12-letter words containing v, e, n, u
- nonpurposive — lacking purpose
- nonuniversal — Not universal.
- nonvehicular — Not vehicular.
- nonvexatious — Not vexatious.
- normal curve — a bell-shaped curve showing a particular distribution of probability over the values of a random variable. Also called Gaussian curve, probability curve.
- novokuznetsk — a city in the S Russian Federation in central Asia: an industrial center is located here because of coal deposits of the Kuznetsk Basin.
- nueva gerona — a town on the Isle of Pines, S of Cuba.
- nuevo laredo — a city in NE Mexico, on the Rio Grande opposite Laredo, Texas.
- outmaneuvers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outmaneuver.
- outmanoeuvre — British. outmaneuver.
- over-anxious — excessively anxious.
- over-running — to rove over (a country, region, etc.); invade; ravage: a time when looting hordes had overrun the province.
- 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.
- overconsumed — Simple past tense and past participle of overconsume.
- overdiscount — to discount excessively
- overdocument — to document excessively
- overfullness — The state of being excessively or abnormally full.
- overgenerous — liberal in giving or sharing; unselfish: a generous patron of the arts; a generous gift.
- overissuance — the act of issuing in excessive amounts
- oversanguine — too optimistic
- passive noun — a noun whose referent is the recipient of an action, as trainee, multiplicand.
- peradventure — chance, doubt, or uncertainty.
- pseudo-event — an event that is staged primarily so that it can be reported in the media.
- quadrivalent — having a valence of four; tetravalent.
- quantitative — that is or may be estimated by quantity.
- quantivalent — relating to quantivalence
- quote-driven — denoting an electronic market system, esp for stock exchanges, in which prices are determined by quotations made by market makers or dealers
- reevaluation — an act or instance of evaluating or appraising.
- rejuvenating — making young again
- rejuvenation — to make young again; restore to youthful vigor, appearance, etc.: That vacation has certainly rejuvenated him.
- rejuvenative — to make young again; restore to youthful vigor, appearance, etc.: That vacation has certainly rejuvenated him.
- remunerative — affording remuneration; profitable: remunerative work.
- rendezvouses — an agreement between two or more persons to meet at a certain time and place.
- renovascular — of or relating to the blood vessels of the kidneys.
- return visit — If you make a return visit, you visit someone who has already visited you, or you go back to a place where you have already been once.
- 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.
- reverse turn — a manoeuvre which makes a vehicle move backwards and to the left or right
- roman-fleuve — saga (def 3).
- sainte-beuve — Charles Augustin [sharl oh-gy-stan] /ʃarl oʊ güˈstɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1804–69, French literary critic.
- security van — an armoured van used to transport money or other valuables
- seminivorous — feeding on seeds: seminivorous birds.
- 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.
- seventy-four — a cardinal number, 70 plus 4.
- silver mound — a perennial Japanese herb, Artemisia schmidtiana, having silver-green leaves forming a moundlike shape.
- sov language — a type of language that has basic subject-object-verb order, as Turkish, Japanese, or Tamil.
- soviet union — the legislature of the former Soviet Union and its successor states, consisting of an upper house (Soviet of the Union or Council of the Union) whose delegates are elected on the basis of population, and a lower house (Soviet of Nationalities or Council of Nationalities) whose delegates are elected to represent the various nationalities.
- steubenville — a city in E Ohio, on the Ohio River.