12-letter words containing d, v, o, r
- dorsoventral — Zoology. pertaining to the dorsal and ventral aspects of the body; extending from the dorsal to the ventral side: the dorsoventral axis.
- 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.
- driving iron — Golf. a club with a long shaft and an iron head the face of which has almost no slope, for hitting long, low drives.
- drove chisel — a chisel with a broad edge used for dressing stone
- dusty clover — a bush clover, Lespedeza capitata.
- dutch clover — white clover.
- eavesdropped — Simple past tense and past participle of eavesdrop.
- eavesdropper — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
- edulcorative — edulcorant
- endeavorment — Act of endeavouring; effort.
- endeavouring — Present participle of endeavour.
- endocervical — Within a cervix.
- endovascular — Within a blood vessel.
- export drive — a united effort to increase a country's exports
- favouredness — the quality of or extent to which something is favoured
- floppy drive — disk drive
- food service — the preparation, delivery, serving, etc., of ready-to-eat foods: The cafeteria employs over 20 people in food service.
- forward dive — a dive from a position facing the water in which the diver jumps up from the springboard, rotating the body forward, and enters the water either headfirst or feetfirst.
- garden grove — a city in SW California.
- go overboard — over the side of a ship or boat, especially into or in the water: to fall overboard.
- gold reserve — the stock of gold held by a government or central bank to back its promissory notes or currency or to settle its international debts.
- graving dock — an excavated shore dry dock for the repair and maintenance of ships.
- ground cover — the herbaceous plants and low shrubs in a forest, considered as a whole.
- ground level — ground state.
- gustave dore — (Paul) Gustave [pawl gy-stav] /pɔl güˈstav/ (Show IPA), 1832?–83, French painter, illustrator, and sculptor.
- half-covered — to be or serve as a covering for; extend over; rest on the surface of: Snow covered the fields.
- hard-favored — South Midland U.S. (of a person) hard-featured.
- horned viper — a highly venomous viper, Cerastes cerastes, of northern Africa and extreme southwestern Asia, having a process resembling a horn just above each eye.
- hudson river — Henry, died 1611? English navigator and explorer.
- hybrid vigor — heterosis.
- ill-favoured — unpleasant in appearance; homely or ugly.
- impoverished — reduced to poverty.
- improvidence — not provident; lacking foresight; incautious; unwary.
- in overdrive — in a state of intense activity
- introductive — serving or used to introduce; preliminary; beginning: an introductory course; an introductory paragraph.
- jordan curve — simple closed curve.
- jordan river — Barbara Charline, 1936–96, U.S. politician.
- leveling rod — rod (def 19).
- lord provost — the chief magistrate of any of certain large cities in Scotland.
- lorry driver — a person who drives a lorry; a truck driver
- louver board — one of a series of overlapping, sloping boards used as louvers in an opening, so arranged as to admit air but to exclude rain or cut off visibility from the outside.
- markov model — (probability, simulation) A model or simulation based on Markov chains.
- motor-driven — propelled or made to function by means of a motor
- neurodiverse — Exhibiting neurodiversity; varying in mental configuration.
- non-drivable — to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation.
- nondirective — Not directive.
- nonvitrified — Not converted into glass.
- nuevo laredo — a city in NE Mexico, on the Rio Grande opposite Laredo, Texas.
- old believer — Raskolnik.
- old favorite — If you refer to something as an old favorite, you mean that it has been in existence for a long time and everyone knows it or likes it.