11-letter words containing v, a, i, n
- nova lisboa — former name of Huambo.
- nova scotia — a peninsula and province in SE Canada: once a part of the French province of Acadia. 21,068 sq. mi. (54,565 sq. km). Capital: Halifax.
- nunavummiut — The people inhabiting the territory of Nunavut.
- nuncupative — (especially of a will) oral; not written.
- obliviation — Total removal or erasure.
- observation — an act or instance of noticing or perceiving.
- oil varnish — a preparation consisting of resinous matter, as copal or lac, dissolved in an oil (oil varnish) or in alcohol (spirit varnish) or other volatile liquid. When applied to the surface of wood, metal, etc., it dries and leaves a hard, more or less glossy, usually transparent coating.
- onion gravy — a type of gravy made with onions and stock and usually served with meat
- orangeville — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
- orientative — the act or process of orienting.
- originative — having or characterized by the power of originating; creative.
- oval window — an oval opening at the head of the cochlea, connecting the middle and inner ear, through which sound vibrations of the stapes are transmitted.
- overanxiety — Excessive anxiety.
- overanxious — excessively anxious.
- overarching — forming an arch above: great trees with overarching branches.
- overbearing — domineering; dictatorial; haughtily or rudely arrogant.
- overcasting — Meteorology. the condition of the sky when more than 95 percent covered by clouds.
- overcaution — excessive caution
- overcoating — a coat worn over the ordinary indoor clothing, as in cold weather.
- overdrawing — Present participle of overdraw.
- overexplain — to explain in too much detail
- overgrainer — someone who overgrains
- overgrazing — to graze (land) to excess.
- overhanging — extending or dangling
- overheating — heating (something) excessively
- overinflate — to inflate to an excessive degree
- overlapping — to lap over (something else or each other); extend over and cover a part of; imbricate.
- overloading — (language) (Or "Operator overloading"). Use of a single symbol to represent operators with different argument types, e.g. "-", used either, as a monadic operator to negate an expression, or as a dyadic operator to return the difference between two expressions. Another example is "+" used to add either integers or floating-point numbers. Overloading is also known as ad-hoc polymorphism. User-defined operator overloading is provided by several modern programming languages, e.g. C++'s class system and the functional programming language Haskell's type classes. Ad-hoc polymorphism (better described as overloading) is the ability to use the same syntax for objects of different types, e.g. "+" for addition of reals and integers or "-" for unary negation or diadic subtraction. Parametric polymorphism allows the same object code for a function to handle arguments of many types but overloading only reuses syntax and requires different code to handle different types.
- overmanning — overstaffing
- painesville — a city in NE Ohio, on Lake Erie.
- palsgravine — the wife or widow of a palsgrave.
- pan-slavism — the idea or advocacy of a political union of all the Slavic peoples.
- parvanimity — the state or characteristic of being small-minded
- passivation — the process of passivating a material
- passiveness — Also, passiveness [pas-iv-nis] /ˈpæs ɪv nɪs/ (Show IPA). the state or condition of being passive.
- penetrative — tending to penetrate; piercing.
- plain weave — the most common and tightest of basic weave structures in which the filling threads pass over and under successive warp threads and repeat the same pattern with alternate threads in the following row, producing a checkered surface.
- portal vein — the large vein conveying blood to the liver from the veins of the stomach, intestine, spleen, and pancreas.
- pot-valiant — brave only as a result of being drunk.
- potato vine — a tender, woody Brazilian vine, Solanum jasminoides, of the nightshade family, having starlike, blue-tinged white flowers in clusters, grown as an ornamental.
- potvaliancy — brave only as a result of being drunk.
- preinvasion — occurring before an invasion
- preinvasive — of or relating to a stage preceding invasion of the tissues; in situ.
- prevacation — a period of suspension of work, study, or other activity, usually used for rest, recreation, or travel; recess or holiday: Schoolchildren are on vacation now.
- prevailment — the action of prevailing
- previsional — characteristic of prevision
- privateness — the quality of being private
- pro-vaccine — any preparation used as a preventive inoculation to confer immunity against a specific disease, usually employing an innocuous form of the disease agent, as killed or weakened bacteria or viruses, to stimulate antibody production.
- provisional — providing or serving for the time being only; existing only until permanently or properly replaced; temporary: a provisional government.
- provocation — the act of provoking.