11-letter words containing v, a, u
- du vigneaud — Vincent, 1901–78, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1955.
- dumb sheave — a block having no sheave or other part rolling with the movement of a line.
- duncanville — a town in N Texas.
- duplicative — a copy exactly like an original.
- easy virtue — loose morals; sexual promiscuity
- eave trough — gutter (def 3).
- eavestrough — gutter (def 3).
- ebola virus — a highly contagious virus of the family Filoviridae that causes Ebola, a usually fatal disease.
- eigenvalues — Plural form of eigenvalue.
- ejaculative — Ejaculatory.
- elucidative — Explanatory, clarifying; that serves to elucidate.
- emulatively — So as to emulate.
- endeavoured — Simple past tense and past participle of endeavour.
- enumerative — Of, pertaining to or based on enumeration.
- envigourate — Rare spelling of invigorate.
- equivalence — The condition of being equal or equivalent in value, worth, function, etc.
- equivalency — (countable) An equivalent thing.
- equivalents — Plural form of equivalent.
- equivocally — With ambiguity.
- equivocated — Simple past tense and past participle of equivocate.
- equivocates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of equivocate.
- equivocator — Agent noun of equivocate; one who equivocates.
- evacuations — Plural form of evacuation.
- evaluations — Plural form of evaluation.
- eventuality — A possible event or outcome.
- eventualize — to come into being, to materialize
- eventuating — Present participle of eventuate.
- eventuation — The act of eventuating or happening as a result; the outcome.
- evolutional — Of or pertaining to evolution, coming about as a result of the principles of evolution.
- extenuative — a thing which lessens the seriousness (of a crime or wrongdoing)
- facultative — conferring a faculty, privilege, permission, or the power of doing or not doing something: a facultative enactment.
- favellidium — (in certain red algae) a cystocarp wholly or partly immersed in a frond.
- favouritism — (British) The unfair favouring of one person or group at the expense of another.
- flavourings — Plural form of flavouring.
- flavourless — British standard spelling of flavorless.
- flavoursome — Alternative spelling of flavorsome.
- fluvastatin — A drug of the statin class, used to treat hypercholesterolemia and to prevent cardiovascular disease.
- fluvoxamine — an antidepressant drug that acts by preventing the re-uptake after release of serotonin in the brain, thereby prolonging its action
- frustrative — That which frustrates (causes frustration).
- fuel-saving — (of a vehicle) using less fuel for a further distance
- gas vacuole — a gas-filled structure that provides buoyancy in some aquatic bacteria
- gauze weave — leno (def 1).
- genu valgum — knock-knee.
- gouvernante — (archaic) governess.
- granivorous — (of an animal, especially a bird) eating grain and seeds.
- groin-vault — a vault or ceiling created by the intersection of vaults.
- ground wave — a radio wave that propagates on or near the earth's surface and is affected by the ground and the troposphere.
- guard's van — The guard's van of a train is a small carriage or part of a carriage in which the guard travels.
- guide vanes — fixed aerofoils that direct air, gas, or water into the moving blades of a turbine or into or around bends in ducts with minimum loss of energy
- guided wave — a wave the energy of which is concentrated near a boundary or between parallel boundaries separating different materials and that has a direction of propagation parallel to these boundaries.