10-letter words containing v, a, u
- overlaunch — (in shipbuilding) to overlap planks
- overmature — complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms: a mature rose bush.
- overslaugh — to pass over or disregard (a person) by giving a promotion, position, etc., to another instead.
- overtaught — taught to excess
- palaverous — a conference or discussion.
- panivorous — subsisting on bread; bread-eating.
- parvovirus — Veterinary Pathology. a highly contagious, often fatal viral disease of dogs, characterized by vomiting, severe diarrhea, and depression and accompanied by high fever and loss of appetite.
- persuasive — able, fitted, or intended to persuade: a very persuasive argument.
- pole vault — sports event: high jump using a pole
- pole-vault — to execute a pole vault.
- pulverable — capable of being pulverized; pulverizable.
- purgatives — purging or cleansing, especially by causing evacuation of the bowels.
- pursuivant — a heraldic officer of the lowest class, ranking below a herald.
- purveyance — the act of purveying.
- putatively — commonly regarded as such; reputed; supposed: the putative boss of the mob.
- quadrivial — having four ways or roads meeting in a point.
- quadrivium — (during the Middle Ages) the more advanced division of the seven liberal arts, comprising arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music.
- quadrumvir — a member of a quadrumvirate.
- quail dove — any of several tropical American pigeons of the genera Starnoenas or Geotrygon.
- quantitive — that is or may be estimated by quantity.
- quiddative — Constituting, or containing, the essence of a thing.
- quo vadis? — where are you going?
- ranivorous — that eats frogs
- ravenously — extremely hungry; famished; voracious: feeling ravenous after a hard day's work.
- reevaluate — to determine or set the value or amount of; appraise: to evaluate property.
- refutative — tending to refute; pertaining to refutation: refutative evidence.
- regulative — to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc.: to regulate household expenses.
- rejuvenate — to make young again; restore to youthful vigor, appearance, etc.: That vacation has certainly rejuvenated him.
- reputative — reputed, putative, regarded as such
- revaluated — to make a new or revised valuation of; revalue.
- 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
- rogue wave — a random, enormous ocean wave that sometimes travels at an angle to prevailing seas.
- ruddevator — a control surface functioning both as a rudder and as an elevator.
- ruminative — to chew the cud, as a ruminant.
- sale value — the amount of money that sth would make if it were to be sold
- 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.
- semiquaver — a sixteenth note.
- simulative — to create a simulation, likeness, or model of (a situation, system, or the like): to simulate crisis conditions.
- sound wave — a longitudinal wave in an elastic medium, especially a wave producing an audible sensation.
- stuyvesant — Peter, 1592–1672, Dutch colonial administrator in the Americas: last governor of New Netherlands 1646–64.
- suaveolent — fragrant or sweet-smelling
- sub-vassal — (in the feudal system) a person granted the use of land, in return for rendering homage, fealty, and usually military service or its equivalent to a lord or other superior; feudal tenant.
- subaverage — a quantity, rating, or the like that represents or approximates an arithmetic mean: Her golf average is in the 90s. My average in science has gone from B to C this semester.
- 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.
- subvariety — a minor or subordinate variety
- subvocally — in a subvocal manner, with subvocalization