11-letter words containing s, a, v, e
- asseverated — Simple past tense and past participle of asseverate.
- associative — Associative thoughts are things that you think of because you see, hear, or think of something that reminds you of those things or which you associate with those things.
- assortative — Denoting or involving the preferential mating of animals or marrying of people with similar characteristics.
- attestative — relating to or of the nature of attestation
- autoreverse — a system in a tape player that automatically reverses the tape and plays another track when one track has finished
- averageness — 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.
- aversion-to — a strong feeling of dislike, opposition, repugnance, or antipathy (usually followed by to): a strong aversion to snakes and spiders.
- awash-river — a river in E Ethiopia, flowing NE through the Great Rift Valley to near the Djibouti border. 500 miles (805 km) long.
- baskerville — a style of type
- basketweave — a weave of two or more yarns together, resembling that of a basket, esp in wool or linen fabric
- behaviorism — Behaviorism is the belief held by some psychologists that the only valid method of studying the psychology of people or animals is to observe how they behave.
- behaviorist — the theory or doctrine that human or animal psychology can be accurately studied only through the examination and analysis of objectively observable and quantifiable behavioral events, in contrast with subjective mental states.
- bisociative — relating to bisociation
- blank verse — Blank verse is poetry that does not rhyme. In English literature it usually consists of lines with five stressed syllables.
- bondservant — a serf or slave
- bone spavin — a disease of the hock joint of horses in which enlargement occurs because of collected fluids (bog spavin) bony growth (bone spavin) or distention of the veins (blood spavin)
- brake servo — The brake servo is a device for increasing the pressure of the driver's foot on the brake pedal.
- buena vista — a village in NE Mexico, near Saltillo: site of the defeat of the Mexicans by US forces (1847)
- bust a move — go, leave
- busy beaver — (theory) (BB) One of a series of sets of Turing Machine programs. The BBs in the Nth set are programs of N states that produce a larger finite number of ones on an initially blank tape than any other program of N states. There is no program that, given input N, can deduce the productivity (number of ones output) of the BB of size N. The productivity of the BB of size 1 is 1. Some work has been done to figure out productivities of bigger Busy Beavers - the 7th is in the thousands.
- cablevision — cable television.
- cantilevers — Plural form of cantilever.
- caressively — caressingly
- castelvetro — Lodovico [loh-duh-vee-koh;; Italian law-daw-vee-kaw] /ˌloʊ dəˈvi koʊ;; Italian ˌlɔ dɔˈvi kɔ/ (Show IPA), 1505–71, Italian philologist and literary critic.
- catonsville — a town in central Maryland, near Baltimore.
- causatively — acting as a cause; producing (often followed by of): a causative agency; an event causative of war.
- cavalierish — like a cavalier
- cavalierism — the principles or practice of cavaliers
- cavernously — In a cavernous manner; like a cavern.
- cavernulous — possessing or being full of small cavities
- cesarevitch — the eldest son of a czar.
- changeovers — Plural form of changeover.
- charles vii — 1403–61, king of France (1422–61), son of Charles VI. He was excluded from the French throne by the Treaty of Troyes, but following Joan of Arc's victory over the English at Orléans (1429), was crowned
- charles xiv — the title as king of Sweden and Norway of Jean Baptiste Jules Bernadotte
- chevrotains — Plural form of chevrotain.
- chevy chase — (The Ballad of Chevy Chase) a 15th-century English ballad describing the battle of Otterburn between the Percys and the Douglases.
- clarksville — city in N Tenn., on the Cumberland River: pop. 103,000
- clavecinist — a person who plays the clavecin
- clavigerous — bearing a key or club
- cleanshaven — having all the hairs shaved off
- close shave — a narrow escape
- coacervates — Plural form of coacervate.
- coatesville — a city in SE Pennsylvania.
- concavities — Plural form of concavity.
- conservable — capable of being conserved: conservable fruits.
- conservancy — Conservancy is used in the names of organizations that work to preserve and protect the environment.
- conservator — A conservator is someone whose job is to clean and repair historical objects or works of art.
- contrastive — tending to contrast; contrasting. contrastive colors.
- contravenes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contravene.
- convalesced — Simple past tense and past participle of convalesce.