13-letter words containing e, v, i, t
- dame's violet — a Eurasian hairy perennial plant, Hesperis matronalis, cultivated in gardens for its mauve or white fragrant flowers: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- dasht-e-kavir — large salt-desert plateau in NC Iran: c. 18,000 sq mi (46,620 sq km)
- dataveillance — the surveillance of a person's activities by studying the data trail created by actions such as credit card purchases, mobile phone calls, and internet use
- de-motivation — the act or an instance of motivating, or providing with a reason to act in a certain way: I don't understand what her motivation was for quitting her job. Synonyms: motive, inspiration, inducement, cause, impetus.
- deceptiveness — apt or tending to deceive: The enemy's peaceful overtures may be deceptive.
- declaratively — serving to declare, make known, or explain: a declarative statement.
- deconvolution — A process of resolving something into its constituent elements or removing complication in order to clarify it.
- defectiveness — having a defect or flaw; faulty; imperfect: a defective machine.
- delivery note — a document that accompanies a delivery of goods
- demonstrative — Someone who is demonstrative shows affection freely and openly.
- deprivatizing — Present participle of deprivatize.
- derivationist — a person who believes that it is possible to derive knowledge of what is good for humans from a metaphysical study of humans themselves
- descriptively — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
- descriptivism — the theory that moral utterances have a truth value
- descriptivist — a writer, teacher, or supporter of descriptive grammar or descriptive linguistics.
- descriptivity — The quality or state of being descriptive.
- destructively — tending to destroy; causing destruction or much damage (often followed by of or to): a very destructive windstorm.
- destructivism — the theory that a part of a whole may be considered a principle part if the destruction of that part would lead to the destruction of the whole
- destructivist — a person who holds to the theory of destructivism
- detectivelike — Resembling a detective or some aspect of one.
- deteriorative — tending to deteriorate
- determinative — able to or serving to settle or determine; deciding
- devastatingly — tending or threatening to devastate: a devastating fire.
- devirgination — The loss of a girl or woman's virginity.
- devolutionary — the act or fact of devolving; passage onward from stage to stage.
- devotionalist — a devotee
- digital video — video output based on digital rather than analogue signals
- digitinervate — (of a leaf) having veins that radiate from the petiole like the fingers of a hand.
- disadvantaged — lacking the normal or usual necessities and comforts of life, as proper housing, educational opportunities, job security, adequate medical care, etc.: The government extends help to disadvantaged minorities.
- disadvantages — Plural form of disadvantage.
- disincentives — Plural form of disincentive.
- disinvestment — the withdrawal of invested funds or the cancellation of financial aid, subsidies, or investment plans, as in a property, neighborhood, or foreign country.
- disinvigorate — to deprive of vigour
- disjunctively — In a disjunctive manner.
- dispositively — in a dispositive manner
- disrespective — (obsolete) Showing a lack of respect; disrespectful.
- disseminative — to scatter or spread widely, as though sowing seed; promulgate extensively; broadcast; disperse: to disseminate information about preventive medicine.
- dissimilative — to modify by dissimilation.
- dissolve into — If you dissolve into or dissolve in tears or laughter, you begin to cry or laugh, because you cannot control yourself.
- distinctively — serving to distinguish; characteristic; distinguishing: the distinctive stripes of the zebra.
- distributives — Plural form of distributive.
- diversionists — Plural form of diversionist.
- divertibility — the capability of being diverted
- diverticulate — of or relating to a diverticulum
- divertisement — (archaic) diversion; amusement; recreation.
- divine mother — the creative, dynamic aspect of the Godhead, the consort or Shakti of Brahma, Vishnu, or Shiva, variously known as Devi, Durga, Kālī, Shakti, etc.
- diving beetle — any of numerous predaceous water beetles of the family Dytiscidae, having the body adapted for swimming.
- diving petrel — any of several small seabirds of the family Pelecanoididae, of Southern Hemisphere seas, having compact bodies, tubelike processes near the nostrils, and usually drab plumage.
- divinyl ether — vinyl ether.
- divorce court — a court having jurisdiction over termination of marital relations, as actions for divorce or annulment.