9-letter words containing e, v, a, s
- overstaff — to provide an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
- overstain — to stain too much
- overstand — overreach (def 13).
- overstare — to outstare
- overstate — to state too strongly; exaggerate: to overstate one's position in a controversy.
- overswear — to swear again
- palsgrave — a German count palatine.
- parasceve — preparation
- pass over — to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
- passivate — to treat (a metal) to render the surface less reactive chemically.
- passively — not reacting visibly to something that might be expected to produce manifestations of an emotion or feeling.
- passivize — If you can passivize a verb or clause, or if it can passivize, you can put the verb in the passive voice.
- peiraievs — Greek name of Piraeus.
- perovskia — a member of the Perovskia genus of aromatic plant native to central Asia, esp Russian sage, Perovskia atriplicifolia
- pervasion — to become spread throughout all parts of: Spring pervaded the air.
- pervasive — spread throughout: The corruption is so pervasive that it is accepted as the way to do business.
- privacies — the state of being apart from other people or concealed from their view; solitude; seclusion: Please leave the room and give me some privacy.
- privatise — to transfer from public or government control or ownership to private enterprise: a campaign promise to privatize some of the public lands.
- pulsative — throbbing; pulsating.
- ravenings — rapacious behaviour and activities
- relatives — a person who is connected with another or others by blood or marriage.
- revarnish — a preparation consisting of resinous matter, as copal or lac, dissolved in an oil (oil varnish) or in alcohol (spirit varnish) or other volatile liquid. When applied to the surface of wood, metal, etc., it dries and leaves a hard, more or less glossy, usually transparent coating.
- revisable — to amend or alter: to revise one's opinion.
- rivalless — without rivals
- sackville — Thomas, 1st Earl of Dorset, 1536–1608, English statesman and poet.
- sail-over — a repetition of an indecisive or interrupted run of a racing yacht.
- salvatore — a male given name.
- salvemini — Gaetano [gah-e-tah-naw] /ˌgɑ ɛˈtɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1873–1957, Italian historian in the U.S.
- sama-veda — one of the Samhitas, a collection of mantras and tunes used in connection with the Rig-Veda.
- save face — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
- saver sub — A saver sub is a short piece of connecting pipe with threads on both ends, which is part of a drill string.
- savouries — pleasant or agreeable in taste or smell: a savory aroma.
- savviness — experienced, knowledgable, and well-informed; shrewd (often used in combination): consumers who are savvy about prices; a tech-savvy entrepreneur.
- scavenger — an animal or other organism that feeds on dead organic matter.
- schiavone — the Italian name for a 17th century basket-hilted sword with a double edge
- schvartze — a term used by some Jewish people to refer to a black person.
- sea devil — manta (def 4).
- sea level — the horizontal plane or level corresponding to the surface of the sea at mean level between high and low tide.
- sea raven — a large marine fish of the genus Hemitripterus, as H. americanus, common on the northern Atlantic coast of America.
- sea rover — a pirate.
- semivocal — of or relating to a semivowel
- servantry — servants collectively, esp the servants of a particular establishment as a body
- sevenbark — wild hydrangea.
- severable — capable of being severed.
- severally — separately; singly.
- severalty — the state of being separate.
- severance — the act of severing or the state of being severed.
- sexvalent — hexavalent or having a valency of six
- sharesave — (in Britain) a system by which employees can invest, risk-free, in their company's shares
- shaveling — Older Use: Disparaging. a clergyman with a shaven or tonsured head.