13-letter words containing v, a, u
- cocultivation — the act of cultivating jointly
- communicative — Someone who is communicative talks to people, for example about their feelings, and tells people things.
- commutatively — of or relating to commutation, exchange, substitution, or interchange.
- commutativity — the property of being commutative
- configurative — the relative disposition or arrangement of the parts or elements of a thing.
- continuatives — Plural form of continuative.
- convulsionary — of or affected with convulsion.
- corel ventura — (text, graphics) (Previously "Ventura Publisher") The first full-featured desktop publishing program available for the IBM personal computer and compatibles. Ventura Publisher was originally distributed by Ventura, a wholy owned subsiduary of Xerox Corporation but was acquired by Corel Corporation in September 1993.
- coronaviruses — Plural form of coronavirus.
- counteractive — to act in opposition to; frustrate by contrary action.
- countervailed — Simple past tense and past participle of countervail.
- cup and cover — a turning used in Elizabethan and Jacobean furniture and resembling a goblet with a domed cover.
- cupboard love — a show of love inspired only by some selfish or greedy motive
- curvilinearly — In a curvilinear way.
- cut-and-cover — designating a method of constructing a tunnel by excavating a cutting to the required depth and then backfilling the excavation over the tunnel roof
- cut-off valve — a valve that terminates the flow of fluid in a system
- damage survey — an inspection by an insurance company of something that has been damaged and for which an insurance claim has been made, in order to determine the extent and cause of damage
- devolutionary — the act or fact of devolving; passage onward from stage to stage.
- dispurveyance — the lack of provisions
- diverticulate — of or relating to a diverticulum
- documentative — Of or pertaining to documents or documentation.
- domical vault — cloistered vault.
- ebola (virus) — an RNA virus (family Filoviridae) that causes fever, internal bleeding, and, often, death
- endeavourment — the act of endeavouring
- equivalencing — Present participle of equivalence.
- equivocalness — The state of being equivocal; ambiguity.
- equivocations — Plural form of equivocation.
- eventualities — Plural form of eventuality.
- executive pay — the money that an executive of an organization gets as wages or salary
- exhaust valve — An exhaust valve is a valve that releases burned gases from a cylinder.
- extravascular — Situated or happening outside of the blood vessels or lymph vessels.
- facultatively — In a facultative manner.
- family values — belief in traditional family unit
- ferrovanadium — a ferroalloy containing up to 55 percent vanadium.
- fibrovascular — composed of fibrous and conductive tissue, as in the vascular systems of higher plants: a fibrovascular bundle.
- flavopurpurin — a yellow, crystalline anthraquinone dye, C 14 H 8 O 5 , isomeric with purpurin.
- for values of — (jargon) A common rhetorical maneuver at MIT is to use any of the canonical random numbers as placeholders for variables. "The max function takes 42 arguments, for arbitrary values of 42". "There are 69 ways to leave your lover, for 69 = 50". This is especially likely when the speaker has uttered a random number and realises that it was not recognised as such, but even "non-random" numbers are occasionally used in this fashion. A related joke is that pi equals 3 - for small values of pi and large values of 3. This usage probably derives from the programming language MAD (Michigan Algorithm Decoder), an ALGOL-like language that was the most common choice among mainstream (non-hacker) users at MIT in the mid-1960s. It had a control structure FOR VALUES OF X = 3, 7, 99 DO ... that would repeat the indicated instructions for each value in the list (unlike the usual FOR that generates an arithmetic sequence of values). MAD is long extinct, but similar for-constructs still flourish (e.g. in Unix's shell languages).
- frequentative — noting or pertaining to a verb aspect expressing repetition of an action.
- fuerteventura — a Spanish island off the NW coast of Africa, one of the Canary Islands. 641 sq. mi. (1660 sq. km).
- full-flavored — Full-flavored food or wine has a pleasant fairly strong taste.
- furniture van — a van designed to move the furniture of a house, office, etc, to another place
- gesticulative — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
- give a leg up — to help to mount
- give pause to — to cause to hesitate
- graminivorous — feeding or subsisting on grass: a graminivorous bird.
- gravity fault — a fault along an inclined plane in which the upper side or hanging wall appears to have moved downward with respect to the lower side or footwall (opposed to reverse fault).
- h and d curve — characteristic curve.
- hairpin curve — A hairpin curve or a hairpin is a very sharp bend in a road, where the road turns back in the opposite direction.
- hallucinative — a sensory experience of something that does not exist outside the mind, caused by various physical and mental disorders, or by reaction to certain toxic substances, and usually manifested as visual or auditory images.
- hallux valgus — an abnormal bending or deviation of the big toe towards the other toes of the same foot