12-letter words containing d, e, r, i, v
- drink-driver — A drink-driver is someone who drives after drinking more than the amount of alcohol that is legally allowed.
- drive sb mad — If you say that someone or something drives you mad, you mean that you find them extremely annoying.
- driveability — the degree of smoothness and steadiness of acceleration of an automotive vehicle: The automatic transmission has been improved to give the new model better drivability.
- driving belt — a belt that carries movement from an engine or moving part to another moving part
- 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.
- driving test — the examination that new drivers must take in order to be officially allowed to drive when not under instruction
- driving time — the time or estimated time to drive between two points or to one's destination.
- drove chisel — a chisel with a broad edge used for dressing stone
- drunk driver — A drunk driver is someone who drives after drinking more than the amount of alcohol that is legally allowed.
- durante vita — during life.
- dv cartridge — (games) (Digital Video?) A plug-in circuit cartridge required by some games consoles in order to play MPEG video material.
- edulcorative — edulcorant
- edwardsville — a town in SW Illinois.
- endeavouring — Present participle of endeavour.
- endocervical — Within a cervix.
- event-driven — (programming) A kind of program, such as a graphical user interface, with a main loop which just waits for events to occur. Each event has an associated handler which is passed the details of the event, e.g. mouse button 3 pressed at position (355, 990). For example, X window system and most Visual Basic application programs are event-driven. See also callback.
- export drive — a united effort to increase a country's exports
- faits divers — brief news stories, as those typically found in some French newspapers, that are sensational, lurid, etc.
- federatively — from a federative point of view
- ferdinand vi — 1713–59, king of Spain 1746–59 (son of Philip V).
- five hundred — a variety of euchre in which a joker and widow are included, the object being to score 500 points first.
- floppy drive — disk drive
- food service — the preparation, delivery, serving, etc., of ready-to-eat foods: The cafeteria employs over 20 people in food service.
- forward dive — a dive from a position facing the water in which the diver jumps up from the springboard, rotating the body forward, and enters the water either headfirst or feetfirst.
- frederick iv — Frederick III (def 1).
- grand vizier — the chief officer of state of various Muslim countries, as in the former Ottoman Empire.
- gravediggers — Plural form of gravedigger.
- gravel-blind — more blind or dim-sighted than sand-blind and less than stone-blind.
- gravity feed — the supplying of fuel, materials, etc., by force of gravity.
- great divide — the continental divide of North America; the Rocky Mountains.
- gypsy driver — the driver of a gypsy cab
- hand-deliver — to deliver in person or by messenger.
- hepadnavirus — Any member of the virus family Hepadnaviridae, capable of causing liver infections in humans and animals.
- horned viper — a highly venomous viper, Cerastes cerastes, of northern Africa and extreme southwestern Asia, having a process resembling a horn just above each eye.
- hudson river — Henry, died 1611? English navigator and explorer.
- ill-favoured — unpleasant in appearance; homely or ugly.
- impoverished — reduced to poverty.
- improvidence — not provident; lacking foresight; incautious; unwary.
- in overdrive — in a state of intense activity
- inadvertence — the quality or condition of being inadvertent; heedlessness.
- inadvertency — inadvertence.
- indian giver — a person who gives a gift and then takes it back.
- indivertible — incapable of being diverted or turned aside
- interdictive — Having the power to prohibit.
- introductive — serving or used to introduce; preliminary; beginning: an introductory course; an introductory paragraph.
- invertedness — Quality of being inverted.
- jordan river — Barbara Charline, 1936–96, U.S. politician.
- jurisdictive — Jurisdictional.
- kavir desert — Dasht-e-Kavir.
- landgraviate — the office, jurisdiction, or territory of a landgrave.