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12-letter words containing d, e, v, i, t

  • dovetail saw — a backsaw for fine woodworking, as dovetailing.
  • 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.
  • dubitatively — in a dubitative manner
  • 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.
  • edith cavellEdith Louisa, 1865–1915, English nurse: executed by the Germans in World War I.
  • edulcorative — edulcorant
  • encaptivated — Simple past tense and past participle of encaptivate.
  • 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.
  • evidentially — In an evidential way; according to evidence.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • get involved — play a part
  • gravity feed — the supplying of fuel, materials, etc., by force of gravity.
  • great divide — the continental divide of North America; the Rocky Mountains.
  • have it good — to be in comfortable circumstances
  • have it made — simple past tense and past participle of make1 .
  • 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)
  • inadvertence — the quality or condition of being inadvertent; heedlessness.
  • inadvertency — inadvertence.
  • incentivised — Simple past tense and past participle of incentivise.
  • incentivized — to give incentives to: The government should incentivize the private sector to create jobs.
  • 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
  • individuated — Simple past tense and past participle of individuate.
  • individuates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of individuate.
  • input device — a peripheral device, as a keyboard or stylus, used to enter data into a computer for processing.
  • 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.
  • investigated — Simple past tense and past participle of investigate.
  • jurisdictive — Jurisdictional.
  • kavir desert — Dasht-e-Kavir.
  • kidney vetch — an Old World plant, Anthyllis vulneraria, of the legume family, formerly used as a remedy for kidney diseases.
  • landgraviate — the office, jurisdiction, or territory of a landgrave.
  • living death — a completely miserable, joyless existence, experience, situation, etc.; ordeal: He found the steaming jungle a living death.
  • maidservants — Plural form of maidservant.
  • maladjustive — Exhibiting or relating to maladjustment.
  • medievalists — Plural form of medievalist.
  • meditatively — given to, characterized by, or indicative of meditation; contemplative.
  • misadventure — an instance of bad fortune; mishap.
  • modificative — (grammar) That which modifies or qualifies, as a word or clause.
  • motor-driven — propelled or made to function by means of a motor
  • multi-voiced — having a voice of a specified kind (usually used in combination): shrill-voiced.
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