12-letter words containing v, o, r, u
- gift voucher — gift certificate.
- grievousness — causing grief or great sorrow: grievous news.
- griseofulvin — an antibiotic, C 17 H 17 ClO 6 , obtained from a species of Penicillium, used in the treatment of ringworm and other fungous infections of the skin.
- ground cover — the herbaceous plants and low shrubs in a forest, considered as a whole.
- ground level — ground state.
- growth curve — a curve on a graph in which a variable is plotted against time to illustrate the growth of the variable
- gustave dore — (Paul) Gustave [pawl gy-stav] /pɔl güˈstav/ (Show IPA), 1832?–83, French painter, illustrator, and sculptor.
- heliogravure — photoengraving.
- herbivourous — Misspelling of herbivorous.
- hudson river — Henry, died 1611? English navigator and explorer.
- ill-favoured — unpleasant in appearance; homely or ugly.
- imperviously — In an impervious manner; impenetrably; impermeably.
- in favour of — If one thing is rejected in favour of another, the second thing is done or chosen instead of the first.
- inclusive or — the connective that gives the value true to a disjunction if either or both of the disjuncts are true
- incorruptive — incorruptible; not tending to be corrupted
- intervillous — Between the villi.
- intraveneous — Misspelling of intravenous.
- introductive — serving or used to introduce; preliminary; beginning: an introductory course; an introductory paragraph.
- jordan curve — simple closed curve.
- katharevousa — The purist form of modern Greek used in traditional literary writing, as opposed to the form that is spoken and used in everyday writing (called demotic).
- kurchatovium — (chemistry) A rejected name for rutherfordium.
- laboursaving — reducing (human) effort, hard work, or labour
- liberum veto — a veto exercised by a single member of a legislative body whose rules require unanimity.
- live through — experience or endure
- live yoghurt — yoghurt that contains live bacteria
- louver board — one of a series of overlapping, sloping boards used as louvers in an opening, so arranged as to admit air but to exclude rain or cut off visibility from the outside.
- manoeuvering — Present participle of manoeuver.
- manoeuvrable — Alternative spelling of maneuverable.
- manoeuvrings — Plural form of manoeuvring.
- mare vaporum — (Sea of Vapors) a dark plain in the first quadrant and near the center of the face of the moon: about 39,000 sq. mi. (101,000 sq. km).
- marvellously — In a marvellous manner.
- microvillous — Relating to microvilli.
- misbehaviour — (British) alternative spelling of misbehavior.
- misventurous — characterized by a mishap
- molar volume — the volume occupied by one mole of a gas, liquid, or solid.
- mount vernon — the home and tomb of George Washington in NE Virginia, on the Potomac, 15 miles (24 km) below Washington, D.C.
- multivarious — Many and various.
- nature lover — someone who likes plants, birds and other natural phenomena
- neurodiverse — Exhibiting neurodiversity; varying in mental configuration.
- non-curative — serving to cure or heal; pertaining to curing or remedial treatment; remedial.
- non-vascular — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
- non-virulent — actively poisonous; intensely noxious: a virulent insect bite.
- nonfrivolous — not frivolous
- nonintrusive — tending or apt to intrude; coming without invitation or welcome: intrusive memories of a lost love.
- nonnutritive — serving to nourish; providing nutriment; nutritious.
- nonpurposive — lacking purpose
- nonuniversal — Not universal.
- nonvehicular — Not vehicular.
- nonvoluntary — done, made, brought about, undertaken, etc., of one's own accord or by free choice: a voluntary contribution.
- 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.