9-letter words containing a, t, v
- sarasvati — the Hindu goddess of learning and the arts.
- schvartze — a term used by some Jewish people to refer to a black person.
- servantry — servants collectively, esp the servants of a particular establishment as a body
- severalty — the state of being separate.
- sexvalent — hexavalent or having a valency of six
- shavetail — U.S. Army. a second lieutenant.
- shortwave — Electricity. a radio wave, shorter than that used in AM broadcasting, corresponding to frequencies of over 1600 kilohertz: used for long-distance reception or transmission.
- shvartzer — Yiddish: Usually Disparaging and Offensive. schvartze.
- siccative — causing or promoting absorption of moisture; drying.
- slave ant — an ant taken as a larva or pupa by ants of another species and becoming a working member of the captor colony.
- slavicist — a specialist in the study of the Slavic languages or literatures.
- slavocrat — (in the US before the Civil War) a slaveholder, or an advocate of slavery
- sociative — expressing accompaniment or association
- solvation — a compound formed by the interaction of a solvent and a solute.
- 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.
- subcavity — a cavity within a larger cavity
- suboctave — an octave below another octave
- summative — additive.
- 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 five — a cardinal number, four plus one.
- take over — the act of taking.
- 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
- talk over — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- talkative — inclined to talk a great deal: One drink and she became very talkative.
- tara vine — a leafy, woody vine, Actinidia arguta, of Japan and eastern Asia, having white flowers and yellowish, sweet, edible fruit.
- tarkovsky — Andrei (ˈɑndrej). 1932–86, Soviet film director, whose films include Andrei Rublev (1966), Solaris (1971), Nostalgia (1983), and The Sacrifice (1986)
- tax haven — a foreign country or corporation used to avoid or reduce income taxes, especially by investors from another country.
- tentative — of the nature of or made or done as a trial, experiment, or attempt; experimental: a tentative report on her findings.
- tervalent — trivalent.
- thanjavur — a city in E Tamil Nadu, in SE India.
- the above — something that is above or previously mentioned
- the raven — a lyric poem (1845) by Edgar Allan Poe.
- the waves — the sea
- theravada — Hinayanist name for Hinayana.
- 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.
- tittivate — to make smart or spruce: She titivated her old dress with a new belt.
- togavirus — a virus belonging to the Togaviridae family and which usually affects birds and mammals rather than humans
- top-heavy — having the top disproportionately heavy; liable to fall from too great weight above.
- tovarisch — comrade (used as a term of address in the Soviet Union).
- traditive — traditional.