11-letter words containing v, e, r, i, t, s
- overintense — too intense
- overtedious — extremely tedious
- overtension — the act of stretching or straining.
- persecutive — to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
- perspective — a technique of depicting volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surface. Compare aerial perspective, linear perspective.
- pitt-rivers — Augustus (Henry Lane Fox).1827–1900, British archaeologist; first inspector of ancient monuments (1882): assembled a major anthropological collection of tools and weapons (now in the Pitt-Rivers Museum, Oxford)
- postdivorce — of, or relating to the period after a person is divorced
- prepositive — (of a word) placed before another word to modify it or to show its relation to other parts of the sentence. In red book, red is a prepositive adjective. John's in John's book is a prepositive genitive.
- presumptive — affording ground for presumption: presumptive evidence.
- previous to — before, prior to
- privateness — the quality of being private
- prospective — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
- readvertise — to advertise (something) again
- reductivism — reductionism.
- reservation — the act of keeping back, withholding, or setting apart.
- resistively — in a resistive manner, with resistance
- resistivity — the power or property of resistance.
- restitutive — reparation made by giving an equivalent or compensation for loss, damage, or injury caused; indemnification.
- restiveness — impatient of control, restraint, or delay, as persons; restless; uneasy.
- restorative — serving to restore; pertaining to restoration.
- restrictive — tending or serving to restrict.
- resultative — (in grammar) a phrase which describes the state of a noun by completing the verb phrase
- revelations — the last book of the New Testament, containing visionary descriptions of heaven, of conflicts between good and evil, and of the end of the world
- revisionist — an advocate of revision, especially of some political or religious doctrine.
- revitalised — to give new life to.
- revivalists — a person, especially a member of the clergy, who promotes or holds religious revivals.
- revivescent — reviving
- reviviscent — the act or state of being revived; revival; reanimation.
- rh positive — See under Rh factor.
- rh-positive — See under Rh factor.
- secretively — having or showing a disposition to secrecy; reticent: He seems secretive about his new job.
- segregative — to separate or set apart from others or from the main body or group; isolate: to segregate exceptional children; to segregate hardened criminals.
- semiprivate — having some degree of privacy but not fully private, as a hospital room with fewer beds than a ward.
- septemviral — of or relating to septemvirs or a septemvirate.
- servitorial — of or pertaining to a servitor
- 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.
- 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
- south river — a borough in central New Jersey.
- sovereignty — the quality or state of being sovereign, or of having supreme power or authority.
- spirit cave — an archaeological site in Thailand that has produced evidence of very early plant domestication in Southeast Asia, dated c7000 b.c.