8-letter words containing d, e, v
- drive at — 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.
- drive-by — the action of driving by a specified locality, object, etc.: a drive-by of Nelson's Monument.
- drive-in — a motion-picture theater, refreshment stand, bank, or other public facility designed to accommodate patrons in their automobiles.
- drive-up — serving or accessible to customers who drive up in their cars: a drive-up taco stand; a drive-up window at a bank.
- driveled — Simple past tense and past participle of drivel.
- driveway — a road, especially a private one, leading from a street or other thoroughfare to a building, house, garage, etc.
- drnovsek — Janez . 1950–2008, Slovenian politician, president of Slovenia (2002–07)
- ds level — (communications) (Digital Signal or Data Service level) Originally an AT&T classification of transmitting one or more voice conversations in one digital data stream. The best known DS levels are DS0 (a single conversation), DS1 (24 conversations multiplexed), DS1C, DS2, and DS3. By extension, the DS level can refer to the raw data rate necessary for transmission: DS0 64 Kb/s DS1 1.544 Mb/s DS1C 3.15 Mb/s DS2 6.31 Mb/s DS3 44.736 Mb/s DS4 274.1 Mb/s (where K and M signify multiplication by 1000 and 1000000, rather than powers of two). In this sense it can be used to measure of data service rates classifying the user access rates for various point-to-point WAN technologies or standards (e.g. X.25, SMDS, ISDN, ATM, PDH). Japan uses the US standards for DS0 through DS2 but Japanese DS5 has roughly the circuit capacity of US DS4, while the European standards are rather different (see E1). In the US all of the transmission rates are integral multiples of 8000 bits per second but rates above DS1 are not necessarily integral multiples of 1,544 kb/s.
- dudevant — Madame Amandine Lucile Aurore [French a-mahn-deen ly-seel oh-rawr] /French a mɑ̃ˈdin lüˈsil oʊˈrɔr/ (Show IPA), Sand, George.
- durative — noting or pertaining to a verb aspect expressing incomplete or continued action. Beat and walk are durative in contrast to strike and step.
- duvalier — François [frahn-swa] /frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), ("Papa Doc") 1907–71, Haitian physician and dictator: president 1957–71.
- duveneck — Frank (Frank Decker) 1848–1919, U.S. painter and teacher.
- duvetine — a napped fabric, in a twilled or plain weave, of cotton, wool, silk, or rayon.
- eavedrop — A drop falling from the eaves of a building; an eavesdrop.
- eductive — educing; serving to educe.
- edward v — 1470–83, king of England 1483 (son of Edward IV).
- elevated — Situated or placed higher than the surrounding area.
- enclaved — Simple past tense and past participle of enclave.
- endeavor — Try hard to do or achieve something.
- engraved — Cut or carve (a text or design) on the surface of a hard object.
- enslaved — Simple past tense and past participle of enslave.
- envolved — Simple past tense and past participle of envolve.
- evadable — That can be evaded.
- evadible — That can be evaded.
- eventide — The end of the day; evening.
- everyday — Happening or used every day; daily.
- evesdrop — Archaic form of eavesdrop.
- evidence — The available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid.
- evildoer — A person who commits profoundly immoral and malevolent deeds.
- evocated — Simple past tense and past participle of evocate.
- favelado — a person who lives in a favela.
- favoured — Treated or regarded with partiality.
- fervidly — heated or vehement in spirit, enthusiasm, etc.: a fervid orator.
- fervidor — Thermidor.
- fivefold — five times as great or as much.
- flavored — (of food or drink) having a particular type of taste.
- foveated — having foveae; pitted.
- gavelled — Simple past tense and past participle of gavel.
- gavotted — Simple past tense and past participle of gavotte.
- gladvert — an advertisement that can be tailored to match the emotional state of the viewer
- go-devil — a flexible, jointed apparatus forced through a pipeline to free it from obstructions.
- governed — to rule over by right of authority: to govern a nation.
- graveled — Simple past tense and past participle of gravel.
- gravidae — a woman's status regarding pregnancy; usually followed by a roman numeral designating the number of times the woman has been pregnant.
- grievand — One who is the object of a formal grievance.
- groveled — (US) Simple past form of grovel.
- handover — the act of relinquishing property, authority, etc.: a handover of occupied territory.
- handwave — [possibly from gestures characteristic of stage magicians] To gloss over a complex point; to distract a listener; to support a (possibly actually valid) point with blatantly faulty logic. If someone starts a sentence with "Clearly..." or "Obviously..." or "It is self-evident that...", it is a good bet he is about to handwave (alternatively, use of these constructions in a sarcastic tone before a paraphrase of someone else's argument suggests that it is a handwave). The theory behind this term is that if you wave your hands at the right moment, the listener may be sufficiently distracted to not notice that what you have said is wrong. Failing that, if a listener does object, you might try to dismiss the objection with a wave of your hand. The use of this word is often accompanied by gestures: both hands up, palms forward, swinging the hands in a vertical plane pivoting at the elbows and/or shoulders (depending on the magnitude of the handwave); alternatively, holding the forearms in one position while rotating the hands at the wrist to make them flutter. In context, the gestures alone can suffice as a remark; if a speaker makes an outrageously unsupported assumption, you might simply wave your hands in this way, as an accusation, far more eloquent than words could express, that his logic is faulty.
- highveld — Alternative case form of Highveld.
- hivemind — the property of apparent sentience in a colony of social insects acting as a single organism, each insect performing a specific role for the good of the group.