8-letter words containing u, n, v, a
- unsavory — not savory; tasteless or insipid: an unsavory meal.
- unshaved — to remove a growth of beard with a razor.
- unshaven — a past participle of shave.
- unvalued — highly regarded or esteemed: a valued friend.
- unvaried — characterized by or exhibiting variety; various; diverse; diversified: varied backgrounds.
- unviable — capable of living.
- unvulgar — not vulgar or common; refined; free from vulgarity
- unwaived — to refrain from claiming or insisting on; give up; forgo: to waive one's right; to waive one's rank; to waive honors.
- unwaving — a disturbance on the surface of a liquid body, as the sea or a lake, in the form of a moving ridge or swell.
- urban iv — (Jacques Pantaléon) died 1264, French ecclesiastic: pope 1261–64.
- urban vi — (Bartolomeo Prignano) c1318–89, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1378–89.
- vaginula — a little sheath, as found on the stalk of mosses
- vallhund — a breed of small herding dog, originally from Sweden
- van duyn — Mona, 1921–2004, U.S. poet: U.S. poet laureate 1992.
- vanadium — a rare element occurring in certain minerals and obtained as a light-gray powder with a silvery luster or as a ductile metal: used as an ingredient of steel to toughen it and increase its shock resistance. Symbol: V; atomic weight: 50.942; atomic number: 23; specific gravity: 5.96.
- vanadous — containing divalent or trivalent vanadium.
- vanbrugh — John, 1664–1726, English dramatist and architect.
- vanguard — the foremost division or the front part of an army; advance guard; van.
- vanquish — to conquer or subdue by superior force, as in battle.
- vargueno — a fall-front desk of the 16th, 17th, and early 18th centuries, having the form of a chest upon a small table.
- vaulting — the act of vaulting.
- vauntery — bravado; boasting
- vauntful — boastful.
- vaunting — having a boastfully proud disposition: a vaunting dictator.
- venusian — of or relating to the planet Venus.
- vesuvian — of, relating to, or resembling Mount Vesuvius; volcanic.