11-letter words containing o, s, i, v
- river horse — a hippopotamus.
- rose weevil — Fuller rose beetle.
- salvadorian — El Salvador.
- salvational — the act of saving or protecting from harm, risk, loss, destruction, etc.
- sao vicente — an island city in SE Brazil.
- self-moving — capable of moving without an external agency.
- service dog — a dog trained to assist a person with a disability that is not related to vision or hearing.
- servitorial — of or pertaining to a servitor
- sharonville — a town in SW Ohio.
- short-lived — living or lasting only a little while.
- silent vote — the vote of persons who have not previously expressed or made evident a preference.
- 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.
- silvicolous — living or growing in woodlands.
- simple vows — the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience when taken for a limited period
- sino-soviet — of or relating to both China and the Soviet Union
- slow-moving — proceeding with or characterized by slow, sluggish, or leisurely movement or activity.
- smoky river — a river in W central Alberta, Canada, flowing N to the Peace River. 250 miles (402 km) long.
- 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)
- snuff movie — Slang. a pornographic film that shows an actual murder of one of the performers, as at the end of a sadistic act.
- snuff-movie — Slang. a pornographic film that shows an actual murder of one of the performers, as at the end of a sadistic act.
- social evil — prostitution.
- solvability — capable of being solved, as a problem.
- 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.
- soviet zone — that part of Germany occupied by Soviet forces in 1945–49: transformed into the German Democratic Republic in 1949–50
- sovietology — Kremlinology.
- sporulative — involving or relating to sporulation
- 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.
- subdivision — the act or fact of subdividing.
- subvitreous — of the nature of or resembling glass, as in transparency, brittleness, hardness, glossiness, etc.: vitreous china.
- subvocalize — to form (words) silently by moving the lips or other vocal organs without vocalization
- supervision — the act or function of supervising; superintendence.
- supervisory — of, relating to, or having supervision.
- suppositive — of the nature of or involving supposition; suppositional.
- 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.
- swivelblock — a block that supports a swivel
- syncopative — relating to syncopation
- tax evasion — the nonpayment of taxes, as through the failure to report taxable income.
- tchaikovsky — Peter Ilyich [il-yich] /ˈɪl yɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), or Pëtr Ilich [Russian pyawtr ee-lyeech] /Russian ˈpyɔtr iˈlyitʃ/ (Show IPA), 1840–93, Russian composer.
- thomasville — a city in S Georgia.
- tsiolkovski — Konstantin Eduardovich (kənstʌnˈtjin eduˈadəvɪtʃ). 1857–1935, Russian aeronautical engineer, a pioneer of rocket and space research. His work on liquid-fuelled rockets anticipated the ideas of Robert Goddard
- tsiolkovsky — Konstantin Eduardovich [kon-stuh n-teen ed-wahr-duh-vich;; Russian kuh n-stuhn-tyeen e-doo-ahr-duh-vyich] /ˈkɒn stən tin ɛdˈwɑr də vɪtʃ;; Russian kən stʌnˈtyin ɛ duˈɑr də vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1857–1935, Russian inventor and rocket expert.
- undissolved — to make a solution of, as by mixing with a liquid; pass into solution: to dissolve salt in water.