10-letter words containing a, v, e, r, g
- graveolent — That has a rank smell.
- gravesides — Plural form of graveside.
- gravesites — Plural form of gravesite.
- gravestone — a stone marking a grave, usually giving the name, date of death, etc., of the person buried there.
- gravettian — of, relating to, or characteristic of an advanced Upper Paleolithic industry of Europe dating to c25,000 b.c. and characterized by straight, blunt-backed blades.
- graveyards — Plural form of graveyard.
- gravimeter — an instrument for measuring the specific gravity of a solid or liquid.
- gravimetry — the measurement of weight or density.
- gravitated — Simple past tense and past participle of gravitate.
- gravitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gravitate.
- grievances — Plural form of grievance.
- hargreaves — James, died 1778, English inventor of spinning machinery.
- harvesting — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
- invigorate — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
- irrigative — serving for or pertaining to irrigation.
- kragujevac — a town in E central Serbia; capital of Serbia (1818–39); automobile industry. Pop: 145 890 (2002)
- lagerkvist — Pär [par] /pær/ (Show IPA), 1891–1974, Swedish novelist, poet, and essayist: Nobel Prize 1951.
- landgraves — Plural form of landgrave.
- leveraging — the action of a lever, a rigid bar that pivots about one point and that is used to move an object at a second point by a force applied at a third.
- levogyrate — levorotatory
- margravate — the province or territory of a margrave.
- margravine — the wife of a margrave.
- marvelling — something that causes wonder, admiration, or astonishment; a wonderful thing; a wonder or prodigy: The new bridge is an engineering marvel.
- mass grave — burial place: many bodies
- on average — more or less
- orangevale — a town in central California, near Sacramento.
- over again — above in place or position: the roof over one's head.
- overacting — Present participle of overact.
- overcharge — to charge (a purchaser) too high a price: When the manager realized we'd been overcharged, she gave us a credit for the difference.
- overdosage — Excessive dosage; taking too much of a pharmaceutical drug.
- overeating — Gluttony, the act of eating to excess (either to discomfort or more than required for proper health).
- overglance — to glance over
- overgrazed — to graze (land) to excess.
- overlaying — to lay or place (one thing) over or upon another.
- overmanage — to bring about or succeed in accomplishing, sometimes despite difficulty or hardship: She managed to see the governor. How does she manage it on such a small income?
- overslaugh — to pass over or disregard (a person) by giving a promotion, position, etc., to another instead.
- overtaking — passing the vehicle in front
- overtaught — taught to excess
- palavering — a conference or discussion.
- palm grove — small forest of palm trees
- prevailing — predominant: prevailing winds.
- purgatives — purging or cleansing, especially by causing evacuation of the bowels.
- ravagement — to work havoc upon; damage or mar by ravages: a face ravaged by grief.
- re-engrave — to engrave again
- regulative — to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc.: to regulate household expenses.
- revegetate — to cause vegetation to grow again on: to revegetate eroded lands.
- rogue wave — a random, enormous ocean wave that sometimes travels at an angle to prevailing seas.
- scavengers — an animal or other organism that feeds on dead organic matter.
- silver age — Classical Mythology. the second of the four ages of humankind, inferior to the golden age but superior to the bronze age that followed: characterized by an increase of impiety and of human weakness.
- starveling — a person, animal, or plant that is starving.