10-letter words containing o, v, i
- riboflavin — a vitamin B complex factor appearing as an orange-yellow, crystalline compound, C 1 7 H 2 0 N 4 O 6 , derived from ribose, essential for growth, found in milk, fresh meat, eggs, leafy vegetables, etc., or made synthetically, and used in enriching flour, in vitamin preparations, and in treating facial lesions.
- rise above — to get up from a lying, sitting, or kneeling posture; assume an upright position: She rose and walked over to greet me. With great effort he rose to his knees.
- riverfront — the land or property along a river; the section of a city or town along a river.
- road movie — film in which story follows a journey
- romeoville — a town in NE Illinois.
- salivation — the act or process of salivating.
- sangiovese — a black grape grown in the Tuscany region of Italy, used for making Chianti and other wines
- savile row — a street in Mayfair, London, famous for expensive and fashionable clothes shops
- saxicavous — (of molluscs) tending to bore holes or hollow out rocks
- shrovetide — the three days before Ash Wednesday, once a time of confession and absolution.
- 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.
- slide over — to cross by or as if by sliding
- slovenlike — slovenly
- slow virus — a virus that remains dormant in the body for a long time before producing symptoms, as in several neurological diseases, including kuru and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
- snow devil — a whirling column of snow
- solivagant — a lone wanderer
- solvolysis — a chemical reaction in which the solvent and solute interact; lyolysis.
- solvolytic — relating to solvolysis
- somerville — Mary Fairfax Greig [greg] /grɛg/ (Show IPA), 1780–1872, Scottish mathematician and astronomer.
- spill over — be full of: emotion
- spoliative — blood-diminishing
- stag movie — a pornographic film intended primarily for male audiences.
- starvation — the act or state of starving; condition of being starved.
- stishovite — a rare polymorph of quartz, SiO 2 , formed under very high pressure, as by meteorite impact.
- storyville — a red-light district of New Orleans known as a wellspring of jazz before World War I.
- stovepipes — a pipe, as of sheet metal, serving as a stove chimney or to connect a stove with a chimney flue.
- strikeover — an act or instance of typing over a character, as one typed in error, without erasing it.
- 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.
- supervisor — a person who supervises workers or the work done by others; superintendent.
- supportive — giving support.
- swing vote — to cause to move to and fro, sway, or oscillate, as something suspended from above: to swing one's arms in walking.
- switchover — the act or process of changing from one power source, system, etc., to another.
- tabloid tv — a television program or television programming that is lurid or sensational, as unconventional newscasts and gossipy talk shows.
- 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.
- the movies — the cinema
- think over — consider, deliberate
- tolerative — to allow the existence, presence, practice, or act of without prohibition or hindrance; permit.
- tonalitive — of or relating to tonality
- tovarishch — comrade (used as a term of address in the Soviet Union).
- townsville — a seaport on the E coast of Queensland, in E Australia.
- trouvaille — a windfall
- twice over — two times
- two rivers — a city in E Wisconsin.
- uncoercive — not coercive; not tending to coerce