10-letter words containing l, o, v, e, s
- oversimple — excessively simple
- oversimply — in an oversimple manner
- overslaugh — to pass over or disregard (a person) by giving a promotion, position, etc., to another instead.
- oversleeve — a protective sleeve covering an ordinary sleeve
- oversubtle — too subtle (so as to be unnoticed)
- oversupply — an excessive supply.
- overwisely — in a pretentiously wise manner
- palaverous — a conference or discussion.
- positively — with certainty; absolutely: The statement is positively true.
- pottsville — a city in E Pennsylvania.
- previously — coming or occurring before something else; prior: the previous owner.
- propulsive — the act or process of propelling.
- proslavery — favoring slavery.
- ravenously — extremely hungry; famished; voracious: feeling ravenous after a hard day's work.
- redissolve — to dissolve again
- removalist — a person or company that transports household effects to a new home
- resolutive — having the ability to dissolve or terminate.
- resolvable — that can be resolved.
- revisional — the act or work of revising.
- salverform — (of the corolla of the phlox and certain other flowers) consisting of a narrow tube with flat spreading terminal petals
- savile row — a street in Mayfair, London, famous for expensive and fashionable clothes shops
- sevastopol — a fortified seaport in the S Crimea, in S Ukraine: famous for its heroic resistance during sieges of 349 days in 1854–55, and 245 days in 1941–42.
- shovel hat — a hat with a broad brim turned up at the sides and projecting with a shovellike curve in front and behind; worn by some ecclesiastics, chiefly in England.
- shovelhead — bonnethead.
- shovelnose — any of various animals with a shovellike snout or head, as a guitarfish, Rhinobatos productus, of California.
- silver fox — a red fox in the color phase in which the fur is black with silver-gray ends on the longer hairs.
- silverhorn — any of various usually darkish caddis flies of the family Leptoceridae, characterized by very long pale antennae. The larvae are a favourite food of trout
- silvertone — made to resemble silver in color, sheen, etc.
- silverwork — fine or decorative work executed in silver.
- simple vow — a public vow taken by a religious, under which property may be retained and marriage, though held to be illicit, is valid under canon law.
- slavophile — a person who greatly admires the Slavs and Slavic ways.
- slavophobe — a person who fears or hates the Slavs, their influence, or things Slavic.
- sleep over — to take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousness; cease being awake.
- sleep-over — to take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousness; cease being awake.
- sleeve dog — a very small Pekingese, usually under six pounds in weight and less than six inches (15 cm) tall.
- slide over — to cross by or as if by sliding
- slovenlike — slovenly
- snow devil — a whirling column of snow
- solemn vow — a perpetual, irrevocable public vow taken by a religious, in which property may not be owned by the individual, and marriage is held invalid under canon law.
- somerville — Mary Fairfax Greig [greg] /grɛg/ (Show IPA), 1780–1872, Scottish mathematician and astronomer.
- spill over — be full of: emotion
- spoliative — blood-diminishing
- storyville — a red-light district of New Orleans known as a wellspring of jazz before World War I.
- stove bolt — a small bolt, similar to a machine screw but with a coarser thread.
- stove coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from 1 5/8 to 2 7/16 (about 4 to 6 cm), intermediate between egg coal and chestnut coal.
- suaveolent — fragrant or sweet-smelling
- sullom voe — a deep coastal inlet in the Shetland Islands, on the N coast of Mainland. It is used for the storage and transshipment of oil
- sverdlovsk — former name (1924–91) of Ekaterinburg.
- television — the transmission of programming, in the form of still or moving images, via radio waves, cable wires, satellite, or wireless network to a receiver or other screen.
- townsville — a seaport on the E coast of Queensland, in E Australia.