10-letter words containing s, a, v, e, r
- overdrafts — Plural form of overdraft.
- overlavish — expended, bestowed, or occurring in profusion: lavish spending.
- overmaster — to gain mastery over; conquer; overpower: The sudden impulse had quite overmastered me.
- overpraise — to praise excessively or unduly.
- overrashly — in an overrash manner
- overscaled — on an excessive scale
- overshadow — to be more important or significant by comparison: For years he overshadowed his brother.
- overslaugh — to pass over or disregard (a person) by giving a promotion, position, etc., to another instead.
- overspread — to spread or diffuse over: A blush of embarrassment overspread his face.
- overstated — If an account or a figure on an account is overstated, the amount that is reported on the financial statement is more than it should be.
- overstayer — a person who illegally remains in a country after the period of the permitted visit has expired
- overstrain — to exert, tax, or use (resources) to an excessive extent
- palaverous — a conference or discussion.
- parkleaves — a species of St John's wort
- persuasive — able, fitted, or intended to persuade: a very persuasive argument.
- pre-advise — to give counsel to; offer an opinion or suggestion as worth following: I advise you to be cautious.
- preharvest — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
- privy seal — (in Great Britain) the seal affixed to grants, documents, etc., that are to pass the great seal, and to documents of less importance that do not require the great seal.
- proslavery — favoring slavery.
- purgatives — purging or cleansing, especially by causing evacuation of the bowels.
- ravenously — extremely hungry; famished; voracious: feeling ravenous after a hard day's work.
- ravishment — rapture or ecstasy.
- re-advised — to give counsel to; offer an opinion or suggestion as worth following: I advise you to be cautious.
- re-enslave — to enslave again
- rea silvia — a vestal virgin who became the mother, by Mars, of Romulus and Remus.
- reinvasion — the act or an instance of entering (a country, territory, etc) by military force again; a second or subsequent invasion
- relativise — to regard as or make relative.
- relativism — any theory holding that criteria of judgment are relative, varying with individuals and their environments.
- relativist — an adherent or advocate of relativism or of the principle of relativity.
- removalist — a person or company that transports household effects to a new home
- reservable — to keep back or save for future use, disposal, treatment, etc.
- resolvable — that can be resolved.
- revanchism — an advocate or supporter of a political policy of revanche, especially in order to seek vengeance for a previous military defeat.
- revanchist — an advocate or supporter of a political policy of revanche, especially in order to seek vengeance for a previous military defeat.
- revestiary — the part of a church or temple where the clergy's gowns and other articles are kept; vestry
- revisional — the act or work of revising.
- revisitant — revisiting or returning to a place
- revitalise — to give new life to.
- revivalism — the form of religious activity that manifests itself in revivals.
- revivalist — a person, especially a member of the clergy, who promotes or holds religious revivals.
- 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.
- riverscape — a view, painting, etc., of a river and the land surrounding or adjacent to it.
- riverwards — towards a river
- salt river — a river flowing W from E Arizona to the Gila River near Phoenix: Roosevelt Dam. 200 miles (322 km) long.
- salverform — (of the corolla of the phlox and certain other flowers) consisting of a narrow tube with flat spreading terminal petals
- sand viper — hognose snake.
- savile row — a street in Mayfair, London, famous for expensive and fashionable clothes shops
- sayreville — a city in central New Jersey.
- scavengers — an animal or other organism that feeds on dead organic matter.
- seat cover — a cover for a seat