9-letter words containing v, o, u
- duckshove — to evade (responsibility or an issue)
- echovirus — any of numerous retroviruses of the picornavirus group, some harmless and others associated with various human disorders, as aseptic meningitis.
- endeavour — Standard spelling of endeavor.
- enviously — In an envious manner or to an envious degree.
- equivocal — Open to more than one interpretation; ambiguous.
- equivoque — An expression capable of having more than one meaning; a pun.
- evaluator — Agent noun of evaluate; one who evaluates.
- evilution — (informal, pejorative, often humorous) Evolutionary theory viewed as something detrimental to human society.
- evolution — The process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth.
- evolutive — Of, pertaining to, or advocating evolution or development.
- favillous — (obsolete) Of or pertaining to ashes.
- favouring — Present participle of favour.
- favourite — a person or thing regarded with special favor or preference: That song is an old favorite of mine.
- favourous — Rare spelling of favorous.
- fervorous — With fervour; fervent.
- filovirus — any of several filamentous, single-stranded RNA viruses of the family Filoviridae, defined by their unique appearance and reproductive strategies, as the Ebola and Marburg viruses.
- flavorful — full of flavor; tasty.
- flavorous — full of flavor.
- flavoured — Having a specific taste, often due to the addition of flavouring.
- flavourer — One who or that which flavours.
- flerovium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Fl; atomic number: 114.
- frivilous — Misspelling of frivolous.
- frivolous — characterized by lack of seriousness or sense: frivolous conduct.
- frugivore — any chiefly fruit-eating organism, as certain bats.
- funloving — Alternative spelling of fun-loving.
- grievious — (chiefly, dialectal) Alternative form of grievous.
- gyrovague — a vagrant monk who wandered from one monastery to another.
- housewive — (transitive) To manage with skill and economy.
- hung over — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- in favour — If you are in favour of something, you support it and think that it is a good thing.
- in vigour — in legal force
- indeavour — Archaic form of endeavour.
- invidious — calculated to create ill will or resentment or give offense; hateful: invidious remarks.
- involucel — a secondary involucre, as in a compound cluster of flowers.
- involucre — Botany. a collection or rosette of bracts subtending a flower cluster, umbel, or the like.
- involuted — intricate; complex.
- involutes — Plural form of involute.
- ivory nut — the seed of a low, South American palm, Phytelephas macrocarpa, yielding vegetable ivory.
- juvenoids — Plural form of juvenoid.
- kurchatov — Igor Vasilievich [ee-guh r-vuh-syee-lyi-vyich] /ˈi gər vʌˈsyi lyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1903–60, Soviet nuclear physicist.
- laevulose — (carbohydrate) alternative spelling of levulose (fructose).
- leave out — to go out of or away from, as a place: to leave the house.
- leavenous — containing leaven
- level out — become even
- liouville — Joseph [zhaw-zef;; English joh-zuh f,, -suh f] /ʒɔˈzɛf;; English ˈdʒoʊ zəf,, -səf/ (Show IPA), 1809–82, French mathematician.
- longevous — long-lived; living to a great age.
- louis vii — ("the Young") 1121?–80, king of France 1137–80 (son of Louis VI).
- louis xiv — ("the Great"; "the Sun King") 1638–1715, king of France 1643–1715 (son of Louis XIII).
- louis xvi — 1754–93, king of France 1774–92 (grandson of Louis XV and husband of Marie Antoinette).
- louvertie — a female given name.