9-letter words containing v, y, s
- overfussy — too fussy
- overhasty — excessively hasty; rash: overhasty judgment.
- overlusty — too lusty
- overstory — the uppermost layer of foliage in a forest, forming the canopy.
- overstudy — excessive study.
- passively — not reacting visibly to something that might be expected to produce manifestations of an emotion or feeling.
- passivity — Also, passiveness [pas-iv-nis] /ˈpæs ɪv nɪs/ (Show IPA). the state or condition of being passive.
- pensively — dreamily or wistfully thoughtful: a pensive mood.
- presurvey — to take a general or comprehensive view of or appraise, as a situation, area of study, etc.
- provisory — containing a proviso or condition; conditional.
- provostry — the office of a (secular, ecclesiastical, or scholastic) provost
- reshevsky — Samuel, 1911–92, U.S. chess player, born in Poland.
- reversely — opposite or contrary in position, direction, order, or character: an impression reverse to what was intended; in reverse sequence.
- salvatory — a place for storing something safely
- sarvodaya — (in India) economic and social development and improvement of a community as a whole
- servantry — servants collectively, esp the servants of a particular establishment as a body
- servilely — slavishly submissive or obsequious; fawning: servile flatterers.
- servility — slavishly submissive or obsequious; fawning: servile flatterers.
- seventhly — as the seventh point; linking what follows to the previous statements, as in a speech or argument
- severally — separately; singly.
- severalty — the state of being separate.
- sky cover — the amount of the sky that is covered by clouds, fog, haze, smoke, or the like, usually expressed in tenths of the total sky.
- skydiving — the sport of jumping from an airplane at a moderate or high altitude and free-falling and using one's body to control direction or movements before opening one's parachute.
- slavishly — of or befitting a slave: slavish subjection.
- slavyansk — a city in E central Ukraine, NW of Donetsk.
- solvently — able to pay all just debts.
- stay over — spend the night
- suasively — persuasively; in a persuasive manner
- subcavity — a cavity within a larger cavity
- sunnyvale — a city in central California, south of San Francisco.
- surveying — the science or scientific method of making surveys of land.
- syktyvkar — an autonomous republic in the NW Russian Federation in Europe. 145,221 sq. mi. (376,122 sq. km). Capital: Syktyvkar.
- sylvanite — a mineral, gold silver telluride, (AuAg)Te 2 , silver-white with metallic luster, often occurring in crystals so arranged as to resemble written characters: an ore of gold.
- sylvester — (Gerbert) died 1003, French ecclesiastic: pope 999–1003.
- sylvinite — an ore containing sylvine
- synovitic — inflammation of a synovial membrane.
- synovitis — inflammation of a synovial membrane.
- tarkovsky — Andrei (ˈɑndrej). 1932–86, Soviet film director, whose films include Andrei Rublev (1966), Solaris (1971), Nostalgia (1983), and The Sacrifice (1986)
- ulyanovsk — a city in the W Russian Federation, on the Volga River: birthplace of Lenin.
- unsavoury — not savory; tasteless or insipid: an unsavory meal.
- vampishly — in a vampish manner
- variously — of different kinds, as two or more things; differing one from another: Various experiments have not proved his theory.
- vasectomy — excision of the vas deferens, or of a portion of it: performed to effect sterility in men.
- ventosity — flatulence
- verbosely — characterized by the use of many or too many words; wordy: a verbose report.
- verbosity — the state or quality of being verbose; superfluity of words; wordiness: His speeches were always marred by verbosity.
- vestryman — a member of a church vestry.
- viciously — addicted to or characterized by vice; grossly immoral; depraved; profligate: a vicious life.
- villosity — a villous surface or coating.
- viscosity — the state or quality of being viscous.