12-letter words containing d, a, v, i, n
- disseverance — The act of dissevering; separation.
- ditransitive — noting or pertaining to a verb taking both a direct and an indirect object, as give in “I gave him the package.”.
- divaricating — Present participle of divaricate.
- divarication — to spread apart; branch; diverge.
- diversionary — tending to divert or distract the attention: diversionary tactics of the guerrilla fighters.
- divinatorial — of or related to divination
- diving board — a springboard.
- divinization — The act or process of making divine.
- don giovanni — an opera (1787) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
- dorsiventral — Botany. having distinct dorsal and ventral sides, as most foliage leaves.
- dream vision — a conventional device used in narrative verse, employed especially by medieval poets, that presents a story as told by one who falls asleep and dreams the events of the poem: Dante's Divine Comedy exemplifies the dream vision in its most developed form.
- driving sail — a sail that, when filled, tends to force the hull of a vessel downward (opposed to lifting sail).
- driving seat — In a vehicle such as a car or a bus, the driving seat is the seat where the person who is driving the vehicle sits.
- durante vita — during life.
- encaptivated — Simple past tense and past participle of encaptivate.
- endeavouring — Present participle of endeavour.
- endocervical — Within a cervix.
- evidentially — In an evidential way; according to evidence.
- fancy diving — diving competition from a springboard into water, the contestants being judged chiefly by their grace and control in executing a specified series of dives in a prescribed manner.
- ferdinand vi — 1713–59, king of Spain 1746–59 (son of Philip V).
- five-and-ten — Also called five-and-ten-cent store [fahyv-uh n-ten-sent] /ˈfaɪv ənˈtɛnˌsɛnt/ (Show IPA), five-and-dime [fahyv-uh n-dahym] /ˈfaɪv ənˈdaɪm/ (Show IPA), dime store, ten-cent store. a store offering a wide assortment of inexpensive items, formerly costing five or ten cents, for personal and household use.
- grand vizier — the chief officer of state of various Muslim countries, as in the former Ottoman Empire.
- gravel-blind — more blind or dim-sighted than sand-blind and less than stone-blind.
- graving dock — an excavated shore dry dock for the repair and maintenance of ships.
- gravity wind — a light wind directed downslope, occurring at night because of the cooling and densification of the air near the ground.
- hand-deliver — to deliver in person or by messenger.
- have in mind — to remember
- hepadnavirus — Any member of the virus family Hepadnaviridae, capable of causing liver infections in humans and animals.
- idiot savant — a mentally defective person with an exceptional skill or talent in a special field, as a highly developed ability to play music or to solve complex mathematical problems mentally at great speed.
- inadvertence — the quality or condition of being inadvertent; heedlessness.
- inadvertency — inadvertence.
- indian giver — a person who gives a gift and then takes it back.
- indicatively — showing, signifying, or pointing out; expressive or suggestive (usually followed by of): behavior indicative of mental disorder.
- individual's — a single human being, as distinguished from a group.
- individually — one at a time; separately: The delegates were introduced individually.
- individuated — Simple past tense and past participle of individuate.
- individuates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of individuate.
- inequivalved — having the valves of the shell of a mollusk unequal in size
- invalidating — Present participle of invalidate.
- invalidation — to render invalid; discredit.
- investigated — Simple past tense and past participle of investigate.
- isoflavonoid — (organic chemistry) Any compound, isomeric with the flavonoids, derived from 3-phenyl-1,4-benzopyrone.
- jordan river — Barbara Charline, 1936–96, U.S. politician.
- landgraviate — the office, jurisdiction, or territory of a landgrave.
- landgravines — Plural form of landgravine.
- leave behind — fail to bring
- liverpudlian — a seaport in Merseyside, in W England, on the Mersey estuary.
- living death — a completely miserable, joyless existence, experience, situation, etc.; ordeal: He found the steaming jungle a living death.
- madeira vine — a herbaceous tropical vine, Anredera cordifolia, having shiny leaves and small, fragrant, white flowers.
- madisonville — a city in W Kentucky.