11-letter words containing v, i, r, u
- echoviruses — Plural form of echovirus.
- 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.
- enumerative — Of, pertaining to or based on enumeration.
- envigourate — Rare spelling of invigorate.
- equivocator — Agent noun of equivocate; one who equivocates.
- excursively — In an excursive manner.
- favouritism — (British) The unfair favouring of one person or group at the expense of another.
- filoviruses — Plural form of filovirus.
- flavourings — Plural form of flavouring.
- 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.
- forum livii — ancient name for
- frivolously — characterized by lack of seriousness or sense: frivolous conduct.
- frugivorous — fruit-eating, as certain bats.
- frustrative — That which frustrates (causes frustration).
- fungivorous — feeding on fungi, as certain insects.
- furtiveness — taken, done, used, etc., surreptitiously or by stealth; secret: a furtive glance.
- give ground — the quality or state of being resilient; springiness.
- granivorous — (of an animal, especially a bird) eating grain and seeds.
- groin-vault — a vault or ceiling created by the intersection of vaults.
- 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
- honorius iv — (Giacomo Savelli) 1210–87, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1285–87.
- incurvating — Present participle of incurvate.
- incurvation — curved, especially inward.
- innutritive — (archaic) Lacking in nutrition.
- inobtrusive — unobtrusive.
- instructive — serving to instruct or inform; conveying instruction, knowledge, or information; enlightening.
- interfluves — Plural form of interfluve.
- intervallum — an interval of time
- 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.
- invigourate — Alternative spelling of invigorate.
- involucrate — having an involucre.
- involuntary — not voluntary; independent of one's will; not by one's own choice: an involuntary listener; involuntary servitude.
- jure divino — by divine law.
- la louviere — a city in S Belgium, S of Brussels.
- larviparous — producing larvae, as certain insects and mollusks.
- larvivorous — feeding on larvae; larva-eating.
- light curve — a graph showing variations in brightness of celestial objects over time.
- lignivorous — xylophagous.
- liver fluke — any of various trematodes, as Fasciola hepatica, parasitic in the liver and bile ducts of domestic animals and humans.
- livermorium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Lv; atomic number: 116.
- loupcervier — the Canada lynx.
- lubavitcher — a member of a missionary Hasidic movement founded in the 1700s by Rabbi Shneour Zalman of Lyady.
- lucratively — In a lucrative manner, profitably.