11-letter words containing a, v, e, s, t
- seventh-day — designating certain Christian denominations that make Saturday their chief day of rest and religious observance: Seventh-Day Adventists.
- sex-starved — deprived of sexual gratification
- shaft grave — a grave consisting of a deep, rectangular pit with vertical sides, roofed over with a stone slab.
- silver star — a bronze star with a small silver star at the center, awarded to a soldier who has been cited in orders for gallantry in action, when the citation does not warrant the award of a Medal of Honor or the Distinguished Service Cross.
- silver thaw — glaze (def 17).
- silvestrian — of or relating to woodland
- singulative — a grammatical form or construction that expresses a singular entity or indicates that an individual is singled out from a group, especially as opposed to a collective noun, as snowflake as opposed to snow.
- slave coast — the coast of W equatorial Africa, between the Benin and Volta rivers: a center of slavery traffic 16th–19th centuries.
- slave state — any state, nation, etc., where slavery is legal or officially condoned.
- slave trade — the business or process of procuring, transporting, and selling slaves, especially black Africans to the New World prior to the mid-19th century.
- speculative — pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by speculation, contemplation, conjecture, or abstract reasoning: a speculative approach.
- spirit cave — an archaeological site in Thailand that has produced evidence of very early plant domestication in Southeast Asia, dated c7000 b.c.
- sporulative — involving or relating to sporulation
- state visit — an official visit of the chief of state of one country to that of another.
- statesville — a city in central North Carolina.
- stevengraph — a small picture woven in colored silk thread: introduced in 1879 and mass-produced on a Jacquard-type loom.
- stimulative — serving to stimulate.
- study leave — sabbatical
- subadditive — something that is added, as one substance to another, to alter or improve the general quality or to counteract undesirable properties: an additive that thins paint.
- subcurative — of a dosage which is not strong enough to have a curing effect
- subinterval — an interval that is a subset of a given interval.
- substantive — a noun.
- subtractive — tending to subtract; having power to subtract.
- subvertical — being in a position or direction perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; upright; plumb.
- superactive — engaged in action; characterized by energetic work, participation, etc.; busy: an active life.
- superlative — of the highest kind, quality, or order; surpassing all else or others; supreme; extreme: superlative wisdom.
- superoctave — an organ stop two octaves above the standard pitch
- suppurative — suppurating; characterized by suppuration.
- surveillant — exercising surveillance.
- sylvestrian — living in the woods; sylvan
- syncopative — relating to syncopation
- tax evasion — the nonpayment of taxes, as through the failure to report taxable income.
- tea service — a set of chinaware for preparing and drinking hot beverages, especially tea.
- texas fever — babesiosis of cattle.
- thanksgiver — a person who gives thanks.
- the heavens — the sky
- the heavies — a serious newspaper
- the vapours — a depressed mental condition believed originally to be the result of vaporous exhalations from the stomach
- the wharves — the working area of a dock
- thomasville — a city in S Georgia.
- thorvaldsen — Albert Bertal [ahl-bert bar-tuh l] /ˈɑl bɛrt ˈbær təl/ (Show IPA), 1770–1844, Danish sculptor.
- thrash over — to go over (a problem, etc.) in great detail
- time-saving — (of methods, devices, etc.) reducing the time spent or required to do something.
- transceiver — a transmitter and receiver combined in one unit.
- translative — of or relating to the transfer of something from one person, position, or place to another.
- transvaaler — a province in the NE Republic of South Africa. 110,450 sq. mi. (286,066 sq. km). Capital: Pretoria.
- transversal — transverse.
- transverses — lying or extending across or in a cross direction; cross.
- transverter — a piece of equipment attached to a radio transceiver to enable it to transmit and receive on additional frequencies
- travel shot — a camera shot taken from a mobile platform, dolly, or the like, that keeps within range of a moving subject.