9-letter words containing v, a, u
- curvation — the action of curving or bending
- curvative — (of leaves) having curved edges
- curvature — The curvature of something is its curved shape, especially when this shape is part of the circumference of a circle.
- curveball — a ball pitched in a curving path so as to make it more difficult to hit
- cut above — to penetrate with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument or object: He cut his finger.
- davis cup — an annual international lawn tennis championship for men's teams
- deauville — a town and resort in NW France: casino. Pop: 3968 (2008)
- devaluate — (transitive) To reduce in value.
- devaluing — to deprive of value; reduce the value of.
- disfavour — unfavorable regard; displeasure; disesteem; dislike: The prime minister incurred the king's disfavor.
- disvalued — Simple past tense and past participle of disvalue.
- divulgate — to make publicly known; publish.
- dna virus — any virus containing DNA.
- duumviral — relating to duumvirs
- duvet day — a day of leave from work that an employee is allowed to take at short notice
- educative — serving to educate: educative knowledge.
- effluvial — a slight or invisible exhalation or vapor, especially one that is disagreeable or noxious.
- emulative — Having a tendency to emulate others; imitative.
- end value — the value of a building, house, etc once it has been completed and comes on the market
- endeavour — Standard spelling of endeavor.
- equivalve — equipped with identical valves (as with the bivalve mollusc)
- equivocal — Open to more than one interpretation; ambiguous.
- evacuated — Having had population removed, by evacuation.
- evacuates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of evacuate.
- evaluable — Able to be evaluated in a certain way.
- evaluated — Simple past tense and past participle of evaluate.
- evaluates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of evaluate.
- evaluator — Agent noun of evaluate; one who evaluates.
- eventuate — Occur as a result.
- exudative — (pathology) Of, pertaining to, or accompanied by exudation.
- fan vault — a vault composed of a number of concave conoidal surfaces, usually four, springing from the corners of the vaulting compartment and touching or intersecting at the top, often decorated with ribs.
- favillous — (obsolete) Of or pertaining to ashes.
- favouring — Present participle of favour.
- favourite — a person or thing regarded with special favor or preference: That song is an old favorite of mine.
- favourous — Rare spelling of favorous.
- flavorful — full of flavor; tasty.
- flavorous — full of flavor.
- flavoured — Having a specific taste, often due to the addition of flavouring.
- flavourer — One who or that which flavours.
- fluviatic — living or growing in streams
- furnivall — Frederick James, 1825–1910, English philologist and editor.
- guevarist — a supporter of the revolutionary theories and tactics of Ernesto Guevara.
- gustative — gustatory.
- gyrovague — a vagrant monk who wandered from one monastery to another.
- hauterive — a town in SE Quebec, in E Canada.
- havasupai — a member of a small tribe of nomadic North American Indians now living in Arizona.
- heavy mud — a dense substance made of a mixture of the mineral barite and water that is thickened with polymers
- illuviate — to undergo illuviation.
- in favour — If you are in favour of something, you support it and think that it is a good thing.
- incurvate — curved, especially inward.