11-letter words containing a, r, v, o
- cover glass — a thin square of mounted glass used to protect a photographic slide
- covert coat — a short topcoat worn for hunting
- crab-plover — a black and white wading bird, Dromas ardeola, of the northern and western shores of the Indian Ocean.
- cracovienne — a fast dance from the Krakow region of Poland which became popular in Paris during the 19th century
- cross vault — a vault or ceiling created by the intersection of vaults.
- cultivators — Plural form of cultivator.
- curry favor — to try to win favor by flattery, fawning, etc.
- 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)
- deactivator — Any device used to deactivate something.
- decurvation — the act of curving downwards
- deformative — making worse by alteration
- demotivator — to provide with a motive, or a cause or reason to act; incite; impel.
- denervation — to cut off the nerve supply from (an organ or body part) by surgery or anesthetic block.
- depravation — to make morally bad or evil; vitiate; corrupt.
- deprivation — If you suffer deprivation, you do not have or are prevented from having something that you want or need.
- derivations — Plural form of derivation.
- devastators — Plural form of devastator.
- dis-favored — unfavorable regard; displeasure; disesteem; dislike: The prime minister incurred the king's disfavor.
- disapproval — the act or state of disapproving; a condemnatory feeling, look, or utterance; censure: stern disapproval.
- disapproved — Simple past tense and past participle of disapprove.
- disapprover — One who disapproves.
- disapproves — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disapprove.
- disfavoring — Present participle of disfavor.
- disfavoured — Simple past tense and past participle of disfavour.
- disfavourer — one who does not favour
- disprovable — to prove (an assertion, claim, etc.) to be false or wrong; refute; invalidate: I disproved his claim.
- divaricator — to spread apart; branch; diverge.
- diversional — offering diversion or recreation; diverting.
- divisionary — the act or process of dividing; state of being divided.
- divulgatory — to make publicly known; publish.
- dr. zhivago — a novel (1958) by Boris Pasternak.
- earth mover — a vehicle, as a bulldozer, for pushing or carrying excavated earth from place to place.
- earthmovers — Plural form of earthmover.
- earthmoving — of or relating to earthmovers: earthmoving machinery.
- eave trough — gutter (def 3).
- eavestrough — gutter (def 3).
- ebola fever — Also called Ebola fever, Ebola hemorrhagic fever, Ebola virus disease. a usually fatal disease, a type of hemorrhagic fever, caused by the Ebola virus and marked by high fever, severe gastrointestinal distress, and bleeding.
- ebola virus — a highly contagious virus of the family Filoviridae that causes Ebola, a usually fatal disease.
- el salvador — country in Central America
- elaborative — Serving to elaborate.
- endeavoring — Present participle of endeavor.
- endeavoured — Simple past tense and past participle of endeavour.
- enteroviral — Relating to an enterovirus.
- envigorates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of envigorate.
- envigourate — Rare spelling of invigorate.
- equivocator — Agent noun of equivocate; one who equivocates.
- evaporating — Present participle of evaporate.
- evaporation — The process of a liquid converting to the gaseous state.
- evaporative — Relating to or involving evaporation.
- evaporators — Plural form of evaporator.