10-letter words containing a, d, v, o
- devil of a — Theology. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.
- devocalize — devoice.
- devocation — A calling off or away.
- devotional — Devotional activities, writings, or objects relate to religious worship.
- disapprove — to think (something) wrong or reprehensible; censure or condemn in opinion.
- disavowing — Present participle of disavow.
- disfavored — unfavorable regard; displeasure; disesteem; dislike: The prime minister incurred the king's disfavor.
- divagation — to wander; stray.
- divination — the practice of attempting to foretell future events or discover hidden knowledge by occult or supernatural means.
- divinatory — the practice of attempting to foretell future events or discover hidden knowledge by occult or supernatural means.
- divisional — the act or process of dividing; state of being divided.
- divisorial — Lb maths Related to a divisor.
- dolce vita — sweet life; the good life perceived as one of physical pleasure and self-indulgence (usually preceded by la).
- dominative — dominating; controlling.
- dorsovelar — articulated with the back of the tongue touching or near the soft palate, as (k) and (ŋ)
- dovetailed — noting a partition line or a charge, as an ordinary, having a series of indentations suggesting dovetails.
- drop valve — a valve, as for a steam engine, that drops freely to close.
- durnovaria — the Latin name for a town in S England, administrative centre of Dorset: associated with Thomas Hardy, esp as the Casterbridge of his novels. Pop: 16 171 (2001)
- eavesdrops — Plural form of eavesdrop.
- endeavored — Simple past tense and past participle of endeavor.
- endeavours — Plural form of endeavour.
- evaporated — Simple past tense and past participle of evaporate.
- find favor — to be regarded with favor; be pleasing to
- flavonoids — Plural form of flavonoid.
- food value — The food value of a particular food is a measure of how good it is for you, based on its level of vitamins, minerals, or calories.
- foveolated — Foveolate.
- hand-woven — woven by hand rather than by machine
- hardcovers — Plural form of hardcover.
- have to do — You use have to when you are saying that something is necessary or required, or must happen. If you do not have to do something, it is not necessary or required.
- head voice — the high register of the human voice, in which the vibrations of sung notes are felt in the head
- heave down — to raise or lift with effort or force; hoist: to heave a heavy ax.
- hoover dam — official name of Boulder Dam.
- hoverboard — (science fiction) A levitating board that can be ridden in the manner of a surfboard or skateboard.
- id nouveau — A dataflow language by Arvind <[email protected]> and R.S. Nikhil <[email protected]>, MIT LCS, ca. 1986. Id Nouveau began as a functional language, added streams, resource managers and I-structures (mutable arrays). Loops are syntactic sugar for tail recursion. See also Id.
- inviolated — Not violated or injured; inviolate.
- jadotville — former name of Likasi.
- kirovograd — a city in S central Ukraine.
- kirovohrad — Kirovograd.
- lad's love — herb: wormwood
- land rover — a four-wheel drive vehicle
- love beads — a necklace of small, often handmade beads, worn as a symbol of peace and goodwill, especially in the 1960s.
- manoeuvred — Simple past tense and past participle of manoeuvre.
- microwaved — Simple past tense and past participle of microwave.
- most-divan — sliced and baked in a casserole with broccoli and hollandaise sauce.
- native dog — a dingo
- nondeviant — Not deviant.
- old slavic — Old Church Slavonic.
- olive drab — a deep olive color.
- ordinative — Tending to ordain; directing; giving orders.
- ordovician — noting or pertaining to a geologic period of the Paleozoic Era, from 500 million to 425 million years ago, notable for the advent of fish.