12-letter words containing v, a, u
- equivalently — In an equivalent manner; equally.
- equivocality — The quality of being equivocal.
- equivocating — Present participle of equivocate.
- equivocation — The use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth or to avoid committing oneself; prevarication.
- equivocatory — Indicating, or characterized by, equivocation.
- evolutionary — Of or relating to evolution.
- exhaustively — In an exhaustive manner.
- fan vaulting — a system of fan vaults.
- favouredness — the quality of or extent to which something is favoured
- figuratively — 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.
- fluviomarine — of or formed by the combined action of river and sea.
- food vacuole — a membrane-enclosed cell vacuole with a digestive function, containing material taken up in by the process of phagocytosis.
- future value — the value that a sum of money invested at compound interest will have after a specified period
- guadalquivir — a river in S Spain, flowing W to the Gulf of Cádiz. 374 miles (602 km) long.
- gustav hertz — Gustav [goo s-tahf] /ˈgʊs tɑf/ (Show IPA), 1887–1975, German physicist: Nobel Prize 1925.
- gustave dore — (Paul) Gustave [pawl gy-stav] /pɔl güˈstav/ (Show IPA), 1832?–83, French painter, illustrator, and sculptor.
- gustavus iii — 1746–92, king of Sweden 1771–92: economic and legal reformer.
- haute-savoie — a department in E France. 1775 sq. mi. (4595 sq. km). Capital: Annecy.
- haute-vienne — a department in central France. 2145 sq. mi. (5555 sq. km). Capital: Limoges.
- heliogravure — photoengraving.
- hepadnavirus — Any member of the virus family Hepadnaviridae, capable of causing liver infections in humans and animals.
- humeral veil — a fringed scarf, usually white and ornamented in the middle, worn over the shoulders by a priest or subdeacon during certain parts of a High Mass.
- ill-favoured — unpleasant in appearance; homely or ugly.
- illuminative — giving light; illuminating.
- illustrative — serving to illustrate; explanatory: illustrative examples.
- imputatively — In an imputative fashion or manner.
- in favour of — If one thing is rejected in favour of another, the second thing is done or chosen instead of the first.
- individual's — a single human being, as distinguished from a group.
- individually — one at a time; separately: The delegates were introduced individually.
- individuated — Simple past tense and past participle of individuate.
- individuates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of individuate.
- inequivalent — Not equivalent.
- inequivalved — having the valves of the shell of a mollusk unequal in size
- inexhaustive — not exhaustive; not thorough
- interpluvial — designating a drier period occurring between two periods of persistently heavy rainfall
- intraveneous — Misspelling of intravenous.
- invert sugar — a mixture of the dextrorotatory forms of glucose and fructose, formed naturally in fruits and produced artificially in syrups or fondants by treating cane sugar with acids.
- involutional — of, relating to, or characteristic of involutional melancholia: involutional symptoms.
- invulnerable — incapable of being wounded, hurt, or damaged.
- invulnerably — In an invulnerable manner.
- invultuation — the use of or the act of making images of people, animals, etc, for witchcraft
- ivy geranium — a trailing geranium, Pelargonium peltatum, of southern Africa, having a fleshy stem that becomes woody with age, glossy, ivy-shaped leaves, and clusters of flowers ranging from white to deep rose in color.
- jordan curve — simple closed curve.
- jugular vein — vein that carries blood from head to heart
- juventa fons — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed through a telescope.
- katharevousa — The purist form of modern Greek used in traditional literary writing, as opposed to the form that is spoken and used in everyday writing (called demotic).
- kurchatovium — (chemistry) A rejected name for rutherfordium.
- laboursaving — reducing (human) effort, hard work, or labour
- laffer curve — a relationship postulated between tax rates and tax receipts indicating that rates above a certain level actually produce less revenue because they discourage taxable endeavors and vice versa.
- lascaux cave — a cave in Lascaux, France, discovered in 1940 and containing exceptionally fine Paleolithic wall paintings and engravings thought to date to Magdalenian times (c13,000–8500 b.c.).