connect an electric razor to the power supply
  • shaving brush — a short, cylindrical brush with long, soft, bristles, used in lathering the face before shaving.
  • shaving cream — a preparation, as of soap and free fatty acid, that is lathered and applied to the face to soften and condition the beard for shaving.
  • shaving horse — a trestle for supporting and steadying a piece of work being shaved.
  • shaving stick — a piece of shaving foam moulded into a slender shape and held in a slender container for ease of application to the face when removing hair with a razor
  • slave trading — trafficking in people
  • slave traffic — the traffic of slaves
  • smooth-shaven — having the beard and mustache shaved off; clean-shaven.
  • 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.
  • standing wave — a wave in a medium in which each point on the axis of the wave has an associated constant amplitude ranging from zero at the nodes to a maximum at the antinodes.
  • star of david — Judaism: six-pointed star
  • subclavicular — a bone of the pectoral arch.
  • summer savory — See under savory2 .
  • sweet cassava — any of several tropical American plants belonging to the genus Manihot, of the spurge family, as M. esculenta (bitter cassava) and M. dulcis (sweet cassava) cultivated for their tuberous roots, which yield important food products.
  • taffeta weave — plain weave.
  • take leave of — to say goodbye to
  • tax avoidance — Tax avoidance is the use of legal methods to pay the smallest possible amount of tax.
  • tea-of-heaven — a shrub, Hydrangea macrophylla serrata, of the saxifrage family, native to Japan and Korea, having hairy, ovate leaves and flat or slightly arched clusters of blue or white flowers.
  • thank heavens — used as an exclamation of gratitude and relief
  • 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.
  • toll traverse — a payment made for the right to cross privately owned property.
  • travel agency — a business that accommodates travelers, as by securing tickets, arranging for reservations, and giving information.
  • traveling bag — a small bag, as a valise or suitcase, usually made of leather, having an oblong shape, and used chiefly to hold clothes.
  • traverse city — a city in NW Michigan.
  • traverse jury — petty jury.
  • ultraviolence — acts of extreme violence, esp those shown on television or film
  • ultravirility — the quality or state of extreme virility
  • unscavengered — lacking the qualities of having been scavenged
  • untraversable — to pass or move over, along, or through.
  • victoriaville — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada.
  • villavicencio — a city in central Colombia.
  • wave equation — Mathematics, Physics. any differential equation that describes the propagation of waves or other disturbances in a medium.
  • wave function — a solution of a wave equation.
  • well-favoured — of pleasing appearance; good-looking; pretty or handsome.
  • well-traveled — having traveled, especially to distant places; experienced in travel.
  • western slavs — one of a group of peoples in eastern, southeastern, and central Europe, including the Russians and Ruthenians (Eastern Slavs) the Bulgars, Serbs, Croats, Slavonians, Slovenes, etc. (Southern Slavs) and the Poles, Czechs, Moravians, Slovaks, etc. (Western Slavs)
  • what have you — the true nature or identity of something, or the sum of its characteristics: a lecture on the whats and hows of crop rotation.
  • white slavery — the condition of or traffic in white slaves.
  • white-slaving — traffic in white slaves.
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