10-letter words containing s, a, v, e
- short wave — Electricity. a radio wave, shorter than that used in AM broadcasting, corresponding to frequencies of over 1600 kilohertz: used for long-distance reception or transmission.
- short-wave — Electricity. a radio wave, shorter than that used in AM broadcasting, corresponding to frequencies of over 1600 kilohertz: used for long-distance reception or transmission.
- shovel hat — a hat with a broad brim turned up at the sides and projecting with a shovellike curve in front and behind; worn by some ecclesiastics, chiefly in England.
- shovelhead — bonnethead.
- shrievalty — the office, term, or jurisdiction of a sheriff.
- sick leave — leave from duty, work, or the like, granted because of illness.
- sieva bean — butter bean.
- silver age — Classical Mythology. the second of the four ages of humankind, inferior to the golden age but superior to the bronze age that followed: characterized by an increase of impiety and of human weakness.
- silverback — an older male gorilla, usually the leader of a troop, whose hairs along the back turn gray with age.
- silvertail — a person of affluence or influence.
- silverware — articles, especially eating and serving utensils, made of silver, silver-plated metals, stainless steel, etc.
- similative — implying likeness
- simulative — to create a simulation, likeness, or model of (a situation, system, or the like): to simulate crisis conditions.
- sivash sea — a salt lagoon in S Ukraine, on the N of the Crimea peninsula. About 990 sq. mi. (2560 sq. km).
- skate over — to cross on or as if on skates
- skin alive — the external covering or integument of an animal body, especially when soft and flexible.
- 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.
- sleevehand — a sleeve's cuff or wristband
- smartdrive — (storage, product) A Microsoft MS DOS disk cache program to speed up disk access. For most users, a 1MB cache is sufficient. Devoting more memory to the cache offers diminishing returns, since the additional cache hits become fewer (and the extra memory could be better used to reduce swapping). Typing SMARTDRV /S at a DOS prompt shows the cache size, a hit-and-miss report, and information about which drives are being cached. The hit-and-miss statistics are crucial for gauging the effectiveness of SmartDrive settings. A score in the high 80s shows that SmartDrive is well configured. Run SMARTDRV /S several times during a Windows session and note the-hit-and-miss figures each time. If your percentage usually falls below 80 percent, you should consider increasing the cache size. You can edit the SMARTDRV line in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file to increase both the InitCacheSize and the WinCacheSize parameters. SmartDrive Monitor is an undocumented Windows program that comes with DOS 6.0 for logging and controling the cache.
- sound wave — a longitudinal wave in an elastic medium, especially a wave producing an audible sensation.
- 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
- stag movie — a pornographic film intended primarily for male audiences.
- stage-dive — to jump off the stage at a concert onto the crowd below
- stand over — (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
- starkville — a town in E Mississippi.
- start over — begin again
- starveling — a person, animal, or plant that is starving.
- stavesacre — a larkspur, Delphinium staphisagria, of Europe and Asia Minor, having violently emetic and cathartic poisonous seeds.
- stove coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from 1 5/8 to 2 7/16 (about 4 to 6 cm), intermediate between egg coal and chestnut coal.
- stravaiger — Scot., Irish, and North England. to wander aimlessly.
- straw vote — an unofficial vote taken to obtain an indication of the general trend of opinion on a particular issue.
- stuyvesant — Peter, 1592–1672, Dutch colonial administrator in the Americas: last governor of New Netherlands 1646–64.
- suaveolent — fragrant or sweet-smelling
- subaverage — a quantity, rating, or the like that represents or approximates an arithmetic mean: Her golf average is in the 90s. My average in science has gone from B to C this semester.
- subclavate — somewhat club-shaped.
- subvariety — a minor or subordinate variety
- sun valley — a village in S central Idaho: winter resort.
- 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.
- surveyance — survey; inspection; superintendence
- survivable — able to be survived: Would an atomic war be survivable?
- survivance — survival
- svetambara — one of the two principal Jain sects, whose members wear white and believe that women can attain salvation.
- sylvestral — growing, living, or occurring in a wood or beneath a tree
- tapis vert — an unbroken expanse of lawn used as a major element of a landscape design.
- televisual — Televisual means broadcast on or related to television.