10-letter words containing v, a, r, i, s
- sand viper — hognose snake.
- savile row — a street in Mayfair, London, famous for expensive and fashionable clothes shops
- sayreville — a city in central New Jersey.
- semiquaver — a sixteenth note.
- separative — tending to separate.
- serviceman — a member of the armed forces of a country.
- shrievalty — the office, term, or jurisdiction of a sheriff.
- silver age — Classical Mythology. the second of the four ages of humankind, inferior to the golden age but superior to the bronze age that followed: characterized by an increase of impiety and of human weakness.
- silverback — an older male gorilla, usually the leader of a troop, whose hairs along the back turn gray with age.
- silvertail — a person of affluence or influence.
- silverware — articles, especially eating and serving utensils, made of silver, silver-plated metals, stainless steel, etc.
- smartdrive — (storage, product) A Microsoft MS DOS disk cache program to speed up disk access. For most users, a 1MB cache is sufficient. Devoting more memory to the cache offers diminishing returns, since the additional cache hits become fewer (and the extra memory could be better used to reduce swapping). Typing SMARTDRV /S at a DOS prompt shows the cache size, a hit-and-miss report, and information about which drives are being cached. The hit-and-miss statistics are crucial for gauging the effectiveness of SmartDrive settings. A score in the high 80s shows that SmartDrive is well configured. Run SMARTDRV /S several times during a Windows session and note the-hit-and-miss figures each time. If your percentage usually falls below 80 percent, you should consider increasing the cache size. You can edit the SMARTDRV line in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file to increase both the InitCacheSize and the WinCacheSize parameters. SmartDrive Monitor is an undocumented Windows program that comes with DOS 6.0 for logging and controling the cache.
- starkville — a town in E Mississippi.
- starvation — the act or state of starving; condition of being starved.
- starveling — a person, animal, or plant that is starving.
- stradivari — Antonio [an-toh-nee-oh;; Italian ahn-taw-nyaw] /ænˈtoʊ ni oʊ;; Italian ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1644?–1737, Italian violinmaker of Cremona (pupil of Nicolò Amati).
- stravaging — Scot., Irish, and North England. to wander aimlessly.
- stravaiger — Scot., Irish, and North England. to wander aimlessly.
- stravinsky — Igor Fëdorovich [ee-gawr fyaw-duh-roh-vich;; Russian ee-guh r fyaw-duh-ruh-vyich] /ˈi gɔr ˌfyɔ dəˈroʊ vɪtʃ;; Russian ˈi gər ˈfyɔ də rə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1882–1971, U.S. composer, born in Russia.
- subvariety — a minor or subordinate variety
- supravital — pertaining to or involving a staining method for a preparation of living cells.
- survivable — able to be survived: Would an atomic war be survivable?
- survivance — survival
- tapis vert — an unbroken expanse of lawn used as a major element of a landscape design.
- the-rivals — a comedy of manners (1775) by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
- tovarishch — comrade (used as a term of address in the Soviet Union).
- transitive — Grammar. having the nature of a transitive verb.
- traversing — to pass or move over, along, or through.
- trivialise — to make trivial; cause to appear unimportant, trifling, etc.
- trivialism — trivial character.
- trivialist — someone who deals with or is interested in trivialities
- tsarevitch — the son of a czar.
- tsvangirai — Morgan. born 1952, Zimbabwean trade unionist and politician; leader of the Movement for Democratic Change, the main opposition party to President Mugabe's Zanu-PF since 1999; prime minister (2009–2013)
- ultravirus — filterable virus.
- unravished — to rape (a woman).
- vagrancies — the conduct of a vagrant.
- valparaiso — Spanish Valparaíso [bahl-pah-rah-ee-saw] /ˌbɑl pɑ rɑˈi sɔ/ (Show IPA). a seaport in central Chile.
- vanquisher — to conquer or subdue by superior force, as in battle.
- vansittart — Sir Robert Gilbert, 1st Baron Vansittart of Denham, 1881–1957, British statesman and diplomat.
- varicosity — the state or condition of being varicose.
- varifocals — a pair of spectacles with varifocal lenses
- varnishing — the skill or technique of varnishing something
- verilog sa — (company) A French real-time software engineering company.
- vernissage — Also called varnishing day. the day before the opening of an art exhibition traditionally reserved for the artist to varnish the paintings.
- versailles — a department in N France. 877 sq. mi. (2271 sq. km). Capital: Versailles.
- versicular — of or consisting of verses.
- vestibular — of, relating to, or resembling a vestibule.
- vibrations — the act of vibrating.
- vice versa — the other way around
- vide supra — (used to direct a reader to a specified place in a text) see above