10-letter words containing v, a, u
- book value — In business, the book value of an asset is the value it is given in the account books of the company that owns it.
- cadaverous — If you describe someone as cadaverous, you mean they are extremely thin and pale.
- cash value — the nonforfeiture value of a life-insurance policy payable to the insured in cash upon its surrender.
- causatives — Plural form of causative.
- cavaquinho — A small, four-stringed guitar resembling a ukulele, popular in Brazil and Portugal.
- chauvinism — Chauvinism is a strong, unreasonable belief that your own country is more important and morally better than other people's.
- chauvinist — a person who is aggressively and blindly patriotic, especially one devoted to military glory.
- chivalrous — A chivalrous man is polite, kind, and unselfish, especially towards women.
- clavicular — a bone of the pectoral arch.
- coadjuvant — Cooperating.
- conventual — of, belonging to, or characteristic of a convent
- convulsant — producing convulsions
- copulative — serving to join or unite
- coq au vin — chicken stewed with red wine, onions, etc
- cuernavaca — a city in S central Mexico, capital of Morelos state: resort with nearby Cacahuamilpa Caverns. Pop: 723 000 (2005 est)
- cultivable — (of land) capable of being cultivated
- cultivated — If you describe someone as cultivated, you mean they are well educated and have good manners.
- cultivates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cultivate.
- cultivator — A cultivator is a tool or machine which is used to break up the earth or to remove weeds, for example in a garden or field.
- culvertage — the forfeiture of a person's property, thereby reducing him to the status of a villain
- cumulative — If a series of events have a cumulative effect, each event makes the effect greater.
- cunctative — delay; tardiness.
- curvaceous — If someone describes a woman as curvaceous, they think she is attractive because of the curves of her body.
- curvacious — pleasingly curved
- curvatures — Plural form of curvature.
- curve ball — a continuously bending line, without angles.
- curve-ball — a continuously bending line, without angles.
- curveballs — Plural form of curveball.
- cutis vera — cutis.
- daugavpils — a city in SE Latvia on the Western Dvina River: founded in 1274 by Teutonic Knights; ruled by Poland (1559–1772) and Russia (1772–1915); retaken by the Russians in 1940. Pop: 112 609 (2002 est)
- davao gulf — a gulf of the Pacific Ocean on the SE coast of Mindanao, Philippines.
- demiquaver — a sixteenth note; semiquaver.
- depurative — used for or capable of depurating; purifying; purgative
- devaluated — Simple past tense and past participle of devaluate.
- devaluates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of devaluate.
- dissuasive — tending or liable to dissuade.
- disvaluing — Present participle of disvalue.
- divulgated — to make publicly known; publish.
- dubitative — doubting; doubtful.
- durnovaria — the Latin name for a town in S England, administrative centre of Dorset: associated with Thomas Hardy, esp as the Casterbridge of his novels. Pop: 16 171 (2001)
- duumvirate — a coalition of two persons holding the same office, as in ancient Rome.
- eau de vie — brandy, especially a coarser and less purified variety.
- eave spout — waterspout (def 1).
- eigenvalue — Each of a set of values of a parameter for which a differential equation has a nonzero solution (an eigenfunction) under given conditions.
- eluviation — (soil science, countable) The sideways or downward movement of dissolved or suspended material within soil caused by rainfall.
- endeavours — Plural form of endeavour.
- equivalate — To equate, to consider or make equal or equivalent (to, with). never doubt the trinidad GAINS.
- equivalent — Equal in value, amount, function, meaning, etc.
- equivalise — To make equivalent.
- equivocacy — Equivocalness.