11-letter words containing e, v, n, u
- vacuousness — without contents; empty: the vacuous air.
- vagus nerve — either one of the tenth pair of cranial nerves, consisting of motor fibers that innervate the muscles of the pharynx, larynx, heart, and thoracic and abdominal viscera, and of sensory fibers that conduct impulses from these structures to the brain.
- van der hum — a spicy liqueur from South Africa, flavored with tangerine and herbs.
- ventricular — of, relating to, or of the nature of a ventricle.
- ventriculus — the part of the food tract in which digestion takes place, especially the lower cavity of a compound stomach in insects.
- ventriloquy — the art or practice of speaking, with little or no lip movement, in such a manner that the voice does not appear to come from the speaker but from another source, as from a wooden dummy.
- venturesome — having or showing a disposition to undertake risky or dangerous activities; daring: a venturesome investor; a venturesome explorer.
- venturingly — in a venturing manner
- venus shell — a marine bivalve mollusc of the family Veneridae, typified by the intertidal Venus gallina, with somewhat rounded ribbed valves
- venus'-hair — a maidenhair fern (Adiantum capillus-veneris) of tropical America and the S U.S.
- verbal noun — a noun derived from a verb, especially by a process applicable to most or all verbs, as, in English, the -ing form of Eating is fun or of Smoking is forbidden.
- vertiginous — whirling; spinning; rotary: vertiginous currents of air.
- vesuvianite — a mineral, chiefly a hydrous silicate of calcium and aluminum, commonly in tetragonal crystals and usually of a brown to green color; idocrase.
- vice-consul — a consular officer of a grade below that of consul.
- vice-county — any of the geographical units into which the British Isles are divided for purposes of botanical and zoological recording, corresponding wherever possible to county boundaries
- vine cactus — the ocotillo, Fouquieria splendens.
- vingt-et-un — twenty-one (def 4).
- viniculture — the science or study of making wines.
- viscountess — the wife or widow of a viscount.
- vo language — a type of language that has direct objects following the verb and that tends to have typological traits such as prepositions, prefixes, noun modifiers following nouns, adverbs following verbs, and auxiliary verbs preceding the main verb.
- voguishness — the state or condition of being voguish
- voice input — the control and operation of computer systems by spoken commands
- vol-au-vent — a large shell of light, flaky pastry for filling with vegetable, fish, or meat mixtures, usually with a sauce.
- volume unit — a logarithmic unit used to measure the magnitude of a sound wave.
- voluntative — a verb form expressing a desire to perform the action denoted by the verb
- volunteered — a person who voluntarily offers himself or herself for a service or undertaking.
- von neumann — John, 1903–57, U.S. mathematician, born in Hungary.
- vowel sound — spoken language: open sound
- vulcanizate — a vulcanized substance.
- vulneration — the state of being wounded or the action of causing a wound
- wave number — the number of waves in one centimeter of light in a given wavelength; the reciprocal of the wavelength.
- yevtushenko — Yevgeny Alexandrovich [yiv-gye-nyee uh-lyi-ksahn-druh-vyich] /yɪvˈgyɛ nyi ʌ lyɪˈksɑn drə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), born 1933, Russian poet.
- yukon river — a river flowing NW and then SW from NW Canada through Alaska to the Bering Sea. About 2000 miles (3220 km) long.