10-letter words containing v, a, r, s
- semiquaver — a sixteenth note.
- separative — tending to separate.
- serviceman — a member of the armed forces of a country.
- 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.
- 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.
- skate over — to cross on or as if on skates
- slavocracy — the rule or domination of slaveholders: the slavocracy of the old plantations.
- 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.
- stand over — (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
- starkville — a town in E Mississippi.
- start over — begin again
- starvation — the act or state of starving; condition of being starved.
- starveling — a person, animal, or plant that is starving.
- stavesacre — a larkspur, Delphinium staphisagria, of Europe and Asia Minor, having violently emetic and cathartic poisonous seeds.
- 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.
- straw vote — an unofficial vote taken to obtain an indication of the general trend of opinion on a particular issue.
- subaverage — a quantity, rating, or the like that represents or approximates an arithmetic mean: Her golf average is in the 90s. My average in science has gone from B to C this semester.
- subvariety — a minor or subordinate variety
- superheavy — Chemistry, Physics. pertaining to any of a series of elements having an atomic number greater than 103.
- supersaver — a specially reduced fare, as for passengers reserving tickets in advance or traveling during off-peak periods.
- supravital — pertaining to or involving a staining method for a preparation of living cells.
- surveyance — survey; inspection; superintendence
- survivable — able to be survived: Would an atomic war be survivable?
- survivance — survival
- svetambara — one of the two principal Jain sects, whose members wear white and believe that women can attain salvation.
- sylvestral — growing, living, or occurring in a wood or beneath a tree
- tapis vert — an unbroken expanse of lawn used as a major element of a landscape design.
- 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-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.
- transvalue — to reestimate the value of, especially on a basis differing from accepted standards; reappraise; reevaluate.
- transverse — lying or extending across or in a cross direction; cross.
- 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.
- tsesarevna — (in Russian history) the wife of the tsesarevitch
- 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).