12-letter words containing v, d, u
- multi-voiced — having a voice of a specified kind (usually used in combination): shrill-voiced.
- multigravida — a pregnant woman who has been pregnant two or more times.
- multileveled — having different levels or planes: a multilevel stage set.
- muscovy duck — a large, crested, wild duck, Cairina moschata, of tropical America, that has been widely domesticated.
- neurodiverse — Exhibiting neurodiversity; varying in mental configuration.
- nonconducive — tending to produce; contributive; helpful; favorable (usually followed by to): Good eating habits are conducive to good health.
- nondeductive — not related to deduction or subtraction
- noninductive — not inductive: a noninductive resistance.
- nuevo laredo — a city in NE Mexico, on the Rio Grande opposite Laredo, Texas.
- nulligravida — A female who has never been pregnant.
- over-stuffed — stuffed or filled to excess.
- overabundant — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
- overbuilding — Present participle of overbuild.
- overburdened — Excessively burdened.
- overclouding — Present participle of overcloud.
- overcoloured — excessively coloured
- overconsumed — Simple past tense and past participle of overconsume.
- overdiscount — to discount excessively
- overdocument — to document excessively
- overeducated — Having been educated to a higher academic level than is necessary.
- overequipped — having too much equipment
- overfatigued — excessively fatigued
- overfocussed — too focussed
- overpersuade — to persuade (a person) against his or her inclination or intention: By threats and taunts they had overpersuaded him to steal the car.
- overscutched — overworked; worn out
- overutilized — to put to use; turn to profitable account: to utilize a stream to power a mill.
- peradventure — chance, doubt, or uncertainty.
- postdiluvial — existing or occurring after the biblical Flood
- postdiluvian — existing or occurring after the Biblical Flood.
- productively — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- productivity — the quality, state, or fact of being able to generate, create, enhance, or bring forth goods and services: The productivity of the group's effort surprised everyone.
- pseudo-event — an event that is staged primarily so that it can be reported in the media.
- pseudovector — a variable quantity, such as angular momentum, that has magnitude and orientation with respect to an axis. The components are even functions of the coordinates
- pyruvic acid — a water-soluble liquid, C 3 H 4 O 3 , important in many metabolic and fermentative processes, having an odor resembling that of acetic acid, prepared by the dehydration of tartaric acid: used chiefly in biochemical research.
- quadrivalent — having a valence of four; tetravalent.
- quidditative — Alternative form of quiddative.
- quill driver — a person who does a great deal of writing.
- quote-driven — denoting an electronic market system, esp for stock exchanges, in which prices are determined by quotations made by market makers or dealers
- radicivorous — feeding on the roots of plants
- re-educative — of or relating to re-education
- rendezvouses — an agreement between two or more persons to meet at a certain time and place.
- reproductive — serving to reproduce.
- revenue bond — a bond issued, as by a municipal utility, to finance a specific project, the income from which will be used for repaying the bond.
- revictualled — victuals, food supplies; provisions.
- rough-voiced — having a harsh or grating voice: a rough-voiced barker.
- scuba diving — deep-sea swimming
- sendai virus — a paramyxovirus that tends to cause cell fusion: in inactive form, used in biological research to produce cells with multiple nuclei of different genetic constitutions.
- silver mound — a perennial Japanese herb, Artemisia schmidtiana, having silver-green leaves forming a moundlike shape.
- stradivarius — a violin or other instrument made by Stradivari or his family.
- sub-additive — something that is added, as one substance to another, to alter or improve the general quality or to counteract undesirable properties: an additive that thins paint.