10-letter words containing a, v, o, t, r
- tolerative — to allow the existence, presence, practice, or act of without prohibition or hindrance; permit.
- tovarishch — comrade (used as a term of address in the Soviet Union).
- travancore — a former state in SW India: merged 1949 with Cochin to form a new state (Travancore and Cochin) reorganized 1956 to form the larger part of Kerala state.
- travelator — a moving pavement for transporting pedestrians, as in a shopping precinct or an airport
- travelogue — a lecture, slide show, or motion picture describing travels.
- trouvaille — a windfall
- unfavorite — a person or thing regarded with special favor or preference: That song is an old favorite of mine.
- vacationer — a period of suspension of work, study, or other activity, usually used for rest, recreation, or travel; recess or holiday: Schoolchildren are on vacation now.
- vaccinator — a person who vaccinates.
- vacillator — to waver in mind or opinion; be indecisive or irresolute: His tendency to vacillate makes him a poor leader.
- vagotropic — affecting the vagus nerve.
- varicosity — the state or condition of being varicose.
- varicotomy — surgical removal of a varicose vein.
- variegator — someone or something which variegates
- variolator — (before the introduction of vaccinations) someone who caused exposure to the smallpox virus to people (by, for example, collecting pus of affected patients) so as to promote immunity
- variolitic — Petrography. containing or resembling varioles, especially in texture.
- variometer — Electricity. an instrument for measuring inductance, consisting essentially of an inductor with two or more coils whose relative position may be changed to vary the inductance.
- vectograph — a technology that uses special glasses to see a photographic image between two plastic sheets as three dimensional
- venatorial — of or relating to hunting
- veneration — the act of venerating.
- ventilator — a person or thing that ventilates.
- vibrations — the act of vibrating.
- victoriana — Interesting or valuable objects made in the time of Queen Victoria are sometimes referred to as Victoriana.
- victoriate — a silver coin of ancient Rome, first issued in the late 3rd century b.c., having a figure of Victory on the reverse.
- vindicator — to clear, as from an accusation, imputation, suspicion, or the like: to vindicate someone's honor.
- violet ray — the shortest ray of the visible spectrum
- visitorial — of or relating to a visitor; visitatorial.
- vitriolate — relating to vitriol
- vociferant — vociferating; noisy.
- vociferate — say loudly
- voetganger — an immature locust
- voice part — the melody or succession of tones for one of the voices or instruments in a harmonic or concerted composition.
- volitorial — relating to flying
- voltairian — (François Marie Arouet) 1694–1778, French philosopher, historian, satirist, dramatist, and essayist.
- voltameter — a device for measuring the quantity of electricity passing through a conductor by the amount of electrolytic decomposition it produces, or for measuring the strength of a current by the amount of such decomposition in a given time.
- voltampere — an electric measurement unit, equal to the product of one volt and one ampere, equivalent to one watt for direct current systems and a unit of apparent power for alternating current systems. Abbreviation: VA.
- voluptuary — a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit and enjoyment of luxury and sensual pleasure.
- vorticella — any ciliated protozoan of the genus Vorticella, having a transparent, bell-shaped body with a retractile stalk.
- watch over — to be alertly on the lookout, look attentively, or observe, as to see what comes, is done, or happens: to watch while an experiment is performed.
- water vole — A water vole is a small furry animal that can swim. Water voles live in holes in the banks of rivers.
- wave front — a surface, real or imaginary, that is the locus of all adjacent points at which the phase of oscillation is the same.
- wavefronts — Plural form of wavefront.
- whatsoever — At all (used for emphasis).