9-letter words containing a, s, v
- slavering — to let saliva run from the mouth; slobber; drool.
- slavicism — Slavism.
- slavicist — a specialist in the study of the Slavic languages or literatures.
- slavishly — of or befitting a slave: slavish subjection.
- slavocrat — (in the US before the Civil War) a slaveholder, or an advocate of slavery
- slavonian — of or relating to Slavonia or its inhabitants.
- slavyansk — a city in E central Ukraine, NW of Donetsk.
- slovakian — a republic in central Europe: formerly a part of Czechoslovakia; under German protection 1939–45; independent since 1993. 18,931 sq. mi. (49,035 sq. km). Capital: Bratislava.
- slovenian — of or from Slovenia
- slow wave — delta wave.
- sociative — expressing accompaniment or association
- solvation — a compound formed by the interaction of a solvent and a solute.
- souvlakia — a dish similar to shish kebab made with lamb.
- sovenance — memory
- sparkover — spark1 (def 2).
- spin wave — a magnetic wave propagated through a crystal lattice by a collective excitation of the spin angular momentum of electrons.
- stakhanov — a city in E Ukraine, W of Lugnask.
- standover — practising or relating to acts of threatening, intimidating or extorting money from people by force
- stanislav — former name of Ivano-Frankovsk.
- stavanger — a seaport in SW Norway.
- stave off — one of the thin, narrow, shaped pieces of wood that form the sides of a cask, tub, or similar vessel.
- stavropol — a territory of the Russian Federation in Europe, N of the Caucasus. 29,600 sq. mi. (76,960 sq. km).
- stavudine — an antiviral drug used to treat HIV infections
- stay over — spend the night
- stevenage — a town in N Hertfordshire, in SE England.
- suasively — persuasively; in a persuasive manner
- suaveness — a suave or smoothly agreeable quality.
- subcavity — a cavity within a larger cavity
- subniveal — beneath the snow
- suboctave — an octave below another octave
- subvassal — a vassal of a vassal
- subverbal — of or relating to words: verbal ability.
- summative — additive.
- sundsvall — a seaport in E Sweden, on the Gulf of Bothnia.
- sunnyvale — a city in central California, south of San Francisco.
- super vga — Super Video Graphics Array
- supernova — the explosion of a star, possibly caused by gravitational collapse, during which the star's luminosity increases by as much as 20 magnitudes and most of the star's mass is blown away at very high velocity, sometimes leaving behind an extremely dense core.
- superwave — an exceptionally large wave
- swan dive — into water
- swan-dive — to perform a swan dive.
- swissvale — a city in SW Pennsylvania, on the Monongahela River.
- syktyvkar — an autonomous republic in the NW Russian Federation in Europe. 145,221 sq. mi. (376,122 sq. km). Capital: Syktyvkar.
- sylvanite — a mineral, gold silver telluride, (AuAg)Te 2 , silver-white with metallic luster, often occurring in crystals so arranged as to resemble written characters: an ore of gold.
- take vows — to enter a religious order and commit oneself to its rule of life by the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, which may be taken for a limited period as simple vows or as a perpetual and still more solemn commitment as solemn vows
- tarkovsky — Andrei (ˈɑndrej). 1932–86, Soviet film director, whose films include Andrei Rublev (1966), Solaris (1971), Nostalgia (1983), and The Sacrifice (1986)
- the waves — the sea
- thorshavn — a city in and the capital of the Faeroe Islands, in the N Atlantic.
- timesaver — (of methods, devices, etc.) reducing the time spent or required to do something.
- togavirus — a virus belonging to the Togaviridae family and which usually affects birds and mammals rather than humans
- tovarisch — comrade (used as a term of address in the Soviet Union).