12-letter words containing d, e, v, a, s
- 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.
- eavesdropped — Simple past tense and past participle of eavesdrop.
- eavesdropper — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
- edwardsville — a town in SW Illinois.
- endovascular — Within a blood vessel.
- everydayness — (uncountable) The quality or state of happening every day, or frequently.
- extravasated — Simple past tense and past participle of extravasate.
- faits divers — brief news stories, as those typically found in some French newspapers, that are sensational, lurid, etc.
- favouredness — the quality of or extent to which something is favoured
- geneva bands — a pair of white lawn or linen strips hanging from the front of the neck or collar of some ecclesiastical and academic robes
- good heavens — You say 'Good heavens!' or 'Heavens!' to express surprise or to emphasize that you agree or disagree with someone.
- gravediggers — Plural form of gravedigger.
- gustave dore — (Paul) Gustave [pawl gy-stav] /pɔl güˈstav/ (Show IPA), 1832?–83, French painter, illustrator, and sculptor.
- half-starved — to die or perish from lack of food or nourishment.
- hepadnavirus — Any member of the virus family Hepadnaviridae, capable of causing liver infections in humans and animals.
- individuates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of individuate.
- investigated — Simple past tense and past participle of investigate.
- kavir desert — Dasht-e-Kavir.
- landgravines — Plural form of landgravine.
- lap dissolve — dissolve (def 17).
- love handles — fat midriff
- madisonville — a city in W Kentucky.
- maid service — cleaner, cleaning business
- maidservants — Plural form of maidservant.
- maladjustive — Exhibiting or relating to maladjustment.
- mediaevalism — Alternative spelling of medievalism.
- medievalisms — Plural form of medievalism.
- medievalists — Plural form of medievalist.
- misadventure — an instance of bad fortune; mishap.
- misadvisedly — ill-advisedly
- overdiagnose — (medicine) To diagnose something more often than it actually occurs.
- overpersuade — to persuade (a person) against his or her inclination or intention: By threats and taunts they had overpersuaded him to steal the car.
- oversedation — the calming of mental excitement or abatement of physiological function, especially by the administration of a drug.
- overstrained — exerted, taxed, or used to an excessive extent
- petrozavodsk — a city in NW Russia, capital of the Karelian Autonomous Republic, on Lake Onega: developed around ironworks established by Peter the Great in 1703; university (1940). Pop: 265 000 (2005 est)
- postmedieval — occurring or existing after the Middle Ages, of or related to the period after the Middle Ages
- sand verbena — any of several low, mostly trailing plants of the genus Abronia, of the western U.S., having showy, verbenalike flowers.
- save the day — solve a problem for sb
- scrieveboard — the drawing board of a shipbuilder
- scrive board — a floorlike construction on which the lines of a vessel can be drawn or scribed at full size.
- sea lavender — an Old World, maritime plant, Limonium vulgare, of the leadwort family, having one-sided spikes of small, lavender-colored flowers.
- self-starved — to die or perish from lack of food or nourishment.
- semi-invalid — a person who is partially disabled or somewhat infirm
- sendai virus — a paramyxovirus that tends to cause cell fusion: in inactive form, used in biological research to produce cells with multiple nuclei of different genetic constitutions.
- service road — frontage road.
- several-fold — comprising several parts or members.
- shevardnadze — Eduard A [ed-werd;; Russian ed-wahrt] /ˈɛd wərd;; Russian ɛdˈwɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1928–2014, Soviet foreign minister 1985–91; president of his native Georgian Republic 1995–2003.
- shovel-ready — of or relating to a construction project that is ready to start immediately
- silver medal — a medal, traditionally of silver or silver in color, awarded to a person or team finishing second in a competition, meet, or tournament.
- slave driver — an overseer of slaves.