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13-letter words containing v, a, u

  • unimaginative — characterized by or bearing evidence of imagination: an imaginative tale.
  • uninformative — not educational
  • universal set — the set of all objects or elements considered in a given problem
  • universalness — of, relating to, or characteristic of all or the whole: universal experience.
  • unperceivable — imperceptible
  • unperceivably — imperceptibly
  • unpreventable — not able to be prevented
  • unprovocative — tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
  • unrecoverable — able to recover or be recovered: a patient now believed to be recoverable; recoverable losses on his investments.
  • unrecoverably — in an unrecoverable or irrecoverable manner
  • unreprievable — not able to be reprieved, eased, or postponed
  • unretrievable — to recover or regain: to retrieve the stray ball.
  • unsalvageable — the act of saving a ship or its cargo from perils of the seas.
  • unscavengered — lacking the qualities of having been scavenged
  • unserviceable — not suitable to be used
  • unspeculative — not characterized by speculation
  • unsubstantive — a noun.
  • untraversable — to pass or move over, along, or through.
  • unvitrifiable — not able to be vitrified
  • unvoluntarily — done, made, brought about, undertaken, etc., of one's own accord or by free choice: a voluntary contribution.
  • upland plover — a large, field-inhabiting sandpiper, Bartramia longicauda, of eastern North America, resembling a plover: now protected and increasing in numbers.
  • vacuolization — the state of being full of vacuoles
  • vacuum bottle — a bottle or flask having a vacuum liner that prevents the escape of heat from hot contents, usually liquids, or the entrance of heat into cold contents; thermos.
  • vacuum drying — the removal of liquid from a solution or mixture at reduced air pressure so that it dries at a lower temperature than would be required at full pressure.
  • vacuum filter — A vacuum filter is a filter in which the liquid passes through more easily because of a vacuum on the liquid output side.
  • vacuum-packed — packed and sealed in a container, as a can or jar, with as much air as possible evacuated before sealing, chiefly to preserve freshness.
  • valued policy — a policy in which the company and the policyholder agree to the amount to be paid in the event of total loss of property, regardless of the value of the property.
  • vanilla sugar — sugar which has been infused with vanilla
  • vannevar bush — (person)   Dr. Vannevar Bush, 1890-1974. The man who invented hypertext, which he called memex, in the 1930s. Bush did his undergraduate work at Tufts College, where he later taught. His masters thesis (1913) included the invention of the Profile Tracer, used in surveying work to measure distances over uneven ground. In 1919, he joined MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering, where he stayed for twenty-five years. In 1932, he was appointed vice-president and dean. At this time, Bush worked on optical and photocomposition devices, as well as a machine for rapid selection from banks of microfilm. Further positions followed: president of the Carnegie Institute in Washington, DC (1939); chair of National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (1939); director of Office of Scientific Research and Development. This last role was as presidential science advisor, which made him personally responsible for the 6,000 scientists involved in the war effort. During World War II, Bush worked on radar antenna profiles and the calculation of artillery firing tables. He proposed the development of an analogue computer, which later became the Rockefeller Differential Analyser. Bush is the pivotal figure in hypertext research. His ground-breaking 1945 paper, "As We May Think," speculated on how a machine might be created to assist human reasoning, and introduced the idea of an easily accessible, individually configurable storehouse of knowledge. This machine, which he dubbed "memex," in various ways anticipated hypermedia and the World Wide Web by nearly half a century.
  • vapourer moth — a tussock moth, Orgyia antiqua, of hedgerows and trees, the female of which is wingless and lays her eggs on her former cocoon
  • vapourishness — the quality or state of being vapourish
  • varied thrush — a plump thrush, Ixoreus naevius, of western North America, resembling a robin with a dark band across the chest.
  • vasa murrhina — an American art glass, consisting of colored glass dusted with flakes or grains of metal and flashed with clear glass.
  • vascularities — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
  • vasostimulant — stimulating the action of the vasomotor nerves.
  • vaunt-courier — a person who goes in advance, as a herald.
  • venetian blue — a strong blue similar to cobalt blue.
  • ventriloquial — of, relating to, or using ventriloquism.
  • venus flytrap — firewall machine
  • veraciousness — characterized by truthfulness; true, accurate, or honest in content: a veracious statement; a veracious account.
  • vermiculation — to work or ornament with wavy lines or markings resembling the form or tracks of a worm.
  • vernacularism — a vernacular word or expression.
  • vernacularist — someone who uses vernacular speech
  • vernacularity — the quality or state of being vernacular
  • vernacularize — to translate into the natural speech peculiar to a people.
  • vicariousness — performed, exercised, received, or suffered in place of another: vicarious punishment.
  • vide ut supra — (used to direct a reader to a specified place in a text) see as above
  • villeggiatura — a (country) holiday
  • virtual human — a computer-generated moving image of a human being, used esp in films as an extra in large crowd scenes
  • virtual image — an optical image formed by the apparent divergence of rays from a point, rather than their actual divergence from a point
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