10-letter words containing v, a, u
- equivocate — Use ambiguous language so as to conceal the truth or avoid committing oneself.
- evacuating — Present participle of evacuate.
- evacuation — The action of evacuating a person or a place.
- evacuative — That causes evacuation; cathartic; purgative.
- evaluating — Present participle of evaluate.
- evaluation — The making of a judgment about the amount, number, or value of something; assessment.
- 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.
- eventuated — Simple past tense and past participle of eventuate.
- eventuates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of eventuate.
- exhaustive — Examining, including, or considering all elements or aspects; fully comprehensive.
- exuviating — Present participle of exuviate.
- exuviation — The process of producing exuviae.
- 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.
- favourites — Plural form of favourite.
- favourless — without favour, unfortunate
- figurative — of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, especially a metaphor; metaphorical and not literal: The word “head” has several figurative senses, as in “She's the head of the company.”. Synonyms: metaphorical, not literal, symbolic.
- 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.
- give guard — (of an umpire) to indicate such a position to a batsman
- give pause — a temporary stop or rest, especially in speech or action: a short pause after each stroke of the oar.
- guarapuava — a city in S Brazil.
- gustavus i — (Gustavus Vasa) 1496–1560, king of Sweden 1523–60.
- gustavus v — 1858–1950, king of Sweden 1907–50: advocate of Swedish neutrality during World Wars I and II.
- 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.")
- hantavirus — any of several viruses of the family Bunyaviridae, spread chiefly by wild rodents, that cause acute respiratory illness, kidney failure, and other syndromes.
- heavy-duty — providing an unusual amount of power, durability, etc.: heavy-duty machinery; heavy-duty shoes.
- id nouveau — A dataflow language by Arvind <[email protected]> and R.S. Nikhil <[email protected]>, MIT LCS, ca. 1986. Id Nouveau began as a functional language, added streams, resource managers and I-structures (mutable arrays). Loops are syntactic sugar for tail recursion. See also Id.
- imputative — to attribute or ascribe: The children imputed magical powers to the old woman.
- incubative — Of or pertaining to incubation.
- incurvated — Simple past tense and past participle of incurvate.
- individual — a single human being, as distinguished from a group.
- indurative — the act of indurating.
- 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.
- jovysaunce — joy
- judicative — having ability to judge; judging: the judicative faculty.