10-letter words containing u, v, a, l
- evaluative — Relating to the assignment of value to a person, thing, or event.
- evaluators — Plural form of evaluator.
- eventually — In the end, especially after a long delay, dispute, or series of problems.
- face value — the value printed on the face of a stock, bond, or other financial instrument or document.
- favourable — Pleasing, encouraging or approving.
- favourably — (British, Canada) In a favourable manner.
- favourless — without favour, unfortunate
- flavivirus — Any of a group of RNA viruses, mostly having arthropod vectors, that cause a number of serious human diseases including yellow fever, dengue, various types of encephalitis, and hepatitis C.
- flavourful — British standard spelling of flavorful.
- flavouring — taste, especially the distinctive taste of something as it is experienced in the mouth.
- flavourist — a chemist who blends ingredients to create artificial flavours or scents, for food or perfume
- flavourous — Alternative spelling of flavorous.
- fluvialist — a person who explains geological or geographical phenomena by the action of streams
- fluviatile — pertaining or peculiar to rivers; found in or near rivers.
- food value — The food value of a particular food is a measure of how good it is for you, based on its level of vitamins, minerals, or calories.
- hack value — Often adduced as the reason or motivation for expending effort toward a seemingly useless goal, the point being that the accomplished goal is a hack. For example, MacLISP had features for reading and printing Roman numerals, which were installed purely for hack value. See display hack for one method of computing hack value, but this cannot really be explained, only experienced. As Louis Armstrong once said when asked to explain jazz: "Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know." (Feminists please note Fats Waller's explanation of rhythm: "Lady, if you got to ask you ain't got it.")
- individual — a single human being, as distinguished from a group.
- insulative — serving to protect or insulate: glassware shipped in insulative packing.
- invaluable — beyond calculable or appraisable value; of inestimable worth; priceless: an invaluable art collection; her invaluable assistance.
- invaluably — beyond calculable or appraisable value; of inestimable worth; priceless: an invaluable art collection; her invaluable assistance.
- involucral — Pertaining to, possessing, or like, an involucrum.
- isopluvial — a line on a map connecting places registering the same amount of precipitation or rainfall
- ivy league — a group of colleges and universities in the northeastern U.S., consisting of Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell, the University of Pennsylvania, and Brown, having a reputation for high scholastic achievement and social prestige.
- jugoslavia — formerly, a federal republic in S Europe: since 1992 comprised of Serbia and Montenegro; disbanded into independent countries in 2006. 39,449 sq. mi. (102,173 sq. km). Capital: Belgrade.
- juvenalian — (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) a.d. c60–140, Roman poet.
- kvikkalkul — (language) /kveek`kahl-kool'/ A deliberately cryptic programming language said to have been devised by the Swedish Navy in the 1950s as part of their abortive attempt at a nuclear weapons program. What little is known about it comes from a series of an anonymous posts to Usenet in 1994. The poster described the language, saying that he had programmed in Kvikkalkul when he worked for the Swedish Navy in the 1950s. It is an open question whether the posts were a troll, a subtle parody or truth stranger than fiction could ever be. Assuming it existed, Kvikkalkul is so much a bondage-and-discipline language that it is, in its own ways, even more bizarre than the deliberate parody language INTERCAL. Among its notable "features", all symbols in Kvikkalkul, including variable names and program labels, can consist only of digits. Operators consist entirely of the punctuation symbols (, ), -, and :. Kvikkalkul allows no comments - they might not correspond with the code. Kvikkalkul's only data type is the signed fixed-point fractional number, i.e. a number between (but not including) -1 and 1. Dealings with the Real World that require numbers outside that range are done with functions that notionally map that range to a larger range (e.g., -16383 to -16383) and back. Kvikkalkul had a probabilistic jump operator which, if given a negative probability, would act like a COME FROM. This was, sadly, deleted in later versions of the language.
- lamivudine — (medicine) A nucleoside analog reverse transcriptase inhibitor, 2',3'-dideoxy-3'-thiacytidine that is used for the treatment of HIV and chronic hepatitis B.
- lascivious — inclined to lustfulness; wanton; lewd: a lascivious, girl-chasing old man.
- laviscious — (nonstandard) Lascivious.
- lev landau — Lev Davidovich [lyef duh-vye-duh-vyich] /ˈlyɛf dʌˈvyɛ də vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1908–68, Russian scientist: Nobel Prize in Physics 1962.
- loan value — the highest amount of money that can be borrowed against a life-insurance policy, based on the cash value of the policy.
- longaevous — long-lived
- lucerative — Misspelling of lucrative.
- malvaceous — belonging to the Malvaceae, the mallow family of plants.
- marvellous — superb; excellent; great: a marvelous show.
- mean value — the ratio of the integral of a given function over a closed interval to the length of the interval.
- misvaluing — Present participle of misvalue.
- multivalve — (of a shell) composed of more than two valves or pieces.
- multivocal — having many or different meanings of equal probability or validity: a multivocal word.
- mutilative — Causing or relating to mutilation.
- naviculare — a small boat-shaped bone of the wrist or foot
- naviculars — Plural form of navicular.
- news value — newsworthiness; value in terms of its interest to consumers of published or broadcast news
- non-visual — of or relating to seeing or sight: a visual image.
- novaculite — a very hard sedimentary rock, similar to chert, composed essentially of microcrystalline quartz.
- olivaceous — of a deep shade of green; olive.
- outrivaled — Simple past tense and past participle of outrival.
- outtravels — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outtravel.
- outvillain — to outdo in villainy
- overbrutal — excessively brutal