10-letter words containing s, e, r, v, i
- sine curve — a curve described by the equation y = sin x, the ordinate being equal to the sine of the abscissa.
- skin diver — person who explores underwater
- slide over — to cross by or as if by sliding
- 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.
- somerville — Mary Fairfax Greig [greg] /grɛg/ (Show IPA), 1780–1872, Scottish mathematician and astronomer.
- spill over — be full of: emotion
- spur veins — the veins of a horse that can be damaged by a rider's spurs
- starkville — a town in E Mississippi.
- starveling — a person, animal, or plant that is starving.
- storyville — a red-light district of New Orleans known as a wellspring of jazz before World War I.
- stravaiger — Scot., Irish, and North England. to wander aimlessly.
- strikeover — an act or instance of typing over a character, as one typed in error, without erasing it.
- subvariety — a minor or subordinate variety
- subversion — an act or instance of subverting.
- subversive — Also, subversionary [suh b-vur-zhuh-ner-ee, -shuh-] /səbˈvɜr ʒəˌnɛr i, -ʃə-/ (Show IPA). tending or intending to subvert or overthrow, destroy, or undermine an established or existing system, especially a legally constituted government or a set of beliefs.
- superdrive — (storage) Apple Computer, Inc.'s name for a combined DVD-ROM, DVD-RW, CD-RW drive that appeared in the iMac in 2002.
- supervised — to oversee (a process, work, workers, etc.) during execution or performance; superintend; have the oversight and direction of.
- supervisee — a supervised person
- supervises — to oversee (a process, work, workers, etc.) during execution or performance; superintend; have the oversight and direction of.
- supervisor — a person who supervises workers or the work done by others; superintendent.
- supportive — giving support.
- surjective — onto (def 3).
- surveilled — to place under surveillance.
- survivable — able to be survived: Would an atomic war be survivable?
- survivance — survival
- switchover — the act or process of changing from one power source, system, etc., to another.
- swiveltree — swingletree.
- tapis vert — an unbroken expanse of lawn used as a major element of a landscape design.
- test drive — If you test drive a car or other vehicle, you drive it for a short period in order to assess its performance before deciding whether to buy it.
- test-drive — to drive (a vehicle) on the highway or a special track or route in order to evaluate performance and reliability.
- the-rivals — a comedy of manners (1775) by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
- thriveless — not thriving, flourishing or prospering
- timeserver — a person who shapes his or her conduct to conform to the opinions of the time or of persons in power, especially for selfish ends.
- transitive — Grammar. having the nature of a transitive verb.
- traversing — to pass or move over, along, or through.
- trivialise — to make trivial; cause to appear unimportant, trifling, etc.
- tsarevitch — the son of a czar.
- two rivers — a city in E Wisconsin.
- university — an institution of learning of the highest level, having a college of liberal arts and a program of graduate studies together with several professional schools, as of theology, law, medicine, and engineering, and authorized to confer both undergraduate and graduate degrees. Continental European universities usually have only graduate or professional schools.
- unravished — to rape (a woman).
- unserviced — an act of helpful activity; help; aid: to do someone a service.
- unswerving — to turn aside abruptly in movement or direction; deviate suddenly from the straight or direct course.
- vagrancies — the conduct of a vagrant.
- vanquisher — to conquer or subdue by superior force, as in battle.
- ventricles — Zoology. any of various hollow organs or parts in an animal body.
- ventricose — swollen, especially on one side or unequally; protuberant.
- vergership — the position or office of being a verger
- verilog sa — (company) A French real-time software engineering company.
- vernissage — Also called varnishing day. the day before the opening of an art exhibition traditionally reserved for the artist to varnish the paintings.
- vers libre — free verse.