12-letter words containing g, v
- deleveraging — an instance of this: The economic crisis has forced a deleverage.
- demotivating — to provide with a motive, or a cause or reason to act; incite; impel.
- dengue-fever — an infectious, eruptive fever of warm climates, usually epidemic, characterized especially by severe pains in the joints and muscles.
- derogatively — lessening; belittling; derogatory.
- devil's dung — asafetida.
- devil's grip — pleurodynia (def 2).
- devirginized — Simple past tense and past participle of devirginize.
- devirginizer — Someone who devirginizes.
- devirginizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of devirginize.
- devitalizing — Present participle of devitalize.
- devitrifying — Present participle of devitrify.
- digressively — In a digressive fashion.
- disadvantage — absence or deprivation of advantage or equality.
- disapproving — Expressing an unfavorable opinion.
- disbelieving — to have no belief in; refuse or reject belief in: to disbelieve reports of UFO sightings.
- disgavelling — the act or quality of being without gavelkind
- dishevelling — Present participle of dishevel.
- disinvesting — Present participle of disinvest.
- disprivilege — to deprive of privilege
- disservicing — harmful or injurious service; an ill turn.
- divaricating — Present participle of divaricate.
- divergencies — Plural form of divergency.
- diversifying — Present participle of diversify.
- divine right — doctrine that king's power was ordained by God
- diving board — a springboard.
- divining rod — a rod, especially a forked stick, commonly of hazel, supposed to be useful in locating underground water, metal deposits, etc.
- don giovanni — an opera (1787) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
- driving belt — a belt that carries movement from an engine or moving part to another moving part
- 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.
- driving sail — a sail that, when filled, tends to force the hull of a vessel downward (opposed to lifting sail).
- 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
- driving time — the time or estimated time to drive between two points or to one's destination.
- drug-driving — driving while under the influence of drugs, esp illegal drugs
- duck-shoving — the evasion of responsibility by someone
- dv cartridge — (games) (Digital Video?) A plug-in circuit cartridge required by some games consoles in order to play MPEG video material.
- dvapara yuga — the third of the Yugas, not as good as the Treta Yuga but better than the Kali Yuga.
- dzhugashvili — Iosif Vissarionovich [Russian yaw-syif-vyi-suh-ryi-aw-nuh-vyich] /Russian ˈyɔ syɪf vyɪ sə ryɪˈɔ nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), Stalin, Joseph.
- e-government — the provision of government information and services by means of the internet and other computer resources
- eager beaver — a person who is excessively diligent or overly zealous.
- earth-moving — Earth-moving equipment is machinery that is used for digging and moving large amounts of soil.
- effervescing — Present participle of effervesce.
- eigenvectors — Plural form of eigenvector.
- eighty-seven — a score traditionally regarded as being unlucky
- eke a living — If you eke a living or eke out an existence, you manage to survive with very little money.
- endeavouring — Present participle of endeavour.
- energy level — energy of physical system when stationary
- envigorating — Present participle of envigorate.
- envisagement — The act of envisaging.
- equivocating — Present participle of equivocate.