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11-letter words containing r, e, v, o, l

  • 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
  • sovereignly — a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler.
  • sporulative — involving or relating to sporulation
  • supervolute — (of convolute leaves) enveloping a rolled up leaf within the bud
  • tail covert — any of the feathers concealing the bases of a bird's tail feathers.
  • taylorville — a town in central Illinois.
  • thorvaldsen — Albert Bertal [ahl-bert bar-tuh l] /ˈɑl bɛrt ˈbær təl/ (Show IPA), 1770–1844, Danish sculptor.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • unfavorable — not favorable; contrary; adverse: an unfavorable wind.
  • unflavoured — not flavoured
  • unloverlike — not typical of a lover or resembling a lover
  • unremovable — that may be removed.
  • unrevokable — that may be revoked.
  • upper volta — former name of Burkina Faso.
  • valedictory — bidding goodbye; saying farewell: a valedictory speech.
  • varicelloid — resembling varicella.
  • varicellous — of or relating to varicella or chicken pox
  • varicolored — having various colors; variegated; motley: a varicolored print.
  • varley loop — a device containing a Wheatstone bridge, for comparing resistances and for locating faults in circuits.
  • vectorially — Mathematics. a quantity possessing both magnitude and direction, represented by an arrow the direction of which indicates the direction of the quantity and the length of which is proportional to the magnitude. Compare scalar (def 4). such a quantity with the additional requirement that such quantities obey the parallelogram law of addition. such a quantity with the additional requirement that such quantities are to transform in a particular way under changes of the coordinate system. any generalization of the above quantities.
  • velocimeter — any of various instruments for measuring velocity, as of a wave in water or of sound in air.
  • velocimetry — the measurement of the speed of sound in fluids
  • venereology — the branch of medicine dealing with the study and treatment of venereal, or sexually transmitted, disease.
  • ventilatory — of, having, or pertaining to ventilation
  • ventriloquy — the art or practice of speaking, with little or no lip movement, in such a manner that the voice does not appear to come from the speaker but from another source, as from a wooden dummy.
  • veraciously — habitually speaking the truth; truthful; honest: a veracious witness.
  • verbal noun — a noun derived from a verb, especially by a process applicable to most or all verbs, as, in English, the -ing form of Eating is fun or of Smoking is forbidden.
  • vermiculous — containing or resembling worms
  • versicolour — changeable in color: versicolor skies.
  • very pistol — a special pistol which fires coloured flares for signalling at night, esp at sea
  • vibratoless — without vibrato
  • viceroyalty — the dignity, office, or period of office of a viceroy.
  • victorville — a city in SE California.
  • victoryless — without victory
  • vienna roll — a yeast-raised roll with a hard crust
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