| adjuvant | (noun) an additive that enhances the effectiveness of medical treatment | - |
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| alluviation | (noun) the phenomenon of sediment or gravel accumulating | Synonyms: deposit, sedimentation |
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| alluvion | (noun) clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down | Synonyms: alluvial deposit, alluvial sediment, alluvium |
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| (noun) the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land | Synonyms: deluge, flood, inundation |
| (noun) gradual formation of new land, by recession of the sea or deposit of sediment | - |
| alluvium | (noun) clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down | Synonyms: alluvial deposit, alluvial sediment, alluvion |
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| antediluvian | (noun) a very old person | Synonyms: ancient |
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| (noun) any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian deluge | Synonyms: antediluvian patriarch |
| chauvinism | (noun) activity indicative of belief in the superiority of men over women | Synonyms: antifeminism, male chauvinism |
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| (noun) fanatical patriotism | Synonyms: jingoism, superpatriotism, ultranationalism |
| chauvinist | (noun) an extreme bellicose nationalist | Synonyms: flag-waver, hundred-percenter, jingo, jingoist, patrioteer |
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| (noun) a person with a prejudiced belief in the superiority of his or her own kind | - |
| couvade | (noun) a custom among some peoples whereby the husband of a pregnant wife is put to bed at the time of bearing the child | - |
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| couverture | (noun) chocolate that contains at least 32 percent cocoa butter | - |
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| duvet | (noun) a soft quilt usually filled with the down of the eider | Synonyms: continental quilt, eiderdown |
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| effluvium | (noun) a foul-smelling outflow or vapor (especially a gaseous waste) | - |
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| exuviae | (noun) cast-off skins or coverings of various organisms during ecdysis | - |
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| fauvism | (noun) an art movement launched in 1905 whose work was characterized by bright and nonnatural colors and simple forms; influenced the expressionists | - |
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| fauvist | (noun) a member of a group of French painters who followed fauvism | Synonyms: Fauve |
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| fluvastatin | (noun) least expensive statin drug (trade name Lescol); usually taken orally at bedtime | Synonyms: Lescol |
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| guvnor | (noun) (British slang) person in command | - |
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| juvenescence | (noun) the process of growing into a youth | - |
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| juvenile | (noun) a young person, not fully developed | Synonyms: juvenile person |
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| juvenility | (noun) the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person | Synonyms: youth, youthfulness |
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| (noun) lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life | Synonyms: callowness, jejuneness |
| kuvasz | (noun) long-established Hungarian breed of tall light-footed but sturdy white dog; used also as a hunting dog | - |
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| louvar | (noun) large silvery fish found worldwide in warm seas but nowhere common; resembles a whale and feeds on plankton | Synonyms: Luvarus imperialis |
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| louver | (noun) one of a set of parallel slats in a door or window to admit air and reject rain | Synonyms: fin, louvre |
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| louvre | (noun) one of a set of parallel slats in a door or window to admit air and reject rain | Synonyms: fin, louver |
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| maneuver | (noun) a move made to gain a tactical end | Synonyms: manoeuvre, tactical maneuver, tactical manoeuvre |
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| (noun) an action aimed at evading an opponent | Synonyms: evasive action, manoeuvre |
| (noun) a military training exercise | Synonyms: manoeuvre, simulated military operation |
| (noun) a deliberate coordinated movement requiring dexterity and skill | Synonyms: manoeuvre, play |
| (noun) a plan for attaining a particular goal | Synonyms: manoeuvre, tactic, tactics |
| maneuverability | (noun) the quality of being maneuverable | Synonyms: manoeuvrability |
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| maneuverer | (noun) a person skilled in maneuvering | Synonyms: manoeuvrer |
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| manoeuvrability | (noun) the quality of being maneuverable | Synonyms: maneuverability |
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| manoeuvre | (noun) a move made to gain a tactical end | Synonyms: maneuver, tactical maneuver, tactical manoeuvre |
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| (noun) an action aimed at evading an opponent | Synonyms: evasive action, maneuver |
| (noun) a military training exercise | Synonyms: maneuver, simulated military operation |
| (noun) a deliberate coordinated movement requiring dexterity and skill | Synonyms: maneuver, play |
| (noun) a plan for attaining a particular goal | Synonyms: maneuver, tactic, tactics |
| manoeuvrer | (noun) a person skilled in maneuvering | Synonyms: maneuverer |
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| mauve | (noun) a moderate purple | - |
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| oeuvre | (noun) the total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it) | Synonyms: body of work, work |
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| pluviometer | (noun) gauge consisting of an instrument to measure the quantity of precipitation | Synonyms: rain gage, rain gauge, udometer |
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| postdiluvian | (noun) anything living after Noah's flood | - |
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| rauvolfia | (noun) any shrub or small tree of the genus Rauwolfia having leaves in whorls and cymose flowers; yield substances used medicinally especially as emetics or purgatives or antihypertensives | Synonyms: rauwolfia |
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| reduviid | (noun) a true bug: long-legged predacious bug living mostly on other insects; a few suck blood of mammals | Synonyms: assassin bug |
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| rejuvenation | (noun) the act of restoring to a more youthful condition | - |
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| (noun) the phenomenon of vitality and freshness being restored | Synonyms: greening |
| rejuvenescence | (noun) A renewal of youthful characteristics or vitality. | - |
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| souvenir | (noun) something of sentimental value | Synonyms: keepsake, relic, token |
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| (noun) a reminder of past events | Synonyms: memento |
| souvlaki | (noun) made of lamb | Synonyms: souvlakia |
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| souvlakia | (noun) made of lamb | Synonyms: souvlaki |
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| uvea | (noun) the part of the eye that contains the iris and ciliary body and choroid | - |
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| uveitis | (noun) inflammation of the uvea of the eye | - |
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| uvula | (noun) a small pendant fleshy lobe at the back of the soft palate | - |
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| uvulitis | (noun) inflammation of the uvula | - |
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| uvulopalatopharyngoplasty | (noun) surgical resection of unnecessary palatal and oropharyngeal tissue to open the airway; intended to cure extreme cases of snoring (with or without sleep apnea) | Synonyms: palatopharyngoplasty, PPP, UPPP |
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| vesuvian | (noun) a green or yellow or brown mineral consisting of a hydrated silicate; it occurs as crystals in limestone and is used a gemstone | Synonyms: idocrase, vesuvianite |
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| vesuvianite | (noun) a green or yellow or brown mineral consisting of a hydrated silicate; it occurs as crystals in limestone and is used a gemstone | Synonyms: idocrase, vesuvian |
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