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10-letter words containing s, r, i, v

  • silverlike — Chemistry. a white, ductile metallic element, used for making mirrors, coins, ornaments, table utensils, photographic chemicals, conductors, etc. Symbol: Ag; atomic weight: 107.870; atomic number: 47; specific gravity: 10.5 at 20°C.
  • silverling — a shekel or small silver coin
  • silverside — Chiefly British. a rump roast of beef, especially one taken from the crown of the rump.
  • silverskin — the inner skin of a coffee bean
  • silvertail — a person of affluence or influence.
  • silvertone — made to resemble silver in color, sheen, etc.
  • silverware — articles, especially eating and serving utensils, made of silver, silver-plated metals, stainless steel, etc.
  • silverweed — a plant, Potentilla anserina, of the rose family, the leaves of which have a silvery pubescence on the underside.
  • silverwork — fine or decorative work executed in silver.
  • 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
  • slow virus — a virus that remains dormant in the body for a long time before producing symptoms, as in several neurological diseases, including kuru and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
  • 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.
  • starvation — the act or state of starving; condition of being starved.
  • 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.
  • stradivari — Antonio [an-toh-nee-oh;; Italian ahn-taw-nyaw] /ænˈtoʊ ni oʊ;; Italian ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1644?–1737, Italian violinmaker of Cremona (pupil of Nicolò Amati).
  • stravaging — Scot., Irish, and North England. to wander aimlessly.
  • stravaiger — Scot., Irish, and North England. to wander aimlessly.
  • stravinsky — Igor Fëdorovich [ee-gawr fyaw-duh-roh-vich;; Russian ee-guh r fyaw-duh-ruh-vyich] /ˈi gɔr ˌfyɔ dəˈroʊ vɪtʃ;; Russian ˈi gər ˈfyɔ də rə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1882–1971, U.S. composer, born in Russia.
  • strikeover — an act or instance of typing over a character, as one typed in error, without erasing it.
  • strivingly — in a striving manner
  • 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.
  • supravital — pertaining to or involving a staining method for a preparation of living cells.
  • 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.
  • tovarishch — comrade (used as a term of address in the Soviet Union).
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