12-letter words containing d, e, l, v
- edith cavell — Edith Louisa, 1865–1915, English nurse: executed by the Germans in World War I.
- edulcorative — edulcorant
- edwardsville — a town in SW Illinois.
- endocervical — Within a cervix.
- endovascular — Within a blood vessel.
- evenhandedly — In an evenhanded manner.
- evidentially — In an evidential way; according to evidence.
- federatively — from a federative point of view
- floppy drive — disk drive
- food vacuole — a membrane-enclosed cell vacuole with a digestive function, containing material taken up in by the process of phagocytosis.
- get involved — play a part
- gold reserve — the stock of gold held by a government or central bank to back its promissory notes or currency or to settle its international debts.
- gravel-blind — more blind or dim-sighted than sand-blind and less than stone-blind.
- ground level — ground state.
- half-covered — to be or serve as a covering for; extend over; rest on the surface of: Snow covered the fields.
- half-starved — to die or perish from lack of food or nourishment.
- hand-deliver — to deliver in person or by messenger.
- Îles du vent — a group of islands in the S Pacific, in French Polynesia in the W Society Archipelago: Moorea, Maio (Tubuai Manu), and Mehetia and Tetiaroa. Pop: 184 222 (2002)
- ill-favoured — unpleasant in appearance; homely or ugly.
- indecisively — characterized by indecision, as persons; irresolute; undecided.
- indicatively — showing, signifying, or pointing out; expressive or suggestive (usually followed by of): behavior indicative of mental disorder.
- indivertible — incapable of being diverted or turned aside
- inequivalved — having the valves of the shell of a mollusk unequal in size
- involvedness — very intricate or complex: an involved reply.
- la verendrye — Pierre Gaultier de Varenne [French pyer goh-tyey duh va-ren] /French pyɛr goʊˈtyeɪ də vaˈrɛn/ (Show IPA), Sieur de, 1685–1749, Canadian explorer of North America.
- landgraviate — the office, jurisdiction, or territory of a landgrave.
- landgravines — Plural form of landgravine.
- lap dissolve — dissolve (def 17).
- lavender bag — a small fabric bag filled with dried lavender flowers and placed amongst clothes or linen to scent them
- leave behind — fail to bring
- leopoldville — former name of Kinshasa.
- level-headed — having common sense and sound judgment; sensible.
- leveling rod — rod (def 19).
- lily-livered — weak or lacking in courage; cowardly; pusillanimous.
- linked verse — a Japanese verse form in which stanzas of three lines alternating with stanzas of two lines are composed by two or more poets in alternation.
- live spindle — a rounded rod, usually of wood, tapering toward each end, used in hand-spinning to twist into thread the fibers drawn from the mass on the distaff, and on which the thread is wound as it is spun.
- 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.
- long-sleeved — having long sleeves
- lope de vega — Lope [loh-pey,, -pee;; Spanish law-pe] /ˈloʊ peɪ,, -pi;; Spanish ˈlɔ pɛ/ (Show IPA), (Lope Félix de Vega Carpio) 1562–1635, Spanish dramatist and poet.
- lorry driver — a person who drives a lorry; a truck driver
- louver board — one of a series of overlapping, sloping boards used as louvers in an opening, so arranged as to admit air but to exclude rain or cut off visibility from the outside.
- love handles — fat midriff
- madisonville — a city in W Kentucky.
- maladjustive — Exhibiting or relating to maladjustment.
- markov model — (probability, simulation) A model or simulation based on Markov chains.
- mediaevalism — Alternative spelling of medievalism.
- medievalisms — Plural form of medievalism.
- medievalists — Plural form of medievalist.
- meditatively — given to, characterized by, or indicative of meditation; contemplative.