8-letter words containing t, s, a, v
- overcast — overspread or covered with clouds; cloudy: an overcast day.
- overeats — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overeat.
- overfast — too fast
- overmast — to provide (a ship) with a mast that is too tall or heavy
- oversalt — to put too much salt in
- overstay — to stay beyond the time, limit, or duration of; outstay: to overstay one's welcome.
- overtask — to impose too heavy a task upon
- palstave — a bronze celt fitted into a split wooden handle.
- paviotso — Northern Paiute (def 1).
- petavius — a walled plain in the fourth quadrant of the face of the moon: about 100 miles (160 km) in diameter from crest to crest.
- postcava — See under vena cava.
- privates — belonging to some particular person: private property.
- salivate — to produce saliva.
- sanative — having the power to heal; curative.
- savviest — experienced, knowledgable, and well-informed; shrewd (often used in combination): consumers who are savvy about prices; a tech-savvy entrepreneur.
- sedative — tending to calm or soothe.
- septleva — (in the card game of basset) an amount seven times as high as the player's original stake
- shavuoth — a festival, celebrated on the sixth and seventh days of Sivan by Orthodox and Conservative Jews outside Israel but only on the sixth day by Reform Jews and Jews in Israel, that commemorates God's giving of the Ten Commandments to Moses.
- shvartze — Yiddish: Usually Disparaging and Offensive. schvartze.
- silvatic — of or relating to the forest; sylvan
- smartdrv — Smartdrive
- solvated — a compound formed by the interaction of a solvent and a solute.
- solvates — a compound formed by the interaction of a solvent and a solute.
- stanovoi — a mountain range in the E Russian Federation in Asia: a watershed between the Pacific and Arctic oceans; highest peak, 8143 feet (2480 meters).
- starving — very hungry
- statvolt — the electrostatic unit of electromotive force or potential difference, approximately equivalent to 300 volts and equal to the electromotive force or potential difference that will cause a current of one statampere to flow through a conductor with a resistance of one statohm.
- stave in — to break or crush inward
- stovaine — a drug used for anaesthetic purposes and as a cocaine substitute
- stravage — Scot., Irish, and North England. to wander aimlessly.
- stravaig — Scot., Irish, and North England. to wander aimlessly.
- subovate — almost egg-shaped
- suivante — a lady's maid or companion, particularly in 17th century France, who was elevated among other servants and served as a confidante and particular companion for her mistress
- svetlana — a female given name.
- sylvatic — sylvan.
- tastevin — small shallow cup for wine tasting
- temesvar — Hungarian name of Timişoara.
- the vast — immense or boundless space
- torshavn — the capital of the Faeroe Islands, on the S tip of Streymoy Island.
- travails — painfully difficult or burdensome work; toil.
- traverse — to pass or move over, along, or through.
- travesty — a grotesque or debased likeness or imitation: a travesty of justice.
- tsarevna — a daughter of a czar.
- valdosta — a city in S Georgia.
- varistor — a resistor whose resistance automatically varies in proportion to the voltage of the current through it.
- vasotomy — incision or opening of the vas deferens.
- vasteras — a city in central Sweden.
- vastness — of very great area or extent; immense: the vast reaches of outer space.
- vesicant — producing a blister or blisters, as a medicinal substance; vesicating.
- vesicate — to raise vesicles or blisters on; blister.
- vestally — in a vestal manner