11-letter words containing n, u, v
- fluvoxamine — an antidepressant drug that acts by preventing the re-uptake after release of serotonin in the brain, thereby prolonging its action
- fuel-saving — (of a vehicle) using less fuel for a further distance
- fungivorous — feeding on fungi, as certain insects.
- furtiveness — taken, done, used, etc., surreptitiously or by stealth; secret: a furtive glance.
- genu valgum — knock-knee.
- give ground — the quality or state of being resilient; springiness.
- gouvernante — (archaic) governess.
- gouvernment — Obsolete form of government.
- granivorous — (of an animal, especially a bird) eating grain and seeds.
- groin-vault — a vault or ceiling created by the intersection of vaults.
- ground dove — any of several small terrestrial doves of the warmer parts of the Americas, especially Columbina passerina.
- ground wave — a radio wave that propagates on or near the earth's surface and is affected by the ground and the troposphere.
- groundcover — Alternative spelling of ground cover.
- guard's van — The guard's van of a train is a small carriage or part of a carriage in which the guard travels.
- guide vanes — fixed aerofoils that direct air, gas, or water into the moving blades of a turbine or into or around bends in ducts with minimum loss of energy
- honorius iv — (Giacomo Savelli) 1210–87, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1285–87.
- illuviation — the accumulation in one layer of soil of materials that have been leached out of another layer.
- in a vacuum — If something is done in a vacuum, it is not affected by any outside influences or information.
- inclusively — including or encompassing the stated limit or extremes in consideration or account (usually used postpositively): from 6 to 37 inclusive.
- inclusivism — The practice of incorporating disparate or unreconciled elements in a single, inclusive system or theory.
- inclusivity — An intention or policy of including people who might otherwise be excluded or marginalized, such as those who are handicapped or learning-disabled, or racial and sexual minorities.
- inconducive — not conducive; tending to be harmful or injurious: inconducive to the public good.
- inculcative — to implant by repeated statement or admonition; teach persistently and earnestly (usually followed by upon or in): to inculcate virtue in the young.
- incurvating — Present participle of incurvate.
- incurvation — curved, especially inward.
- individuall — Obsolete form of individual.
- individuals — Plural form of individual.
- individuate — to form into an individual or distinct entity.
- inductively — of, relating to, or involving electrical induction or magnetic induction.
- inductivism — The use of or preference for inductive methods of reasoning, especially in science.
- inductivity — power to induct; an inductive quality
- inequivalve — (of a bivalve mollusk) having the valves of the shell unequal in shape and size.
- ingenuitive — (nonstandard) Possessing ingenuity; ingenious.
- innutritive — (archaic) Lacking in nutrition.
- inobtrusive — unobtrusive.
- inoculative — to implant (a disease agent or antigen) in a person, animal, or plant to produce a disease for study or to stimulate disease resistance.
- inquisitive — given to inquiry, research, or asking questions; eager for knowledge; intellectually curious: an inquisitive mind.
- insinuative — to suggest or hint slyly: He insinuated that they were lying.
- institutive — tending or intended to institute or establish.
- instructive — serving to instruct or inform; conveying instruction, knowledge, or information; enlightening.
- interfluves — Plural form of interfluve.
- intervallum — an interval of time
- intervenous — (anatomy, botany) Between veins.
- intravenous — within a vein.
- intrusive r — linking r (def 2).
- intrusive-r — the r- sound as reintroduced into an utterance where there is an r in the spelling by speakers of an r- dropping dialect when a postvocalic r they would normally drop, as in the pronunciation of far as [fah] /fɑ/ (Show IPA) becomes intervocalic, as in far away pronounced as [fahr-uh-wey] /ˈfɑr əˈweɪ/ (Show IPA).
- intrusively — tending or apt to intrude; coming without invitation or welcome: intrusive memories of a lost love.
- intuitively — perceiving directly by intuition without rational thought, as a person or the mind.
- intuitivism — ethical intuitionism.
- investiture — the act or process of investing.