7-letter words containing v, a, u
- louvars — Plural form of louvar.
- lulealv — a river in N Sweden, flowing SE to the Gulf of Bothnia. 275 miles (443 km) long.
- mauvais — bad
- nouveau — newly or recently created, developed, or come to prominence: The sudden success of the firm created several nouveau millionaires.
- nunavut — a territory in N Canada, formed in 1999 from part of the Northwest Territories, extending E from the Northwest Territories to Hudson Bay and including most of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. 808,181 sq. mi. (2,093, 190 sq. km) Capital: Iqaluit.
- nunivak — an island in the Bering Sea, off the W coast of Alaska. 1700 sq. mi. (4400 sq. km).
- octavus — eighth.
- outrave — to outdo in raving
- ouvrage — work
- ovarium — ovary.
- ovulary — the part of a plant's anatomy where ovules develop
- ovulate — to produce and discharge eggs from an ovary or ovarian follicle.
- p value — (statistics) The probability that the opposite of some hypothesis is true, based on some set of results; a way of expressing the significance of a statistical observation. The lower the P value, the more significant the result. For example, if the hypothesis was "This vaccine prevents flu" then the opposite hypothesis (the "null hypothesis") would be "This vaccine has no effect on flu". If the occurence of flu was measured in a sample of people taking the vaccine then one might say that the hypothesis was confirmed with a p value of 5%. That would mean there was a 5% chance of obtaining the same results or better from a similar sample of the whole population even if the vaccine had no effect.
- parvenu — a person who has recently or suddenly acquired wealth, importance, position, or the like, but has not yet developed the conventionally appropriate manners, dress, surroundings, etc.
- paul iv — (Gian Pietro Caraffa) 1476–1559, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1555–59.
- paul vi — (Giovanni Batista Montini) 1897–1978, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1963–78.
- paviour — a person that paves; paver.
- pluvial — of or relating to rain, especially much rain; rainy.
- pluvian — a crocodile bird
- quavers — (of a person's voice) Shake or tremble in speaking, typically through nervousness or emotion.
- quavery — to shake tremulously; quiver or tremble: He stood there quavering with fear.
- r-value — a measure of the resistance of an insulating or building material to heat flow, expressed as R-11, R-20, and so on; the higher the number, the greater the resistance to heat flow.
- rave-up — a party, especially a wild one.
- revalue — to revise or reestimate the value of: efforts to revalue the dollar.
- rustavi — a city in the SE Georgian Republic, SE of Tbilisi.
- save up — put money aside
- saviour — a person who saves, rescues, or delivers: the savior of the country.
- savoury — pleasant or agreeable in taste or smell: a savory aroma.
- sevruga — a species of sturgeon, Acipenser stellatus, of the Caspian and Black seas.
- shavuot — a festival, celebrated on the sixth and seventh days of Sivan by Orthodox and Conservative Jews outside Israel but only on the sixth day by Reform Jews and Jews in Israel, that commemorates God's giving of the Ten Commandments to Moses.
- suasive — the act of advising, urging, or attempting to persuade; persuasion.
- suavely — (of persons or their manner, speech, etc.) smoothly agreeable or polite; agreeably or blandly urbane.
- suavest — (of persons or their manner, speech, etc.) smoothly agreeable or polite; agreeably or blandly urbane.
- suavity — a suave or smoothly agreeable quality.
- suboval — not quite oval
- suevian — a member of an ancient Germanic people of uncertain origin, mentioned in the writings of Caesar and Tacitus.
- u-value — a measure of the flow of heat through an insulating or building material: the lower the U-value, the better the insulating ability.
- ulanova — Galina (Sergeyevna) [guh-lee-nuh sur-gey-uh v-nuh;; Russian guh-lyee-nuh syir-gye-yiv-nuh] /gəˈli nə sɜrˈgeɪ əv nə;; Russian gʌˈlyi nə syɪrˈgyɛ yɪv nə/ (Show IPA), 1910–98, Soviet ballerina.
- unalive — not aware of something
- unpaved — a pavement.
- unravel — to separate or disentangle the threads of (a woven or knitted fabric, a rope, etc.).
- unreave — to unwind, untangle, or loosen
- unsaved — to rescue from danger or possible harm, injury, or loss: to save someone from drowning.
- unsavvy — Informal. inexperienced or untrained: a term used only by unsavvy freshmen.
- unvital — not vital or crucial; unessential; unnecessary
- unvocal — not outspoken; reserved; not eloquent in speech; inarticulate.
- unweave — to undo, take apart, or separate (something woven); unravel.
- upheave — to heave or lift up; raise up or aloft.
- upvalue — to raise the value of: to upvalue inventories.
- urban v — (Guillaume de Grimoard) c1310–70, French ecclesiastic: pope 1362–70.