9-letter words containing v, o, s, t
- overstuff — to force too much into: If you overstuff your suitcase, the fastenings may not hold.
- oversweet — having the taste or flavor characteristic of sugar, honey, etc.
- overtones — additional meanings or nuances
- overtrust — to trust too much
- overwrest — to strain too much
- ovotestis — the hermaphroditic reproductive organ of some gastropods, containing both an ovary and a testis.
- pontlevis — a drawbridge.
- positives — explicitly stated, stipulated, or expressed: a positive acceptance of the agreement.
- protoavis — a fossil bird of the genus Protoavis, from the Triassic Period, having a birdlike, partly toothless jaw structure, a tail and hind legs resembling those of the dinosaur, and the hollow bones and keellike breast that are characteristic of modern birds: the oldest known avian type, preceding the archaeopteryx by an estimated 75 million years.
- provostry — the office of a (secular, ecclesiastical, or scholastic) provost
- resolvent — resolving; causing solution; solvent.
- roosevelt — (Anna) Eleanor, 1884–1962, U.S. diplomat, author, and lecturer (wife of Franklin Delano Roosevelt).
- rotavirus — a double-stranded RNA virus of the genus Rotavirus, family Reoviridae, that is a major cause of infant diarrhea.
- rubtsovsk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Asia.
- salivator — any agent that causes salivation.
- salvation — the act of saving or protecting from harm, risk, loss, destruction, etc.
- salvatore — a male given name.
- salvatory — a place for storing something safely
- serve out — dish up, distribute: food
- shortwave — Electricity. a radio wave, shorter than that used in AM broadcasting, corresponding to frequencies of over 1600 kilohertz: used for long-distance reception or transmission.
- slavocrat — (in the US before the Civil War) a slaveholder, or an advocate of slavery
- slivovitz — a dry, usually colorless, slightly bitter plum brandy from E Europe.
- sociative — expressing accompaniment or association
- softcover — paperback edition of a book
- solvation — a compound formed by the interaction of a solvent and a solute.
- solvently — able to pay all just debts.
- sovietism — (sometimes lowercase) a soviet system of government.
- sovietize — (sometimes lowercase) to bring under the influence or domination of the Soviet Union.
- stakhanov — a city in E Ukraine, W of Lugnask.
- standover — practising or relating to acts of threatening, intimidating or extorting money from people by force
- stave off — one of the thin, narrow, shaped pieces of wood that form the sides of a cask, tub, or similar vessel.
- stavropol — a territory of the Russian Federation in Europe, N of the Caucasus. 29,600 sq. mi. (76,960 sq. km).
- stay over — spend the night
- stevedore — a firm or individual engaged in the loading or unloading of a vessel.
- stevenson — Adlai Ewing [ad-ley yoo-ing] /ˈæd leɪ ˈyu ɪŋ/ (Show IPA), 1835–1914, vice president of the U.S. 1893–97.
- stop over — stay overnight on a journey
- stovepipe — a pipe, as of sheet metal, serving as a stove chimney or to connect a stove with a chimney flue.
- suboctave — an octave below another octave
- synovitic — inflammation of a synovial membrane.
- synovitis — inflammation of a synovial membrane.
- take vows — to enter a religious order and commit oneself to its rule of life by the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, which may be taken for a limited period as simple vows or as a perpetual and still more solemn commitment as solemn vows
- tarkovsky — Andrei (ˈɑndrej). 1932–86, Soviet film director, whose films include Andrei Rublev (1966), Solaris (1971), Nostalgia (1983), and The Sacrifice (1986)
- televisor — an apparatus for transmitting or receiving television.
- thorshavn — a city in and the capital of the Faeroe Islands, in the N Atlantic.
- tk!solver — Software Arts 1983. Numerical constraint-oriented language. "The TK!Solver Book", M. Konopasek et al, McGraw-Hill 1984.
- togavirus — a virus belonging to the Togaviridae family and which usually affects birds and mammals rather than humans
- tovarisch — comrade (used as a term of address in the Soviet Union).
- trouveres — one of a class of medieval poets who flourished in northern France during the 12th and 13th centuries, wrote in langue d'oïl, and composed chiefly the chansons de geste and works on the themes of courtly love.
- tsavorite — a green variety of grossularite, found in Kenya in 1975 and used as a gem.
- vasectomy — excision of the vas deferens, or of a portion of it: performed to effect sterility in men.