10-letter words containing a, k, v
- miaskovsky — Nikolai Yakovlevich [nik-uh-lahy;; Russian nyi-kuh-lahy yuh-kaw-vlyuh-vyich] /ˈnɪk əˌlaɪ;; Russian nyɪ kʌˈlaɪ yʌˈkɔ vlyə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1881–1950, Russian composer.
- milk gravy — a gravy or sauce made from cooking fat, milk, flour, and seasonings.
- moviemaker — filmmaker.
- nabokovian — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling the literary style of Vladimir Nabokov: a sly, Nabokovian sense of the absurd.
- over-break — earth or rock excavated outside of neat lines.
- overbanked — Furnished with too many banks (financial institutions).
- overtaking — passing the vehicle in front
- parkleaves — a species of St John's wort
- provokable — able to be provoked
- river bank — land at edge of a river
- savitskaya — Svetlana (svɛtˈlɑːnə). born 1949, Soviet cosmonaut, the first woman to walk in space (1984). She was elected to the former Soviet parliament (1989)
- shock wave — a region of abrupt change of pressure and density moving as a wave front at or above the velocity of sound, caused by an intense explosion or supersonic flow over a body.
- sick leave — leave from duty, work, or the like, granted because of illness.
- silverback — an older male gorilla, usually the leader of a troop, whose hairs along the back turn gray with age.
- skate over — to cross on or as if on skates
- skin alive — the external covering or integument of an animal body, especially when soft and flexible.
- spokeshave — a cutting tool having a blade set between two handles, originally for shaping spokes, but now in general use for dressing curved edges of wood and forming round bars and shapes.
- starkville — a town in E Mississippi.
- stravinsky — Igor Fëdorovich [ee-gawr fyaw-duh-roh-vich;; Russian ee-guh r fyaw-duh-ruh-vyich] /ˈi gɔr ˌfyɔ dəˈroʊ vɪtʃ;; Russian ˈi gər ˈfyɔ də rə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1882–1971, U.S. composer, born in Russia.
- take cover — to be or serve as a covering for; extend over; rest on the surface of: Snow covered the fields.
- take leave — to say farewell (to)
- tereshkova — Valentina Vladimirovna [vuh-lyin-tyee-nuh vluh-dyi-myee-ruh v-nuh] /və lyɪnˈtyi nə vlə dyɪˈmyi rəv nə/ (Show IPA), born 1937, Soviet cosmonaut: first woman in space 1963.
- tskhinvali — an autonomous region of the Georgian Republic, in the N part. 1428 sq. mi. (3900 sq. km). Capital: Tskhinvali.
- vapor lock — an obstruction to the flow of fuel to a gasoline engine, caused by the formation of bubbles in the gasoline as a result of overheating.
- verkrampte — (during apartheid) an Afrikaner Nationalist who opposed any changes toward liberal trends in government policy, esp relating to racial questions
- villa park — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- vine snake — any of several slender, arboreal colubrid snakes of the genus Oxybelis, ranging from southern Arizona to Bolivia.
- vir chakra — an award made to distinguished soldiers by the Government of India
- vitamin k1 — a yellowish, oily, viscous liquid, C 31 H 46 O 2 , occurring in leafy vegetables, rice, bran, hog liver, etc., or obtained especially from alfalfa or putrefied sardine meat, or synthesized, that promotes blood clotting by increasing the prothrombin content of the blood.
- vitamin k2 — a light-yellow, crystalline solid, C 41 H 56 O 2 , having properties similar to those of vitamin K 1 .
- vitamin k3 — menadione.
- von karman — Theodore, 1881–1963, U.S. scientist and aeronautical engineer, born in Hungary.
- yenakiyevo — a city in E Ukraine: suburb of Donetsk.
- zika virus — a chiefly mosquito-borne virus of the genus Flavivirus that causes Zika, a mild illness.