10-letter words containing v, u
- blue agave — a Mexican plant, Agave tequilana variant weber, with blue leaves, used in tequila.
- blue devil — a blue capsule or tablet containing the barbiturate amobarbital or its derivative.
- blue wavey — See under wavey.
- blue-devil — blue heaven.
- book value — In business, the book value of an asset is the value it is given in the account books of the company that owns it.
- boot virus — An MS-DOS virus that infects the boot record program on hard disks and floppy disks or the master boot record on hard disks. The virus gets loaded into memory before MS-DOS and takes control of the computer, infecting any floppy disks subsequently accessed. An infected boot disk may stop the computer starting up at all.
- buck fever — nervous excitement felt by inexperienced hunters at the approach of game
- bur clover — any of several Eurasian legumes of the genus Medicago, as M. hispida, having yellow flowers and prickly, coiled, black pods, naturalized in North America.
- burnsville — a city in SE Minnesota.
- cadaverous — If you describe someone as cadaverous, you mean they are extremely thin and pale.
- cash value — the nonforfeiture value of a life-insurance policy payable to the insured in cash upon its surrender.
- causatives — Plural form of causative.
- cavaquinho — A small, four-stringed guitar resembling a ukulele, popular in Brazil and Portugal.
- chauvinism — Chauvinism is a strong, unreasonable belief that your own country is more important and morally better than other people's.
- chauvinist — a person who is aggressively and blindly patriotic, especially one devoted to military glory.
- chivalrous — A chivalrous man is polite, kind, and unselfish, especially towards women.
- circumvent — If someone circumvents a rule or restriction, they avoid having to obey the rule or restriction, in a clever and perhaps dishonest way.
- clavicular — a bone of the pectoral arch.
- cloud over — If the sky clouds over, it becomes covered with clouds.
- co-venture — a business project or enterprise undertaken jointly by two or more companies, each sharing in the capitalization and in any profits or losses.
- coadjuvant — Cooperating.
- combustive — the act or process of burning.
- compluvium — an unroofed space over the atrium in a Roman house, through which rain fell and was collected
- compu$erve — (Or "CompuSpend", "Compu$pend") A pejorative name for CompuServe Information Service (CI$) drawing attention to perceived high charges.
- compulsive — You use compulsive to describe people or their behaviour when they cannot stop doing something wrong, harmful, or unnecessary.
- compuserve — CompuServe Information Service
- conclusive — Conclusive evidence shows that something is certainly true.
- concussive — Pathology. injury to the brain or spinal cord due to jarring from a blow, fall, or the like.
- conductive — A conductive substance is able to conduct things such as heat and electricity.
- consultive — of or relating to consultation; advisory.
- conventual — of, belonging to, or characteristic of a convent
- convoluted — If you describe a sentence, idea, or system as convoluted, you mean that it is complicated and difficult to understand.
- convolutes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of convolute.
- convolvuli — Plural form of convolvulus.
- convulsant — producing convulsions
- convulsing — to shake violently; agitate.
- convulsion — If someone has convulsions, they suffer uncontrollable movements of their muscles.
- convulsive — A convulsive movement or action is sudden and cannot be controlled.
- copulative — serving to join or unite
- coq au vin — chicken stewed with red wine, onions, etc
- corruptive — tending to corrupt or produce corruption
- courbevoie — an industrial suburb of Paris, on the Seine. Pop: 85 716 (2006)
- couverture — Chocolate made with extra cocoa butter to give a high gloss, used for covering sweets and cakes.
- covermount — A covermount is a small gift attached to the front cover of a magazine.
- covertures — Plural form of coverture.
- covetously — inordinately or wrongly desirous of wealth or possessions; greedy.
- crevecoeur — Miˈchel Guilˈlaume Jean de (miˈʃɛl giˈjoʊm ʒɑ̃ də) ; mēshelˈ gēyōmˈ zhän də) (pseud. J. Hector St. John) 1735-1813; Am. essayist & agriculturist, born in France
- cuernavaca — a city in S central Mexico, capital of Morelos state: resort with nearby Cacahuamilpa Caverns. Pop: 723 000 (2005 est)
- cult movie — film with small but enthusiastic fan base
- cultivable — (of land) capable of being cultivated