11-letter words containing a, v, e, s
- slavishness — of or befitting a slave: slavish subjection.
- sleeveboard — a small-scale ironing board for pressing sleeves, especially a narrow board that fits inside a coat sleeve.
- slide valve — a valve that slides without lifting to open or close an aperture, as the valves of the ports in the cylinders of certain steam engines.
- snail fever — schistosomiasis.
- snake river — a river flowing from NW Wyoming through S Idaho into the Columbia River in SE Washington: Shoshone Falls. 1038 miles (1670 km) long.
- social evil — prostitution.
- 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
- square wave — a graph, function, vibration, etc., that is periodic and equal to one constant on one half of the period and a different constant, which may be zero, on the other half.
- ss van dine — Charles, born 1935, U.S. poet.
- 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
- suasiveness — persuasiveness
- 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.
- subvocalize — to form (words) silently by moving the lips or other vocal organs without vocalization
- sugar grove — sugarbush (def 2).
- 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
- supervisual — of or relating to seeing or sight: a visual image.
- suppurative — suppurating; characterized by suppuration.
- surveillant — exercising surveillance.
- swamp fever — leptospirosis.
- swivel head — A swivel head is a bearing between the traveling block and the kelly.
- 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.