10-letter words containing t, o, s, a, v
- gravestone — a stone marking a grave, usually giving the name, date of death, etc., of the person buried there.
- hrotsvitha — c935–c1000, German nun, poet, and dramatist.
- innovators — Plural form of innovator.
- lavatories — Plural form of lavatory.
- lovastatin — a drug, C 24 H 36 O 8 , that reduces the levels of fats in the blood by altering the enzyme activity in the liver that produces lipids.
- love feast — (among the early Christians) a meal eaten in token of brotherly love and charity; agape.
- most-divan — sliced and baked in a casserole with broccoli and hollandaise sauce.
- motivators — Plural form of motivator.
- movie star — famous film actor
- native son — a novel (1940) by Richard Wright.
- navelworts — Plural form of navelwort.
- navigators — Plural form of navigator.
- nonnatives — Plural form of nonnative.
- nonstative — (of a verb) expressing an action or process, as run or grow, and able to be used in either simple or progressive tenses: I run every day. I am running home now.
- novitiates — Plural form of novitiate.
- observator — (obsolete) An observer.
- operatives — Plural form of operative.
- outtravels — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outtravel.
- overassert — to assert too much or too strongly
- overcasted — Simple past tense and past participle of overcast.
- overdrafts — Plural form of overdraft.
- overmaster — to gain mastery over; conquer; overpower: The sudden impulse had quite overmastered me.
- overstated — If an account or a figure on an account is overstated, the amount that is reported on the financial statement is more than it should be.
- overstayer — a person who illegally remains in a country after the period of the permitted visit has expired
- overstrain — to exert, tax, or use (resources) to an excessive extent
- removalist — a person or company that transports household effects to a new home
- salivation — the act or process of salivating.
- seat cover — a cover for a seat
- sevastopol — a fortified seaport in the S Crimea, in S Ukraine: famous for its heroic resistance during sieges of 349 days in 1854–55, and 245 days in 1941–42.
- short wave — Electricity. a radio wave, shorter than that used in AM broadcasting, corresponding to frequencies of over 1600 kilohertz: used for long-distance reception or transmission.
- short-wave — Electricity. a radio wave, shorter than that used in AM broadcasting, corresponding to frequencies of over 1600 kilohertz: used for long-distance reception or transmission.
- shovel hat — a hat with a broad brim turned up at the sides and projecting with a shovellike curve in front and behind; worn by some ecclesiastics, chiefly in England.
- skate over — to cross on or as if on skates
- solivagant — a lone wanderer
- spoliative — blood-diminishing
- stag movie — a pornographic film intended primarily for male audiences.
- stand over — (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
- start over — begin again
- starvation — the act or state of starving; condition of being starved.
- stove coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from 1 5/8 to 2 7/16 (about 4 to 6 cm), intermediate between egg coal and chestnut coal.
- straw vote — an unofficial vote taken to obtain an indication of the general trend of opinion on a particular issue.
- suaveolent — fragrant or sweet-smelling
- tereshkova — Valentina Vladimirovna [vuh-lyin-tyee-nuh vluh-dyi-myee-ruh v-nuh] /və lyɪnˈtyi nə vlə dyɪˈmyi rəv nə/ (Show IPA), born 1937, Soviet cosmonaut: first woman in space 1963.
- tovarishch — comrade (used as a term of address in the Soviet Union).
- varicosity — the state or condition of being varicose.
- vasoactive — of or relating to a substance, drug, or event that changes the diameter of a blood vessel.
- vasomotion — the change in diameter of a blood vessel.
- vaxstation — A family of workstations from DEC based on their VAX computer architecture.
- venostasis — retardation or stoppage of blood flow through a vein.
- vesication — to raise vesicles or blisters on; blister.