10-letter words containing v, i, s, t, r
- protrusive — projecting or protuberant; thrusting forward, upward, or outward.
- purgatives — purging or cleansing, especially by causing evacuation of the bowels.
- pursuivant — a heraldic officer of the lowest class, ranking below a herald.
- quivertips — Plural form of quivertip.
- ravishment — rapture or ecstasy.
- recidivist — repeated or habitual relapse, as into crime.
- relativise — to regard as or make relative.
- relativism — any theory holding that criteria of judgment are relative, varying with individuals and their environments.
- relativist — an adherent or advocate of relativism or of the principle of relativity.
- removalist — a person or company that transports household effects to a new home
- resolutive — having the ability to dissolve or terminate.
- respective — pertaining individually or severally to each of a number of persons, things, etc.; particular: I will now discuss the respective merits of the candidates.
- resumptive — that summarizes: a resumptive statement.
- retrovirus — any of a family of single-stranded RNA viruses having a helical envelope and containing an enzyme that allows for a reversal of genetic transcription, from RNA to DNA rather than the usual DNA to RNA, the newly transcribed viral DNA being incorporated into the host cell's DNA strand for the production of new RNA retroviruses: the family includes the AIDS virus and certain oncogene-carrying viruses implicated in various cancers.
- revanchist — an advocate or supporter of a political policy of revanche, especially in order to seek vengeance for a previous military defeat.
- revestiary — the part of a church or temple where the clergy's gowns and other articles are kept; vestry
- revisitant — revisiting or returning to a place
- revitalise — to give new life to.
- revivalist — a person, especially a member of the clergy, who promotes or holds religious revivals.
- salt river — a river flowing W from E Arizona to the Gila River near Phoenix: Roosevelt Dam. 200 miles (322 km) long.
- separative — tending to separate.
- serve time — be in prison
- servitress — a female servitor
- severities — harshness, sternness, or rigor: Their lives were marked by severity.
- shrievalty — the office, term, or jurisdiction of a sheriff.
- shrovetide — the three days before Ash Wednesday, once a time of confession and absolution.
- silvertail — a person of affluence or influence.
- silvertone — made to resemble silver in color, sheen, 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.
- storyville — a red-light district of New Orleans known as a wellspring of jazz before World War I.
- 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.
- strikeover — an act or instance of typing over a character, as one typed in error, without erasing it.
- strivingly — in a striving manner
- subvariety — a minor or subordinate variety
- supportive — giving support.
- supravital — pertaining to or involving a staining method for a preparation of living cells.
- surjective — onto (def 3).
- switchover — the act or process of changing from one power source, system, etc., to another.
- swiveltree — swingletree.
- tapis vert — an unbroken expanse of lawn used as a major element of a landscape design.
- test drive — If you test drive a car or other vehicle, you drive it for a short period in order to assess its performance before deciding whether to buy it.
- test-drive — to drive (a vehicle) on the highway or a special track or route in order to evaluate performance and reliability.
- the-rivals — a comedy of manners (1775) by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
- thriveless — not thriving, flourishing or prospering