10-letter words containing a, l, o, v
- play havoc — to cause a great deal of damage, distress, or confusion (to)
- pole vault — sports event: high jump using a pole
- pole-vault — to execute a pole vault.
- polyvalent — Chemistry. having more than one valence.
- prevail on — to persuade; induce
- prevocalic — immediately preceding a vowel.
- proslavery — favoring slavery.
- provencale — (sometimes lowercase) cooked, usually in olive oil, with garlic, tomatoes, onions, and herbs.
- proverbial — of, relating to, or characteristic of a proverb: proverbial brevity.
- providable — to make available; furnish: to provide employees with various benefits.
- provincial — belonging or peculiar to some particular province; local: the provincial newspaper.
- provokable — able to be provoked
- quail dove — any of several tropical American pigeons of the genera Starnoenas or Geotrygon.
- ravenously — extremely hungry; famished; voracious: feeling ravenous after a hard day's work.
- real video — (video, compression) A lossy video compression format from Real Media.
- reapproval — the act of approving; approbation.
- removalist — a person or company that transports household effects to a new home
- reprovable — deserving of reproof.
- resolvable — that can be resolved.
- retroviral — A retroviral is any one of a group of viruses, many of which produce tumors, that contain RNA and reverse transcriptase (= an enzyme that copies RNA into DNA), including the virus that causes AIDS.
- revalorize — to change the valuation of (assets)
- revelation — the act of revealing or disclosing; disclosure.
- revelatory — of, relating to, or having the characteristics of revelation.
- revisional — the act or work of revising.
- riboflavin — a vitamin B complex factor appearing as an orange-yellow, crystalline compound, C 1 7 H 2 0 N 4 O 6 , derived from ribose, essential for growth, found in milk, fresh meat, eggs, leafy vegetables, etc., or made synthetically, and used in enriching flour, in vitamin preparations, and in treating facial lesions.
- royal navy — the navy of the United Kingdom
- salivation — the act or process of salivating.
- salvadoran — of El Salvador or its people or culture
- salverform — (of the corolla of the phlox and certain other flowers) consisting of a narrow tube with flat spreading terminal petals
- savile row — a street in Mayfair, London, famous for expensive and fashionable clothes shops
- savonarola — Girolamo [ji-rol-uh-moh;; Italian jee-raw-lah-maw] /dʒɪˈrɒl əˌmoʊ;; Italian dʒiˈrɔ lɑ mɔ/ (Show IPA), 1452–98, Italian monk, reformer, and martyr.
- savoy alps — a range of the Alps in SE France. Highest peak: Mont Blanc, 4807 m (15 772 ft)
- sevastopol — a fortified seaport in the S Crimea, in S Ukraine: famous for its heroic resistance during sieges of 349 days in 1854–55, and 245 days in 1941–42.
- shovel hat — a hat with a broad brim turned up at the sides and projecting with a shovellike curve in front and behind; worn by some ecclesiastics, chiefly in England.
- shovelhead — bonnethead.
- slavocracy — the rule or domination of slaveholders: the slavocracy of the old plantations.
- slavophile — a person who greatly admires the Slavs and Slavic ways.
- slavophobe — a person who fears or hates the Slavs, their influence, or things Slavic.
- solivagant — a lone wanderer
- spoliative — blood-diminishing
- stove coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from 1 5/8 to 2 7/16 (about 4 to 6 cm), intermediate between egg coal and chestnut coal.
- suaveolent — fragrant or sweet-smelling
- subvocally — in a subvocal manner, with subvocalization
- tabloid tv — a television program or television programming that is lurid or sensational, as unconventional newscasts and gossipy talk shows.
- telenovela — (in Latin America and Hispanic communities) a television soap opera, usually having a limited number of episodes.
- tolerative — to allow the existence, presence, practice, or act of without prohibition or hindrance; permit.
- tonalitive — of or relating to tonality
- travelator — a moving pavement for transporting pedestrians, as in a shopping precinct or an airport
- travelogue — a lecture, slide show, or motion picture describing travels.
- trouvaille — a windfall