11-letter words containing v, d, u
- divulgation — to make publicly known; publish.
- divulgatory — to make publicly known; publish.
- drug-driver — a person who drives while under the influence of drugs
- du vigneaud — Vincent, 1901–78, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1955.
- dumb sheave — a block having no sheave or other part rolling with the movement of a line.
- dumpy level — an instrument consisting of a spirit level mounted under and parallel to a telescope, the latter being rigidly attached to its supports.
- duncanville — a town in N Texas.
- duplicative — a copy exactly like an original.
- duvet cover — the baglike cover into which the duvet is placed when you make a bed and which often makes a top sheet unnecessary
- elucidative — Explanatory, clarifying; that serves to elucidate.
- endeavoured — Simple past tense and past participle of endeavour.
- equivocated — Simple past tense and past participle of equivocate.
- favellidium — (in certain red algae) a cystocarp wholly or partly immersed in a frond.
- fluid drive — a power coupling for permitting a smooth start in any gear, consisting of two vaned rotors in a sealed casing filled with oil, such that one rotor, driven by the engine, moves the oil to drive the other rotor, which in turn drives the transmission.
- forevouched — previously avowed
- give ground — the quality or state of being resilient; springiness.
- ground dove — any of several small terrestrial doves of the warmer parts of the Americas, especially Columbina passerina.
- ground wave — a radio wave that propagates on or near the earth's surface and is affected by the ground and the troposphere.
- groundcover — Alternative spelling of ground cover.
- guard's van — The guard's van of a train is a small carriage or part of a carriage in which the guard travels.
- guide vanes — fixed aerofoils that direct air, gas, or water into the moving blades of a turbine or into or around bends in ducts with minimum loss of energy
- guided wave — a wave the energy of which is concentrated near a boundary or between parallel boundaries separating different materials and that has a direction of propagation parallel to these boundaries.
- heavy crude — a type of crude oil that does not flow easily and has greater viscosity and specific density than other types of crude
- inconducive — not conducive; tending to be harmful or injurious: inconducive to the public good.
- individuall — Obsolete form of individual.
- individuals — Plural form of individual.
- individuate — to form into an individual or distinct entity.
- inductively — of, relating to, or involving electrical induction or magnetic induction.
- inductivism — The use of or preference for inductive methods of reasoning, especially in science.
- inductivity — power to induct; an inductive quality
- invidiously — In an invidious manner.
- jure divino — by divine law.
- jus divinum — divine law.
- laundry van — a van driven by a laundry worker and which is used in the collection and delivery of laundry
- manoeuvered — Simple past tense and past participle of manoeuver.
- many-valued — (of a function) having the property that some elements in the domain have more than one image point; multiple-valued.
- marivaudage — Writing style characterized by the refined affection, originating from the writing of the French novelist w Pierre de Marivaux.
- medium wave — Medium wave is a range of radio waves which are used for broadcasting.
- mendelevium — a transuranic element. Symbol: Md, Mv; atomic number: 101.
- menu-driven — of or relating to software that makes extensive use of menus to enable users to choose alternatives and guide program operations.
- merdivorous — coprophagous.
- mounds view — a town in E Minnesota.
- moundsville — a city in NW West Virginia, on the Ohio River.
- move around — be mobile, active
- mud volcano — a vent in the earth's surface through which escaping gas and vapor issue, causing mud to boil and occasionally to overflow, forming a conical mound around the vent.
- multivalued — possessing several or many values.
- music video — a commercial video featuring a performance of a popular song, often through a stylized dramatization by the performers with lip-syncing and special effects.
- neoadjuvant — (medicine) Describing an adjuvant preparation given before a course of treatment.
- neverendums — Plural form of neverendum.
- over-budget — costing or being more than the amount alloted or budgeted: The building is half-finished and it's already overbudget.