10-letter words containing l, e, v
- devilwoods — Plural form of devilwood.
- devitalize — to lower or destroy the vitality of; make weak or lifeless
- devocalize — devoice.
- devolution — Devolution is the transfer of some authority or power from a central organization or government to smaller organizations or government departments.
- devotional — Devotional activities, writings, or objects relate to religious worship.
- dime novel — a cheap melodramatic or sensational novel, usually in paperback and selling for ten cents, especially such an adventure novel popular c1850 to c1920.
- disbelieve — to have no belief in; refuse or reject belief in: to disbelieve reports of UFO sightings.
- disemvowel — to remove the vowels from (a word in a text message, email, etc) in order to abbreviate it
- disenslave — to free from slave status
- disenvelop — to unfold
- disheveled — hanging loosely or in disorder; unkempt: disheveled hair.
- disinvolve — (transitive) To uncover; to unfold or unroll; to disentangle.
- displacive — That involves or causes displacement.
- dissolvent — capable of dissolving another substance.
- dissolvers — Plural form of dissolver.
- dive table — Often, dive tables. a numerical table used by scuba divers to determine time limits of dives, according to depth, as well as possible decompression delays during ascent and requisite surface intervals between dives.
- divertible — to turn aside or from a path or course; deflect.
- divestible — capable of being divested, as an estate in land.
- divisively — In a divisive manner.
- divulgated — to make publicly known; publish.
- divulgence — a divulging.
- dog violet — a violet, Viola canina, that grows in Europe and N Asia and has blue yellow-spurred flowers
- dolce vita — sweet life; the good life perceived as one of physical pleasure and self-indulgence (usually preceded by la).
- dorsovelar — articulated with the back of the tongue touching or near the soft palate, as (k) and (ŋ)
- dove color — warm gray with a slight purplish or pinkish tint.
- dover sole — another name for the European sole
- dovetailed — noting a partition line or a charge, as an ordinary, having a series of indentations suggesting dovetails.
- dragsville — something unpleasantly boring or tedious.
- drivelines — Plural form of driveline.
- drivelling — saliva flowing from the mouth, or mucus from the nose; slaver.
- driverless — not having a human driver in control: The horse became startled and the now driverless horse-drawn carriage ran into a car. without a human operator: driverless machinery.
- drool over — desire, look longingly at
- drop valve — a valve, as for a steam engine, that drops freely to close.
- dry valley — a valley originally produced by running water but now waterless
- dullsville — something boring or dull: That movie was strictly dullsville.
- dust devil — a small whirlwind 10–100 feet (3–30 meters) in diameter and from several hundred to 1000 feet (305 meters) high, common in dry regions on hot, calm afternoons and made visible by the dust, debris, and sand it picks up from the ground.
- dvd player — machine: plays DVDs
- ecovillage — A community whose inhabitants seek to live according to ecological principles, causing as little impact on the environment as possible.
- effusively — unduly demonstrative; lacking reserve: effusive greetings; an effusive person.
- eigenvalue — Each of a set of values of a parameter for which a differential equation has a nonzero solution (an eigenfunction) under given conditions.
- élan vital — a creative principle held by Henri Bergson to be present in all organisms and responsible for evolution
- electively — In an elective manner; by choice.
- elevations — Plural form of elevation.
- eleventeen — (nonce word) Twenty-one (21).
- eleventhly — in the eleventh place
- eluviation — (soil science, countable) The sideways or downward movement of dissolved or suspended material within soil caused by rainfall.
- endopelvic — (anatomy) Within the pelvis.
- engravable — Capable of being engraved (upon).
- enlevement — an abduction
- enlivening — Present participle of enliven.