9-letter words containing v, a, u
- indeavour — Archaic form of endeavour.
- induviate — covered by induviae
- ingluvial — of or relating to an ingluvies
- invacuate — To confine (people) to a closed area in an emergency situation.
- juvenilia — (literature, plural only) Works produced during an artist's or author's youth.
- kurchatov — Igor Vasilievich [ee-guh r-vuh-syee-lyi-vyich] /ˈi gər vʌˈsyi lyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1903–60, Soviet nuclear physicist.
- laevulose — (carbohydrate) alternative spelling of levulose (fructose).
- lake kivu — a lake in central Africa, between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda at an altitude of 1460 m (4790 ft). Area: 2698 sq km (1042 sq miles). Depth: (maximum) 475 m (1558 ft)
- laudative — containing or expressing praise: overwhelmed by the speaker's laudatory remarks.
- leave out — to go out of or away from, as a place: to leave the house.
- leavenous — containing leaven
- lucrative — profitable; moneymaking; remunerative: a lucrative business.
- maneouvre — Misspelling of manoeuvre.
- maneuvers — Plural form of maneuver.
- maneuvres — Plural form of maneuvre.
- manoeuver — (nonstandard) alternative spelling of maneuver.
- manoeuvre — a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
- marvelous — superb; excellent; great: a marvelous show.
- misvalued — Simple past tense and past participle of misvalue.
- mournival — a card game whose object is to gain a set of four aces, kings, queens, or knaves in one hand
- muscavado — muscovado.
- muscovado — raw or unrefined sugar, obtained from the juice of the sugar cane by evaporating and draining off the molasses.
- must-have — A must-have is something modern that many people want to have.
- navicular — boat-shaped, as certain bones.
- navy blue — a dark blue.
- navy plug — a strong, dark tobacco in plug form.
- nonvisual — Not visual.
- nouveaute — newness; novelty.
- novaesium — an industrial city in W Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia west of Düsseldorf: founded as a Roman fortress in the 1st century ad. Pop: 152 050 (2003 est)
- novodamus — a clause in a charter whereby a grant (particularly of property) is renewed by a (feudal) superior, esp for the purpose of making a minor alteration to the former grant; the charter itself
- oulujarvi — a lake in central Finland, draining through the Oulu River to the Gulf of Bothnia.
- outbraved — Simple past tense and past participle of outbrave.
- outsavour — to exceed in savouring
- outtravel — (transitive) To exceed in speed or distance travelled.
- outvalues — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outvalue.
- ovalbumin — the principal protein of egg white.
- overacute — excessively acute
- overhuman — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or having the nature of people: human frailty.
- oversauce — to put too much sauce on
- overvalue — to value too highly; put too high a value on: They should be careful not to overvalue the property.
- oviparous — producing eggs that mature and hatch after being expelled from the body, as birds, most reptiles and fishes, and the monotremes.
- ovulation — to produce and discharge eggs from an ovary or ovarian follicle.
- ovulatory — to produce and discharge eggs from an ovary or ovarian follicle.
- par value — face value (def 1).
- pulsative — throbbing; pulsating.
- pulvillar — of or relating to a pulvillus
- pulvinate — having the shape of a cushion; resembling a cushion; cushion-shaped.
- purgative — purging or cleansing, especially by causing evacuation of the bowels.
- quadrivia — Plural form of quadrivium.
- quavering — to shake tremulously; quiver or tremble: He stood there quavering with fear.