10-letter words containing n, u, v
- juvenility — juvenile state, character, or manner.
- juvenilize — to make juvenile or immature: to juvenilize the classics for quick reading.
- kudzu vine — a fast-growing Chinese and Japanese climbing vine, Pueraria lobata, of the legume family, now widespread in the southern U.S., having tuberous, starchy roots and stems: used for fiber, as food and forage, and to prevent soil erosion.
- 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.
- lentivirus — any slow virus of the genus Lentivirus, of the retrovirus family, causing brain disease in sheep and other animals.
- lev landau — Lev Davidovich [lyef duh-vye-duh-vyich] /ˈlyɛf dʌˈvyɛ də vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1908–68, Russian scientist: Nobel Prize in Physics 1962.
- leverkusen — a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, in W Germany, on the Rhine.
- 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
- loving cup — a large cup, as of silver, usually with two or more handles, given as a prize, award, token of esteem or affection, etc.
- 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.
- misventure — an unfortunate undertaking; misadventure.
- mouvementé — hectic; animated
- multievent — Consisting of, or relating to, more than one event.
- 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.
- never-outs — articles that a supplier, esp a retail store, is 'never out of', i.e. always has in stock
- neverendum — A series of referendums on the same issue held in an attempt to achieve an unpopular result.
- news value — newsworthiness; value in terms of its interest to consumers of published or broadcast news
- non-devout — devoted to divine worship or service; pious; religious: a devout Catholic.
- non-visual — of or relating to seeing or sight: a visual image.
- nonobvious — Not obvious.
- nonviscous — inviscid.
- novaculite — a very hard sedimentary rock, similar to chert, composed essentially of microcrystalline quartz.
- nucivorous — (of animals) feeding on nuts
- nuevo leon — a state in NE Mexico. 25,136 sq. mi. (65,102 sq. km). Capital: Monterrey.
- numerative — an act or instance of or the process or result of numbering or counting.
- nut weevil — any of several snout beetles of the genus Balaninus, the larvae of which live in and feed on nuts and acorns.
- 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.
- omnivorous — eating both animal and plant foods.
- 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-drunk — to take water or other liquid into the mouth and swallow it; imbibe.
- over-under — (of double-barreled firearms) with one barrel mounted over the other.
- overabound — (intransitive) To be too abundant or plentiful.
- overbounds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overbound.
- overburden — to load with too great a burden; overload: He was overburdened with cares.
- overbuying — Present participle of overbuy.
- overground — In an overground transport system, vehicles run on the surface of the ground, rather than below it.