12-letter words containing i, n, u, v
- devil's dung — asafetida.
- diminutively — In a diminutive manner.
- disadventure — misfortune; bad luck
- disinvoltura — Self-assurance; lack of constraint.
- disjunctives — Plural form of disjunctive.
- drug-driving — driving while under the influence of drugs, esp illegal drugs
- drunk driver — A drunk driver is someone who drives after drinking more than the amount of alcohol that is legally allowed.
- duck-shoving — the evasion of responsibility by someone
- durante vita — during life.
- effusiveness — unduly demonstrative; lacking reserve: effusive greetings; an effusive person.
- endeavouring — Present participle of endeavour.
- equivalently — In an equivalent manner; equally.
- equivocating — Present participle of equivocate.
- equivocation — The use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth or to avoid committing oneself; prevarication.
- evolutionary — Of or relating to evolution.
- evolutionism — (countable) Any of several theories that explain the evolution of systems or organisms.
- evolutionist — A person who believes in the theories of evolution and natural selection.
- fan vaulting — a system of fan vaults.
- five hundred — a variety of euchre in which a joker and widow are included, the object being to score 500 points first.
- fluviomarine — of or formed by the combined action of river and sea.
- fugitiveness — The quality of being fugitive; evanescence; volatility.
- grievousness — causing grief or great sorrow: grievous news.
- griseofulvin — an antibiotic, C 17 H 17 ClO 6 , obtained from a species of Penicillium, used in the treatment of ringworm and other fungous infections of the skin.
- haute-vienne — a department in central France. 2145 sq. mi. (5555 sq. km). Capital: Limoges.
- hepadnavirus — Any member of the virus family Hepadnaviridae, capable of causing liver infections in humans and animals.
- hudson river — Henry, died 1611? English navigator and explorer.
- Îles du vent — a group of islands in the S Pacific, in French Polynesia in the W Society Archipelago: Moorea, Maio (Tubuai Manu), and Mehetia and Tetiaroa. Pop: 184 222 (2002)
- illuminative — giving light; illuminating.
- illusiveness — illusory.
- in favour of — If one thing is rejected in favour of another, the second thing is done or chosen instead of the first.
- inclusive of — including; taking into account
- inclusive or — the connective that gives the value true to a disjunction if either or both of the disjuncts are true
- inconclusive — not conclusive; not resolving fully all doubts or questions: inconclusive evidence.
- incorruptive — incorruptible; not tending to be corrupted
- individual's — a single human being, as distinguished from a group.
- individually — one at a time; separately: The delegates were introduced individually.
- individuated — Simple past tense and past participle of individuate.
- individuates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of individuate.
- inequivalent — Not equivalent.
- inequivalved — having the valves of the shell of a mollusk unequal in size
- inexhaustive — not exhaustive; not thorough
- input device — a peripheral device, as a keyboard or stylus, used to enter data into a computer for processing.
- insubmissive — Unwilling to submit; not submissive, disobedient.
- insusceptive — insusceptible
- interpluvial — designating a drier period occurring between two periods of persistently heavy rainfall
- interruptive — to cause or make a break in the continuity or uniformity of (a course, process, condition, etc.).
- intervillous — Between the villi.
- intraveneous — Misspelling of intravenous.
- introductive — serving or used to introduce; preliminary; beginning: an introductory course; an introductory paragraph.
- invert sugar — a mixture of the dextrorotatory forms of glucose and fructose, formed naturally in fruits and produced artificially in syrups or fondants by treating cane sugar with acids.