11-letter words containing a, d, v
- audiovisual — Audio-visual equipment and materials involve both recorded sound and pictures.
- avant-garde — Avant-garde art, music, theatre, and literature is very modern and experimental.
- avoirdupois — a system of weights used in many English-speaking countries. It is based on the pound, which contains 16 ounces or 7000 grains. 100 pounds (US) or 112 pounds (Brit) is equal to 1 hundredweight and 20 hundredweights equals 1 ton
- beaverboard — a stiff light board of compressed wood fibre, used esp to surface partitions
- bleed valve — a valve for running off a liquid from a tank, tube, etc, or for allowing accumulations of gas in a liquid to blow off
- bodhisattva — (in Mahayana Buddhism) a divine being worthy of nirvana who remains on the human plane to help men to salvation
- body cavity — the internal cavity of any multicellular animal that contains the digestive tract, heart, kidneys, etc. In vertebrates it develops from the coelom
- bondservant — a serf or slave
- broad river — a river in W North Carolina, flowing S to join the Saluda River, forming the Congaree River in South Carolina. 150 miles (241 km) long.
- canvas duck — a lightweight cotton or linen fabric.
- chain drive — a chain of links passing over sprockets that transmits rotation from one shaft to another
- civil death — (formerly) the loss of all civil rights because of a serious conviction
- clavichords — Plural form of clavichord.
- coadjuvancy — (rare) cooperation, mutual effort, joint-help.
- coadventure — adventure in which two or more share.
- contravened — to come or be in conflict with; go or act against; deny or oppose: to contravene a statement.
- convalesced — Simple past tense and past participle of convalesce.
- conversated — to have a conversation; converse; talk.
- conveyanced — Simple past tense and past participle of conveyance.
- dandy fever — (in the West Indies) dengue.
- danger cave — a deep, stratified site in the eastern Great Basin, in Utah, occupied by Amerindian cultures from at least 7000 b.c. to historic times.
- data driven — A data driven architecture/language performs computations in an order dictated by data dependencies. Two kinds of data driven computation are dataflow and demand driven. From about 1970 research in parallel data driven computation increased. Centres of excellence emerged at MIT, CERT-ONERA in France, NTT and ETL in Japan and Manchester University.
- dative bond — coordinate bond
- dative-bond — a type of covalent bond between two atoms in which the bonding electrons are supplied by one of the two atoms.
- de beauvoir — Simone (simɔn). 1908–86, French existentialist novelist and feminist, whose works include Le Sang des autres (1944), Le Deuxième Sexe (1949), and Les Mandarins (1954)
- deactivated — Simple past tense and past participle of deactivate.
- deactivates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deactivate.
- deactivator — Any device used to deactivate something.
- decemvirate — a board of decemvirs
- declarative — making a statement or assertion
- decurvation — the act of curving downwards
- defensative — a thing that offers protection or defence, esp a dressing, etc, that protects against infection or injury
- deformative — making worse by alteration
- degradative — causing degradation
- delavirdine — A non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor used to treat HIV.
- deleveraged — Simple past tense and past participle of deleverage.
- deliverable — capable of delivery.
- deliverance — Deliverance is rescue from imprisonment, danger, or evil.
- deliveryman — a man whose job is to deliver a product
- delta virus — a severe form of hepatitis caused by an incomplete virus (delta virus) that links to the hepatitis B virus for its replication.
- demarcative — (of a phonological feature) serving to indicate the beginning or end of each successive word in an utterance, as word-initial stress in Hungarian or penultimate stress in Polish.
- demotivated — to provide with a motive, or a cause or reason to act; incite; impel.
- demotivator — to provide with a motive, or a cause or reason to act; incite; impel.
- demy octavo — a book size, 81⁄2 by 51⁄2 inches
- denervation — to cut off the nerve supply from (an organ or body part) by surgery or anesthetic block.
- denigrative — tending to denigrate
- depravation — to make morally bad or evil; vitiate; corrupt.
- depravement — (archaic) Depravity; corruption.
- depravingly — in a depraving manner
- depravities — Plural form of depravity.