11-letter words containing v, l, s, i
- legislative — having the function of making laws: a legislative body.
- life-saving — a person who rescues another from danger of death, especially from drowning.
- light verse — verse that is written to entertain, amuse, or please, often by the subtlety of its form rather than by its literary quality.
- lightvessel — A ship equipped with a very large lamp, the ship can be positioned to warn off other ships from dangerous locations. A sort of portable lighthouse.
- lignivorous — xylophagous.
- line starve — (MIT, opposite of line feed) 1. To feed paper through a printer the wrong way by one line (most printers can't do this). On a display terminal, to move the cursor up to the previous line of the screen. "To print "X squared", you just output "X", line starve, "2", line feed." (The line starve causes the "2" to appear on the line above the "X", and the line feed gets back to the original line.) 2. A character (or character sequence) that causes a terminal to perform this action. ASCII 26, also called SUB or control-Z, was one common line-starve character in the days before microcomputers and the X3.64 terminal standard. Unlike "line feed", "line starve" is *not* standard ASCII terminology. Even among hackers it is considered silly. 3. (Proposed) A sequence such as \c (used in System V echo, as well as nroff and troff) that suppresses a newline or other character(s) that would normally be emitted.
- lip service — insincere expression of friendship, admiration, support, etc.; service by words only: He paid only lip service to the dictator.
- live in sin — (of an unmarried couple) to live together
- livebearers — Plural form of livebearer.
- livelihoods — Plural form of livelihood.
- liver salts — a preparation of mineral salts used to treat indigestion
- liver spots — a form of chloasma in which irregularly shaped light-brown spots occur on the skin.
- living soul — person
- livingstone — David, 1813–73, Scottish missionary and explorer in Africa.
- lobachevski — Nikoˈlai Iˈvanovich (nikɔˈlaɪ iˈvɑnɔvɪtʃ ) ; nēk^ōlīˈ ēväˈn^ōvich) 1793-1856; Russ. mathematician
- locomotives — Plural form of locomotive.
- locorestive — having a tendency to rest in one place
- longevities — Plural form of longevity.
- louis xviii — (Louis Xavier Stanislas) 1755–1824, king of France 1814–15, 1815–24 (brother of Louis XVI).
- mail server — 1. (tool, messaging) A program that distributes files or information in response to requests sent via electronic mail. Examples on the Internet include Almanac and netlib. Mail servers are also used on Bitnet. In the days before Internet access was widespread and UUCP mail links were common, mail servers could be used to provide remote services which might now be provided via FTP or WWW. 2. (messaging) (Or "mail hub") A computer used to store and/or forward electronic mail.
- mars violet — a dark grayish-purple color.
- medievalism — the spirit, practices, or methods of the Middle Ages.
- medievalist — an expert in medieval history, literature, philosophy, etc.
- microvessel — (medicine) A very small blood vessel, such as a capillary or arteriole.
- microvillus — any of the small, fingerlike projections of the surface of an epithelial cell.
- misbelieved — Simple past tense and past participle of misbelieve.
- misbeliever — Someone who holds an unauthorised belief; a heretic, an unbeliever.
- misevaluate — to determine or set the value or amount of; appraise: to evaluate property.
- most-livery — liverish.
- moundsville — a city in NW West Virginia, on the Ohio River.
- multiversal — Of or pertaining to the multiverse.
- murrysville — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
- music lover — sb who enjoys listening to music
- neovitalism — a new or revived form of the belief that life is a vital principle (vitalism)
- neovitalist — someone who holds to the theory of neovitalism
- nicholas iv — (Girolamo Masci) died 1292, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1288–92.
- noblesville — a town in central Indiana.
- nonarrivals — Plural form of nonarrival.
- nova lisboa — former name of Huambo.
- novelettish — Resembling or characteristic of a novelette.
- novelettist — a person who writes novelettes
- obliviously — unmindful; unconscious; unaware (usually followed by of or to): She was oblivious of his admiration.
- observingly — Attentively, observantly.
- obsessively — In an obsessive manner.
- obtrusively — having or showing a disposition to obtrude, as by imposing oneself or one's opinions on others.
- offensively — causing resentful displeasure; highly irritating, angering, or annoying: offensive television commercials.
- oil varnish — a preparation consisting of resinous matter, as copal or lac, dissolved in an oil (oil varnish) or in alcohol (spirit varnish) or other volatile liquid. When applied to the surface of wood, metal, etc., it dries and leaves a hard, more or less glossy, usually transparent coating.
- olive shell — any marine gastropod of the family Olividae, having a polished, highly colored, elongated shell and a large mantle that, when extended, surrounds the shell.
- oscillative — disposed to oscillation
- ostensively — (manner) In an ostensive manner.