11-letter words containing s, a, v
- state visit — an official visit of the chief of state of one country to that of another.
- statesville — a city in central North Carolina.
- stevengraph — a small picture woven in colored silk thread: introduced in 1879 and mass-produced on a Jacquard-type loom.
- stimulative — serving to stimulate.
- stravaiging — Scot., Irish, and North England. to wander aimlessly.
- study leave — sabbatical
- suasiveness — persuasiveness
- subadditive — something that is added, as one substance to another, to alter or improve the general quality or to counteract undesirable properties: an additive that thins paint.
- subcurative — of a dosage which is not strong enough to have a curing effect
- subgingival — being or occurring under the gums; especially, being or occurring in the crevice between the gum margin and the neck or root of a tooth.
- subinterval — an interval that is a subset of a given interval.
- substantive — a noun.
- subtractive — tending to subtract; having power to subtract.
- subvertical — being in a position or direction perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; upright; plumb.
- subvocalize — to form (words) silently by moving the lips or other vocal organs without vocalization
- sugar grove — sugarbush (def 2).
- superactive — engaged in action; characterized by energetic work, participation, etc.; busy: an active life.
- superlative — of the highest kind, quality, or order; surpassing all else or others; supreme; extreme: superlative wisdom.
- superoctave — an organ stop two octaves above the standard pitch
- supervisual — of or relating to seeing or sight: a visual image.
- supplicavit — a mandatory writ formerly issued from the King's Bench or Court of Chancery
- suppurative — suppurating; characterized by suppuration.
- surveillant — exercising surveillance.
- survivalist — a person who makes preparations to survive a widespread catastrophe, as an atomic war or anarchy, especially by storing food and weapons in a safe place.
- svarabhakti — the process of inserting vowel sounds into a consonant cluster, as in a loanword to make it conform to the pattern of the speaker's language and, hence, more easily pronounceable, as in the Italian pronunciation [lahn-tsee-ke-nek-kaw] /ˌlɑn tsi kɛˈnɛk kɔ/ (Show IPA) for German Landsknecht [lahnts-knekht] /ˈlɑntsˌknɛxt/ (Show IPA).
- swamp fever — leptospirosis.
- swivel head — A swivel head is a bearing between the traveling block and the kelly.
- sylvestrian — living in the woods; sylvan
- sylvic acid — abietic acid.
- syncopative — relating to syncopation
- tax evasion — the nonpayment of taxes, as through the failure to report taxable income.
- tchaikovsky — Peter Ilyich [il-yich] /ˈɪl yɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), or Pëtr Ilich [Russian pyawtr ee-lyeech] /Russian ˈpyɔtr iˈlyitʃ/ (Show IPA), 1840–93, Russian composer.
- tea service — a set of chinaware for preparing and drinking hot beverages, especially tea.
- texas fever — babesiosis of cattle.
- thanksgiver — a person who gives thanks.
- the heavens — the sky
- the heavies — a serious newspaper
- the vapours — a depressed mental condition believed originally to be the result of vaporous exhalations from the stomach
- the wharves — the working area of a dock
- thomasville — a city in S Georgia.
- thorvaldsen — Albert Bertal [ahl-bert bar-tuh l] /ˈɑl bɛrt ˈbær təl/ (Show IPA), 1770–1844, Danish sculptor.
- thrash over — to go over (a problem, etc.) in great detail
- time-saving — (of methods, devices, etc.) reducing the time spent or required to do something.
- tishah b'av — a Jewish fast day observed on the ninth day of the month of Av in memory of the destruction in Jerusalem of the First and Second Temples.
- tout a vous — sincerely yours.
- transceiver — a transmitter and receiver combined in one unit.
- transit van — A Transit van is a type of van that is used for carrying goods.
- translative — of or relating to the transfer of something from one person, position, or place to another.
- transvaaler — a province in the NE Republic of South Africa. 110,450 sq. mi. (286,066 sq. km). Capital: Pretoria.
- transversal — transverse.