9-letter words containing a, d, v, e
- diaghilev — Sergei (Pavlovich) (sɪrˈɡjej ˈpavləvitʃ). 1872–1929, Russian ballet impresario. He founded (1909) and directed (1909–29) the Ballets Russes in Paris, introducing Russian ballet to the West
- disadvise — (transitive) To advise against; to dissuade from.
- disavowed — Deny any responsibility or support for.
- disvalued — Simple past tense and past participle of disvalue.
- divagated — Simple past tense and past participle of divagate.
- divalence — the state of being divalent
- dividable — capable of being divided; divisible.
- divisable — Misspelling of divisible.
- divulgate — to make publicly known; publish.
- donatives — Plural form of donative.
- dovetails — Plural form of dovetail.
- drawshave — drawknife.
- driveable — to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation.
- driveaway — the delivery of a car to a buyer or to a specified destination by means of a hired driver.
- driveways — Plural form of driveway.
- duvet day — a day of leave from work that an employee is allowed to take at short notice
- eavesdrip — the falling or dripping of rainwater from the eaves of a building
- eavesdrop — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
- edge wave — a wave aligned at right angles to the shoreline.
- educative — serving to educate: educative knowledge.
- edward iv — 1442–83, king of England 1461–70, 1471–1483: 1st king of the house of York.
- edward vi — 1537–53, king of England 1547–53 (son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour).
- end value — the value of a building, house, etc once it has been completed and comes on the market
- endeavors — Try hard to do or achieve something.
- endeavour — Standard spelling of endeavor.
- enervated — Cause (someone) to feel drained of energy or vitality; weaken.
- envisaged — Simple past tense and past participle of envisage.
- estivated — Simple past tense and past participle of estivate.
- evacuated — Having had population removed, by evacuation.
- evaluated — Simple past tense and past participle of evaluate.
- evanesced — Simple past tense and past participle of evanesce.
- everglade — A marshy tract of land that is mostly under water and covered with tall grass.
- excavated — Simple past tense and past participle of excavate.
- exudative — (pathology) Of, pertaining to, or accompanied by exudation.
- flavoured — Having a specific taste, often due to the addition of flavouring.
- flevoland — a province of the central Netherlands, created in 1986 on land reclaimed from the IJsselmeer (formerly the Zuiderzee); entirely below sea level. Capital: Lelystad. Pop: 352 000 (2003 est). Area: 1420 sq km (548 sq miles)
- gavelkind — (originally) a tenure of land in which the tenant was liable for a rental in money or produce rather than for labor or military service.
- give head — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
- grandview — a town in W Missouri.
- gravelled — Simple past tense and past participle of gravel.
- gravesend — a seaport in NW Kent, in SE England, on the Thames River: incorporated into Gravesham 1974.
- graveside — the area beside a grave.
- graveward — moving towards the grave or death
- graveyard — a burial ground, often associated with smaller rural churches, as distinct from a larger urban or public cemetery.
- hand over — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- handovers — Plural form of handover.
- handwoven — made on a handloom; handloomed.
- hardcover — a book bound in cloth, leather, or the like, over stiff material: Hardcovers are more durable than paperbacks.
- harddrive — Alternative form of hard drive.
- harvested — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.