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11-letter words containing o, v, e, r, t, u

  • overwrought — extremely or excessively excited or agitated: to become overwrought on hearing bad news; an overwrought personality.
  • pluviometer — rain gauge.
  • previous to — before, prior to
  • provocateur — a person who provokes trouble, causes dissension, or the like; agitator.
  • pulveration — the reduction of something to powder
  • rejuvenator — to make young again; restore to youthful vigor, appearance, etc.: That vacation has certainly rejuvenated him.
  • rev counter — A rev counter is an instrument in a car or an aeroplane which shows the speed of the engine.
  • revaluation — to make a new or revised valuation of; revalue.
  • reverse out — a font or type that is defined by its background or border, allowing the underlying colour of the paper or the background colour to show the shape of the characters
  • river-mouth — an estuary
  • rotogravure — a photomechanical process by which pictures, typeset matter, etc., are printed from an intaglio copper cylinder.
  • south river — a borough in central New Jersey.
  • sporulative — involving or relating to sporulation
  • spot survey — a survey taken immediately and at random
  • subvitreous — of the nature of or resembling glass, as in transparency, brittleness, hardness, glossiness, etc.: vitreous china.
  • superoctave — an organ stop two octaves above the standard pitch
  • supervolute — (of convolute leaves) enveloping a rolled up leaf within the bud
  • the vapours — a depressed mental condition believed originally to be the result of vaporous exhalations from the stomach
  • thoreauvianHenry David, 1817–62, U.S. naturalist and author.
  • travelogues — a lecture, slide show, or motion picture describing travels.
  • trevor nunn — a university degree graded 2:1 (second class upper bracket)
  • tumble over — If someone or something tumbles over, they fall, often with a rolling or bouncing movement.
  • turtle dove — A turtle dove is a type of light-brown dove which makes a soft pleasant sound and which is said to behave in a very affectionate way towards its sexual partner and its young.
  • turtledoves — any of several small to medium-sized Old World doves of the genus Streptopelia, especially S. turtur, of Europe, having a long, graduated tail: noted for its soft, cooing call.
  • ultraviolet — beyond the violet in the spectrum, corresponding to light having wavelengths shorter than 4000 angstrom units.
  • uncontrived — obviously planned or forced; artificial; strained: a contrived story.
  • 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.
  • undercovert — a covering of undergrowth
  • unfavourite — not favourite or favoured
  • unit vector — a vector having a length of one unit.
  • unobservant — who fails to notice
  • unobtrusive — not obtrusive; inconspicuous, unassertive, or reticent.
  • unoperative — having no use or effect; inoperative
  • unprovident — lacking caution; improvident; imprudent
  • upper volta — former name of Burkina Faso.
  • ventriloquy — the art or practice of speaking, with little or no lip movement, in such a manner that the voice does not appear to come from the speaker but from another source, as from a wooden dummy.
  • venturesome — having or showing a disposition to undertake risky or dangerous activities; daring: a venturesome investor; a venturesome explorer.
  • vertiginous — whirling; spinning; rotary: vertiginous currents of air.
  • volunteered — a person who voluntarily offers himself or herself for a service or undertaking.
  • voyeuristic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a voyeur or of voyeurism.
  • vulneration — the state of being wounded or the action of causing a wound
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