12-letter words containing v, a, u
- over-jealous — feeling resentment against someone because of that person's rivalry, success, or advantages (often followed by of): He was jealous of his rich brother.
- over-popular — regarded with favor, approval, or affection by people in general: a popular preacher.
- over-qualify — to provide with proper or necessary skills, knowledge, credentials, etc.; make competent: to qualify oneself for a job.
- overabundant — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
- overcautious — excessively or unnecessarily cautious: Sometimes it doesn't pay to be overcautious in business.
- overeducated — Having been educated to a higher academic level than is necessary.
- overfatigued — excessively fatigued
- overissuance — the act of issuing in excessive amounts
- overmaturity — (of a tree or forest) the state of having ceased to grow or have commercial value
- overpersuade — to persuade (a person) against his or her inclination or intention: By threats and taunts they had overpersuaded him to steal the car.
- overpopulate — to fill with an excessive number of people, straining available resources and facilities: Expanding industry has overpopulated the western suburbs.
- overpurchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- overregulate — to apply rules and regulations excessively to (something)
- oversanguine — too optimistic
- oversaturate — to cause (a substance) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance, through solution, chemical combination, or the like.
- passive noun — a noun whose referent is the recipient of an action, as trainee, multiplicand.
- pax vobiscum — peace be with you
- peradventure — chance, doubt, or uncertainty.
- persuasively — able, fitted, or intended to persuade: a very persuasive argument.
- perturbative — having a tendency to perturb; disturbing.
- pervicacious — extremely willful; obstinate; stubborn.
- photogravure — any of various processes, based on photography, by which an intaglio engraving is formed on a metal plate, from which ink reproductions are made.
- picornavirus — any of a group of small, RNA-containing viruses of the family Picornaviridae, infectious to humans and other animals, and including the poliovirus and the rhinoviruses that cause the common cold.
- pole vaulter — A pole vaulter is an athlete who performs the pole vault.
- polyomavirus — any of a genus (Polyomavirus) of papovaviruses that naturally infect wild and laboratory mice, and that cause tumors when injected into newborn mice
- popular vote — the vote for a U.S. presidential candidate made by the qualified voters, as opposed to that made by the electoral college. Compare electoral vote.
- postdiluvial — existing or occurring after the biblical Flood
- postdiluvian — existing or occurring after the Biblical Flood.
- power vacuum — a situation when a government has no identifiable central authority
- preovulatory — to produce and discharge eggs from an ovary or ovarian follicle.
- proper value — characteristic root.
- pulverizable — that can be pulverized
- putrefactive — the act or process of putrefying; the anaerobic decomposition of organic matter by bacteria and fungi that results in obnoxiously odorous products; rotting.
- pyruvic acid — a water-soluble liquid, C 3 H 4 O 3 , important in many metabolic and fermentative processes, having an odor resembling that of acetic acid, prepared by the dehydration of tartaric acid: used chiefly in biochemical research.
- quacksalvers — Plural form of quacksalver.
- quacksalving — resembling or characteristic of a quacksalver
- quadrivalent — having a valence of four; tetravalent.
- quantitative — that is or may be estimated by quantity.
- quantivalent — relating to quantivalence
- quaquaversal — (of a geological formation) sloping downward from the center in all directions.
- quidditative — Alternative form of quiddative.
- radicivorous — feeding on the roots of plants
- rarity value — if something has rarity value, it is valuable because there a few examples of it
- re-educative — of or relating to re-education
- recuperative — that recuperates.
- reevaluation — an act or instance of evaluating or appraising.
- regular verb — verb that follows standard conjugation
- rejuvenating — making young again
- rejuvenation — to make young again; restore to youthful vigor, appearance, etc.: That vacation has certainly rejuvenated him.
- rejuvenative — to make young again; restore to youthful vigor, appearance, etc.: That vacation has certainly rejuvenated him.