10-letter words containing a, t, v, i, s
- shrievalty — the office, term, or jurisdiction of a sheriff.
- silvertail — a person of affluence or influence.
- similative — implying likeness
- simulative — to create a simulation, likeness, or model of (a situation, system, or the like): to simulate crisis conditions.
- sit shivah — to mourn
- slactivism — the public proclaiming of one's political beliefs through activities that require little effort or commitment
- smartdrive — (storage, product) A Microsoft MS DOS disk cache program to speed up disk access. For most users, a 1MB cache is sufficient. Devoting more memory to the cache offers diminishing returns, since the additional cache hits become fewer (and the extra memory could be better used to reduce swapping). Typing SMARTDRV /S at a DOS prompt shows the cache size, a hit-and-miss report, and information about which drives are being cached. The hit-and-miss statistics are crucial for gauging the effectiveness of SmartDrive settings. A score in the high 80s shows that SmartDrive is well configured. Run SMARTDRV /S several times during a Windows session and note the-hit-and-miss figures each time. If your percentage usually falls below 80 percent, you should consider increasing the cache size. You can edit the SMARTDRV line in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file to increase both the InitCacheSize and the WinCacheSize parameters. SmartDrive Monitor is an undocumented Windows program that comes with DOS 6.0 for logging and controling the cache.
- solivagant — a lone wanderer
- splenative — relating to the spleen or spleenful
- spoliative — blood-diminishing
- stag movie — a pornographic film intended primarily for male audiences.
- stage-dive — to jump off the stage at a concert onto the crowd below
- starkville — a town in E Mississippi.
- starvation — the act or state of starving; condition of being starved.
- starveling — a person, animal, or plant that is starving.
- stradivari — Antonio [an-toh-nee-oh;; Italian ahn-taw-nyaw] /ænˈtoʊ ni oʊ;; Italian ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1644?–1737, Italian violinmaker of Cremona (pupil of Nicolò Amati).
- stravaging — Scot., Irish, and North England. to wander aimlessly.
- stravaiger — Scot., Irish, and North England. to wander aimlessly.
- 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.
- subvariety — a minor or subordinate variety
- supravital — pertaining to or involving a staining method for a preparation of living cells.
- tapis vert — an unbroken expanse of lawn used as a major element of a landscape design.
- televisual — Televisual means broadcast on or related to television.
- the-rivals — a comedy of manners (1775) by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
- timesaving — (of methods, devices, etc.) reducing the time spent or required to do something.
- tovarishch — comrade (used as a term of address in the Soviet Union).
- transitive — Grammar. having the nature of a transitive verb.
- traversing — to pass or move over, along, or through.
- trivialise — to make trivial; cause to appear unimportant, trifling, etc.
- trivialism — trivial character.
- trivialist — someone who deals with or is interested in trivialities
- tsarevitch — the son of a czar.
- tskhinvali — an autonomous region of the Georgian Republic, in the N part. 1428 sq. mi. (3900 sq. km). Capital: Tskhinvali.
- tsvangirai — Morgan. born 1952, Zimbabwean trade unionist and politician; leader of the Movement for Democratic Change, the main opposition party to President Mugabe's Zanu-PF since 1999; prime minister (2009–2013)
- ultravirus — filterable virus.
- valentinus — Valentine (def 2).
- valvulitis — inflammation of a valve, especially a heart valve, often caused by rheumatic fever.
- vanishment — to disappear from sight, especially quickly; become invisible: The frost vanished when the sun came out.
- vansittart — Sir Robert Gilbert, 1st Baron Vansittart of Denham, 1881–1957, British statesman and diplomat.
- varicosity — the state or condition of being varicose.
- vasculitis — inflammation of veins, arteries, capillaries, or lymph vessels.
- vasoactive — of or relating to a substance, drug, or event that changes the diameter of a blood vessel.
- vasomotion — the change in diameter of a blood vessel.
- vaticanism — the doctrine of the absolute supremacy of the pope.
- vaxstation — A family of workstations from DEC based on their VAX computer architecture.
- venostasis — retardation or stoppage of blood flow through a vein.
- vesication — to raise vesicles or blisters on; blister.
- vesiculate — characterized by or covered with vesicles.
- vestibular — of, relating to, or resembling a vestibule.
- vibrations — the act of vibrating.