10-letter words containing v, a
- love match — a marriage entered into for love alone.
- lovemaking — the act of courting or wooing.
- loves park — a town in N Illinois.
- lucerative — Misspelling of lucrative.
- macrolevel — at or on a level that is large in scale or scope: macrolevel research on crime rates in urban areas.
- mahasattva — A bodhisattva who attains a high degree on the path of consciousness awakening.
- make waves — a disturbance on the surface of a liquid body, as the sea or a lake, in the form of a moving ridge or swell.
- malevolent — wishing evil or harm to another or others; showing ill will; ill-disposed; malicious: His failures made him malevolent toward those who were successful.
- malinovsky — Rodion Yakovlevich [ruh-dyi-awn yah-kuh-vlyi-vyich] /rə dyɪˈɔn ˈyɑ kə vlyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1898–1967, Russian army officer: minister of defense of the U.S.S.R. 1957–67.
- malvaceous — belonging to the Malvaceae, the mallow family of plants.
- mandeville — Bernard de [duh] /də/ (Show IPA), c1670–1733, English physician and satirist, born in Holland.
- maneuvered — a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
- maneuverer — One who maneuvers.
- manoeuvred — Simple past tense and past participle of manoeuvre.
- manoeuvrer — Alternative spelling of maneuverer.
- manoeuvres — A movement or series of moves requiring skill and care.
- manservant — a male servant, especially a valet.
- margravate — the province or territory of a margrave.
- margravial — Of or relating to a margrave.
- margravine — the wife of a margrave.
- marheshvan — Heshvan.
- marine ivy — a vine, Cissus incisa, of the grape family, native to the southern U.S., having three leaflets or three-lobed leaves and black fruit, grown as a houseplant.
- marvelling — something that causes wonder, admiration, or astonishment; a wonderful thing; a wonder or prodigy: The new bridge is an engineering marvel.
- marvellous — superb; excellent; great: a marvelous show.
- marvelment — The state of marvelling; amazement.
- maskirovka — the use, by Russia or the former Soviet Union, of military deception intended to confuse Western intelligence
- mass grave — burial place: many bodies
- mass leave — (in India) leave taken by a large number of employees at the same time, as a form of protest
- mavourneen — darling; dear.
- mayakovski — Vladimir Vladimirovich [vlad-uh-meer vlad-uh-meer-uh-vich;; Russian vluh-dyee-myir vluh-dyee-myi-ruh-vyich] /ˈvlæd əˌmɪər ˌvlæd əˈmɪər əˌvɪtʃ;; Russian vlʌˈdyi myɪr vlʌˈdyi myɪ rə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1893–1930, Russian poet.
- mean value — the ratio of the integral of a given function over a closed interval to the length of the interval.
- medicative — medicinal.
- medievally — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or in the style of the Middle Ages: medieval architecture. Compare Middle Ages.
- meditative — given to, characterized by, or indicative of meditation; contemplative.
- mediumwave — Of radio waves, having a wavelength of approximately 100 to 1000 meters.
- melvindale — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- memorative — (obsolete) commemorative.
- mesa verde — a national park in SW Colorado: ruins of prehistoric cliff dwellings. 80 sq. mi. (207 sq. km).
- mesovarium — the mesentery of the ovary.
- meta-vlisp — (language) An innovative Lisp dialect by E. St.James of IBP, France.
- mezza voce — (in singing) softly; quietly
- miaskovsky — Nikolai Yakovlevich [nik-uh-lahy;; Russian nyi-kuh-lahy yuh-kaw-vlyuh-vyich] /ˈnɪk əˌlaɪ;; Russian nyɪ kʌˈlaɪ yʌˈkɔ vlyə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1881–1950, Russian composer.
- microwaved — Simple past tense and past participle of microwave.
- microwaves — an electromagnetic wave of extremely high frequency, 1 GH 3 or more, and having wavelengths of from 1 mm to 30 cm.
- mihailovic — Draža [Serbo-Croatian. drah-zhah] /Serbo-Croatian. ˈdrɑ ʒɑ/ (Show IPA), Mikhailovitch, Draja.
- milk gravy — a gravy or sauce made from cooking fat, milk, flour, and seasonings.
- minivacuum — a small, handheld vacuum cleaner, as for vacuuming upholstered furniture or car seats, or other relatively small areas.
- misadvised — Simple past tense and past participle of misadvise.
- misadvises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misadvise.
- misbehaved — Simple past tense and past participle of misbehave.