10-letter words containing a, v, u, n
- invaluable — beyond calculable or appraisable value; of inestimable worth; priceless: an invaluable art collection; her invaluable assistance.
- invaluably — beyond calculable or appraisable value; of inestimable worth; priceless: an invaluable art collection; her invaluable assistance.
- involucral — Pertaining to, possessing, or like, an involucrum.
- jovysaunce — joy
- juvenalian — (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) a.d. c60–140, Roman poet.
- lamivudine — (medicine) A nucleoside analog reverse transcriptase inhibitor, 2',3'-dideoxy-3'-thiacytidine that is used for the treatment of HIV and chronic hepatitis B.
- lev landau — Lev Davidovich [lyef duh-vye-duh-vyich] /ˈlyɛf dʌˈvyɛ də vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1908–68, Russian scientist: Nobel Prize in Physics 1962.
- loan value — the highest amount of money that can be borrowed against a life-insurance policy, based on the cash value of the policy.
- longaevous — long-lived
- maneuvered — a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
- maneuverer — One who maneuvers.
- 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.
- mean value — the ratio of the integral of a given function over a closed interval to the length of the interval.
- minivacuum — a small, handheld vacuum cleaner, as for vacuuming upholstered furniture or car seats, or other relatively small areas.
- misvaluing — Present participle of misvalue.
- naive user — A luser. Tends to imply someone who is ignorant mainly owing to inexperience. When this is applied to someone who *has* experience, there is a definite implication of stupidity.
- nauseative — causing nausea
- naviculare — a small boat-shaped bone of the wrist or foot
- naviculars — Plural form of navicular.
- news value — newsworthiness; value in terms of its interest to consumers of published or broadcast news
- non-visual — of or relating to seeing or sight: a visual image.
- novaculite — a very hard sedimentary rock, similar to chert, composed essentially of microcrystalline quartz.
- 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.
- 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
- overabound — (intransitive) To be too abundant or plentiful.
- overlaunch — (in shipbuilding) to overlap planks
- panivorous — subsisting on bread; bread-eating.
- pursuivant — a heraldic officer of the lowest class, ranking below a herald.
- purveyance — the act of purveying.
- quantitive — that is or may be estimated by quantity.
- ranivorous — that eats frogs
- ravenously — extremely hungry; famished; voracious: feeling ravenous after a hard day's work.
- rejuvenate — to make young again; restore to youthful vigor, appearance, etc.: That vacation has certainly rejuvenated him.
- ruminative — to chew the cud, as a ruminant.
- sound wave — a longitudinal wave in an elastic medium, especially a wave producing an audible sensation.
- stuyvesant — Peter, 1592–1672, Dutch colonial administrator in the Americas: last governor of New Netherlands 1646–64.
- suaveolent — fragrant or sweet-smelling
- subclavian — situated or extending beneath the clavicle, as certain arteries or veins.
- sun valley — a village in S central Idaho: winter resort.
- surveyance — survey; inspection; superintendence
- 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.
- transvalue — to reestimate the value of, especially on a basis differing from accepted standards; reappraise; reevaluate.
- trivandrum — a city in and the capital of Kerala state, in S India: Vishnu pilgrimage center.