10-letter words containing n, u, v
- overhonour — to honour too highly
- overinsure — to insure in excess of actual value
- overlaunch — (in shipbuilding) to overlap planks
- overruling — the act or instance of ruling over another
- overrunner — someone who or something that overruns
- overstrung — overly tense or sensitive; strained; on edge: Their nerves were badly overstrung.
- overturned — to destroy the power of; overthrow; defeat; vanquish.
- overturner — a person who overturns
- panivorous — subsisting on bread; bread-eating.
- punitively — serving for, concerned with, or inflicting punishment: punitive laws; punitive action.
- 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.
- rejuvenize — to rejuvenate.
- rendezvous — an agreement between two or more persons to meet at a certain time and place.
- revengeful — determined to have revenge; vindictive.
- revolution — an overthrow or repudiation and the thorough replacement of an established government or political system by the people governed.
- rhinovirus — any of a varied and widespread group of picornaviruses responsible for many respiratory diseases, including the common cold.
- ruminative — to chew the cud, as a ruminant.
- sine curve — a curve described by the equation y = sin x, the ordinate being equal to the sine of the abscissa.
- sound wave — a longitudinal wave in an elastic medium, especially a wave producing an audible sensation.
- spur veins — the veins of a horse that can be damaged by a rider's spurs
- 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.
- subvention — a grant of money, as by a government or some other authority, in aid or support of some institution or undertaking, especially in connection with science or the arts.
- subversion — an act or instance of subverting.
- sun valley — a village in S central Idaho: winter resort.
- surveyance — survey; inspection; superintendence
- survivance — survival
- suspensive — pertaining to or characterized by suspension.
- sustentive — sustaining, esp life or growth
- swivel gun — a gun mounted on a pedestal so that it can be turned from side to side or up and down.
- 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.
- turnverein — an athletic club, especially of gymnasts.
- un-availed — to be of use or value to; profit; advantage: All our efforts availed us little in trying to effect a change.
- unabsolved — to free from guilt or blame or their consequences: The court absolved her of guilt in his death.
- unachieved — to bring to a successful end; carry through; accomplish: The police crackdown on speeders achieved its purpose.
- unadaptive — serving or able to adapt; showing or contributing to adaptation: the adaptive coloring of a chameleon.
- unapproved — to speak or think favorably of; pronounce or consider agreeable or good; judge favorably: to approve the policies of the administration.
- unavailing — ineffectual; futile.
- unavowable — to declare frankly or openly; own; acknowledge; confess; admit: He avowed himself an opponent of all alliances.
- unavowedly — in an unavowed or concealed manner
- unbeavered — not wearing a beaver hat or wrapped in beaver fur
- unbehaving — to act in a particular way; conduct or comport oneself or itself: The ship behaves well.