11-letter words containing v, a, u
- calculative — the act or process of calculating; computation.
- canvas duck — a lightweight cotton or linen fabric.
- carnivorous — Carnivorous animals eat meat.
- carvelbuilt — Alternative form of carvel-built.
- causatively — acting as a cause; producing (often followed by of): a causative agency; an event causative of war.
- cavernously — In a cavernous manner; like a cavern.
- cavernulous — possessing or being full of small cavities
- chauvinists — zealous and aggressive patriotism or blind enthusiasm for military glory.
- che guevara — Ernesto [er-nes-taw] /ɛrˈnɛs tɔ/ (Show IPA), ("Che") 1928–67, Cuban revolutionist and political leader, born in Argentina.
- chula vista — city in SW Calif.: suburb of San Diego: pop. 174,000
- circulative — Promoting circulation; circulating.
- clavigerous — bearing a key or club
- coadjuvancy — (rare) cooperation, mutual effort, joint-help.
- coadventure — adventure in which two or more share.
- coagulative — Obsolete. coagulated.
- cocultivate — to cultivate jointly
- commutative — relating to or involving substitution
- computative — of, relating to, or involving computation
- confutative — That confutes.
- conjugative — Grammar. to inflect (a verb). to recite or display all or some subsets of the inflected forms of (a verb), in a fixed order: One conjugates the present tense of the verb “be” as “I am, you are, he is, we are, you are, they are.”.
- conjunctiva — the delicate mucous membrane that covers the eyeball and the undersurface of the eyelid
- conventuals — Plural form of conventual.
- convulsants — Plural form of convulsant.
- coronavirus — a type of airborne virus accounting for 10-30% of all colds
- countervail — to act or act against with equal power or force
- countervair — (heraldry) A heraldic fur resembling vair, except in the arrangement of the patches or figures.
- covarrubias — Miguel [mee-gel] /miˈgɛl/ (Show IPA), 1904–57, Mexican caricaturist, illustrator, and painter.
- cross vault — a vault or ceiling created by the intersection of vaults.
- cruciverbal — of or relating to crosswords
- culminative — (of stress or tone accent) serving to indicate the number of independent words or the important points in an utterance by assigning prominence to one syllable in each word or close-knit group of words.
- cultivating — Present participle of cultivate.
- cultivation — the planting, tending, improving, or harvesting of crops or plants
- cultivators — Plural form of cultivator.
- curry favor — to try to win favor by flattery, fawning, etc.
- curvilineal — (Of a line) Having bends; curved; curvilinear.
- curvilinear — consisting of, bounded by, or characterized by a curved line
- de beauvoir — Simone (simɔn). 1908–86, French existentialist novelist and feminist, whose works include Le Sang des autres (1944), Le Deuxième Sexe (1949), and Les Mandarins (1954)
- decurvation — the act of curving downwards
- delta virus — a severe form of hepatitis caused by an incomplete virus (delta virus) that links to the hepatitis B virus for its replication.
- devaluating — Present participle of devaluate.
- devaluation — a decrease in the exchange value of a currency against gold or other currencies, brought about by a government
- diluvialism — the theory, generally abandoned in the mid-19th century, that the earth's surface was shaped by the biblical flood
- diluvialist — a person who believes in the theory of diluvialism
- disfavoured — Simple past tense and past participle of disfavour.
- disfavourer — one who does not favour
- displuviate — (of the atrium of an ancient Roman house) having roofs sloping downward and outward from a central opening.
- disputative — Tending to dispute.
- diverticula — a blind, tubular sac or process branching off from a canal or cavity, especially an abnormal, saclike herniation of the mucosal layer through the muscular wall of the colon.
- divulgation — to make publicly known; publish.
- divulgatory — to make publicly known; publish.