12-letter words containing v, a, u
- lasciviously — inclined to lustfulness; wanton; lewd: a lascivious, girl-chasing old man.
- levi strauss — David Friedrich [dah-veet free-drikh] /ˈdɑ vit ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1808–74, German theologian, philosopher, and author.
- levi-strauss — Claude, 1908–2009, French anthropologist and educator, born in Belgium: founder of structural anthropology.
- lignum vitae — either of two tropical American trees, Guaiacum officinale or G. sanctum, of the caltrop family, having very hard, heavy wood.
- liverpudlian — a seaport in Merseyside, in W England, on the Mersey estuary.
- louver board — one of a series of overlapping, sloping boards used as louvers in an opening, so arranged as to admit air but to exclude rain or cut off visibility from the outside.
- maladjustive — Exhibiting or relating to maladjustment.
- maneuverable — capable of being steered or directed; easy to maneuver: The polyethylene craft remains as durable and maneuverable as any conventional high-performance kayak.
- maneuverings — Plural form of maneuvering.
- manipulative — influencing or attempting to influence the behavior or emotions of others for one’s own purposes: a manipulative boss.
- manoeuvering — Present participle of manoeuver.
- manoeuvrable — Alternative spelling of maneuverable.
- manoeuvrings — Plural form of manoeuvring.
- manu-service — denoting a business that involves both the manufacture of goods and the provision of after-sales services
- mare vaporum — (Sea of Vapors) a dark plain in the first quadrant and near the center of the face of the moon: about 39,000 sq. mi. (101,000 sq. km).
- market value — the value of a business, property, etc., in terms of what it can be sold for on the open market; current value (distinguished from book value).
- marvellously — In a marvellous manner.
- mauvaise foi — (in the philosophy of Sartre) the expression usually rendered as bad faith
- mauve decade — the 1890s, considered as a social and cultural period characterized by prosperity and complacency.
- misadventure — an instance of bad fortune; mishap.
- misbehaviour — (British) alternative spelling of misbehavior.
- molar volume — the volume occupied by one mole of a gas, liquid, or solid.
- multigravida — a pregnant woman who has been pregnant two or more times.
- multivalence — Chemistry. having a valence of three or higher.
- multivariant — Characterised by multiple variables.
- multivariate — (of a combined distribution) having more than one variate or variable.
- multivarious — Many and various.
- multivitamin — containing or consisting of several vitamins: multivitamin capsules.
- mwambutsa iv — 1912–77, king of Burundi 1962–66.
- nature lover — someone who likes plants, birds and other natural phenomena
- non-curative — serving to cure or heal; pertaining to curing or remedial treatment; remedial.
- non-vascular — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
- noncausative — Not causative.
- nonuniversal — Not universal.
- nonvehicular — Not vehicular.
- nonvexatious — Not vexatious.
- nonvoluntary — done, made, brought about, undertaken, etc., of one's own accord or by free choice: a voluntary contribution.
- normal curve — a bell-shaped curve showing a particular distribution of probability over the values of a random variable. Also called Gaussian curve, probability curve.
- nueva gerona — a town on the Isle of Pines, S of Cuba.
- nuevo laredo — a city in NE Mexico, on the Rio Grande opposite Laredo, Texas.
- nulligravida — A female who has never been pregnant.
- object value — (jargon) In industrial design, a measure of consumers' immediate desire for an object, even before they know or understand what it does. "Gassee may be nuts, but at least the BeBox has great object value."
- oncornavirus — any of various RNA viruses that cause tumors in humans and other animals.
- out of favor — something done or granted out of goodwill, rather than from justice or for remuneration; a kind act: to ask a favor.
- outlet valve — a valve (on a pipe, etc) controlling the escape or release (of liquid, etc)
- outmaneuvers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outmaneuver.
- outmanoeuvre — British. outmaneuver.
- oval kumquat — a spineless shrub or small citrus tree, Fortunella margarita, of China, having oval-shaped, orange-yellow fruit with sweet and acid flesh.
- over-anxious — excessively anxious.
- over-fraught — Archaic. filled or laden (with): ships fraught with precious wares.