13-letter words containing d, i, v, e, s
- disinvigorate — to deprive of vigour
- disjunctively — In a disjunctive manner.
- dispositively — in a dispositive manner
- dispurveyance — the lack of provisions
- disrespective — (obsolete) Showing a lack of respect; disrespectful.
- disseminative — to scatter or spread widely, as though sowing seed; promulgate extensively; broadcast; disperse: to disseminate information about preventive medicine.
- dissimilative — to modify by dissimilation.
- dissolve into — If you dissolve into or dissolve in tears or laughter, you begin to cry or laugh, because you cannot control yourself.
- distinctively — serving to distinguish; characteristic; distinguishing: the distinctive stripes of the zebra.
- distributives — Plural form of distributive.
- diversifiable — to make diverse, as in form or character; give variety or diversity to; variegate.
- diversionists — Plural form of diversionist.
- divertisement — (archaic) diversion; amusement; recreation.
- division bell — a bell rung in a parliament to signal a division
- double vision — diplopia.
- draft version — a preliminary version
- driver's seat — the seat from which a vehicle is operated.
- duff's device — The most dramatic use yet seen of fall through in C, invented by Tom Duff when he was at Lucasfilm. Trying to bum all the instructions he could out of an inner loop that copied data serially onto an output port, he decided to unroll it. He then realised that the unrolled version could be implemented by *interlacing* the structures of a switch and a loop: register n = (count + 7) / 8; /* count > 0 assumed */ switch (count % 8) { case 0: do { *to = *from++; case 7: *to = *from++; case 6: *to = *from++; case 5: *to = *from++; case 4: *to = *from++; case 3: *to = *from++; case 2: *to = *from++; case 1: *to = *from++; } while (--n > 0); } Shocking though it appears to all who encounter it for the first time, the device is actually perfectly valid, legal C. C's default fall through in case statements has long been its most controversial single feature; Duff observed that "This code forms some sort of argument in that debate, but I'm not sure whether it's for or against."
- eavesdropping — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
- escape device — a device with a collapsible extensible slide, used as an emergency exit, eg from a burning tall building
- eve's pudding — a baked sponge pudding with a layer of apple at the bottom
- evening dress — formal clothing
- fast dissolve — a transition that fades out one scene and replaces it with another, merging the two scenes imperceptibly
- field service — military service performed in the field
- field servoid — (jargon, abuse) /fee'ld ser'voyd/ A play on "android", a derogatory term for a representative of a field service organisation (see field circus), suggesting an unintelligent rule-driven approach to servicing computer hardware.
- friendsgiving — a gathering of friends to celebrate Thanksgiving with a feast, falling near or on Thanksgiving Day, in contrast to the traditional celebrations that typically involve family.
- goods service — a transport service in which goods are sent by train from one location to another
- half-silvered — (of a mirror) having an incomplete reflective coating, so that half the incident light is reflected and half transmitted: used in optical instruments and two-way mirrors
- harvest index — a measurement of crop yield: the weight of a harvested product as a percentage of the total plant weight of a crop.
- indissolvable — Not dissolvable; incapable of being dissolved or separated.
- indistinctive — without distinctive characteristics.
- individualise — (British spelling) alternative spelling of individualize.
- inverted snob — a person who scorns the conventions or attitudes of his own class or social group by attempting to identify with people of a supposedly lower class
- invidiousness — (rare) Malevolent provocation of dislike or resentment; the state or quality of being invidious.
- landgraviates — Plural form of landgraviate.
- legal adviser — a lawyer who gives advice
- midsummer eve — the evening preceding Midsummer Day: formerly believed to be a time when witches and other supernatural beings caused widespread mischief.
- misadventured — (obsolete) unfortunate.
- misadventurer — a person who experiences misadventure or misfortune
- misadventures — Plural form of misadventure.
- misadvertence — inadvertence
- modus vivendi — manner of living; way of life; lifestyle.
- never say die — to cease to live; undergo the complete and permanent cessation of all vital functions; become dead.
- non-defensive — serving to defend; protective: defensive armament.
- nonadsorptive — Not adsorptive.
- nondiscursive — passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling.
- nondispersive — not dispersive
- nondisruptive — causing, tending to cause, or caused by disruption; disrupting: the disruptive effect of their rioting.
- over-designed — having too many design features; fussy
- over-promised — a declaration that something will or will not be done, given, etc., by one: unkept political promises.