13-letter words containing a, d, e, v, i
- devolutionary — the act or fact of devolving; passage onward from stage to stage.
- devotionalist — a devotee
- diaz de bivar — Rodrigo [raw-th ree-gaw] /rɔˈðri gɔ/ (Show IPA), or Ruy [rwee] /rwi/ (Show IPA), Cid, The.
- díaz de vivar — Rodrigo (rɔˈðriɣo). the original name of El Cid
- digital video — video output based on digital rather than analogue signals
- digitinervate — (of a leaf) having veins that radiate from the petiole like the fingers of a hand.
- disadvantaged — lacking the normal or usual necessities and comforts of life, as proper housing, educational opportunities, job security, adequate medical care, etc.: The government extends help to disadvantaged minorities.
- disadvantages — Plural form of disadvantage.
- discovery bay — an inlet of the Indian Ocean in SE Australia
- discovery day — Columbus Day.
- disinvigorate — to deprive of vigour
- dispurveyance — the lack of provisions
- disseminative — to scatter or spread widely, as though sowing seed; promulgate extensively; broadcast; disperse: to disseminate information about preventive medicine.
- dissimilative — to modify by dissimilation.
- diversifiable — to make diverse, as in form or character; give variety or diversity to; variegate.
- diverticulate — of or relating to a diverticulum
- documentative — Of or pertaining to documents or documentation.
- draft version — a preliminary version
- drive a wedge — If someone drives a wedge between two people who are close, they cause ill feelings between them in order to weaken their relationship.
- driver's seat — the seat from which a vehicle is operated.
- driving range — a tract of land for practicing long golf shots, especially drives, with clubs and balls available for rent from the management.
- eavesdropping — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
- escape device — a device with a collapsible extensible slide, used as an emergency exit, eg from a burning tall building
- evidentiarily — In an evidentiary way.
- expert advice — advice given by someone who has studied a subject thoroughly or who is very skilled at a particular job
- face validity — the extent to which a psychological test appears to measure what it is intended to measure
- fast dissolve — a transition that fades out one scene and replaces it with another, merging the two scenes imperceptibly
- ferdinand vii — 1784–1833, king of Spain 1808, 1814–33.
- ferrovanadium — a ferroalloy containing up to 55 percent vanadium.
- five-and-dime — a shop that sells a wide variety of things at a cheap price
- five-day week — a system in which people work for five days in every seven
- food additive — additive (def 4).
- give and take — the quality or state of being resilient; springiness.
- give-and-take — the practice of dealing by compromise or mutual concession; cooperation.
- good behavior — satisfactory, proper, or polite conduct.
- gravel-voiced — speaking in a rough and rasping tone
- half-silvered — (of a mirror) having an incomplete reflective coating, so that half the incident light is reflected and half transmitted: used in optical instruments and two-way mirrors
- hand in glove — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- hand-in-glove — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- harvest index — a measurement of crop yield: the weight of a harvested product as a percentage of the total plant weight of a crop.
- haven't lived — If you tell someone that they haven't lived unless they experience a particular thing, you are telling them that thing is extremely good and should be experienced.
- heaven forbid — You say 'Heaven forbid!' to emphasize that you very much hope that something will not happen.
- impredicative — (of a definition) given in terms that require quantification over a range that includes that which is to be defined, as having all the properties of a great general where one of the properties as ascribed must be that property itself
- in advance of — prior to
- inadvertently — unintentional: an inadvertent insult.
- indissolvable — Not dissolvable; incapable of being dissolved or separated.
- individualise — (British spelling) alternative spelling of individualize.
- individualize — to make individual or distinctive; give an individual or distinctive character to.
- jail delivery — a liberation of persons from prison, especially by force.
- judah ha-levi — (Judah ben Samuel Halevi) 1085–1140, Spanish rabbi, physician, poet, and philosopher.