10-letter words containing v, e, l, u
- divulgence — a divulging.
- dullsville — something boring or dull: That movie was strictly dullsville.
- dust devil — a small whirlwind 10–100 feet (3–30 meters) in diameter and from several hundred to 1000 feet (305 meters) high, common in dry regions on hot, calm afternoons and made visible by the dust, debris, and sand it picks up from the ground.
- effusively — unduly demonstrative; lacking reserve: effusive greetings; an effusive person.
- eigenvalue — Each of a set of values of a parameter for which a differential equation has a nonzero solution (an eigenfunction) under given conditions.
- eluviation — (soil science, countable) The sideways or downward movement of dissolved or suspended material within soil caused by rainfall.
- equivalate — To equate, to consider or make equal or equivalent (to, with). never doubt the trinidad GAINS.
- equivalent — Equal in value, amount, function, meaning, etc.
- equivalise — To make equivalent.
- evaluating — Present participle of evaluate.
- evaluation — The making of a judgment about the amount, number, or value of something; assessment.
- evaluative — Relating to the assignment of value to a person, thing, or event.
- evaluators — Plural form of evaluator.
- eventfully — In a eventful manner; with much activity.
- eventually — In the end, especially after a long delay, dispute, or series of problems.
- evolutions — Plural form of evolution.
- exclusives — Plural form of exclusive.
- face value — the value printed on the face of a stock, bond, or other financial instrument or document.
- favourable — Pleasing, encouraging or approving.
- favourless — without favour, unfortunate
- feverously — feverish.
- fluviatile — pertaining or peculiar to rivers; found in or near rivers.
- food value — The food value of a particular food is a measure of how good it is for you, based on its level of vitamins, minerals, or calories.
- fugitively — In a fugitive manner.
- full-serve — full-service
- grievously — causing grief or great sorrow: grievous news.
- hack value — Often adduced as the reason or motivation for expending effort toward a seemingly useless goal, the point being that the accomplished goal is a hack. For example, MacLISP had features for reading and printing Roman numerals, which were installed purely for hack value. See display hack for one method of computing hack value, but this cannot really be explained, only experienced. As Louis Armstrong once said when asked to explain jazz: "Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know." (Feminists please note Fats Waller's explanation of rhythm: "Lady, if you got to ask you ain't got it.")
- huntsville — a city in N Alabama: rocket and missile center.
- illusively — illusory.
- insulative — serving to protect or insulate: glassware shipped in insulative packing.
- interfluve — the land area separating adjacent stream valleys.
- invaluable — beyond calculable or appraisable value; of inestimable worth; priceless: an invaluable art collection; her invaluable assistance.
- involucred — (botany) Having an involucre.
- involucres — Plural form of involucre.
- ivy league — a group of colleges and universities in the northeastern U.S., consisting of Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell, the University of Pennsylvania, and Brown, having a reputation for high scholastic achievement and social prestige.
- jus civile — the rules and principles of law derived from the customs and legislation of Rome, as opposed to those derived from the customs of all nations (jus gentium) or from fundamental ideas of right and wrong implicit in the human mind (jus naturale)
- juvenalian — (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) a.d. c60–140, Roman poet.
- juvenility — juvenile state, character, or manner.
- juvenilize — to make juvenile or immature: to juvenilize the classics for quick reading.
- lamivudine — (medicine) A nucleoside analog reverse transcriptase inhibitor, 2',3'-dideoxy-3'-thiacytidine that is used for the treatment of HIV and chronic hepatitis B.
- lentivirus — any slow virus of the genus Lentivirus, of the retrovirus family, causing brain disease in sheep and other animals.
- lev landau — Lev Davidovich [lyef duh-vye-duh-vyich] /ˈlyɛf dʌˈvyɛ də vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1908–68, Russian scientist: Nobel Prize in Physics 1962.
- leverhulme — Viscount (William Hesketh Lever) 1851–1925, English soap manufacturer, originator of an employee profit-sharing plan, and founder of a model industrial town.
- leverkusen — a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, in W Germany, on the Rhine.
- lévy-bruhl — Lucien (lysjɛ̃). 1857–1939, French anthropologist and philosopher, noted for his study of the psychology of primitive peoples
- live it up — to have life, as an organism; be alive; be capable of vital functions: all things that live.
- live up to — to have life, as an organism; be alive; be capable of vital functions: all things that live.
- liverwurst — a sausage made with a large percentage of liver, especially one made with pork liver and pork meat.
- loan value — the highest amount of money that can be borrowed against a life-insurance policy, based on the cash value of the policy.
- longaevous — long-lived