11-letter words containing a, d, v
- dovetailing — a tenon broader at its end than at its base; pin.
- dr. zhivago — a novel (1958) by Boris Pasternak.
- drivability — the degree of smoothness and steadiness of acceleration of an automotive vehicle: The automatic transmission has been improved to give the new model better drivability.
- drive chain — a roller chain that transmits power from one toothed wheel to another
- drive shaft — a shaft for imparting torque from a power source or prime mover to machinery.
- 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.
- dumb sheave — a block having no sheave or other part rolling with the movement of a line.
- 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).
- el salvador — country in Central America
- elucidative — Explanatory, clarifying; that serves to elucidate.
- endeavoring — Present participle of endeavor.
- endeavoured — Simple past tense and past participle of endeavour.
- envenomated — Simple past tense and past participle of envenomate.
- 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.
- even-handed — person
- evidentiary — (legal) Of or pertaining to evidence.
- eviscerated — Disembowel (a person or animal).
- extraverted — Alternative form of extroverted.
- 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.
- gallovidian — a native or inhabitant of Galloway
- 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 haven — a city in W Michigan.
- 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.
- gravidation — (obsolete) gravidity.
- gravidities — Plural form of gravidity.
- gravity dam — a dam resisting the pressure of impounded water through its own weight.
- gravity-fed — the supplying of fuel, materials, etc., by force of gravity.
- ground wave — a radio wave that propagates on or near the earth's surface and is affected by the ground and the troposphere.
- guard's van — The guard's van of a train is a small carriage or part of a carriage in which the guard travels.
- 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.
- hand waving — insubstantial words, arguments, gestures, or actions used in an attempt to explain or persuade.
- hand-waving — insubstantial words, arguments, gestures, or actions used in an attempt to explain or persuade.
- handweaving — the art or technique of weaving on a handloom.
- hardly ever — rarely
- have had it — Usually, haves. an individual or group that has wealth, social position, or other material benefits (contrasted with have-not).