12-letter words containing d, e, v, o, i
- divertimento — an instrumental composition in several movements, light and diverting in character, similar to a serenade.
- divorce mill — a divorce court, especially such a court in a state or country that does not impose difficult requirements, as a long period of residence or humiliating grounds, on those who wish to dissolve their marriage.
- dorsiventral — Botany. having distinct dorsal and ventral sides, as most foliage leaves.
- dovetail saw — a backsaw for fine woodworking, as dovetailing.
- dream vision — a conventional device used in narrative verse, employed especially by medieval poets, that presents a story as told by one who falls asleep and dreams the events of the poem: Dante's Divine Comedy exemplifies the dream vision in its most developed form.
- drove chisel — a chisel with a broad edge used for dressing stone
- edulcorative — edulcorant
- endeavouring — Present participle of endeavour.
- endocervical — Within a cervix.
- export drive — a united effort to increase a country's exports
- 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.
- get involved — play a part
- good evening — greeting
- have it good — to be in comfortable circumstances
- 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
- introductive — serving or used to introduce; preliminary; beginning: an introductory course; an introductory paragraph.
- involvedness — very intricate or complex: an involved reply.
- jordan river — Barbara Charline, 1936–96, U.S. politician.
- lap dissolve — dissolve (def 17).
- leopoldville — former name of Kinshasa.
- leveling rod — rod (def 19).
- lorry driver — a person who drives a lorry; a truck driver
- madisonville — a city in W Kentucky.
- middle voice — the voice or form used when the subject of a verb performs an action on itself (often the reflexive form)
- misconceived — Simple past tense and past participle of misconceive.
- 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.
- neoflavonoid — (organic chemistry) Any compound, isomeric with the flavonoids, derived from 4-phenyl-1,2-benzopyrone.
- neurodiverse — Exhibiting neurodiversity; varying in mental configuration.
- non-divisive — forming or expressing division or distribution.
- 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.
- nonactivated — not activated,
- nonaddictive — producing or tending to cause addiction: an addictive drug.
- noncivilized — Not civilized.
- nonconducive — tending to produce; contributive; helpful; favorable (usually followed by to): Good eating habits are conducive to good health.
- nondeceptive — not deceptive
- nondeductive — not related to deduction or subtraction
- nondirective — Not directive.
- noninductive — not inductive: a noninductive resistance.
- nonvitrified — Not converted into glass.
- objectivized — to cause to become concrete or objective; objectify.