10-letter words containing a, v, o, n
- loch raven — a town in central Maryland, near Baltimore.
- longaevous — long-lived
- lopatnikov — Nicolai Lvovich [nik-uh-lahy luh-voh-vich;; Russian nyi-kuh-lahy lvaw-vyich] /ˈnɪk əˌlaɪ ləˈvoʊ vɪtʃ;; Russian nyɪ kʌˈlaɪ ˈlvɔ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1903–76, U.S. composer, born in Russia.
- lovastatin — a drug, C 24 H 36 O 8 , that reduces the levels of fats in the blood by altering the enzyme activity in the liver that produces lipids.
- lovemaking — the act of courting or wooing.
- malevolent — wishing evil or harm to another or others; showing ill will; ill-disposed; malicious: His failures made him malevolent toward those who were successful.
- malinovsky — Rodion Yakovlevich [ruh-dyi-awn yah-kuh-vlyi-vyich] /rə dyɪˈɔn ˈyɑ kə vlyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1898–1967, Russian army officer: minister of defense of the U.S.S.R. 1957–67.
- manoeuvred — Simple past tense and past participle of manoeuvre.
- manoeuvrer — Alternative spelling of maneuverer.
- manoeuvres — A movement or series of moves requiring skill and care.
- mavourneen — darling; dear.
- monovalent — Chemistry. univalent.
- mooncalves — Plural form of mooncalf.
- most-divan — sliced and baked in a casserole with broccoli and hollandaise sauce.
- motivating — Effectively providing an incentive.
- motivation — the act or an instance of motivating, or providing with a reason to act in a certain way: I don't understand what her motivation was for quitting her job. Synonyms: motive, inspiration, inducement, cause, impetus.
- move along — advance, go forward
- moving van — a large truck or trailer used for transporting furnishings from one residence or office to another.
- nabokovian — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling the literary style of Vladimir Nabokov: a sly, Nabokovian sense of the absurd.
- native dog — a dingo
- native son — a novel (1940) by Richard Wright.
- navelworts — Plural form of navelwort.
- navigation — the act or process of navigating.
- navigators — Plural form of navigator.
- navy cross — a U.S. Navy decoration awarded for outstanding heroism in operations against an enemy.
- 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-verbal — of or relating to words: verbal ability.
- 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.
- nonveteran — a person who has had long service or experience in an occupation, office, or the like: a veteran of the police force; a veteran of many sports competitions.
- 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.
- 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.
- observance — an act or instance of following, obeying, or conforming to: the observance of traffic laws.
- octavalent — having a valence of eight.
- on a level — on the same horizontal plane as another
- on average — more or less