9-letter words containing u, n, i, v
- invidious — calculated to create ill will or resentment or give offense; hateful: invidious remarks.
- involucel — a secondary involucre, as in a compound cluster of flowers.
- involucre — Botany. a collection or rosette of bracts subtending a flower cluster, umbel, or the like.
- involuted — intricate; complex.
- involutes — Plural form of involute.
- ivory nut — the seed of a low, South American palm, Phytelephas macrocarpa, yielding vegetable ivory.
- juveniles — Plural form of juvenile.
- juvenilia — (literature, plural only) Works produced during an artist's or author's youth.
- juvenoids — Plural form of juvenoid.
- luneville — a city in NE France, W of Strasbourg: treaty between France and Austria 1801.
- mournival — a card game whose object is to gain a set of four aces, kings, queens, or knaves in one hand
- navicular — boat-shaped, as certain bones.
- nonvirtue — moral excellence; goodness; righteousness.
- nonvisual — Not visual.
- norovirus — any of various single-stranded RNA viruses of the genus Norovirus, of the family Caliciviridae: the most common cause of epidemic viral gastroenteritis in humans.
- novaesium — an industrial city in W Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia west of Düsseldorf: founded as a Roman fortress in the 1st century ad. Pop: 152 050 (2003 est)
- nun river — a major channel of the Niger River, in W Africa.
- nutritive — serving to nourish; providing nutriment; nutritious.
- oncovirus — any of various RNA viruses that cause tumors in humans and other animals.
- outgiving — friendly or responsive; outgoing.
- outliving — Present participle of outlive.
- outvoting — Present participle of outvote.
- ovalbumin — the principal protein of egg white.
- ovimbundu — Mbundu (def 1).
- ovulation — to produce and discharge eggs from an ovary or ovarian follicle.
- pulverine — the alkaline ashes resulting from the burning of the barilla plant
- pulvinate — having the shape of a cushion; resembling a cushion; cushion-shaped.
- pulvinule — (at the base of a leafstalk) a small swelling
- quavering — to shake tremulously; quiver or tremble: He stood there quavering with fear.
- quivering — the act or state of quivering; a tremble or tremor.
- revulsion — a strong feeling of repugnance, distaste, or dislike: Cruelty fills me with revulsion.
- rna virus — any virus containing RNA; retrovirus.
- sauvignon — a small blue-black grape grown primarily in the Médoc region of Bordeaux, in SW France, and highly prized in winemaking.
- severinus — died a.d. 640, pope 640.
- stavudine — an antiviral drug used to treat HIV infections
- subniveal — beneath the snow
- sun visor — a flap, usually of padded cardboard, acetate, or the like, that is attached inside a vehicle above the windshield and can be swung down to protect the eyes from the sun's glare.
- surveying — the science or scientific method of making surveys of land.
- surviving — to remain alive after the death of someone, the cessation of something, or the occurrence of some event; continue to live: Few survived after the holocaust.
- un-driven — past participle of drive.
- un-virgin — a person who has never had sexual intercourse.
- unabusive — using, containing, or characterized by harshly or coarsely insulting language: an abusive author; abusive remarks.
- unadvised — without advice or counsel; uninformed: a defendant unadvised of her legal rights.
- unarrived — to come to a certain point in the course of travel; reach one's destination: He finally arrived in Rome.
- unavailed — to be of use or value to; profit; advantage: All our efforts availed us little in trying to effect a change.
- unavoided — not avoided or evaded
- unbelieve — to disbelieve or distrust something
- undeceive — to free from deception, fallacy, or mistake.
- underived — not derived; fundamental, as an axiom or postulate; immediate.
- undiverse — of a different kind, form, character, etc.; unlike: a wide range of diverse opinions.