10-letter words containing va
- sieva bean — butter bean.
- sit shivah — to mourn
- sivash sea — a salt lagoon in S Ukraine, on the N of the Crimea peninsula. About 990 sq. mi. (2560 sq. km).
- solivagant — a lone wanderer
- starvation — the act or state of starving; condition of being starved.
- 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.
- sub-vassal — (in the feudal system) a person granted the use of land, in return for rendering homage, fealty, and usually military service or its equivalent to a lord or other superior; feudal tenant.
- subclavate — somewhat club-shaped.
- subvariety — a minor or subordinate variety
- sun valley — a village in S central Idaho: winter resort.
- survivable — able to be survived: Would an atomic war be survivable?
- survivance — survival
- tannu-tuva — an autonomous republic in the Russian Federation in Asia: formerly an independent republic in Mongolia. 65,810 sq. mi. (170,500 sq. km). Capital: Kyzyl.
- tax evader — a person who reduces or minimizes their tax liability by illegal methods
- tereshkova — Valentina Vladimirovna [vuh-lyin-tyee-nuh vluh-dyi-myee-ruh v-nuh] /və lyɪnˈtyi nə vlə dyɪˈmyi rəv nə/ (Show IPA), born 1937, Soviet cosmonaut: first woman in space 1963.
- the canvas — the floor of a boxing or wrestling ring
- the levant — a former name for the area of the E Mediterranean now occupied by Lebanon, Syria, and Israel
- the-rivals — a comedy of manners (1775) by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
- theravadin — Hinayanist.
- time value — the duration of a given printed note relative to other notes in a composition or section and considered in relation to the basic tempo
- tovarishch — comrade (used as a term of address in the Soviet Union).
- transvalue — to reestimate the value of, especially on a basis differing from accepted standards; reappraise; reevaluate.
- travailing — painfully difficult or burdensome work; toil.
- travancore — a former state in SW India: merged 1949 with Cochin to form a new state (Travancore and Cochin) reorganized 1956 to form the larger part of Kerala state.
- trivandrum — a city in and the capital of Kerala state, in S India: Vishnu pilgrimage center.
- trouvaille — a windfall
- tskhinvali — an autonomous region of the Georgian Republic, in the N part. 1428 sq. mi. (3900 sq. km). Capital: Tskhinvali.
- tsvangirai — Morgan. born 1952, Zimbabwean trade unionist and politician; leader of the Movement for Democratic Change, the main opposition party to President Mugabe's Zanu-PF since 1999; prime minister (2009–2013)
- tsvetayeva — Maˈrina (Ivanovna) (məˈrinə ) ; mərēˈnə) 1892-1941; Russ. poet, essayist, & critic
- tyre valve — a valve that allows air to be added to a tyre with an air hose and allows air to be withdrawn from an over-inflated tyre by pressing on a stem at the end of the valve
- un-availed — to be of use or value to; profit; advantage: All our efforts availed us little in trying to effect a change.
- unavailing — ineffectual; futile.
- undervalue — to value below the real worth; put too low a value on.
- undrivable — to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation.
- ungava bay — an inlet of the Hudson Strait in NE Quebec province, in E Canada, between Ungava Peninsula and N Labrador.
- uninvasive — characterized by or involving invasion; offensive: invasive war.
- univalence — the quality of being univalent.
- univariant — (of thermodynamic equilibrium) having a variance of one, or only one degree of freedom
- univariate — (of a distribution) having one variate.
- unprovable — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
- unrelevant — bearing upon or connected with the matter in hand; pertinent: a relevant remark.
- unrivalled — having no rival or competitor; having no equal; incomparable; supreme: His work is unrivaled for the beauty of its prose.
- unsalvaged — the act of saving a ship or its cargo from perils of the seas.
- unsolvable — capable of being solved, as a problem.
- unvaluable — having considerable monetary worth; costing or bringing a high price: a valuable painting; a valuable crop.
- unvariable — invariable; unchangeable or unchanging
- unvariably — apt or liable to vary or change; changeable: variable weather; variable moods.
- va-va-voom — the quality of being interesting, exciting, or sexually appealing