11-letter words containing d, r, i, v, a
- derivatives — of or relating to financial derivatives
- deverbative — a word formed or derived from a verb
- diffractive — causing or pertaining to diffraction.
- dis-favored — unfavorable regard; displeasure; disesteem; dislike: The prime minister incurred the king's disfavor.
- disapproval — the act or state of disapproving; a condemnatory feeling, look, or utterance; censure: stern disapproval.
- disapproved — Simple past tense and past participle of disapprove.
- disapprover — One who disapproves.
- disapproves — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disapprove.
- disfavoring — Present participle of disfavor.
- disfavoured — Simple past tense and past participle of disfavour.
- disfavourer — one who does not favour
- disprovable — to prove (an assertion, claim, etc.) to be false or wrong; refute; invalidate: I disproved his claim.
- distractive — tending to distract.
- divaricated — Spread-out, divergent, especially of a branch etc. which is at nearly ninety degrees to the main stem.
- divaricator — to spread apart; branch; diverge.
- diversional — offering diversion or recreation; diverting.
- diverticula — a blind, tubular sac or process branching off from a canal or cavity, especially an abnormal, saclike herniation of the mucosal layer through the muscular wall of the colon.
- divisionary — the act or process of dividing; state of being divided.
- divulgatory — to make publicly known; publish.
- dr. zhivago — a novel (1958) by Boris Pasternak.
- drivability — 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.
- drive chain — a roller chain that transmits power from one toothed wheel to another
- drive shaft — a shaft for imparting torque from a power source or prime mover to machinery.
- drive train — the power train of an automotive vehicle consisting of all the components between the engine and driving wheels and including the clutch and axle, as well as the components of the driveline.
- edward viii — (Duke of Windsor) 1894–1972, king of Great Britain 1936: abdicated (son of George V; brother of George VI).
- endeavoring — Present participle of endeavor.
- eradicative — Tending or serving to eradicate; curing or destroying thoroughly, as a disease or any evil.
- evidentiary — (legal) Of or pertaining to evidence.
- eviscerated — Disembowel (a person or animal).
- ferdinand v — Ferdinand II (def 1).
- final drive — The final drive is an assembly of gears in the back axle of rear-wheel drive (= with engine power going to the rear wheels) vehicles and in the front axle of front-wheel drive (= with engine power going to the front wheels) vehicles.
- flash drive — Also called flash memory drive, thumb drive, USB drive. a very small, portable, solid-state hard drive that can be inserted into a USB port for storage and retrieval of data.
- grand river — former name of the Colorado River above its junction with the Green River in SE Utah.
- gravedigger — a person whose occupation is digging graves.
- graveldiver — any of several eellike fishes of the family Scytalinidae, found off the Pacific coast of North America, especially Scytalina cerdale, which burrows among rocks.
- gravidation — (obsolete) gravidity.
- gravidities — Plural form of gravidity.
- gravity dam — a dam resisting the pressure of impounded water through its own weight.
- gravity-fed — the supplying of fuel, materials, etc., by force of gravity.
- hiv-related — related to the HIV virus
- ill-favored — unpleasant in appearance; homely or ugly.
- inadvertent — unintentional: an inadvertent insult.
- interleaved — Simple past tense and past participle of interleave.
- interweaved — to weave together, as threads, strands, branches, or roots.
- invalid car — a car specially equipped so that a handicapped person can drive it
- invalidator — One who, or that which, makes invalid.
- invigorated — Give strength or energy to.
- inward dive — a dive in which the athlete stands with back to the water, takes off, and rotates toward the board.
- irradiative — That irradiates.
- ivory trade — the (esp illegal) trade in the ivory of the tusks of elephants, walruses, and similar animals