12-letter words containing u, v, a, l
- nature lover — someone who likes plants, birds and other natural phenomena
- non-vascular — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
- nonuniversal — Not universal.
- nonvehicular — Not vehicular.
- nonvoluntary — done, made, brought about, undertaken, etc., of one's own accord or by free choice: a voluntary contribution.
- normal curve — a bell-shaped curve showing a particular distribution of probability over the values of a random variable. Also called Gaussian curve, probability curve.
- nuevo laredo — a city in NE Mexico, on the Rio Grande opposite Laredo, Texas.
- nulligravida — A female who has never been pregnant.
- object value — (jargon) In industrial design, a measure of consumers' immediate desire for an object, even before they know or understand what it does. "Gassee may be nuts, but at least the BeBox has great object value."
- outlet valve — a valve (on a pipe, etc) controlling the escape or release (of liquid, etc)
- oval kumquat — a spineless shrub or small citrus tree, Fortunella margarita, of China, having oval-shaped, orange-yellow fruit with sweet and acid flesh.
- over-jealous — feeling resentment against someone because of that person's rivalry, success, or advantages (often followed by of): He was jealous of his rich brother.
- over-popular — regarded with favor, approval, or affection by people in general: a popular preacher.
- over-qualify — to provide with proper or necessary skills, knowledge, credentials, etc.; make competent: to qualify oneself for a job.
- overpopulate — to fill with an excessive number of people, straining available resources and facilities: Expanding industry has overpopulated the western suburbs.
- overregulate — to apply rules and regulations excessively to (something)
- persuasively — able, fitted, or intended to persuade: a very persuasive argument.
- pole vaulter — A pole vaulter is an athlete who performs the pole vault.
- polyomavirus — any of a genus (Polyomavirus) of papovaviruses that naturally infect wild and laboratory mice, and that cause tumors when injected into newborn mice
- popular vote — the vote for a U.S. presidential candidate made by the qualified voters, as opposed to that made by the electoral college. Compare electoral vote.
- postdiluvial — existing or occurring after the biblical Flood
- postdiluvian — existing or occurring after the Biblical Flood.
- preovulatory — to produce and discharge eggs from an ovary or ovarian follicle.
- proper value — characteristic root.
- pulverizable — that can be pulverized
- quacksalvers — Plural form of quacksalver.
- quacksalving — resembling or characteristic of a quacksalver
- quadrivalent — having a valence of four; tetravalent.
- quantivalent — relating to quantivalence
- quaquaversal — (of a geological formation) sloping downward from the center in all directions.
- rarity value — if something has rarity value, it is valuable because there a few examples of it
- reevaluation — an act or instance of evaluating or appraising.
- regular verb — verb that follows standard conjugation
- renovascular — of or relating to the blood vessels of the kidneys.
- reputatively — according to reckoning; by repute; putatively
- resale value — the price which something can achieve when sold in the future
- revictualled — victuals, food supplies; provisions.
- roman-fleuve — saga (def 3).
- sales volume — quantity of goods sold
- samuel lover — Samuel, 1797–1868, Irish novelist, painter, and songwriter.
- sauk village — a town in NE Illinois.
- slave labour — Slave labour refers to slaves or to work done by slaves.
- south kvaløy — an island in the Arctic Ocean, off the N coast of Norway. Area: 735 sq km (284 sq miles)
- sov language — a type of language that has basic subject-object-verb order, as Turkish, Japanese, or Tamil.
- squaresville — a thing, place, etc., regarded as conventional, unfashionable, or conservative.
- squaw valley — valley in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, E Calif., near Lake Tahoe: a ski resort
- street value — monetary worth
- subdividable — to divide (that which has already been divided) into smaller parts; divide again after a first division.
- substantival — noting, of, or pertaining to a substantive.
- subvertebral — located below a vertebra