10-letter words containing p, v, s
- slave ship — a ship for transporting slaves from their native homes to places of bondage.
- 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.
- spill over — be full of: emotion
- splenative — relating to the spleen or spleenful
- spokeshave — a cutting tool having a blade set between two handles, originally for shaping spokes, but now in general use for dressing curved edges of wood and forming round bars and shapes.
- spoliative — blood-diminishing
- spur veins — the veins of a horse that can be damaged by a rider's spurs
- stephen iv — died a.d. 817, pope 816–817.
- stephen vi — died a.d. 897, pope 896–897.
- stovepipes — a pipe, as of sheet metal, serving as a stove chimney or to connect a stove with a chimney flue.
- supercover — an insurance policy with additional benefits
- superdrive — (storage) Apple Computer, Inc.'s name for a combined DVD-ROM, DVD-RW, CD-RW drive that appeared in the iMac in 2002.
- superheavy — Chemistry, Physics. pertaining to any of a series of elements having an atomic number greater than 103.
- supersaver — a specially reduced fare, as for passengers reserving tickets in advance or traveling during off-peak periods.
- supervised — to oversee (a process, work, workers, etc.) during execution or performance; superintend; have the oversight and direction of.
- supervisee — a supervised person
- supervises — to oversee (a process, work, workers, etc.) during execution or performance; superintend; have the oversight and direction of.
- supervisor — a person who supervises workers or the work done by others; superintendent.
- suppletive — serving as an inflected form of a word with a totally different stem, as went, the suppletive past of go.
- supportive — giving support.
- supravital — pertaining to or involving a staining method for a preparation of living cells.
- susceptive — receptive.
- suspensive — pertaining to or characterized by suspension.
- tapis vert — an unbroken expanse of lawn used as a major element of a landscape design.
- tempestive — occurring at the appropriate time
- temps leve — a small hop on one foot, with the other foot raised off the floor.
- unplausive — not applauding; disapproving
- valparaiso — Spanish Valparaíso [bahl-pah-rah-ee-saw] /ˌbɑl pɑ rɑˈi sɔ/ (Show IPA). a seaport in central Chile.
- verb. sap. — verbum sapienti sat est
- vergership — the position or office of being a verger
- vespertide — the period of vespers; evening.
- vespertine — of, relating to, or occurring in the evening: vespertine stillness.
- vide supra — (used to direct a reader to a specified place in a text) see above
- video shop — a shop that sells and rents videos and DVDs
- vieuxtemps — Henri François Joseph [French ahn-ree frahn-swa zhaw-zef] /French ɑ̃ˈri frɑ̃ˈswa ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), 1820–81, Belgian violinist and composer.
- viewership — an audience of viewers, especially of television, either generally or of a particular kind or program: Viewership is at its peak in the evening hours.
- viewpoints — a place affording a view of something; position of observation: to sketch a river from the viewpoint of a bluff.
- virus chip — a glass slide embedded with viral DNA used in DNA sequencing to analyse the genetic makeup of viruses
- visiophone — a videophone
- viviparous — Zoology. bringing forth living young rather than eggs, as most mammals and some reptiles and fishes.
- voluptuous — full of, characterized by, or ministering to indulgence in luxury, pleasure, and sensuous enjoyment: a voluptuous life.