10-letter words containing a, v, i, n
- nicholas v — (Thomas Parentucelli) 1397?–1455, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1447–55.
- nominative — Grammar. (in certain inflected languages, as Sanskrit, Latin, and Russian) noting a case having as its function the indication of the subject of a finite verb, as in Latin Nauta bonus est “The sailor is good,” with nauta “sailor” in the nominative case. similar to such a case in function or meaning.
- non-native — of or relating to a language that is not the first language acquired by a person: It is harder to communicate in your nonnative language.
- non-viable — not capable of living, growing, and developing, as an embryo, seed, or plant.
- non-visual — of or relating to seeing or sight: a visual image.
- nonarrival — Failure to arrive.
- nondeviant — Not deviant.
- nonevasive — Not evasive.
- nonnatives — Plural form of nonnative.
- nonpassive — not passive; active
- nonstative — (of a verb) expressing an action or process, as run or grow, and able to be used in either simple or progressive tenses: I run every day. I am running home now.
- nontrivial — not trivial.
- nonvariant — Not variant.
- nonvarying — Not varying.
- nonvintage — the wine from a particular harvest or crop.
- nonvocalic — Not vocalic; not used as a vowel.
- novaculite — a very hard sedimentary rock, similar to chert, composed essentially of microcrystalline quartz.
- novitiates — Plural form of novitiate.
- numerative — an act or instance of or the process or result of numbering or counting.
- nux vomica — the seed of the orangelike fruit of an East Indian tree, Strychnos nux-vomica, of the logania family, containing strychnine, used in medicine.
- opiniative — Archaic form of opinionative.
- ordinative — Tending to ordain; directing; giving orders.
- ordovician — noting or pertaining to a geologic period of the Paleozoic Era, from 500 million to 425 million years ago, notable for the advent of fish.
- outbraving — Present participle of outbrave.
- outvillain — to outdo in villainy
- ouvirandra — former name for the lattice-leaf plant Aponogeton madagascariensis, an aquatic plant from Madagascar, with leaves like a lattice spreading under the surface of the water
- over again — above in place or position: the roof over one's head.
- overacting — Present participle of overact.
- overaction — Excessive action (as of a muscle of the body).
- overeating — Gluttony, the act of eating to excess (either to discomfort or more than required for proper health).
- overlaying — to lay or place (one thing) over or upon another.
- overstrain — to exert, tax, or use (resources) to an excessive extent
- overtaking — passing the vehicle in front
- palavering — a conference or discussion.
- panivorous — subsisting on bread; bread-eating.
- panslavism — the idea or advocacy of a political union of all the Slavic peoples.
- papaverine — a white, crystalline, nonnarcotic, alkaloidal powder, C 2 0 H 2 1 NO 4 , obtained from opium, but not a morphine derivative and not habit-forming or addicting, used in the treatment of spasms of involuntary muscle, especially of the stomach, bronchi, and arteries.
- phomvihane — Kaysone (ˈkaɪsɒn). 1920–92, Laotian Communist statesman; prime minister of Laos (1975–91); president (1991–92)
- pizza oven — an oven, traditionally round in shape and wood-fired, for cooking pizza
- plainville — a town in N Connecticut.
- prevail on — to persuade; induce
- prevailing — predominant: prevailing winds.
- prison van — vehicle to transfer prisoners
- provincial — belonging or peculiar to some particular province; local: the provincial newspaper.
- provitamin — a substance that an organism can transform into a vitamin, as carotene, which is converted to vitamin A in the liver.
- pursuivant — a heraldic officer of the lowest class, ranking below a herald.
- quantitive — that is or may be estimated by quantity.
- ranivorous — that eats frogs
- ravishment — rapture or ecstasy.
- reinvasion — the act or an instance of entering (a country, territory, etc) by military force again; a second or subsequent invasion