13-letter words containing d, r, i, v, e, n
- economy drive — a campaign by the government or a firm to reduce expenditure and make savings
- engine driver — sb who drives a train
- evening dress — formal clothing
- evidentiarily — In an evidentiary way.
- ferdinand vii — 1784–1833, king of Spain 1808, 1814–33.
- ferrovanadium — a ferroalloy containing up to 55 percent vanadium.
- french endive — endive (def 2).
- 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.
- harvest index — a measurement of crop yield: the weight of a harvested product as a percentage of the total plant weight of a crop.
- heaven forbid — You say 'Heaven forbid!' to emphasize that you very much hope that something will not happen.
- improvidently — In an improvident manner.
- inadvertently — unintentional: an inadvertent insult.
- introvertedly — In an introverted manner.
- 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
- ladino clover — a giant variety of white clover, Trifolium repens lodigense, used for pasture and hay.
- landgraviates — Plural form of landgraviate.
- levelling rod — a graduated rod that is used to determine differences in elevation
- market-driven — controlled and guided by commercial considerations
- milford haven — a bay in SW Wales.
- misadventured — (obsolete) unfortunate.
- misadventurer — a person who experiences misadventure or misfortune
- misadventures — Plural form of misadventure.
- misadvertence — inadvertence
- mourning dove — variety of pigeon
- never say die — to cease to live; undergo the complete and permanent cessation of all vital functions; become dead.
- non-divergent — diverging; differing; deviating.
- nonadsorptive — Not adsorptive.
- nonderivative — Not derivative.
- 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.
- nonproductive — not productive; unproductive.
- old man river — a name for the Mississippi River
- ordinary wave — Radio. (of the two waves into which a radio wave is divided in the ionosphere under the influence of the earth's magnetic field) the wave with characteristics more nearly resembling those that the undivided wave would have exhibited in the absence of the magnetic field.
- over-designed — having too many design features; fussy
- over-identify — to recognize or establish as being a particular person or thing; verify the identity of: to identify handwriting; to identify the bearer of a check.
- over-standing — overreach (def 13).
- overburdening — Present participle of overburden.
- overconfident — too confident.
- overdemanding — excessively demanding
- overdetermine — Determine, account for, or cause (something) in more than one way or with more conditions than are necessary.
- overdiagnosed — Simple past tense and past participle of overdiagnose.
- overdiagnosis — excessive diagnosis of a disease
- overdominance — excessive dominance
- overeducation — the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.
- overland mail — a government mail service, started in 1848, for sending mail from the Mississippi to the Far West.
- overnourished — to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth.
- overpedalling — the overuse of the piano's pedals
- petrol-driven — (of a car, engine, etc) powered by petrol
- pre-contrived — to plan with ingenuity; devise; invent: The author contrived a clever plot.