9-letter words containing v, s, t
- sensitive — endowed with sensation; having perception through the senses.
- septemvir — a member of a seven-man ruling body in ancient Rome.
- servantry — servants collectively, esp the servants of a particular establishment as a body
- serve out — dish up, distribute: food
- serviette — a table napkin.
- servility — slavishly submissive or obsequious; fawning: servile flatterers.
- servitude — slavery or bondage of any kind: political or intellectual servitude.
- seventeen — a cardinal number, 10 plus 7.
- seventhly — as the seventh point; linking what follows to the previous statements, as in a speech or argument
- seventies — a cardinal number, 10 times 7.
- severalty — the state of being separate.
- sexvalent — hexavalent or having a valency of six
- shavetail — U.S. Army. a second lieutenant.
- 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.
- shvartzer — Yiddish: Usually Disparaging and Offensive. schvartze.
- siccative — causing or promoting absorption of moisture; drying.
- silvertip — grizzly bear.
- silvester — Sylvester II.
- sirventes — a Provençal form of verse or troubadour song, usually satirical
- sixtus iv — (Francesco della Rovere) 1414–84, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1471–84.
- slave ant — an ant taken as a larva or pupa by ants of another species and becoming a working member of the captor colony.
- slavicist — a specialist in the study of the Slavic languages or literatures.
- slavocrat — (in the US before the Civil War) a slaveholder, or an advocate of slavery
- sleevelet — a fitted sleeve or cover worn on the forearm for warmth or to protect a shirt sleeve.
- 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
- stanislav — former name of Ivano-Frankovsk.
- stavanger — a seaport in SW Norway.
- 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).
- stavudine — an antiviral drug used to treat HIV infections
- stay over — spend the night
- stephen v — died a.d. 891, pope 885–891.
- stevedore — a firm or individual engaged in the loading or unloading of a vessel.
- stevenage — a town in N Hertfordshire, in SE England.
- 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.
- subcavity — a cavity within a larger cavity
- suboctave — an octave below another octave
- subverted — to overthrow (something established or existing).
- summative — additive.
- sweetveld — (in South Africa) a type of grazing characterized by high-quality grass