11-letter words containing v, i, s, o, r
- postdivorce — of, or relating to the period after a person is divorced
- preinvasion — occurring before an invasion
- 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.
- previous to — before, prior to
- previsional — characteristic of prevision
- profusively — profuse; lavish; prodigal: profusive generosity.
- progressive — favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters: a progressive mayor.
- prospective — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
- providences — a seaport in and the capital of Rhode Island, in the NE part, at the head of Narragansett Bay.
- provisional — providing or serving for the time being only; existing only until permanently or properly replaced; temporary: a provisional government.
- provisioned — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- provisioner — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- provostship — the office of a provost
- radio waves — an electromagnetic wave having a wavelength between 1 millimeter and 30,000 meters, or a frequency between 10 kilohertz and 300,000 megahertz.
- radiovision — television.
- rediscovery — the act or an instance of discovering.
- reprovision — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- reservation — the act of keeping back, withholding, or setting apart.
- restorative — serving to restore; pertaining to restoration.
- 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
- reversioner — a person who possesses a reversion.
- revisionary — the act or work of revising.
- revisionism — advocacy or approval of revision.
- revisionist — an advocate of revision, especially of some political or religious doctrine.
- rh positive — See under Rh factor.
- rh-positive — See under Rh factor.
- rhabdovirus — any of various RNA-containing viruses of the family Rhabdoviridae, including the rabies virus.
- river horse — a hippopotamus.
- rose weevil — Fuller rose beetle.
- salvadorian — El Salvador.
- service dog — a dog trained to assist a person with a disability that is not related to vision or hearing.
- servitorial — of or pertaining to a servitor
- sharonville — a town in SW Ohio.
- short-lived — living or lasting only a little while.
- silver book — (publication) Jensen and Wirth's infamous "Pascal User Manual and Report", so called because of the silver cover of the widely distributed Springer-Verlag second edition of 1978 (ISBN 0-387-90144-2). See also book titles, Pascal.
- silver foil — silver or silver-colored metal in foil form.
- silver goal — (in certain competitions) a goal scored in a full half of extra time that is played if a match is drawn. This goal counts as the winner if it is the only goal scored in the full half or full period of extra time
- silver orfe — one of the two varieties of orfe, an aquarium fish
- silverpoint — a technique of drawing with a silver stylus on specially prepared paper.
- smoky river — a river in W central Alberta, Canada, flowing N to the Peace River. 250 miles (402 km) long.
- snowy river — a river in SE Australia, rising in SE New South Wales: waters diverted through a system of dams and tunnels across the watershed into the Murray and Murrumbidgee Rivers for hydroelectric power and to provide water for irrigation. Length: 426 km (265 miles)
- south river — a borough in central New Jersey.
- sovereignly — a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler.
- sovereignty — the quality or state of being sovereign, or of having supreme power or authority.
- sporulative — involving or relating to sporulation
- stevedoring — the act or practice of loading or unloading a ship, ship's cargo, etc
- stone river — a river in central Tennessee, flowing NW to the Cumberland River. Compare Murfreesboro.
- subvitreous — of the nature of or resembling glass, as in transparency, brittleness, hardness, glossiness, etc.: vitreous china.
- supervision — the act or function of supervising; superintendence.
- supervisory — of, relating to, or having supervision.