10-letter words containing n, o, s, v, e
- offensives — Plural form of offensive.
- oven chips — chips or fries that can be cooked in the oven
- overbounds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overbound.
- overdesign — to prepare the preliminary sketch or the plans for (a work to be executed), especially to plan the form and structure of: to design a new bridge.
- overdosing — Present participle of overdose.
- overinsure — to insure in excess of actual value
- overseeing — to direct (work or workers); supervise; manage: He was hired to oversee the construction crews.
- overstrain — to exert, tax, or use (resources) to an excessive extent
- overstrewn — scattered over
- overstring — Music. to arrange the strings of (a piano) so that the bass strings cross over the treble.
- overstrong — having, showing, or able to exert great bodily or muscular power; physically vigorous or robust: a strong boy.
- overstrung — overly tense or sensitive; strained; on edge: Their nerves were badly overstrung.
- perversion — the act of perverting.
- preversion — a particular account of some matter, as from one person or source, contrasted with some other account: two different versions of the accident.
- protensive — extended in dimension or extended in time.
- ravenously — extremely hungry; famished; voracious: feeling ravenous after a hard day's work.
- redivision — the act or process of dividing; state of being divided.
- reinvasion — the act or an instance of entering (a country, territory, etc) by military force again; a second or subsequent invasion
- rendezvous — an agreement between two or more persons to meet at a certain time and place.
- responsive — responding especially readily and sympathetically to appeals, efforts, influences, etc.: a responsive government.
- revisional — the act or work of revising.
- sangiovese — a black grape grown in the Tuscany region of Italy, used for making Chianti and other wines
- seven-spot — a playing card the face of which bears seven pips.
- shevchenko — Taras Grigoryevich [Russian tah-ruh s gryi-gawr-yi-vyich] /Russian ˈtɑ rəs gryɪˈgɔr yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1814–61, Ukrainian national poet.
- shovelnose — any of various animals with a shovellike snout or head, as a guitarfish, Rhinobatos productus, of California.
- 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.
- slovenlike — slovenly
- snow cover — a layer of snow on the ground.
- 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.
- sound wave — a longitudinal wave in an elastic medium, especially a wave producing an audible sensation.
- stand over — (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
- suaveolent — fragrant or sweet-smelling
- subvention — a grant of money, as by a government or some other authority, in aid or support of some institution or undertaking, especially in connection with science or the arts.
- subversion — an act or instance of subverting.
- swing vote — to cause to move to and fro, sway, or oscillate, as something suspended from above: to swing one's arms in walking.
- 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.
- unabsolved — to free from guilt or blame or their consequences: The court absolved her of guilt in his death.
- uncohesive — characterized by or causing cohesion: a cohesive agent.
- unobserved — to see, watch, perceive, or notice: He observed the passersby in the street.
- unresolved — firm in purpose or intent; determined.
- unsolvable — capable of being solved, as a problem.
- velutinous — having a soft, velvety surface, as certain plants.
- venomously — (of an animal) having a gland or glands for secreting venom; able to inflict a poisoned bite, sting, or wound: a venomous snake.
- venostasis — retardation or stoppage of blood flow through a vein.
- ventricose — swollen, especially on one side or unequally; protuberant.
- versioning — the adaptation of classic literary texts for film, which often involves updating or changing the setting
- versionist — a translator