11-letter words containing s, t, r, i, v
- observation — an act or instance of noticing or perceiving.
- observative — Observant; watchful.
- obstructive — to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
- obtrusively — having or showing a disposition to obtrude, as by imposing oneself or one's opinions on others.
- overcasting — Meteorology. the condition of the sky when more than 95 percent covered by clouds.
- overexcites — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overexcite.
- overhastily — in such a way as to be excessively hasty or done without enough consideration
- overintense — too intense
- overtedious — extremely tedious
- overtension — the act of stretching or straining.
- persecutive — to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
- 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
- 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
- primitivism — a recurrent theory or belief, as in philosophy or art, that the qualities of primitive or chronologically early cultures are superior to those of contemporary civilization.
- privateness — the quality of being private
- prospective — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
- provostship — the office of a provost
- readvertise — to advertise (something) again
- reductivism — reductionism.
- reservation — the act of keeping back, withholding, or setting apart.
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- servitorial — of or pertaining to a servitor
- shift lever — the lever mounted on the steering column or floor of a vehicle that enables the driver to shift gears.
- shirtsleeve — not wearing a jacket; informally dressed: a shirt-sleeve mob.
- short-lived — living or lasting only a little while.
- silver beet — a variety of beet, Beta vulgaris cicla, having large firm green leaves: staple cooked green vegetable in Australia and New Zealand
- silver gilt — an ornamental coating of silver, silver leaf, or a silver-colored substance.
- 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.