11-letter words containing l, a, v
- shaving gel — product that softens hair growth for shaving
- shore leave — permission to spend time ashore, usually 48 hours or more, granted a member of a ship's company.
- shovel beak — a deformity of the beak in intensively reared chicks
- shovelboard — the game of shuffleboard.
- silver bass — white bass.
- silver goal — (in certain competitions) a goal scored in a full half of extra time that is played if a match is drawn. This goal counts as the winner if it is the only goal scored in the full half or full period of extra time
- silver gray — a light brownish-gray.
- silver hake — a common hake, Merluccius bilinearis, occurring off the Atlantic coast of North America and popular as a food fish.
- silver leaf — silver in the form of very thin foil.
- 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).
- silver-gray — gray with a silvery luster
- silverchair — Australian rock group (formed 1994): comprising Daniel Johns (born 1979; vocals, guitar), Ben Gillies (born 1979, drums) and Chris Joannou (born 1979, bass guitar); their albums include Frogstomp (1995) and Young Modern (2007)
- silverwares — articles, especially eating and serving utensils, made of silver, silver-plated metals, stainless steel, etc.
- silvestrian — of or relating to woodland
- simi valley — a city in SW California.
- 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.
- sky cavalry — air cavalry.
- slacktivism — actions taken to bring about political or social change but requiring only minimal commitment, effort, or risk: students engaging in slacktivism by signing an online petition.
- slave coast — the coast of W equatorial Africa, between the Benin and Volta rivers: a center of slavery traffic 16th–19th centuries.
- slave labor — persons, especially a large group, performing labor under duress or threats, as prisoners in a concentration camp; a labor force of slaves or slavelike prisoners.
- slave river — a river in NE Alberta and the Northwest Territories, in Canada: flowing from Lake Athabasca NW to Great Slave Lake. 258 miles (415 km) long.
- 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.
- slaveholder — an owner of slaves.
- slaveringly — in a slavering manner
- 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.
- social evil — prostitution.
- solvability — capable of being solved, as a problem.
- speculative — pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by speculation, contemplation, conjecture, or abstract reasoning: a speculative approach.
- sporulative — involving or relating to sporulation
- statesville — a city in central North Carolina.
- stimulative — serving to stimulate.
- study leave — sabbatical
- subgingival — being or occurring under the gums; especially, being or occurring in the crevice between the gum margin and the neck or root of a tooth.
- subinterval — an interval that is a subset of a given interval.
- 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
- superlative — of the highest kind, quality, or order; surpassing all else or others; supreme; extreme: superlative wisdom.
- supervisual — of or relating to seeing or sight: a visual image.
- supplicavit — a mandatory writ formerly issued from the King's Bench or Court of Chancery
- surveillant — exercising surveillance.
- survivalist — a person who makes preparations to survive a widespread catastrophe, as an atomic war or anarchy, especially by storing food and weapons in a safe place.
- swivel head — A swivel head is a bearing between the traveling block and the kelly.
- sylvestrian — living in the woods; sylvan
- sylvic acid — abietic acid.
- tail covert — any of the feathers concealing the bases of a bird's tail feathers.