11-letter words containing o, r, v
- sharonville — a town in SW Ohio.
- shcherbakov — a former name (1946–57) of Andropov.
- shore leave — permission to spend time ashore, usually 48 hours or more, granted a member of a ship's company.
- short novel — a prose narrative midway between the novel and the short story in length and scope
- short-lived — living or lasting only a little while.
- shovelboard — the game of shuffleboard.
- silver book — (publication) Jensen and Wirth's infamous "Pascal User Manual and Report", so called because of the silver cover of the widely distributed Springer-Verlag second edition of 1978 (ISBN 0-387-90144-2). See also book titles, Pascal.
- silver foil — silver or silver-colored metal in foil form.
- 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 orfe — one of the two varieties of orfe, an aquarium fish
- silverpoint — a technique of drawing with a silver stylus on specially prepared paper.
- 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.
- slaveholder — an owner of slaves.
- sleeveboard — a small-scale ironing board for pressing sleeves, especially a narrow board that fits inside a coat sleeve.
- slough over — to gloss over; minimize
- smoky river — a river in W central Alberta, Canada, flowing N to the Peace River. 250 miles (402 km) long.
- smooth over — free from projections or unevenness of surface; not rough: smooth wood; a smooth road.
- snowy river — a river in SE Australia, rising in SE New South Wales: waters diverted through a system of dams and tunnels across the watershed into the Murray and Murrumbidgee Rivers for hydroelectric power and to provide water for irrigation. Length: 426 km (265 miles)
- south river — a borough in central New Jersey.
- sovereignly — a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler.
- sovereignty — the quality or state of being sovereign, or of having supreme power or authority.
- sporulative — involving or relating to sporulation
- spot survey — a survey taken immediately and at random
- stevedoring — the act or practice of loading or unloading a ship, ship's cargo, etc
- stone river — a river in central Tennessee, flowing NW to the Cumberland River. Compare Murfreesboro.
- subvitreous — of the nature of or resembling glass, as in transparency, brittleness, hardness, glossiness, etc.: vitreous china.
- sugar grove — sugarbush (def 2).
- superoctave — an organ stop two octaves above the standard pitch
- supervision — the act or function of supervising; superintendence.
- supervisory — of, relating to, or having supervision.
- supervolute — (of convolute leaves) enveloping a rolled up leaf within the bud
- swing voter — to cause to move to and fro, sway, or oscillate, as something suspended from above: to swing one's arms in walking.
- switch over — If you switch over when you are watching television, you change to another channel.
- tail covert — any of the feathers concealing the bases of a bird's tail feathers.
- taylorville — a town in central Illinois.
- tchervonetz — chervonets.
- terremotive — related to an earthquake
- the vapours — a depressed mental condition believed originally to be the result of vaporous exhalations from the stomach
- thoreauvian — Henry David, 1817–62, U.S. naturalist and author.
- thorvaldsen — Albert Bertal [ahl-bert bar-tuh l] /ˈɑl bɛrt ˈbær təl/ (Show IPA), 1770–1844, Danish sculptor.
- thrash over — to go over (a problem, etc.) in great detail
- topsy-turvy — with the top where the bottom should be; upside down.
- travel book — a book about travelling to a certain country or region, esp a guidebook
- travel shot — a camera shot taken from a mobile platform, dolly, or the like, that keeps within range of a moving subject.
- travelogues — a lecture, slide show, or motion picture describing travels.
- trevor nunn — a university degree graded 2:1 (second class upper bracket)
- tumble over — If someone or something tumbles over, they fall, often with a rolling or bouncing movement.
- turtle dove — A turtle dove is a type of light-brown dove which makes a soft pleasant sound and which is said to behave in a very affectionate way towards its sexual partner and its young.
- turtledoves — any of several small to medium-sized Old World doves of the genus Streptopelia, especially S. turtur, of Europe, having a long, graduated tail: noted for its soft, cooing call.
- ultraviolet — beyond the violet in the spectrum, corresponding to light having wavelengths shorter than 4000 angstrom units.