11-letter words containing v, u
- coronavirus — a type of airborne virus accounting for 10-30% of all colds
- corpus vile — a person or thing fit only to be the object of an experiment
- countermove — A countermove is an action that someone takes in response to an action by another person or group.
- countervail — to act or act against with equal power or force
- countervair — (heraldry) A heraldic fur resembling vair, except in the arrangement of the patches or figures.
- counterview — an opposite or opposing view
- covarrubias — Miguel [mee-gel] /miˈgɛl/ (Show IPA), 1904–57, Mexican caricaturist, illustrator, and painter.
- covermounts — Plural form of covermount.
- creve coeur — a town in E Missouri.
- cross vault — a vault or ceiling created by the intersection of vaults.
- cruciverbal — of or relating to crosswords
- culminative — (of stress or tone accent) serving to indicate the number of independent words or the important points in an utterance by assigning prominence to one syllable in each word or close-knit group of words.
- cultivating — Present participle of cultivate.
- cultivation — the planting, tending, improving, or harvesting of crops or plants
- cultivators — Plural form of cultivator.
- culver city — a city in SW California, W of Los Angeles.
- culver hole — a hole for receiving a timber.
- culverineer — a soldier bearing a culverin
- curry favor — to try to win favor by flattery, fawning, etc.
- cursiveness — the quality of being cursive
- curvilineal — (Of a line) Having bends; curved; curvilinear.
- curvilinear — consisting of, bounded by, or characterized by a curved line
- de beauvoir — Simone (simɔn). 1908–86, French existentialist novelist and feminist, whose works include Le Sang des autres (1944), Le Deuxième Sexe (1949), and Les Mandarins (1954)
- declivitous — fairly steep
- decursively — in a decursive manner
- decurvation — the act of curving downwards
- deductively — In a deductive manner; using deduction.
- deevolution — any process of formation or growth; development: the evolution of a language; the evolution of the airplane.
- delta virus — a severe form of hepatitis caused by an incomplete virus (delta virus) that links to the hepatitis B virus for its replication.
- destructive — Something that is destructive causes or is capable of causing great damage, harm, or injury.
- deux-sevres — a department of W France, in Poitou-Charentes region. Capital: Niort. Pop: 347 652 (2003 est). Area: 6054 sq km (2337 sq miles)
- devaluating — Present participle of devaluate.
- devaluation — a decrease in the exchange value of a currency against gold or other currencies, brought about by a government
- deviousness — The characteristic of being devious; sneakiness; underhandedness.
- devouringly — In a devouring manner; rapaciously, consumingly.
- diffusively — In a diffusive manner.
- diffusivity — the property of a substance indicative of the rate at which a thermal disturbance, as a rise in temperature, will be transmitted through the substance.
- diluvialism — the theory, generally abandoned in the mid-19th century, that the earth's surface was shaped by the biblical flood
- diluvialist — a person who believes in the theory of diluvialism
- diminuitive — Misspelling of diminutive.
- diminutives — Plural form of diminutive.
- disfavoured — Simple past tense and past participle of disfavour.
- disfavourer — one who does not favour
- disillusive — tending to disillusion
- disjunctive — serving or tending to disjoin; separating; dividing; distinguishing.
- displuviate — (of the atrium of an ancient Roman house) having roofs sloping downward and outward from a central opening.
- disputative — Tending to dispute.
- disquietive — having a disquieting effect or character
- diverticula — a blind, tubular sac or process branching off from a canal or cavity, especially an abnormal, saclike herniation of the mucosal layer through the muscular wall of the colon.
- diverticuli — Misspelling of diverticula.