12-letter words containing d, e, l, v
- middle river — a city in N Maryland: suburb of Baltimore.
- middle voice — the voice or form used when the subject of a verb performs an action on itself (often the reflexive form)
- middle-level — occurring at or having a middle or intermediate position or status: middle-level management.
- milk-livered — timid; cowardly
- mis-delivery — the carrying and turning over of letters, goods, etc., to a designated recipient or recipients.
- misadvisedly — ill-advisedly
- multi-voiced — having a voice of a specified kind (usually used in combination): shrill-voiced.
- multileveled — having different levels or planes: a multilevel stage set.
- needle valve — a valve with a needlelike part, a fine adjustment, or a small opening, especially a valve in which the opening is controlled by a needlelike or conical point that fits into a conical seat.
- neoflavonoid — (organic chemistry) Any compound, isomeric with the flavonoids, derived from 4-phenyl-1,2-benzopyrone.
- non-drivable — to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation.
- non-voidable — capable of being nullified or invalidated.
- noncivilized — Not civilized.
- nuevo laredo — a city in NE Mexico, on the Rio Grande opposite Laredo, Texas.
- old believer — Raskolnik.
- old covenant — the covenant between God and the ancient Israelites, based on the Mosaic Law.
- old favorite — If you refer to something as an old favorite, you mean that it has been in existence for a long time and everyone knows it or likes it.
- overanalyzed — Simple past tense and past participle of overanalyze.
- overbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of overbalance.
- overboldness — The state or fact of being too bold; audacity.
- overbuilding — Present participle of overbuild.
- overclouding — Present participle of overcloud.
- overcoloured — excessively coloured
- overdelicate — extremely or excessively delicate: an overdelicate digestive system.
- overdevelops — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overdevelop.
- overenrolled — For which too many people have enrolled.
- overflow pdl — (jargon) The place where you put things when your pdl is full. If you don't have one and too many things get pushed, you forget something. The overflow pdl for a person's memory might be a memo pad. This usage inspired the following doggerel:
- overidealize — to idealize excessively
- overinclined — extremely or excessively inclined (to)
- overinvolved — to include as a necessary circumstance, condition, or consequence; imply; entail: This job involves long hours and hard work.
- overlordship — a person who is lord over another or over other lords: to obey the will of one's sovereign and overlord.
- overmodestly — in an extremely modest manner
- overpedalled — relating to overpedalling
- overutilized — to put to use; turn to profitable account: to utilize a stream to power a mill.
- overwithhold — to withhold too much.
- pearl diving — the act of diving for the precious gems pearls
- postdelivery — of, relating to, or occurring after a delivery
- postmedieval — occurring or existing after the Middle Ages, of or related to the period after the Middle Ages
- pre-delivery — the carrying and turning over of letters, goods, etc., to a designated recipient or recipients.
- predictively — of or relating to prediction: losing one's predictive power.
- productively — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- providential — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
- quadrivalent — having a valence of four; tetravalent.
- quill driver — a person who does a great deal of writing.
- rally driver — sports-car racer
- ravioli code — (jargon, humour) Object-oriented code consisting of a number of small and loosely-coupled software components. Presumably, the term is a compliment, contrasting the code with spaghetti code.
- red valerian — a bushy valerian, Centranthus ruber, of Europe and southwestern Asia, having many fragrant red, crimson, or white flowers.
- redemptively — serving to redeem.
- revalidation — to make valid; substantiate; confirm: Time validated our suspicions.
- revictualled — victuals, food supplies; provisions.