9-letter words containing d, i, v
- cavitated — Simple past tense and past participle of cavitate.
- ci-devant — (esp of an office-holder) former; recent
- civil day — day (def 3c).
- civilised — to bring out of a savage, uneducated, or rude state; make civil; elevate in social and private life; enlighten; refine: Rome civilized the barbarians.
- civilized — If you describe a society as civilized, you mean that it is advanced and has sensible laws and customs.
- co-driver — one of two drivers who take turns to drive a car, esp in a rally
- conceived — to form (a notion, opinion, purpose, etc.): He conceived the project while he was on vacation.
- conducive — If one thing is conducive to another thing, it makes the other thing likely to happen.
- conrad iv — 1228–54, king of Germany 1237–54 and Sicily 1251–54; uncrowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (son of Frederick II).
- contrived — If you say that something someone says or does is contrived, you think it is false and deliberate, rather than natural and not planned.
- convicted — to prove or declare guilty of an offense, especially after a legal trial: to convict a prisoner of a felony.
- convinced — If you are convinced that something is true, you feel sure that it is true.
- dan river — a river in S Virginia and N North Carolina, flowing S and E to the Roanoke River. 180 miles (290 km) long.
- daredevil — Daredevil people enjoy doing physically dangerous things.
- dataviews — Graphical user interface development software from V.I.Corporation, aimed at constructing platform-independent interactive views of dynamic data.
- davis cup — an annual international lawn tennis championship for men's teams
- de moivre — Abraham [a-bra-am] /a braˈam/ (Show IPA), 1667–1754, French mathematician in England.
- de valois — Dame Ninette (niːˈnɛt). original name Edris Stannus. 1898–2001, British ballet dancer and choreographer, born in Ireland: a founder of the Vic-Wells Ballet Company (1931), which under her direction became the Royal Ballet (1956)
- deauville — a town and resort in NW France: casino. Pop: 3968 (2008)
- deceivers — to mislead by a false appearance or statement; delude: They deceived the enemy by disguising the destroyer as a freighter.
- deceiving — Present participle of deceive.
- decemviri — Plural form of decemvir.
- decemvirs — a member of a permanent board or a special commission of ten members in ancient Rome, especially the commission that drew up Rome's first code of law.
- deceptive — If something is deceptive, it encourages you to believe something which is not true.
- declivity — a downward slope, esp of the ground
- declivous — having a declining slope or gradient
- decoctive — of or relating to decoction
- decretive — of or relating to an official and final decision
- deductive — Deductive reasoning involves drawing conclusions logically from other things that are already known.
- defective — If something is defective, there is something wrong with it and it does not work properly.
- defensive — You use defensive to describe things that are intended to protect someone or something.
- degloving — Present participle of deglove.
- degrative — (chemistry) of something causing a cell or organism to degrade.
- delavigne — (Jean François) Casiˈmir (kaziˈmɪʀ) ; kȧzēmirˈ) 1793-1843; Fr. poet & playwright
- delivered — to carry and turn over (letters, goods, etc.) to the intended recipient or recipients: to deliver mail; to deliver a package.
- deliverer — to carry and turn over (letters, goods, etc.) to the intended recipient or recipients: to deliver mail; to deliver a package.
- deliverly — quickly; nimbly; deftly
- depictive — to represent by or as if by painting; portray; delineate.
- depletive — to decrease seriously or exhaust the abundance or supply of: The fire had depleted the game in the forest. Extravagant spending soon depleted his funds.
- depraving — Present participle of deprave.
- depravity — Depravity is very dishonest or immoral behaviour.
- depriving — Present participle of deprive.
- derivable — to receive or obtain from a source or origin (usually followed by from).
- derivably — in a way that is able to be derived
- derivated — Simple past tense and past participle of derivate.
- derivates — Plural form of derivate.
- dervishes — Plural form of dervish.
- derzhavin — Gavril Romanovich [gah-vril roh-mah-nuh-vich;; Russian guh-vryil ruh-mah-nuh-vyich] /gɑˈvrɪl roʊˈmɑ nə vɪtʃ;; Russian gəˈvryɪl rəˈmɑ nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1743–1816, Russian poet.
- deserving — If you describe a person, organization, or cause as deserving, you mean that you think they should be helped.
- detective — A detective is someone whose job is to discover what has happened in a crime or other situation and to find the people involved. Some detectives work in the police force and others work privately.