11-letter words containing t, s, v, e
- sensitivity — the state or quality of being sensitive; sensitiveness.
- septavalent — having a valence of seven; heptavalent.
- septemviral — of or relating to septemvirs or a septemvirate.
- septivalent — having a valence of seven; heptavalent.
- seroconvert — (of an individual) to produce antibodies specific to, and in response to the presence in the blood of, a particular antigen, such as a virus or vaccine
- servanthood — the condition of being a servant
- servantless — without servants; not having a servant or servants
- servitorial — of or pertaining to a servitor
- seventeenth — next after the sixteenth; being the ordinal number for 17.
- seventh-day — designating certain Christian denominations that make Saturday their chief day of rest and religious observance: Seventh-Day Adventists.
- seventy-one — a cardinal number, 70 plus 1.
- seventy-six — a cardinal number, 70 plus 6.
- seventy-two — a cardinal number, 70 plus 2.
- sex-starved — deprived of sexual gratification
- shaft grave — a grave consisting of a deep, rectangular pit with vertical sides, roofed over with a stone slab.
- 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 novel — a prose narrative midway between the novel and the short story in length and scope
- short-lived — living or lasting only a little while.
- silent vote — the vote of persons who have not previously expressed or made evident a preference.
- 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.
- silver thaw — glaze (def 17).
- silver-gilt — an ornamental coating of silver, silver leaf, or a silver-colored substance.
- silverpoint — a technique of drawing with a silver stylus on specially prepared paper.
- silversmith — a person whose occupation is making and repairing articles of silver.
- silvester i — Saint, died a.d. 335, pope 314–335.
- silvestrian — of or relating to woodland
- singulative — a grammatical form or construction that expresses a singular entity or indicates that an individual is singled out from a group, especially as opposed to a collective noun, as snowflake as opposed to snow.
- sino-soviet — of or relating to both China and the Soviet Union
- sixty-seven — a cardinal number, 60 plus 7.
- slave coast — the coast of W equatorial Africa, between the Benin and Volta rivers: a center of slavery traffic 16th–19th centuries.
- slave state — any state, nation, etc., where slavery is legal or officially condoned.
- slave trade — the business or process of procuring, transporting, and selling slaves, especially black Africans to the New World prior to the mid-19th century.
- sleeve note — The sleeve notes are short pieces of writing on the covers of records, which tell you something about the music or the musicians.
- smooth over — free from projections or unevenness of surface; not rough: smooth wood; a smooth road.
- solventless — able to pay all just debts.
- south devon — a breed of large red cattle originally from South Devon
- south river — a borough in central New Jersey.
- sovereignty — the quality or state of being sovereign, or of having supreme power or authority.
- soviet zone — that part of Germany occupied by Soviet forces in 1945–49: transformed into the German Democratic Republic in 1949–50
- sovietology — Kremlinology.
- speculative — pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by speculation, contemplation, conjecture, or abstract reasoning: a speculative approach.
- spirit cave — an archaeological site in Thailand that has produced evidence of very early plant domestication in Southeast Asia, dated c7000 b.c.
- split-level — noting a house having a room or rooms that are somewhat above or below adjacent rooms, with the floor levels usually differing by approximately half a story.
- splitsville — the state or condition of being divorced or separated.
- sporulative — involving or relating to sporulation
- spot survey — a survey taken immediately and at random
- st. vincent — Saint, died a.d. 304, Spanish martyr: patron saint of winegrowers.