10-letter words containing t, o, v, e
- storyville — a red-light district of New Orleans known as a wellspring of jazz before World War I.
- stove bolt — a small bolt, similar to a machine screw but with a coarser thread.
- 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.
- stovepipes — a pipe, as of sheet metal, serving as a stove chimney or to connect a stove with a chimney flue.
- straw vote — an unofficial vote taken to obtain an indication of the general trend of opinion on a particular issue.
- strikeover — an act or instance of typing over a character, as one typed in error, without erasing it.
- suaveolent — fragrant or sweet-smelling
- subvention — a grant of money, as by a government or some other authority, in aid or support of some institution or undertaking, especially in connection with science or the arts.
- supportive — giving support.
- swing vote — to cause to move to and fro, sway, or oscillate, as something suspended from above: to swing one's arms in walking.
- switchover — the act or process of changing from one power source, system, etc., to another.
- take cover — to be or serve as a covering for; extend over; rest on the surface of: Snow covered the fields.
- telenovela — (in Latin America and Hispanic communities) a television soap opera, usually having a limited number of episodes.
- television — the transmission of programming, in the form of still or moving images, via radio waves, cable wires, satellite, or wireless network to a receiver or other screen.
- 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.
- the movies — the cinema
- think over — consider, deliberate
- throw over — to propel or cast in any way, especially to project or propel from the hand by a sudden forward motion or straightening of the arm and wrist: to throw a ball.
- token vote — a Parliamentary vote of money in which the amount quoted to aid discussion is not intended to be binding
- tolerative — to allow the existence, presence, practice, or act of without prohibition or hindrance; permit.
- tonalitive — of or relating to tonality
- tough love — a mixture of toughness and warmth used in a relationship, especially with an adolescent.
- townsville — a seaport on the E coast of Queensland, in E Australia.
- travancore — a former state in SW India: merged 1949 with Cochin to form a new state (Travancore and Cochin) reorganized 1956 to form the larger part of Kerala state.
- travelator — a moving pavement for transporting pedestrians, as in a shopping precinct or an airport
- travelogue — a lecture, slide show, or motion picture describing travels.
- trouvaille — a windfall
- turtledove — any of several small to medium-sized Old World doves of the genus Streptopelia, especially S. turtur, of Europe, having a long, graduated tail: noted for its soft, cooing call.
- twelvefold — having twelve sections, aspects, divisions, kinds, etc.
- twice over — two times
- two rivers — a city in E Wisconsin.
- unfavorite — a person or thing regarded with special favor or preference: That song is an old favorite of mine.
- univoltine — reproducing at a rate of one generation per year, i.e. having one brood of young in one year
- unviolated — not violated or desecrated
- uvulectomy — excision of the uvula.
- vacationer — a period of suspension of work, study, or other activity, usually used for rest, recreation, or travel; recess or holiday: Schoolchildren are on vacation now.
- vacuolated — having a vacuole or vacuoles.
- variegator — someone or something which variegates
- variometer — Electricity. an instrument for measuring inductance, consisting essentially of an inductor with two or more coils whose relative position may be changed to vary the inductance.
- vasoactive — of or relating to a substance, drug, or event that changes the diameter of a blood vessel.
- vat office — the part of HM Revenue & Customs that deals with VAT
- vectograph — a technology that uses special glasses to see a photographic image between two plastic sheets as three dimensional
- vector sum — the vector obtained by applying vector addition to two or more given vectors.
- vegetation — all the plants or plant life of a place, taken as a whole: the vegetation of the Nile valley.
- veit stoss — Veit [fahyt] /faɪt/ (Show IPA), c1440–1533, German sculptor and painter.
- velitation — a minor dispute or contest.
- velutinous — having a soft, velvety surface, as certain plants.
- venatorial — of or relating to hunting
- veneration — the act of venerating.
- venostasis — retardation or stoppage of blood flow through a vein.