10-letter words containing v, a, c, u
- 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.")
- incubative — Of or pertaining to incubation.
- incurvated — Simple past tense and past participle of incurvate.
- involucral — Pertaining to, possessing, or like, an involucrum.
- jovysaunce — joy
- judicative — having ability to judge; judging: the judicative faculty.
- kragujevac — a town in E central Serbia; capital of Serbia (1818–39); automobile industry. Pop: 145 890 (2002)
- lascivious — inclined to lustfulness; wanton; lewd: a lascivious, girl-chasing old man.
- laviscious — (nonstandard) Lascivious.
- lucerative — Misspelling of lucrative.
- malvaceous — belonging to the Malvaceae, the mallow family of plants.
- minivacuum — a small, handheld vacuum cleaner, as for vacuuming upholstered furniture or car seats, or other relatively small areas.
- multivocal — having many or different meanings of equal probability or validity: a multivocal word.
- naviculare — a small boat-shaped bone of the wrist or foot
- naviculars — Plural form of navicular.
- novaculite — a very hard sedimentary rock, similar to chert, composed essentially of microcrystalline quartz.
- nux vomica — the seed of the orangelike fruit of an East Indian tree, Strychnos nux-vomica, of the logania family, containing strychnine, used in medicine.
- occupative — relating to work or profession
- olivaceous — of a deep shade of green; olive.
- outachieve — (transitive) To surpass in achievement; to achieve more than.
- overlaunch — (in shipbuilding) to overlap planks
- purveyance — the act of purveying.
- riaa curve — a graphical representation, adopted as a worldwide standard, of the amplitude in relation to frequency response required for correct reproduction of microgroove disc recordings, compensating for the characteristics of the recording process
- saxicavous — (of molluscs) tending to bore holes or hollow out rocks
- scuba dive — go deep-sea swimming
- scuba-dive — to descend and swim underwater using a scuba device.
- subclavate — somewhat club-shaped.
- subclavian — situated or extending beneath the clavicle, as certain arteries or veins.
- subclavius — a small shoulder muscle, the action of which assists in depressing the shoulder.
- subvocally — in a subvocal manner, with subvocalization
- surveyance — survey; inspection; superintendence
- survivance — survival
- traductive — able to be deduced or transmitted
- ulcerative — causing ulceration.
- unachieved — to bring to a successful end; carry through; accomplish: The police crackdown on speeders achieved its purpose.
- uncreative — having the quality or power of creating.
- univalence — the quality of being univalent.
- univocally — having only one meaning; unambiguous.
- unreactive — tending to react.
- unveracity — lack of veracity or truthfulness; the quality or condition of tending to speak what is false
- vacuolated — having a vacuole or vacuoles.
- vacuum pan — a vessel equipped with a vacuum pump used for rapid evaporation by boiling a substance at a low temperature under reduced pressure.
- vacuumized — to create a vacuum in.
- vade mecum — something a person carries about for frequent or regular use.
- vallecular — a furrow or depression.
- vasculitis — inflammation of veins, arteries, capillaries, or lymph vessels.
- vermicular — of, relating to, or done by worms.
- vernacular — (of language) native or indigenous (opposed to literary or learned).
- versicular — of or consisting of verses.
- vesiculate — characterized by or covered with vesicles.