11-letter words containing o, r, v
- unapproving — expressing disapproval or displeasure
- unconserved — to prevent injury, decay, waste, or loss of: Conserve your strength for the race.
- uncontrived — obviously planned or forced; artificial; strained: a contrived story.
- unconverged — to tend to meet in a point or line; incline toward each other, as lines that are not parallel.
- unconverted — noting a specified type of person who has been converted from the religion, beliefs, or attitudes characteristic of that type: a converted Christian; a converted thief.
- under cover — to be or serve as a covering for; extend over; rest on the surface of: Snow covered the fields.
- undercovert — a covering of undergrowth
- unfavorable — not favorable; contrary; adverse: an unfavorable wind.
- unfavorably — not favorable; contrary; adverse: an unfavorable wind.
- unfavourite — not favourite or favoured
- unflavoured — not flavoured
- unforgiving — not disposed to forgive or show mercy; unrelenting.
- unfrivolous — not frivolous
- unit vector — a vector having a length of one unit.
- unloverlike — not typical of a lover or resembling a lover
- unobservant — who fails to notice
- unobserving — not observing
- unobtrusive — not obtrusive; inconspicuous, unassertive, or reticent.
- unoperative — having no use or effect; inoperative
- unprovident — lacking caution; improvident; imprudent
- unrecovered — not recovered or regained
- unremovable — that may be removed.
- unreproving — not reprimanding or reproaching
- unrevokable — that may be revoked.
- unsovereign — a group or body of persons or a state having sovereign authority.
- unveracious — (of a person) not veracious; not tending to speak the truth; untruthful
- up-and-over — (of a door, etc) opened by being lifted and moved into a horizontal position
- upper volta — former name of Burkina Faso.
- vaccinatory — used for or relating to vaccination
- vacillatory — marked by or displaying vacillation: a vacillatory policy of action.
- valedictory — bidding goodbye; saying farewell: a valedictory speech.
- vallombrosa — a resort in central Italy, near Florence: famous abbey.
- vapor cloud — A vapor cloud is vapor which has gathered in one place.
- vapor phase — In its vapor phase a substance can be condensed to a liquid or to a solid by increasing its pressure without reducing the temperature.
- vapor trail — contrail.
- vaporimeter — an instrument for measuring vapor pressure or volume.
- vapour bath — the act of bathing in vapour, formerly believed to have medicinal benefits
- vapour lock — a stoppage in a pipe carrying a liquid caused by a bubble of gas, esp such a stoppage caused by vaporization of the petrol in the pipe feeding the carburettor of an internal-combustion engine
- vapouringly — in a boastful manner
- varicelloid — resembling varicella.
- varicellous — of or relating to varicella or chicken pox
- varicolored — having various colors; variegated; motley: a varicolored print.
- variegation — an act of variegating.
- varley loop — a device containing a Wheatstone bridge, for comparing resistances and for locating faults in circuits.
- varsovienne — a Polish dance
- vasculiform — shaped like a small vase or flowerpot
- vasodilator — a nerve or drug that causes vasodilatation.
- vasopressin — Biochemistry. a peptide hormone, synthesized in the hypothalamus and released by the posterior pituitary gland, that stimulates capillary muscles and reduces the flow of urine and increases its concentration.
- vasopressor — a hormone, as epinephrine, or other agent that raises the blood pressure by causing contraction of the arteriole muscles, narrowing the arteriole passage.
- vectorially — Mathematics. a quantity possessing both magnitude and direction, represented by an arrow the direction of which indicates the direction of the quantity and the length of which is proportional to the magnitude. Compare scalar (def 4). such a quantity with the additional requirement that such quantities obey the parallelogram law of addition. such a quantity with the additional requirement that such quantities are to transform in a particular way under changes of the coordinate system. any generalization of the above quantities.