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Definition: Virulent |
VirulentAdjective1. Extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom; "venomous snakes"; "a virulent insect bite". 2. Infectious; having the ability to cause disease. 3. Harsh or corrosive in tone; "an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose"; "a barrage of acid comments"; "her acrid remarks make her many enemies"; "bitter words"; "blistering criticism"; "caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts and medical ethics"; "a sulfurous denunciation". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "virulent" was first used: 1400. (references) |
Etymology: Virulent \Vir"u*lent\, adjective. [Latin expression virulentus, from virus poison: compare to the French expression virulent. See Virus.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | A virus or bacteriophage capable only of lytic growth, as opposed to temperate phages establishing the lysogenic response. (references) |
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Synonyms: VirulentSynonyms: acerb (adj), acerbic (adj), acid (adj), acrid (adj), bitter (adj), blistering (adj), caustic (adj), deadly (adj), sulfurous (adj), sulphurous (adj), venomous (adj), vitriolic (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: avirulent (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Discourtesy | Taint, sour, crabbed, sharp, short, trenchant, sarcastic, biting, doggish, caustic, virulent, bitter, acrimonious, venomous, contumelious; snarling; Verb: surly, surly as a bear; perverse; grim, sullen; a; peevish; (irascible). |
Inexpedience | Corrupting; (corrupt; ); virulent, venomous, envenomed, corrosive; poisonous; (morbific); deadly; (killing); destructive; (destroying); inauspicious. |
Insalubrity | Adjective: insalubrious; unhealthy, unwholesome; noxious, noisome; morbific, morbiferous; mephitic, septic, azotic, deleterious; pestilent, pestiferous, pestilential; virulent, venomous, envenomed; poisonous, toxic, toxiferous, teratogenic; narcotic. |
Malevolence | Malicious; malign, malignant; rancorous; despiteful, spiteful; mordacious, caustic, bitter, envenomed, acrimonious, virulent; unamiable, uncharitable; maleficent, venomous, grinding, galling. |
Physical Energy | Rousing, irritation; poignant; virulent, caustic, corrosive, mordant, harsh, stringent; double-edged, double-shotted, double-distilled; drastic, escharotic; racy; (pungent). |
Resentment | Adjective: angry, wrath, irate; ireful, wrathful; cross; (irascible); Achillean; sulky; a; bitter, virulent; acrimonious; (discourteous); violent. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Virulent |
| English words defined with "virulent": Antiar, avirulent ♦ Bikh, blood poisoning ♦ deadly ♦ Pathogene ♦ septicaemia, septicemia ♦ Upas ♦ venomous, Virulented, virulently. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "virulent": African Swine Fever Virus ♦ Bacteriophage phi 6, Bacteriophage phi X 174, Bacteriophage T4, Bacteriophage T7, Brucella melitensis ♦ challenge test, Cholera, cutaneous anthrax ♦ Lysogeny ♦ malignant pustula, Mycobacteriophages ♦ Streptococcus pyogenes ♦ T-Phages ♦ Zollinger-Ellison's Disease. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Virulent" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (virulent), French (fierce, scurrilous, vicious, virulent), German (virulent), Romanian (virulent). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | But it isn't, sir. Poverty is not the lack of anything, but a positive plague, virulent in itself, contagious as cholera, with filth, criminality, vice and despair as only a few of its symptoms (Sullivan's Travels; writing credit: Preston Sturges) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | A photomicrograph of a virulent T. pallidum bacterium, ruptured at 6,000 psi. Treponema pallidum is the causative agent of syphilis. It contains one of the smallest prokaryotic genomes consisting of about 1000 kilobase pairs. Credit: CDC. | |
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Health | Also, some virulent strains of GAS are more likely to cause severe disease than others. (references) | |
Those who develop diarrhea have ingested an inoculum of virulent organisms sufficiently large to overcome individual defense mechanisms, resulting in symptoms. (references) | ||
N. farcinica frequently is more resistant to antimicrobial agents, including trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX) (the drug of choice), and has been shown to be more virulent in an animal model. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Yugoslavia | Since the end of the Milosevic regime, these broadcasts have not contained virulent anti-Montenegrin propaganda; nonetheless, the station broadcasts illegally, in violation of Montenegrin law. (references) |
Economic History | Taiwan | The PRC's virulent reaction to this statement, combined with the DPP's election victory has led to a period of uncertainty as both Taiwan and the PRC reassess their relationship under the changed electoral and political circumstances. (references) |
Minorities | Croatia | In August the deputy mayor of the town of Petrinja, a member of the far-right Croatian Party of Rights (HSP), who had made virulent anti-Serb comments during the local election campaign in May, was ordered to leave a meeting of the town council by Minister of Reconstruction Radimir Cacic. (references) |
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| "Virulent" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Virulent" is used about 126 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 126 | 28,512 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "virulent": virulent disease ♦ virulent phage ♦ virulent tone. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
blasphemy recording virulent | 25 |
virulent | 11 |
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| Language | Translations for "virulent"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | virulent, i helmët (poison, poisonous, venomous), i fortë (able bodied, adamant, adamantine, brawny, cast iron, cogent, decuman, Doughty, durable, endurable, enduring, fast, fierce, firm, flinty, forceful, Hale, hard, Hardy, heavy duty, high pitched, intense, intensive, keen, lancinating, nervous, oaky, potent, powerful, red blooded, refractory, resistant, robust, rocky, rough, rugged, screamy, serviceable, sharp, smart, solid, sound, spanking, stable, staunch, steely, stentorian, stiff, stout, strong, sturdy, swashing, swingeing, tenable, tenacious, tough, two-fisted, vehement, vigorous, violent, virile, well-built, well-set). (various references) | |
Arabic | سام (baneful, empyrean, pestilent, poisonous, sublime, toxic, venomous), خبيث (bad, black-hearted, dark, evil, evil-minded, malevolent, malicious, malignant, pernicious, rake, roue, sly, vicious, viperous, vulpine, wicked, wily). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | силно отровен, вирулентен, опасен (adventurous, awkward, breakneck, dangerous, hazardous, hot, insecure, lively, parlous, perilous, pestiferous, precarious, redoubtable, risky, rocky, rum, rummy, slippery, slippy, trappy, ugly, unchancy, unsafe, unsure, volatile, warm), злъчен (venomous), злостен (malignant, poisonous, spiteful, vicious), злокачествен (cancerous, malign, malignant), злобен (bitchy, blackhearted, catty, despiteful, dirty, envenomed, evil-minded, ill natured, maleficent, malevolent, malicious, malignant, nasty, rancorous, sinister, spiteful, spleenful, squint eyed, venomous, vicious), болестотворен. (various references) | |
Chinese | 剧' (Virulence). (various references) | |
Czech | virulentní, zhoubný (baleful, baneful, deadly, destructive, hurtful, malign, malignant, noisome, pernicious, ruinous, unwholesome), prudký (abrupt, acrimonious, big, bulge, effervescent, ferocious, fierce, fiery, glaring, grievous, gusty, heady, heated, heavy, high, hot tempered, hot-headed, impetuous, intense, keen, passional, passionate, peppery, rapid, rash, robust, rude, sharp, steep, stormy, strong, sweeping, tempestuous, towering, tumultuous, vehement, vicious, vigorous, violent), prudce nakažlivý, jedovatý (abrasive, biting, cankered, cankerous, cutting, poisonous, rank, toxic, venomous, vitriolic). (various references) | |
Danish | virulente bakteriofager (virulent bacteriophages), virulente bakterier (virulent bacteria). (various references) | |
Dutch | virulente bacteriofagen (virulent bacteriophages), virulente bacteriën (virulent bacteria), kwaadaardige bacteriofagen (virulent bacteriophages). (various references) | |
Farsi | کینه جو (Malignant), تند (Caustic, Discourteous, Fast, Glassy, Harsh, Hasty, Headlong, Heady, Hot, Inflammable, Intensive, Keen, Paregoric, Peppery, Presto, Pungent, Quick, Racy, Rapid, Rash, Slush, Sour, Spicy, Tart, Transient, Violent, Wrench, Yare), تلخ (Bitter), سم دار (Ungual, Ungulate), زهرگین , بدخیم . (various references) | |
Finnish | sapekas (full of bitterness, full of gall, venomous). (various references) | |
French | virulent (vicious). (various references) | |
German | virulente. (various references) | |
Greek | μοχθηρόσ (malicious, nasty, rancorous, sinister, spiteful, vicious), φαρμακερόσ (venomed, venomous, viperine), φαρμακερός, τοξικόσ (intoxicating, toxic), δηλητηριώδησ (noxious, pestilent, poisonous, toxic, venomous). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ארסי (poisonous, venomous). (various references) | |
Hungarian | heveny (acute, eager, sore). (various references) | |
Indonesian | dapat mematikan. (various references) | |
Italian | virulento (poisonous, toxic). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | '性 (toxic, toxicity, virulence). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | どくせい (toxic, toxicity, virulence). (various references) | |
Korean | 악성. (various references) | |
Manx | nieunagh (bitter as enemy;snakiness, bitter;snakiness, bleak, bleak of wind, deadly, poisonous, scathing, toxic, venomous, vitriolic). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | irulentvay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | virulento (mordacious, venomous), violento (blustering, boisterous, desperate, drastic, elbow-grease, fierce, forceful, forcible, furious, heady, hot, hot-brained, hot-headed, hot-tempered, impetuous, joggly, judas-colored, judas-coloured, rabid, racking, rambunctious, rampageous, rampant, red, rough, rude, ruffianly, sledge-hammer, smart, smashing, spasmodic, splitting, stormy, swashing, swingeing, tearing, tempestuous, thunderous, tough, towering, two-fisted, uncontrollable, vehement, viatic, violent), mordaz (acrid, bitter, clear-sighted, double-tongued, incisive, keen, mordacious, pepper, peppery, piquant, poignant, pointed, pungent, sarcastic, scathing, scorching, sharp, slashing, squint-eyed, stinging, tart, trenchant), maligno (baleful, carping, ill-disposed, impish, malefic, maleficent, malicious, malign, malignant, pernicious, poisonous), cáustico (caustic, corrosive, mordacious, pepper, pungent, tart). (various references) | |
Romanian | virulent, violent (acute, bad, boisterous, desperate, fiercely, furious, heady, heavy, high, high-spirited, impetuous, raging, rampageous, rampant, rankly, robust, rough, rowdy, rude, rugged, severe, sharp, splitting, strong, sudden, towering, truculent, ungovernable, vehement, violent, wanton), puternic (acute, ardent, authoritative, biting, catchy, drastic, exquisite, fierce, flush, forceful, forcible, forcibly, great, hard, heavily, heavy, high, important, intense, intensely, intensive, leonine, loud, lusty, marrowy, mighty, muscular, nervous, nervy, pithy, potent, powerful, pronounced, resistant, robust, rough, rude, searching, severe, sinewy, solid, stark, stout, strapping, strong, tough, towering, vigorous, violent). (various references) | |
Russian | яростный (furious, rabid, raging, rampageous), вирулентный, опасный (breakneck, chanceful, dangerous, dicey, endangering, grave, hazardous, heroic, hot, nasty, parlous, perilous, precarious, risky, trappy, unsafe), злобный (bitchy, blackhearted, catty, despiteful, envenomed, evil-minded, ill natured, ill-natured, malicious, malign, nasty, ornery, rancorous, spiteful, spleenful, spleenish, venomous, viperous). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | virulentan, zarazan (catching, communicable, contagious, infectious, miasmatic, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, plaguy, zymotic). (various references) | |
Spanish | virulento (poisonous, toxic, vicious). (various references) | |
Swedish | häftig (ardent, be furious, blustery, darting, excessive, explosive, exquisite, ferocious, fierce, flaming, fulminant, furious, groovy, gusty, heady, heavy, impetuous, intense, irascible, jazzy, keen, passionate, quick, quick tempered, rude, smart, throe, vehement, violent, volcanic), giftig (catty, mephitic, poisonous, toxic, venomous, viperous, vitriolic, waspish). (various references) | |
Turkish | kuvvetli (Doughty, energetic, forceful, heady, healty, hearty, intense, lusty, mighty, muscular, potent, powered, powerful, retentive, robust, rugged, sappy, sinewed, sinewy, sound, stalwart, stout, strong, swinging, tenacious, vigorous, virile), kin dolu (venomous), düşmanca (hostile, inhospitably, like an enemy, unfriendly, unkind), şiddetli (acute, astringent, bitter, brutal, burning, cast iron, consuming, deep, drastic, exquisite, extreme, ferocious, flaming, flash, forceful, frenetic, frenzied, fulminant, furious, gusty, hard, harsh, heavy, high, hot, impetuous, intemperate, intense, intensive, ironclad, keen, profound, rigorous, round, severe, sharp, slashing, sledgehammer, smacking, smart, smashing, spanking, splitting, stand up, stern, stinging, stormy, strenuous, strong, sweeping, tempestuous, torrential, vehement, vicious, vigorous, violent), öldürücü (baneful, deadly, deathlike, deathly, fatal, fateful, fell, homicidal, killing, lethal, murderous, perishing, pestilent, pestilential, vital), çabuk ilerleyen. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | отруйний (baneful, deleterious, nocuous, noxious, poison-bearing, poisonous, toxic, toxicant, venomous), небезпечний (adventurous, awkward, breakneck, chanceful, climacteric, critical, dangerous, harmful, hazardous, insecure, nasty, parlous, perilous, redoubtable, redoubted, serious, thorny, uncanny, unsafe, wicked), заразний (cankerous, contagious, infectious, pestiferous, taking, transmissible, zymotic), злісний (baleful, cammed, cankered, cattish, despiteful, diabolic, diabolical, evil-minded, inveterate, malicious, malign, malignant, unholy, venomous, wrathy). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | độc địa (sharp), độc có virut; do virut hiểm ác. (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | virulentus. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "virulent": virulently. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "virulent": avirulent, hypervirulent. (additional references) | |
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"Virulent" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: irulent, verulent, viralent, virulenty, visulent, viulent. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "virulent" (pronounced vi"rulunt) |
| 5 | -u l u n t | ambivalent, benevolent, equivalent, excellent, flatulent, fraudulent, indolent, insolent, jubilant, malevolent, nonviolent, opulent, petulant, prevalent, somnolent, stimulant, succulent, truculent, turbulent, vigilant, violent. |
| 4 | -l u n t | assailant, coolant, divalent, esculent, gallant, inhalant, monovalent, propellant, repellent, sealant, silent, talent, tetravalent. |
| 3 | -u n t | agent, aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, ambient, amendment, amusement, ancient, announcement, annulment, antecedent, antidepressant, antigovernment, antioxidant, apartment, apparent, appeasement, applicant, appointment, apportionment, ardent, argent, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, arrant, arrogant, absent, absorbent, abstinent, abundant, accelerant, accident, accompaniment, accomplishment, abandonment, abatement, aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, accountant, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adherent, adjacent, adjournment, adjustment, adjutant, adolescent, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, afferent, affiant, affluent, ascendant, aspirant, assessment, assignment, assistant, assortment, astonishment, astringent, atonement, attachment, attainment, attendant, banishment, basement, battlement, belligerent, bemusement, beneficent, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, blatant, bombardment, brilliant, buoyant, celebrant, claimant, clairvoyant, Clement, client, coefficient, cogent, cognizant, coherent, coincident, combatant, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, competent, complacent, complainant, complaisant, complement, compliant, component, comportment, concealment, concomitant, concurrent, condiment, confident, confinement, confluent, consequent, consignment, consistent, consonant, constant, constituent, consultant, containment, contaminant, contentment, contestant, continent, contingent, convalescent, convenient, convent, convergent, conversant, copayment, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, Courant, covenant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, curtailment, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impairment, impatient, impeachment, impediment, impertinent, implement, important, impotent, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, imprudent, inadvertent, incandescent, debarment, debasement, decadent, decedent, decent, declarant, decongestant, defendant, deferment, defiant, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, department, dependent, deployment, deportment, depressant, derailment, descendant, descendent, despondent, detachment, detergent, determent, determinant, deterrent, detriment, development, deviant, different, diligent, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discordant, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinfectant, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, disobedient, dispersant, displacement, dissident, dissonant, distant, divergent, divestment, docent, dominant, dormant, easement, ebullient, efferent, effervescent, efficient, effluent, elegant, element, elephant, eloquent, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emergent, emigrant, eminent, emplacement, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encirclement, encouragement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enlistment, enrichment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrant, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, errant, escapement, escarpment, establishment, estrangement, evanescent, evident, excitement, excrement, exigent, existent, exorbitant, expectant, expectorant, expedient, experiment, exponent, extant, extinguishment, extravagant, exuberant, exultant, Fabricant, fervent, figment, filament, flagrant, flamboyant, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, formant, fragment, fragrant, frequent, fulfillment, garment, garnishment, giant, government, grandiloquent, grandparent, harassment, hesitant, hydrant, incessant, incident, incipient, incitement, inclement, incoherent, incompetent, inconsistent, incontinent, inconvenient, increment, incumbent, indecent, independent, indictment, indifferent, indigent, indignant, inducement, indulgent, inefficient, infant, informant, infotainment, infrequent, infringement, ingredient, inhabitant, inherent, innocent, inpatient, insignificant, insistent, insolvent, installment, instant, instrument, insufficient, insurgent, integument, intelligent, intercurrent, interdependent, intermittent, internment, intersegment, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, investment, involvement, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, irritant, itinerant, judgement, judgment, latent, leant, lenient, lieutenant, ligament, litigant, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, luxuriant, magnificent, malignant, maltreatment, management, measurement, merchant, micromanagement, migrant, militant, miscreant, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monument, mordant, movement, mutant, nascent, negligent, noncombatant, nonexistent, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nonresident, nourishment, nutrient, obedient, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, ointment, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, ornament, orpiment, outpatient, outplacement, overconfident, overpayment, overstatement, oxidant, pageant, parchment, parent, parliament, participant, patent, patient, pavement, payment, peasant, penchant, pendant, penitent, pennant, percipient, permanent, persistent, pertinent, pheasant, pigment, piquant, placement, pleasant, pliant, poignant, pollutant, postponement, postretirement, potent, preadolescent, precedent, predicament, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prejudgment, prepayment, prescient, present, presentment, procurement, proficient, prominent, pronouncement, proponent, protestant, provident, prudent, prurient, pungent, punishment, pursuant, puzzlement, quadrant, quiescent, quotient, radiant, rampant, readjustment, reagent, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recalcitrant, recent, recipient, recombinant, recruitment, recurrent, redeployment, redevelopment, redundant, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refrigerant, refurbishment, Regent, regiment, registrant, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, relevant, reliant, reluctant, reminiscent, remnant, repayment, repentant, replacement, replenishment, repugnant, requirement, resentment, resettlement, resident, resilient, resistant, resonant, resplendent, respondent, restatement, resultant, resurgent, retardant, reticent, retirement, retrenchment, reverent, rodent, rudiment, ruminant, sacrament, salient, seafront, sediment, segment, semipermanent, sentiment, Sequent, sergeant, serpent, servant, settlement, shipment, significant, solvent, stagnant, statement, strident, stringent, student, subcontinent, subsequent, subservient, sufficient, supergiant, superintendent, supplement, supplicant, suppressant, surfactant, tangent, temperament, tenant, tenement, testament, tolerant, torrent, tournament, transcendent, transient, translucent, transparent, treatment, trenchant, trident, triumphant, truant, tumescent, tyrant, undercurrent, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, unimportant, unpleasant, unrepentant, urgent, vacant, vagrant, valiant, variant, vehement, verdant, vibrant, warrant, wonderment. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-l-n-r-t-u-v" | |
-1 letter: rivulet, venturi. | |
-2 letters: invert, linter, lunier, lutein, runlet, rutile, triune, uniter, unlive, unveil, virtue. | |
-3 letters: elint, ervil, inert, inlet, inter, inure, levin, liner, liter, litre, liven, liver, livre, lunet, niter, nitre, relit, riven, rivet, rutin, tiler, trine, tuner, unite, unlet, unlit, untie, until, urine, uteri, utile, vertu, viler, virtu. | |
-4 letters: etui, evil, lent, lien. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-l-n-r-t-u-v" | |
+1 letter: avirulent, vulturine. | |
+2 letters: interfluve, lentivirus, revolution, ventriculi, virulently. | |
+3 letters: countervail, interfluves, intrusively, involucrate, nutritively, revaluating, revaluation, revolutions, subinterval, surveillant, ventricular, ventriculus, ventriloquy, viniculture, voluntaries. | |
+4 letters: countervails, evolutionary, interfluvial, interpluvial, lentiviruses, quadrivalent, reevaluating, reevaluation, revaluations, revictualing, ruminatively, subintervals, surveillants, ultraviolent, universalist, universality, unreflective, valetudinary, vinicultures, volunteering, volunteerism. | |
+5 letters: countervailed, devolutionary, hypervirulent, instructively, intravenously, lucrativeness, outdelivering, overindulgent, overutilizing, overvaluation, prerevolution, proventriculi, pulverization, quadrivalents, recultivating, reevaluations, revictualling, revolutionary, revolutionise, revolutionist, revolutionize, subserviently, ultraviolence, unassertively, universalists, unobtrusively, ventriloquial, ventriloquies, ventriloquism, ventriloquist, ventriloquize, vermiculation, vertiginously, voluntariness, volunteerisms, vulnerability. | |
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