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11-letter words containing s, l, a, v, e

  • silver gray — a light brownish-gray.
  • silver hake — a common hake, Merluccius bilinearis, occurring off the Atlantic coast of North America and popular as a food fish.
  • silver leaf — silver in the form of very thin foil.
  • silver star — a bronze star with a small silver star at the center, awarded to a soldier who has been cited in orders for gallantry in action, when the citation does not warrant the award of a Medal of Honor or the Distinguished Service Cross.
  • silver thaw — glaze (def 17).
  • silver-gray — gray with a silvery luster
  • silverchair — Australian rock group (formed 1994): comprising Daniel Johns (born 1979; vocals, guitar), Ben Gillies (born 1979, drums) and Chris Joannou (born 1979, bass guitar); their albums include Frogstomp (1995) and Young Modern (2007)
  • silverwares — articles, especially eating and serving utensils, made of silver, silver-plated metals, stainless steel, etc.
  • silvestrian — of or relating to woodland
  • simi valley — a city in SW California.
  • singulative — a grammatical form or construction that expresses a singular entity or indicates that an individual is singled out from a group, especially as opposed to a collective noun, as snowflake as opposed to snow.
  • slave coast — the coast of W equatorial Africa, between the Benin and Volta rivers: a center of slavery traffic 16th–19th centuries.
  • slave labor — persons, especially a large group, performing labor under duress or threats, as prisoners in a concentration camp; a labor force of slaves or slavelike prisoners.
  • slave river — a river in NE Alberta and the Northwest Territories, in Canada: flowing from Lake Athabasca NW to Great Slave Lake. 258 miles (415 km) long.
  • slave state — any state, nation, etc., where slavery is legal or officially condoned.
  • slave trade — the business or process of procuring, transporting, and selling slaves, especially black Africans to the New World prior to the mid-19th century.
  • slaveholder — an owner of slaves.
  • slaveringly — in a slavering manner
  • slavishness — of or befitting a slave: slavish subjection.
  • sleeveboard — a small-scale ironing board for pressing sleeves, especially a narrow board that fits inside a coat sleeve.
  • slide valve — a valve that slides without lifting to open or close an aperture, as the valves of the ports in the cylinders of certain steam engines.
  • snail fever — schistosomiasis.
  • social evil — prostitution.
  • speculative — pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by speculation, contemplation, conjecture, or abstract reasoning: a speculative approach.
  • sporulative — involving or relating to sporulation
  • statesville — a city in central North Carolina.
  • stimulative — serving to stimulate.
  • study leave — sabbatical
  • subinterval — an interval that is a subset of a given interval.
  • 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
  • superlative — of the highest kind, quality, or order; surpassing all else or others; supreme; extreme: superlative wisdom.
  • supervisual — of or relating to seeing or sight: a visual image.
  • surveillant — exercising surveillance.
  • swivel head — A swivel head is a bearing between the traveling block and the kelly.
  • sylvestrian — living in the woods; sylvan
  • thomasville — a city in S Georgia.
  • thorvaldsen — Albert Bertal [ahl-bert bar-tuh l] /ˈɑl bɛrt ˈbær təl/ (Show IPA), 1770–1844, Danish sculptor.
  • 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.
  • travel shot — a camera shot taken from a mobile platform, dolly, or the like, that keeps within range of a moving subject.
  • travel-sick — nauseated from riding in a moving vehicle
  • travelogues — a lecture, slide show, or motion picture describing travels.
  • traversable — to pass or move over, along, or through.
  • ultra vires — beyond the legal power or authority of a person, corporation, agent, etc
  • universally — in a universal manner; in every instance or place; without exception.
  • unseverable — capable of being severed.
  • unvisitable — (of a person or place) that cannot be visited
  • valiantness — the quality or state of being valiant
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