10-letter words containing k, v
- overcooked — Simple past tense and past participle of overcook.
- overlocker — a person who overlocks seams, hems, etc
- overlooked — to fail to notice, perceive, or consider: to overlook a misspelled word.
- overreckon — to overestimate
- overstrike — to stamp a new device, value, or inscription on (a coin).
- overstruck — to stamp a new device, value, or inscription on (a coin).
- overtaking — passing the vehicle in front
- overworked — to cause to work too hard, too much, or too long; weary or exhaust with work (often used reflexively): Don't overwork yourself on that new job.
- parkleaves — a species of St John's wort
- perovskite — a naturally occurring titanate of calcium, CaTiO 3 , found as yellow, brown, or black cubic crystals, usually in metamorphic rocks.
- pikesville — a town in central Maryland, near Baltimore.
- provokable — able to be provoked
- re-invoked — to call for with earnest desire; make supplication or pray for: to invoke God's mercy.
- river bank — land at edge of a river
- rock fever — brucellosis.
- ruck-rover — a player playing a role midway between that of the rover and the ruckman
- savitskaya — Svetlana (svɛtˈlɑːnə). born 1949, Soviet cosmonaut, the first woman to walk in space (1984). She was elected to the former Soviet parliament (1989)
- shevchenko — Taras Grigoryevich [Russian tah-ruh s gryi-gawr-yi-vyich] /Russian ˈtɑ rəs gryɪˈgɔr yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1814–61, Ukrainian national poet.
- shock wave — a region of abrupt change of pressure and density moving as a wave front at or above the velocity of sound, caused by an intense explosion or supersonic flow over a body.
- sick leave — leave from duty, work, or the like, granted because of illness.
- silverback — an older male gorilla, usually the leader of a troop, whose hairs along the back turn gray with age.
- silverlike — Chemistry. a white, ductile metallic element, used for making mirrors, coins, ornaments, table utensils, photographic chemicals, conductors, etc. Symbol: Ag; atomic weight: 107.870; atomic number: 47; specific gravity: 10.5 at 20°C.
- silverskin — the inner skin of a coffee bean
- silverwork — fine or decorative work executed in silver.
- skate over — to cross on or as if on skates
- skin alive — the external covering or integument of an animal body, especially when soft and flexible.
- skin diver — person who explores underwater
- sky diving — the sport of jumping from an airplane and executing free-fall maneuvers before opening the parachute, often at the last possible moment
- slovenlike — slovenly
- spokeshave — a cutting tool having a blade set between two handles, originally for shaping spokes, but now in general use for dressing curved edges of wood and forming round bars and shapes.
- starkville — a town in E Mississippi.
- stock dove — a cosmopolitan wild pigeon, Columba oenas, of Europe.
- stravinsky — Igor Fëdorovich [ee-gawr fyaw-duh-roh-vich;; Russian ee-guh r fyaw-duh-ruh-vyich] /ˈi gɔr ˌfyɔ dəˈroʊ vɪtʃ;; Russian ˈi gər ˈfyɔ də rə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1882–1971, U.S. composer, born in Russia.
- strikeover — an act or instance of typing over a character, as one typed in error, without erasing it.
- sverdlovsk — former name (1924–91) of Ekaterinburg.
- take cover — to be or serve as a covering for; extend over; rest on the surface of: Snow covered the fields.
- take leave — to say farewell (to)
- tereshkova — Valentina Vladimirovna [vuh-lyin-tyee-nuh vluh-dyi-myee-ruh v-nuh] /və lyɪnˈtyi nə vlə dyɪˈmyi rəv nə/ (Show IPA), born 1937, Soviet cosmonaut: first woman in space 1963.
- think over — consider, deliberate
- tick fever — any fever transmitted by ticks, as Rocky Mountain spotted fever, which attacks humans, or Texas fever, which is confined to some animals, as cattle.
- token vote — a Parliamentary vote of money in which the amount quoted to aid discussion is not intended to be binding
- trevithick — Richard, 1771–1833, English engineer.
- tskhinvali — an autonomous region of the Georgian Republic, in the N part. 1428 sq. mi. (3900 sq. km). Capital: Tskhinvali.
- unprovoked — to anger, enrage, exasperate, or vex.
- vapor lock — an obstruction to the flow of fuel to a gasoline engine, caused by the formation of bubbles in the gasoline as a result of overheating.
- verkrampte — (during apartheid) an Afrikaner Nationalist who opposed any changes toward liberal trends in government policy, esp relating to racial questions
- villa park — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- vine snake — any of several slender, arboreal colubrid snakes of the genus Oxybelis, ranging from southern Arizona to Bolivia.
- vir chakra — an award made to distinguished soldiers by the Government of India
- vitamin k1 — a yellowish, oily, viscous liquid, C 31 H 46 O 2 , occurring in leafy vegetables, rice, bran, hog liver, etc., or obtained especially from alfalfa or putrefied sardine meat, or synthesized, that promotes blood clotting by increasing the prothrombin content of the blood.