12-letter words containing d, r, i, v, e, s
- dream vision — a conventional device used in narrative verse, employed especially by medieval poets, that presents a story as told by one who falls asleep and dreams the events of the poem: Dante's Divine Comedy exemplifies the dream vision in its most developed form.
- drive sb mad — If you say that someone or something drives you mad, you mean that you find them extremely annoying.
- driving seat — In a vehicle such as a car or a bus, the driving seat is the seat where the person who is driving the vehicle sits.
- driving test — the examination that new drivers must take in order to be officially allowed to drive when not under instruction
- drove chisel — a chisel with a broad edge used for dressing stone
- edwardsville — a town in SW Illinois.
- faits divers — brief news stories, as those typically found in some French newspapers, that are sensational, lurid, etc.
- food service — the preparation, delivery, serving, etc., of ready-to-eat foods: The cafeteria employs over 20 people in food service.
- gravediggers — Plural form of gravedigger.
- gypsy driver — the driver of a gypsy cab
- hepadnavirus — Any member of the virus family Hepadnaviridae, capable of causing liver infections in humans and animals.
- hudson river — Henry, died 1611? English navigator and explorer.
- impoverished — reduced to poverty.
- invertedness — Quality of being inverted.
- jurisdictive — Jurisdictional.
- kavir desert — Dasht-e-Kavir.
- landgravines — Plural form of landgravine.
- linked verse — a Japanese verse form in which stanzas of three lines alternating with stanzas of two lines are composed by two or more poets in alternation.
- maid service — cleaner, cleaning business
- maidservants — Plural form of maidservant.
- mis-delivery — the carrying and turning over of letters, goods, etc., to a designated recipient or recipients.
- misadventure — an instance of bad fortune; mishap.
- misperceived — Simple past tense and past participle of misperceive.
- neurodiverse — Exhibiting neurodiversity; varying in mental configuration.
- over-indexes — (in a nonfiction book, monograph, etc.) a more or less detailed alphabetical listing of names, places, and topics along with the numbers of the pages on which they are mentioned or discussed, usually included in or constituting the back matter.
- overdiagnose — (medicine) To diagnose something more often than it actually occurs.
- overdiscount — to discount excessively
- overdressing — Present participle of overdress.
- overfinished — having an excessively polished finish
- overkindness — the quality of being too kind
- overlordship — a person who is lord over another or over other lords: to obey the will of one's sovereign and overlord.
- oversedation — the calming of mental excitement or abatement of physiological function, especially by the administration of a drug.
- overspending — the act or an instance of spending in excess of one's desires or what one can afford or is allocated
- overstrained — exerted, taxed, or used to an excessive extent
- postdelivery — of, relating to, or occurring after a delivery
- prediscovery — a previous discovery
- recidivistic — repeated or habitual relapse, as into crime.
- rediscoverer — a person who rediscovers
- reverse dive — any dive in which the diver leaves the board facing the water, then rotates in the air to enter the water facing the board.
- scrieveboard — the drawing board of a shipbuilder
- scrive board — a floorlike construction on which the lines of a vessel can be drawn or scribed at full size.
- self-driving — (of a machine) operating without the guidance of a human.
- sendai virus — a paramyxovirus that tends to cause cell fusion: in inactive form, used in biological research to produce cells with multiple nuclei of different genetic constitutions.
- service road — frontage road.
- serving dish — a dish in which food is presented or served, esp before being shared into individual portions
- severodvinsk — a city in the N Russian Federation in Europe, on Dvina Gulf, E of Archangel.
- shirtsleeved — not wearing a jacket or coat
- silver medal — a medal, traditionally of silver or silver in color, awarded to a person or team finishing second in a competition, meet, or tournament.
- silver mound — a perennial Japanese herb, Artemisia schmidtiana, having silver-green leaves forming a moundlike shape.
- sir bedivere — (in Arthurian legend) a knight who took the dying King Arthur to the barge in which he was carried to Avalon