11-letter words containing l, i, v, e, d
- disgavelled — freed from gavelkind
- disheveling — to let down, as hair, or wear or let hang in loose disorder, as clothing.
- dishevelled — to let down, as hair, or wear or let hang in loose disorder, as clothing.
- disillusive — tending to disillusion
- displuviate — (of the atrium of an ancient Roman house) having roofs sloping downward and outward from a central opening.
- disprovable — to prove (an assertion, claim, etc.) to be false or wrong; refute; invalidate: I disproved his claim.
- dissolvable — to make a solution of, as by mixing with a liquid; pass into solution: to dissolve salt in water.
- divellicate — to separate; pull apart
- divergently — diverging; differing; deviating.
- divergingly — in a diverging manner
- diversional — offering diversion or recreation; diverting.
- diverticula — a blind, tubular sac or process branching off from a canal or cavity, especially an abnormal, saclike herniation of the mucosal layer through the muscular wall of the colon.
- diverticuli — Misspelling of diverticula.
- divertingly — In a diverting manner.
- diving bell — a chamber with an open bottom in which persons can go underwater without special apparatus, water being excluded from the upper part by compressed air fed in by a hose.
- dovetailing — a tenon broader at its end than at its base; pin.
- duncanville — a town in N Texas.
- duplicative — a copy exactly like an original.
- elucidative — Explanatory, clarifying; that serves to elucidate.
- evangelized — Simple past tense and past participle of evangelize.
- evil-minded — suspicious
- favellidium — (in certain red algae) a cystocarp wholly or partly immersed in a frond.
- field event — an event in a track meet that involves throwing something, as a discus or javelin, or jumping and is not performed on the running track.
- final drive — The final drive is an assembly of gears in the back axle of rear-wheel drive (= with engine power going to the rear wheels) vehicles and in the front axle of front-wheel drive (= with engine power going to the front wheels) vehicles.
- five-legged — (of a schooner) having five masts.
- flash drive — Also called flash memory drive, thumb drive, USB drive. a very small, portable, solid-state hard drive that can be inserted into a USB port for storage and retrieval of data.
- fluid drive — a power coupling for permitting a smooth start in any gear, consisting of two vaned rotors in a sealed casing filled with oil, such that one rotor, driven by the engine, moves the oil to drive the other rotor, which in turn drives the transmission.
- gallivanted — Simple past tense and past participle of gallivant.
- graveldiver — any of several eellike fishes of the family Scytalinidae, found off the Pacific coast of North America, especially Scytalina cerdale, which burrows among rocks.
- hiv-related — related to the HIV virus
- hodgenville — a town in central Kentucky: birthplace of Abraham Lincoln.
- ill-advised — acting or done without due consideration; imprudent: an ill-advised remark.
- ill-behaved — 1. [numerical analysis] Said of an algorithm or computational method that tends to blow up because of accumulated roundoff error or poor convergence properties. 2. Software that bypasses the defined operating system interfaces to do things (like screen, keyboard, and disk I/O) itself, often in a way that depends on the hardware of the machine it is running on or which is nonportable or incompatible with other pieces of software. In the IBM PC/mess-dos world, there is a folk theorem (nearly true) to the effect that (owing to gross inadequacies and performance penalties in the OS interface) all interesting applications are ill-behaved. See also bare metal. Opposite: well-behaved, compare PC-ism.
- ill-favored — unpleasant in appearance; homely or ugly.
- inadvisable — not advisable; inexpedient; unwise.
- inadvisedly — In a manner that is not advisable.
- individable — indivisible
- indivisible — not divisible; not separable into parts; incapable of being divided: one nation indivisible.
- inductively — of, relating to, or involving electrical induction or magnetic induction.
- interleaved — Simple past tense and past participle of interleave.
- intervolved — Simple past tense and past participle of intervolve.
- invalidated — Something made invalid.
- invalidates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of invalidate.
- invalidness — Invalidity.
- invigilated — Simple past tense and past participle of invigilate.
- landgravine — the wife of a landgrave.
- liard-river — a river in W Canada, flowing from S Yukon through N British Columbia and the Northwest Territories into the Mackenzie River. 550 miles (885 km) long.
- livelihoods — Plural form of livelihood.
- living dead — people who are very dull and boring
- maladaptive — of, relating to, or characterized by maladaptation or incomplete, inadequate, or faulty adaptation: The maladaptive behavior of isolated children was difficult to change.