11-letter words containing s, e, v, r, t
- overharvest — the harvesting of plants or animals in an unsustainable manner
- overhastily — in such a way as to be excessively hasty or done without enough consideration
- overintense — too intense
- overstaffed — If you say that a place is overstaffed, you think there are more people working there than is necessary.
- overstocked — containing too many fish
- overstretch — to stretch excessively.
- overstuffed — stuffed or filled to excess.
- oversweeten — to sweeten too much
- overtedious — extremely tedious
- overtension — the act of stretching or straining.
- overwrestle — to overpower by wrestling
- persecutive — to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
- perseverant — steady persistence in a course of action, a purpose, a state, etc., especially in spite of difficulties, obstacles, or discouragement.
- perseverate — to repeat something insistently or redundantly: to perseverate in reminding children of their responsibilities.
- perspective — a technique of depicting volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surface. Compare aerial perspective, linear perspective.
- pitt-rivers — Augustus (Henry Lane Fox).1827–1900, British archaeologist; first inspector of ancient monuments (1882): assembled a major anthropological collection of tools and weapons (now in the Pitt-Rivers Museum, Oxford)
- postdivorce — of, or relating to the period after a person is divorced
- postharvest — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
- prepositive — (of a word) placed before another word to modify it or to show its relation to other parts of the sentence. In red book, red is a prepositive adjective. John's in John's book is a prepositive genitive.
- presumptive — affording ground for presumption: presumptive evidence.
- previous to — before, prior to
- privateness — the quality of being private
- prospective — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
- quaver rest — a musical rest or silence that lasts for the equivalent of a quaver or eighth note
- readvertise — to advertise (something) again
- reductivism — reductionism.
- reservation — the act of keeping back, withholding, or setting apart.
- reservatory — any place where reserves or stores are kept, esp of food and/or water; esp, a reservoir
- resistively — in a resistive manner, with resistance
- resistivity — the power or property of resistance.
- restitutive — reparation made by giving an equivalent or compensation for loss, damage, or injury caused; indemnification.
- restiveness — impatient of control, restraint, or delay, as persons; restless; uneasy.
- restorative — serving to restore; pertaining to restoration.
- restrictive — tending or serving to restrict.
- resultative — (in grammar) a phrase which describes the state of a noun by completing the verb phrase
- resveratrol — a compound found in red grapes, mulberries, peanuts, and certain plants, used medicinally as an antioxidant and anti-inflammatory
- revelations — the last book of the New Testament, containing visionary descriptions of heaven, of conflicts between good and evil, and of the end of the world
- reverse out — a font or type that is defined by its background or border, allowing the underlying colour of the paper or the background colour to show the shape of the characters
- revisionist — an advocate of revision, especially of some political or religious doctrine.
- revitalised — to give new life to.
- revivalists — a person, especially a member of the clergy, who promotes or holds religious revivals.
- revivescent — reviving
- reviviscent — the act or state of being revived; revival; reanimation.
- rh positive — See under Rh factor.
- rh-positive — See under Rh factor.
- rostovtzeff — Michael Ivanovich [mahy-kuh l i-vah-nuh-vich] /ˈmaɪ kəl ɪˈvɑ nə vɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1870–1952, U.S. historian, born in Russia.
- secretively — having or showing a disposition to secrecy; reticent: He seems secretive about his new job.
- segregative — to separate or set apart from others or from the main body or group; isolate: to segregate exceptional children; to segregate hardened criminals.
- semiprivate — having some degree of privacy but not fully private, as a hospital room with fewer beds than a ward.
- septemviral — of or relating to septemvirs or a septemvirate.