10-letter words containing d, r, i, v
- derogative — lessening; belittling; derogatory.
- detractive — tending or seeking to detract.
- detrivores — Plural form of detrivore.
- devalorize — Devalue.
- devanagari — a syllabic script in which Sanskrit, Hindi, and other modern languages of India are written
- devil tree — jelutong (def 3).
- deviltries — Plural form of deviltry.
- devonshire — 8th Duke of, title of Spencer Compton Cavendish. 1833–1908, British politician, also known (1858–91) as Lord Hartington. He led the Liberal Party (1874–80) and left it to found the Liberal Unionist Party (1886)
- dichlorvos — an organophosphate insecticide used to control garden and household pests and to treat worm infections
- digressive — tending to digress; departing from the main subject.
- directives — Plural form of directive.
- disapprove — to think (something) wrong or reprehensible; censure or condemn in opinion.
- disc drive — disc
- discovered — to see, get knowledge of, learn of, find, or find out; gain sight or knowledge of (something previously unseen or unknown): to discover America; to discover electricity. Synonyms: detect, espy, descry, discern, ascertain, unearth, ferret out, notice.
- discoverer — a person who discovers.
- discretive — Marking distinction or separation; disjunctive.
- discursive — passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling.
- disenviron — to set free from a specific environment
- disfavored — unfavorable regard; displeasure; disesteem; dislike: The prime minister incurred the king's disfavor.
- dish gravy — meat juices, as from a roast, served as a gravy without seasoning or thickening.
- disimprove — (transitive, rare) to make worse.
- disk drive — computing: hardware
- disk-drive — a device that, using an access mechanism under program control, enables data to be read from or written on a spinning magnetic disk, magnetic disk pack, floppy disk, or optical disk.
- dispersive — serving or tending to disperse.
- disprovide — (obsolete, transitive) Not to provide; to fail to provide.
- disproving — Present participle of disprove.
- disruptive — causing, tending to cause, or caused by disruption; disrupting: the disruptive effect of their rioting.
- disservice — harmful or injurious service; an ill turn.
- dissevered — Simple past tense and past participle of dissever.
- dissolvers — Plural form of dissolver.
- distortive — to twist awry or out of shape; make crooked or deformed: Arthritis had distorted his fingers.
- divaricate — to spread apart; branch; diverge.
- dive brake — a flap deployed from the wings or fuselage of an aircraft, as a dive bomber or sailplane, that increases drag to permit a relatively steep angle of descent without a dangerous buildup in speed.
- divemaster — a professional qualified to oversee scuba diving operations, as in salvage work or at a resort, and responsible for procedures and safety, monitoring the whereabouts of divers underwater or at the surface, and making rescues when necessary.
- divergence — the act, fact, or amount of diverging: a divergence in opinion.
- divergency — divergence; deviation.
- diversions — Plural form of diversion.
- divertible — to turn aside or from a path or course; deflect.
- divinatory — the practice of attempting to foretell future events or discover hidden knowledge by occult or supernatural means.
- divineress — a female diviner
- divisorial — Lb maths Related to a divisor.
- dove prion — a common petrel, Pachyptila desolata, of the southern seas, having a bluish back and white underparts
- dove prism — a prism that inverts a beam of light, often used in a telescope to produce an erect image.
- down-river — Something that is moving down-river is moving towards the mouth of a river, from a point further up the river. Something that is down-river is towards the mouth of a river.
- dragsville — something unpleasantly boring or tedious.
- drawknives — Plural form of drawknife.
- drive away — depart in a vehicle
- drive home — to cause to penetrate to the fullest extent
- drive time — the time or estimated time to drive between two points or to one's destination.
- drive-thru — a takeaway restaurant, bank, etc designed so that customers can use it without leaving their cars