13-letter words containing n, a, e, v, u
- unevangelical — not religiously orthodox; not in accordance with the Christian gospel
- unimaginative — characterized by or bearing evidence of imagination: an imaginative tale.
- uninformative — not educational
- universal set — the set of all objects or elements considered in a given problem
- universalness — of, relating to, or characteristic of all or the whole: universal experience.
- unperceivable — imperceptible
- unperceivably — imperceptibly
- unpreventable — not able to be prevented
- unprovocative — tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
- unrecoverable — able to recover or be recovered: a patient now believed to be recoverable; recoverable losses on his investments.
- unrecoverably — in an unrecoverable or irrecoverable manner
- unreprievable — not able to be reprieved, eased, or postponed
- unretrievable — to recover or regain: to retrieve the stray ball.
- unsalvageable — the act of saving a ship or its cargo from perils of the seas.
- unscavengered — lacking the qualities of having been scavenged
- unserviceable — not suitable to be used
- unspeculative — not characterized by speculation
- unsubstantive — a noun.
- untraversable — to pass or move over, along, or through.
- unvitrifiable — not able to be vitrified
- upland plover — a large, field-inhabiting sandpiper, Bartramia longicauda, of eastern North America, resembling a plover: now protected and increasing in numbers.
- vannevar bush — (person) Dr. Vannevar Bush, 1890-1974. The man who invented hypertext, which he called memex, in the 1930s. Bush did his undergraduate work at Tufts College, where he later taught. His masters thesis (1913) included the invention of the Profile Tracer, used in surveying work to measure distances over uneven ground. In 1919, he joined MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering, where he stayed for twenty-five years. In 1932, he was appointed vice-president and dean. At this time, Bush worked on optical and photocomposition devices, as well as a machine for rapid selection from banks of microfilm. Further positions followed: president of the Carnegie Institute in Washington, DC (1939); chair of National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (1939); director of Office of Scientific Research and Development. This last role was as presidential science advisor, which made him personally responsible for the 6,000 scientists involved in the war effort. During World War II, Bush worked on radar antenna profiles and the calculation of artillery firing tables. He proposed the development of an analogue computer, which later became the Rockefeller Differential Analyser. Bush is the pivotal figure in hypertext research. His ground-breaking 1945 paper, "As We May Think," speculated on how a machine might be created to assist human reasoning, and introduced the idea of an easily accessible, individually configurable storehouse of knowledge. This machine, which he dubbed "memex," in various ways anticipated hypermedia and the World Wide Web by nearly half a century.
- vapourishness — the quality or state of being vapourish
- vaunt-courier — a person who goes in advance, as a herald.
- venetian blue — a strong blue similar to cobalt blue.
- ventriloquial — of, relating to, or using ventriloquism.
- venus flytrap — firewall machine
- veraciousness — characterized by truthfulness; true, accurate, or honest in content: a veracious statement; a veracious account.
- vermiculation — to work or ornament with wavy lines or markings resembling the form or tracks of a worm.
- vernacularism — a vernacular word or expression.
- vernacularist — someone who uses vernacular speech
- vernacularity — the quality or state of being vernacular
- vernacularize — to translate into the natural speech peculiar to a people.
- vicariousness — performed, exercised, received, or suffered in place of another: vicarious punishment.
- vivaciousness — lively; animated; spirited: a vivacious folk dance.
- voluntariness — done, made, brought about, undertaken, etc., of one's own accord or by free choice: a voluntary contribution.
- vulnerability — capable of or susceptible to being wounded or hurt, as by a weapon: a vulnerable part of the body.
- wave equation — Mathematics, Physics. any differential equation that describes the propagation of waves or other disturbances in a medium.
- wave function — a solution of a wave equation.