Scrabble Words with V but no U
There are 12,567 valid Scrabble words that contain the letter V but not a single U, ranging up to 15 letters. They're grouped by length below, longest first. Every word is valid in the NWL (NASPA Word List), the official North American Scrabble tournament dictionary.
15-letter words
359 words- adversarinesses19
- advisablenesses21
- alternativeness18
- anticompetitive24
- antiderivatives22
- antidevelopment23
- antiprogressive21
- antiretrovirals18
- antivivisection23
- ariboflavinoses23
- ariboflavinosis23
- assertivenesses18
- associativities20
- attentivenesses18
- availablenesses20
- believabilities22
- bioavailability25
- chemoprevention27
- chemopreventive30
- civilianization29
- coinvestigators21
- collaboratively25
- combativenesses24
- commemoratively29
- comparativeness24
competitiveness24
an aggressive willingness to compete
comprehensively30
in an all-inclusive manner
conceivableness24
the state of being conceivable
conservationist20
someone who works to protect the environment from destruction or pollution
- conservatorship25
- contemplatively27
- contrapositives22
controversially23
involving controversy
conventionalise20
make conventional or adapt to conventions
conventionalism22
orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional
- conventionalist20
conventionality23
conformity with conventional thought and behavior
conventionalize29
make conventional or adapt to conventions
- convertibleness22
- conveyorization32
cooperativeness22
the trait of being cooperative
- cooperativities22
- correlativities20
- corrosivenesses20
- deceptivenesses23
- defensivenesses22
demonstratively24
in a demonstrative manner
- derivatizations28
- descriptiveness23
- deservingnesses20
- determinatively24
developmentally26
with respect to development
- devitalizations28
- devitrification24
distinctiveness21
a distinguishing trait
diversification24
the act of introducing variety (especially in investments or in the variety of goods and services offered)
- divertissements21
- divisionalising20
- divisionalizing29
- dorsiventrality22
+ 299 more 15-letter words
14-letter words
506 words- abortivenesses19
- abrasivenesses19
- absorptivities21
- adaptivenesses20
- adhesivenesses21
administrative20
of or relating to or responsible for administration
- adverbializing30
- advertisements20
- advertizements29
- advisabilities20
aggressiveness19
a feeling of hostility that arouses thoughts of attack
- aggressivities19
alliteratively20
in an alliterative manner
- animadversions20
- anticorrosives19
- antiderivative21
- antigovernment20
- antinarratives17
- antireflective22
- antiresorptive19
- antiretroviral17
appreciatively26
with appreciation; in a grateful manner
apprehensively27
with anxiety or apprehension
attractiveness19
sexual allure
- availabilities19
- aversivenesses20
- behavioralists22
- benevolentness19
- bioconversions21
- biodiversities20
- cardioversions20
chemoreceptive28
of or relating to chemoreceptors
- civilizational28
- clavichordists25
- coercivenesses21
- cohesivenesses22
- coinvestigator20
- collaboratives21
- collectiveness21
- collectivising22
collectivistic23
subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively
- collectivities21
- collectivizing31
- commemoratives25
- comparativists23
- comprehensives26
conceivability26
the state of being conceivable
- conglomerative22
- connectivities21
- conservational19
conservatively25
in a conservative manner
- conservatizing29
- conservatoires19
- conservatorial19
- conservatories19
- contemplatives23
- contraceptives23
- contrapositive21
- contraventions19
- controvertible21
+ 446 more 14-letter words
13-letter words
779 words- abbreviations20
accommodative25
helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation
- adverbialized29
- adverbializes28
- adversariness17
- adversatively23
- adversenesses17
advertisement19
a public promotion of some product or service
advertizement28
a public promotion of some product or service
- advisableness19
- affectivities24
affirmatively27
in an affirmative manner
agglomerative20
clustered together but not coherent
aggravatingly22
in an aggravating fashion
- aggregatively22
- aggrievements20
alternatively19
in place of, or as an alternative to
- amativenesses18
- ambivalencies22
animadversion19
harsh criticism or disapproval
- animadverting20
- anniversaries16
- anticorrosive18
- antigravities17
- antinarrative16
- antinovelists16
- antislaveries16
- appellatively23
- applicatively25
appropriative22
of or relating to or given to the act of taking for yourself
approximative29
not quite exact or correct
assertiveness16
aggressive self-assurance; given to making bold assertions
- asseverations16
- associatively21
- associativity21
- assortatively19
- atavistically21
- atorvastatins16
attentiveness16
paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people)
availableness18
the quality of being at hand when needed
- averagenesses17
- avocationally21
- behavioralist21
behavioristic23
of or relating to behaviorism
believability23
the quality of being believable or trustworthy
- biconcavities22
- biconvexities27
- bioactivities20
- biobehavioral23
- bioconversion20
- bioflavonoids22
- boddhisattvas23
- cantilevering19
captivatingly24
in a bewitching manner
- caravansaries18
- caravanserais18
- cardioversion19
- cardioverters19
- civilianising19
- civilianizing28
+ 719 more 13-letter words
12-letter words
1,065 words- abbreviating20
abbreviation19
a shortened form of a word or phrase
- abbreviators19
- abortiveness17
abrasiveness17
the quality of being sharply disagreeable
absorptivity22
(physics) the property of a body that determines the fraction of the incident radiation or sound flux absorbed or absorbable by the body
accelerative19
tending to increase velocity
- achievements22
- acriflavines20
- activenesses17
- adaptiveness18
- adaptivities18
- additivities17
adhesiveness19
the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition
adjectivally28
as an adjective; in an adjectival manner
- advancements20
- adverbialize27
- adversatives19
- advertencies18
- advertisings17
- advertorials16
advisability21
the quality of being advisable
- aestivations15
- affirmatives23
- afflictively26
- affricatives23
- aggravations17
aggressively20
in an aggressive manner
- aggressivity20
- aggrievement19
- alleviations15
alliterative15
having the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable
- alternatives15
- ambivalences21
- ambivalently22
- ambiversions19
ameliorative17
tending to ameliorate
- animadverted19
- anticreative17
- antinovelist15
- antitakeover19
- antiviolence17
- antivitamins17
- appellatives19
- apperceiving22
apperceptive23
able to relate new percepts to past experience
appositively22
in an appositive manner
appreciative21
feeling or expressive of gratitude
apprehensive22
in fear or dread of possible evil or harm
- asseverating16
asseveration15
a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary)
- asseverative18
assimilative17
capable of mentally absorbing ; ,
atorvastatin15
an oral drug (trade name Lipitor) that is effective in lowering triglycerides; potent in reducing LDL cholesterol because higher doses can be given
attractively20
in a beautiful manner
availability20
the quality of being at hand when needed
- aversenesses15
- aversiveness18
- avitaminoses17
avitaminosis17
any of several diseases caused by deficiency of one or more vitamins
+ 1,005 more 12-letter words
11-letter words
1,454 wordsabbreviated19
(of clothing) very short
- abbreviates18
abbreviator18
one who shortens or abridges or condenses a written work
abstractive18
of an abstracting nature or having the power of abstracting
- acclivities18
- acetylative19
achievement21
the action of accomplishing something
- acriflavine19
- activations16
- activewears19
adjectively27
as an adjective
advancement19
encouragement of the progress or growth or acceptance of something
- advantaging17
adventitial15
of or pertaining to the adventitia
- adventitias15
adverbially20
as an adverb
- adversarial15
- adversaries15
adversative18
expressing antithesis or opposition
- adverseness15
- adversities15
- advertences17
advertently18
in a careful deliberate manner
- advertisers15
advertising16
a public promotion of some product or service
advertizing25
a public promotion of some product or service
advertorial15
an advertisement that is written and presented in the style of an editorial or journalistic report
- advisements17
- advocations17
- aestivating15
aestivation14
(botany) the arrangement of sepals and petals in a flower bud before it opens
- affectively25
- affectivity25
affirmative22
a reply of affirmation
affricative22
a composite speech sound consisting of a stop and a fricative articulated at the same point (as `ch' in `chair' and `j' in `joy')
- aftershaves20
aggravating17
making worse
aggravation16
action that makes a problem or a disease (or its symptoms) worse
aggregative17
formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole
- aggrievedly20
- alivenesses14
- alleviating15
alleviation14
the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance)
alleviative17
moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear
- alleviators14
alleviatory17
moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear
- almsgivings18
alternative14
one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen
amativeness16
the arousal of feelings of sexual desire
ambivalence20
mixed feelings or emotions
ambivalency23
mixed feelings or emotions
ambiversion18
(psychology) a balanced disposition intermediate between extroversion and introversion
- anchovettas19
- animadverts17
anniversary17
the date on which an event occurred in some previous year (or the celebration of it)
- anteverting15
- antigravity18
- antipoverty19
- antislavery17
- antivitamin16
+ 1,394 more 11-letter words
10-letter words
1,739 words- aardwolves17
abbreviate17
reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
- ablatively18
abortively18
in an unfruitful manner
aboveboard18
without concealment or deception; honest
- abrasively18
- abreactive17
- absolvents15
absorptive17
having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up something (liquids or energy etc.)
achievable20
capable of existing or taking place or proving true; possible to do
activating16
the activity of causing to have energy and be active
activation15
making active and effective (as a bomb)
- activators15
activeness15
the state of being active
activewear18
attire worn for sport or for casual wear
activistic17
advocating or engaged in activism
- activities15
- activizing25
- acyclovirs20
- adaptively19
- adaptivity19
- additively18
- additivity18
- adenoviral14
- adhesively20
adjectival23
of or relating to or functioning as an adjective
- adjectives23
- adoptively19
adsorptive16
having capacity or tendency to adsorb or cause to accumulate on a surface
- advantaged16
- advantages15
- advections16
adventitia14
an enveloping or covering membrane or layer of body tissue
- adventives17
- adverbials16
advertence16
the process of being heedful
advertency19
the process of being heedful
advertised15
called to public attention
advertiser14
someone whose business is advertising
- advertises14
- advertized24
- advertizes23
advisement16
careful consideration
- advisories14
- advocacies18
- advocating17
- advocation16
- advocative19
- advocators16
- aestivated14
- aestivates13
- affidavits20
afflictive21
causing misery or pain or distress
- afterlives16
- aftershave19
aggravated16
incited, especially deliberately, to anger
- aggravates15
aggressive15
characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight
- aggrieving16
- alleviants13
+ 1,679 more 10-letter words
9-letter words
2,044 words- aardvarks17
- aasvogels13
- ablatives14
- abrasives14
- absolvent14
- absolvers14
- absolving15
acceptive18
accepting willingly
acclivity19
an upward slope or grade (as in a road)
accretive16
growing by accretion
- achievers17
- achieving18
activated15
(military) set up and placed on active assignment
- activates14
activator14
(biology) any agency bringing about activation; a molecule that increases the activity of an enzyme or a protein that increases the production of a gene product in DNA transcription
- activisms16
- activists14
- activized24
- activizes23
acyclovir19
an oral antiviral drug (trade name Zovirax) used to treat genital herpes; does not cure the disease but relieves the symptoms
addictive16
causing or characterized by addiction
- additives14
- adhesives16
adjective22
a word that expresses an attribute of something
admissive15
characterized by or allowing admission
- advancers15
advancing16
moving forward
advantage14
(tennis) first point scored after deuce
- advecting16
advection15
(meteorology) the horizontal transfer of heat or other atmospheric properties
advective18
of or relating to advection
adventive16
not native and not fully established; locally or temporarily naturalized
adverbial15
a word or group of words function as an adverb
adversary16
someone who offers opposition
adversely16
in an adverse manner
adversity16
a state of misfortune or affliction
advertent13
giving attention
- adverting14
advertise13
call attention to
advertize22
call attention to
advisable15
worthy of being recommended or suggested; prudent or wise
- advisably18
advisedly17
with intention; in an intentional manner
- advocaats15
- advocated16
- advocates15
advocator15
a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea
- advowsons16
aestivate12
sleep during summer
affective20
characterized by emotion
affidavit19
written declaration made under oath; a written statement sworn to be true before someone legally authorized to administer an oath
- agentival13
- agentives13
aggravate14
exasperate or irritate
- aggrieved15
- aggrieves14
agitative13
causing or tending to cause anger or resentment
aliveness12
the condition of living or the state of being alive
alleviant12
remedy that alleviates pain without curing
alleviate12
make easier
+ 1,984 more 9-letter words
8-letter words
1,879 wordsaardvark16
nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata
- aasvogel12
ablative13
the case indicating the agent in passive sentences or the instrument or manner or place of the action described by the verb
abortive13
failing to accomplish an intended result
abrasive13
a substance that abrades or wears down
absolved14
freed from any question of guilt
absolver13
someone who grants absolution
- absolves13
acervate13
pertaining to a growth of fungi that forms a heaped-up mass
- achieved17
achiever16
a person with a record of successes
- achieves16
activate13
aerate (sewage) so as to favor the growth of organisms that decompose organic matter
actively16
in an active manner
activism15
a policy of taking direct and militant action to achieve a political or social goal
activist13
a militant reformer
activity16
(chemistry) the capacity of a substance to take part in a chemical reaction
- activize22
adaptive14
having a capacity for adaptation
additive13
something added to enhance food or gasoline or paint or medicine
adhesive15
a substance that unites or bonds surfaces together
adoptive14
acquired as your own by free choice
advanced15
(of societies) highly developed especially in technology or industry
advancer14
someone who advances
- advances14
- advected15
- adverted13
- advisees12
- advisers12
- advising13
- advisors12
advisory15
an announcement that usually advises or warns the public of some threat
- advocaat14
advocacy19
active support of an idea or cause etc.; especially the act of pleading or arguing for something
advocate14
a lawyer who pleads cases in court
advowson15
the right in English law of presenting a nominee to a vacant ecclesiastical benefice
aestival11
(rare) of or occurring in summer
- agentive12
aggrieve13
cause to feel sorrow
- airwaves14
- akvavits18
- alewives14
- allovers11
alveolar11
a consonant articulated with the tip of the tongue near the gum ridge
amadavat14
red Asian weaverbirds often kept as cage birds
- ambivert15
- antevert11
- anviling12
- anvilled12
- anviltop13
approval15
a feeling of liking something or someone good
approved16
established by authority; given authoritative approval
approver15
an authority with power to approve
- approves15
archival16
of or relating to or contained in or serving as an archive
- archived17
archives16
collection of records especially about an institution
- arrivals11
- arrivers11
- arriving12
+ 1,819 more 8-letter words
7-letter words
1,244 wordsabsolve12
grant remission of a sin to
- abvolts12
achieve15
to gain with effort
- actives12
advance13
a change for the better; progress in development
- advects13
- advents11
- adverbs13
adverse11
contrary to your interests or welfare
- adverts11
- advices13
advised12
having received information
advisee11
someone who receives advice
adviser11
an expert who gives advice
- advises11
advisor11
an expert who gives advice
- agravic13
- airvacs12
airwave13
medium for radio and television broadcasting
akvavit17
Scandinavian liquor usually flavored with caraway seeds
- alcoved13
- alcoves12
- alevins10
allover10
covering the entire surface
- alveoli10
amative12
inclined toward or displaying love
anchovy18
small herring-like plankton-eating fishes often canned whole or as paste; abundant in tropical waters worldwide
- anviled11
approve14
give sanction to
archive15
a depository containing historical records and documents
arrival10
accomplishment of an objective
- arrived11
arriver10
someone who arrives (or has arrived)
- arrives10
atavism12
a reappearance of an earlier characteristic
atavist10
an organism that has the characteristics of a more primitive type of that organism
- availed11
avarice12
extreme greed for material wealth
- avatars10
avellan10
pertaining to filberts or hazelnuts
avenged12
for which vengeance has been taken
avenger11
someone who takes vengeance
- avenges11
- avenses10
average11
(sports) the ratio of successful performances to opportunities
- averred11
- averted11
- averter10
- avgases11
- aviated11
- aviates10
- aviatic12
aviator10
someone who operates an aircraft
- avidins11
avidity14
a positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something
avionic12
of or relating to avionics
avocado13
a pear-shaped tropical fruit with green or blackish skin and rich yellowish pulp enclosing a single large seed
- avocets12
- avodire11
- avoided12
+ 1,184 more 7-letter words
6-letter words
852 words- aboves11
abvolt11
a unit of potential equal to one-hundred-millionth of a volt
active11
a person who is a participating member of an organization
advect12
convey by horizontal mass movement of a fluid
advent10
(Christian theology) the reappearance of Jesus as judge for the Last Judgment
adverb12
a word that modifies something other than a noun
advert10
a public promotion of some product or service
advice12
a proposal for an appropriate course of action
advise10
give advice to
- agaves10
- airvac11
- aivers9
- ajivas16
alcove11
a small recess opening off a larger room
- alevin9
- alvars9
alvine9
of or relating to the intestines
- anvils9
arrive9
reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress
- atavic11
- avails9
avatar9
a new personification of a familiar idea
avenge10
take revenge for a perceived wrong
averse9
(usually followed by `to') strongly opposed
- averts9
- avians9
aviary12
a building where birds are kept
aviate9
operate an airplane
- avidin10
avidly13
in an avid manner
- avions9
- avisos9
avocet11
long-legged web-footed black-and-white shorebird with slender upward-curving bill
- avoids10
- avoset9
avowal12
a statement asserting the existence or the truth of something
avowed13
openly declared as such
avower12
someone who admits or acknowledges openly and boldly
beaver11
a full beard
- beeves11
behave14
behave in a certain manner
behove14
be appropriate or necessary
- belive11
- bevels11
- bevies11
- bevors11
- bovids12
bovine11
any of various members of the genus Bos
- bovver14
- bravas11
- braved12
- braver11
- braves11
- bravos11
- breves11
brevet11
a document entitling a commissioned officer to hold a higher rank temporarily (but without higher pay)
- calved12
- calves11
canvas11
a heavy, closely woven fabric (used for clothing or chairs or sails or tents)
carved12
made for or formed by carving (`carven' is archaic or literary)
+ 792 more 6-letter words
5-letter words
455 wordsabove10
an earlier section of a written text
agave9
tropical American plants with basal rosettes of fibrous sword-shaped leaves and flowers in tall spikes; some cultivated for ornament or for fiber
- aiver8
- ajiva15
alive8
(followed by `to' or `of') aware of
- alvar8
anvil8
a heavy block of iron or steel on which hot metals are shaped by hammering
- arval8
- arvos8
avail8
a means of serving
- avant8
- avast8
avens8
any of various perennials of the genus Geum having usually pinnate basal leaves and variously colored flowers
- avers8
avert8
prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening
- avgas9
avian8
pertaining to or characteristic of birds
- avion8
- aviso8
avoid9
declare invalid
- avows11
bevel10
a hand tool consisting of two rules that are hinged together so you can draw or measure angles of any size
- bevor10
- bevvy16
bovid11
hollow-horned ruminants
- brava10
brave10
a North American Indian warrior
- bravi10
bravo10
a cry of approval as from an audience at the end of great performance
breve10
a diacritical mark (U-shaped) placed over a vowel to indicate a short sound
calve10
birth
carve10
cut to pieces
- cavas10
- caved11
- caver10
- caves10
- cavie10
cavil10
an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections
chevy16
annoy continually or chronically
chive13
perennial having hollow cylindrical leaves used for seasoning
chivy16
annoy continually or chronically
civet10
cat-like mammal typically secreting musk used in perfumes
civic12
of or relating or belonging to a city
- civie10
civil10
(of divisions of time) legally recognized in ordinary affairs of life
- civvy16
- clave10
- clavi10
clove10
aromatic flower bud of a clove tree; yields a spice
- convo10
- coved11
coven10
an assembly of witches; usually 13 witches
cover10
a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something
- coves10
covet10
wish, long, or crave for (something, especially the property of another person)
covey13
a small collection of people
- covid11
- covin10
crave10
have a craving, appetite, or great desire for
- daven9
+ 395 more 5-letter words
4-letter words
154 words- arvo7
aver7
report or maintain
aves7
(ornithology) the class of birds
avid8
(often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous
- avos7
avow10
admit openly and bluntly; make no bones about
bevy12
a flock of birds (especially when gathered close together on the ground)
- cava9
cave9
a geological formation consisting of an underground enclosure with access from the surface of the ground or from the sea
cavy12
short-tailed rough-haired South American rodent
cove9
a small inlet
davy11
English chemist who was a pioneer in electrochemistry and who used it to isolate elements sodium and potassium and barium and boron and calcium and magnesium and chlorine (1778-1829)
- deva8
devi8
Hindu mother goddess; supreme power in the universe; wife or embodiment of the female energy of Siva having both beneficent and malevolent forms or aspects
- devs8
diva8
a distinguished female operatic singer; a female operatic star
dive8
a cheap disreputable nightclub or dance hall
dove8
a constellation in the southern hemisphere near Puppis and Caelum
- eave7
envy10
a feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something that is possessed by another
even7
the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall)
ever7
(intensifier for adjectives) very
- eves7
evil7
morally objectionable behavior
- fava10
- fave10
- favs10
five10
a playing card or a domino or a die whose upward face shows five pips
- gave8
give8
the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length
- gyve11
have10
a person who possesses great material wealth
hive10
a man-made receptacle that houses a swarm of bees
- hove10
java14
a beverage consisting of an infusion of ground coffee beans
jive14
a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz
- jivy17
kava11
an alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub
- kiva11
- kvas11
lava7
rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos; lava is what magma is called when it reaches the surface
lave7
cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
- lavs7
- leva7
- levo7
- levs7
levy10
a charge imposed and collected
live7
continue to live through hardship or adversity
love7
a beloved person; used as terms of endearment
move9
(game) a player's turn to take some action permitted by the rules of the game
nave7
the central area of a church
- navs7
navy10
a dark shade of blue
neve7
the upper part of a glacier (beyond the limit of perpetual snow) where the snow turns to ice
- nevi7
nova7
a star that ejects some of its material in the form of a cloud and become more luminous in the process
oval7
a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it
oven7
kitchen appliance used for baking or roasting
over7
(cricket) the division of play during which six balls are bowled at the batsman by one player from the other team from the same end of the pitch
pave9
a setting with precious stones so closely set that no metal shows
+ 94 more 4-letter words
3-letter words
37 words- ava6
- ave6
avo6
100 avos equal 1 pataca in Macao
- dev7
eve6
(Old Testament) Adam's wife in Judeo-Christian mythology: the first woman and mother of the human race; God created Eve from Adam's rib and placed Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden
- fav9
ivy9
Old World vine with lobed evergreen leaves and black berrylike fruits
lav6
a room or building equipped with one or more toilets
lev6
the basic unit of money in Bulgaria
- nav6
- ova6
rev6
rate of revolution of a motor
- sev6
- tav6
vac8
informal term for vacation
van6
(Great Britain) a closed railroad car that carries baggage or freight
var6
a unit of electrical power in an AC circuit equal to the power dissipated when 1 volt produces a current of 1 ampere
vas6
a tube in which a body fluid circulates
vat6
a large open vessel for holding or storing liquids
- vav9
- vaw9
- vax13
- vee6
veg7
edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant
vet6
a doctor who practices veterinary medicine
vex13
be a mystery or bewildering to
- via6
- vid7
vie6
compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others
- vig7
vim8
a healthy capacity for vigorous activity
- vin6
- vis6
- voe6
- vog7
vow9
a solemn pledge (to oneself or to another or to a deity) to do something or to behave in a certain manner
vox13
the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract