10-letter words containing s, u, r, v
- manoeuvres — A movement or series of moves requiring skill and care.
- marvellous — superb; excellent; great: a marvelous show.
- mesovarium — the mesentery of the ovary.
- misventure — an unfortunate undertaking; misadventure.
- mouseovers — Plural form of mouseover.
- multiverse — (in physics and cosmology) a hypothetical collection of identical or diverse universes, including our own.
- 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.
- 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
- nucivorous — (of animals) feeding on nuts
- obstrusive — Misspelling of obtrusive.
- omnivorous — eating both animal and plant foods.
- ossivorous — bone-eating
- outtravels — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outtravel.
- over-abuse — to use wrongly or improperly; misuse: to abuse one's authority.
- over-focus — a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity: The need to prevent a nuclear war became the focus of all diplomatic efforts.
- over-fussy — excessively busy with trifles; anxious or particular about petty details.
- overblouse — a blouse designed to be worn outside the waistband of a skirt or a pair of slacks.
- overbounds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overbound.
- overclouds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overcloud.
- overinsure — to insure in excess of actual value
- overslaugh — to pass over or disregard (a person) by giving a promotion, position, etc., to another instead.
- overstruck — to stamp a new device, value, or inscription on (a coin).
- overstrung — overly tense or sensitive; strained; on edge: Their nerves were badly overstrung.
- oversubtle — too subtle (so as to be unnoticed)
- oversupply — an excessive supply.
- overthrust — a thrust fault with a low dip and a large slip.
- palaverous — a conference or discussion.
- panivorous — subsisting on bread; bread-eating.
- parvovirus — Veterinary Pathology. a highly contagious, often fatal viral disease of dogs, characterized by vomiting, severe diarrhea, and depression and accompanied by high fever and loss of appetite.
- percussive — of, relating to, or characterized by percussion.
- persuasive — able, fitted, or intended to persuade: a very persuasive argument.
- poliovirus — any of three picornaviruses of the genus Enterovirus, having a spherical capsid, infectious to humans and the cause of poliomyelitis.
- preclusive — to prevent the presence, existence, or occurrence of; make impossible: The insufficiency of the evidence precludes a conviction.
- precursive — of the nature of a precursor; preliminary; introductory: precursory remarks.
- previously — coming or occurring before something else; prior: the previous owner.
- propulsive — the act or process of propelling.
- protrusive — projecting or protuberant; thrusting forward, upward, or outward.
- purgatives — purging or cleansing, especially by causing evacuation of the bowels.
- pursuivant — a heraldic officer of the lowest class, ranking below a herald.
- quiverfuls — Plural form of quiverful.
- quivertips — Plural form of quivertip.
- ranivorous — that eats frogs
- ravenously — extremely hungry; famished; voracious: feeling ravenous after a hard day's work.
- recidivous — repeated or habitual relapse, as into crime.
- rendezvous — an agreement between two or more persons to meet at a certain time and place.
- resolutive — having the ability to dissolve or terminate.
- resumptive — that summarizes: a resumptive statement.
- retrovirus — any of a family of single-stranded RNA viruses having a helical envelope and containing an enzyme that allows for a reversal of genetic transcription, from RNA to DNA rather than the usual DNA to RNA, the newly transcribed viral DNA being incorporated into the host cell's DNA strand for the production of new RNA retroviruses: the family includes the AIDS virus and certain oncogene-carrying viruses implicated in various cancers.
- rhinovirus — any of a varied and widespread group of picornaviruses responsible for many respiratory diseases, including the common cold.