11-letter words containing a, d, e, v, i
- drive train — the power train of an automotive vehicle consisting of all the components between the engine and driving wheels and including the clutch and axle, as well as the components of the driveline.
- du vigneaud — Vincent, 1901–78, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1955.
- duncanville — a town in N Texas.
- duplicative — a copy exactly like an original.
- edward viii — (Duke of Windsor) 1894–1972, king of Great Britain 1936: abdicated (son of George V; brother of George VI).
- elucidative — Explanatory, clarifying; that serves to elucidate.
- endeavoring — Present participle of endeavor.
- equivocated — Simple past tense and past participle of equivocate.
- eradicative — Tending or serving to eradicate; curing or destroying thoroughly, as a disease or any evil.
- evangelized — Simple past tense and past participle of evangelize.
- evidentiary — (legal) Of or pertaining to evidence.
- eviscerated — Disembowel (a person or animal).
- favellidium — (in certain red algae) a cystocarp wholly or partly immersed in a frond.
- ferdinand v — Ferdinand II (def 1).
- final drive — The final drive is an assembly of gears in the back axle of rear-wheel drive (= with engine power going to the rear wheels) vehicles and in the front axle of front-wheel drive (= with engine power going to the front wheels) vehicles.
- five-a-side — a version of soccer with five players on each side
- five-gaited — noting an American saddle horse that has been trained to execute the rack and slow gait in addition to the walk, trot, and canter, and that is used chiefly for showing.
- flash drive — Also called flash memory drive, thumb drive, USB drive. a very small, portable, solid-state hard drive that can be inserted into a USB port for storage and retrieval of data.
- gallivanted — Simple past tense and past participle of gallivant.
- give a damn — to declare (something) to be bad, unfit, invalid, or illegal.
- give a hand — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- grand river — former name of the Colorado River above its junction with the Green River in SE Utah.
- gravedigger — a person whose occupation is digging graves.
- graveldiver — any of several eellike fishes of the family Scytalinidae, found off the Pacific coast of North America, especially Scytalina cerdale, which burrows among rocks.
- gravidities — Plural form of gravidity.
- gravity-fed — the supplying of fuel, materials, etc., by force of gravity.
- guide vanes — fixed aerofoils that direct air, gas, or water into the moving blades of a turbine or into or around bends in ducts with minimum loss of energy
- guided wave — a wave the energy of which is concentrated near a boundary or between parallel boundaries separating different materials and that has a direction of propagation parallel to these boundaries.
- handweaving — the art or technique of weaving on a handloom.
- have had it — Usually, haves. an individual or group that has wealth, social position, or other material benefits (contrasted with have-not).
- have it bad — suffer disadvantage
- hiv-related — related to the HIV virus
- ill-advised — acting or done without due consideration; imprudent: an ill-advised remark.
- ill-behaved — 1. [numerical analysis] Said of an algorithm or computational method that tends to blow up because of accumulated roundoff error or poor convergence properties. 2. Software that bypasses the defined operating system interfaces to do things (like screen, keyboard, and disk I/O) itself, often in a way that depends on the hardware of the machine it is running on or which is nonportable or incompatible with other pieces of software. In the IBM PC/mess-dos world, there is a folk theorem (nearly true) to the effect that (owing to gross inadequacies and performance penalties in the OS interface) all interesting applications are ill-behaved. See also bare metal. Opposite: well-behaved, compare PC-ism.
- ill-favored — unpleasant in appearance; homely or ugly.
- inactivated — Simple past tense and past participle of inactivate.
- inadvertent — unintentional: an inadvertent insult.
- inadvisable — not advisable; inexpedient; unwise.
- inadvisedly — In a manner that is not advisable.
- individable — indivisible
- individuate — to form into an individual or distinct entity.
- interleaved — Simple past tense and past participle of interleave.
- interweaved — to weave together, as threads, strands, branches, or roots.
- invaginated — Simple past tense and past participle of invaginate.
- invalidated — Something made invalid.
- invalidates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of invalidate.
- invalidness — Invalidity.
- invigilated — Simple past tense and past participle of invigilate.
- invigorated — Give strength or energy to.
- inward dive — a dive in which the athlete stands with back to the water, takes off, and rotates toward the board.