11-letter words containing v, e, s, u
- easy virtue — loose morals; sexual promiscuity
- eavestrough — gutter (def 3).
- ebola virus — a highly contagious virus of the family Filoviridae that causes Ebola, a usually fatal disease.
- echoviruses — Plural form of echovirus.
- eigenvalues — Plural form of eigenvalue.
- eleven-plus — The eleven-plus is an exam which was taken by children in Britain at about the age of eleven, in order to decide which secondary school they should go to.
- elusiveness — The state of being elusive.
- enterovirus — Any of a group of RNA viruses (including those causing polio and hepatitis A) that typically occur in the gastrointestinal tract, sometimes spreading to the central nervous system or other parts of the body.
- enviousness — The state of being envious.
- equivalents — Plural form of equivalent.
- equivocates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of equivocate.
- evacuations — Plural form of evacuation.
- evaluations — Plural form of evaluation.
- exclusively — To the exclusion of others ; only; solely.
- exclusivism — The action or policy of excluding a person or group from a place, group, or privilege.
- exclusivist — An advocate of exclusivism.
- exclusivity — The state of being exclusive.
- excursively — In an excursive manner.
- exquisitive — (obsolete) Eager to discover or learn; curious.
- fervourless — Without fervour.
- filoviruses — Plural form of filovirus.
- flavourless — British standard spelling of flavorless.
- flavoursome — Alternative spelling of flavorsome.
- frustrative — That which frustrates (causes frustration).
- fuel-saving — (of a vehicle) using less fuel for a further distance
- furtiveness — taken, done, used, etc., surreptitiously or by stealth; secret: a furtive glance.
- gas vacuole — a gas-filled structure that provides buoyancy in some aquatic bacteria
- 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
- have issues — If someone has issues with a particular aspect of their life, they have problems connected with it.
- herbivorous — feeding on plants.
- herpesvirus — a DNA-containing virus of the family Herpesviridae, certain members of which cause such diseases in humans as oral and genital herpes, infectious mononucleosis, chickenpox, and shingles.
- hircocervus — (in classical and medieval fable) a mythical creature that is half goat and half stag
- impulsively — actuated or swayed by emotional or involuntary impulses: an impulsive child.
- inclusively — including or encompassing the stated limit or extremes in consideration or account (usually used postpositively): from 6 to 37 inclusive.
- inobtrusive — unobtrusive.
- inquisitive — given to inquiry, research, or asking questions; eager for knowledge; intellectually curious: an inquisitive mind.
- insinuative — to suggest or hint slyly: He insinuated that they were lying.
- institutive — tending or intended to institute or establish.
- instructive — serving to instruct or inform; conveying instruction, knowledge, or information; enlightening.
- interfluves — Plural form of interfluve.
- intervenous — (anatomy, botany) Between veins.
- intravenous — within a vein.
- intrusive r — linking r (def 2).
- intrusive-r — the r- sound as reintroduced into an utterance where there is an r in the spelling by speakers of an r- dropping dialect when a postvocalic r they would normally drop, as in the pronunciation of far as [fah] /fɑ/ (Show IPA) becomes intervocalic, as in far away pronounced as [fahr-uh-wey] /ˈfɑr əˈweɪ/ (Show IPA).
- intrusively — tending or apt to intrude; coming without invitation or welcome: intrusive memories of a lost love.
- investiture — the act or process of investing.
- juvenescent — being or becoming youthful; young.
- katharevusa — the puristic Modern Greek literary language (distinguished from Demotic).
- levoglucose — a sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , having several optically different forms, the common dextrorotatory form (dextroglucose, or -glucose) occurring in many fruits, animal tissues and fluids, etc., and having a sweetness about one half that of ordinary sugar, and the rare levorotatory form (levoglucose, or -glucose) not naturally occurring.
- marvelously — superb; excellent; great: a marvelous show.