11-letter words containing v, e, i, t
- semi-active — engaged in action; characterized by energetic work, participation, etc.; busy: an active life.
- semiprivate — having some degree of privacy but not fully private, as a hospital room with fewer beds than a ward.
- sensitively — endowed with sensation; having perception through the senses.
- sensitivity — the state or quality of being sensitive; sensitiveness.
- septemviral — of or relating to septemvirs or a septemvirate.
- septivalent — having a valence of seven; heptavalent.
- servitorial — of or pertaining to a servitor
- seventy-six — a cardinal number, 70 plus 6.
- 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-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.
- 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
- st. vincent — Saint, died a.d. 304, Spanish martyr: patron saint of winegrowers.
- state visit — an official visit of the chief of state of one country to that of another.
- statesville — a city in central North Carolina.
- stephen vii — died a.d. 931, pope 928–931.
- stern-drive — inboard-outboard (def 1).
- stevedoring — the act or practice of loading or unloading a ship, ship's cargo, etc
- stimulative — serving to stimulate.
- stone river — a river in central Tennessee, flowing NW to the Cumberland River. Compare Murfreesboro.
- subadditive — something that is added, as one substance to another, to alter or improve the general quality or to counteract undesirable properties: an additive that thins paint.
- subcurative — of a dosage which is not strong enough to have a curing effect
- subinterval — an interval that is a subset of a given interval.
- subjunctive — (in English and certain other languages) noting or pertaining to a mood or mode of the verb that may be used for subjective, doubtful, hypothetical, or grammatically subordinate statements or questions, as the mood of be in if this be treason. Compare imperative (def 3), indicative (def 2).
- subservient — serving or acting in a subordinate capacity; subordinate.
- substantive — a noun.
- subtractive — tending to subtract; having power to subtract.
- subvertical — being in a position or direction perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; upright; plumb.
- subvitreous — of the nature of or resembling glass, as in transparency, brittleness, hardness, glossiness, etc.: vitreous china.