11-letter words containing o, r, v
- cultivators — Plural form of cultivator.
- culver hole — a hole for receiving a timber.
- curry favor — to try to win favor by flattery, fawning, etc.
- de beauvoir — Simone (simɔn). 1908–86, French existentialist novelist and feminist, whose works include Le Sang des autres (1944), Le Deuxième Sexe (1949), and Les Mandarins (1954)
- deactivator — Any device used to deactivate something.
- decurvation — the act of curving downwards
- deformative — making worse by alteration
- demotivator — to provide with a motive, or a cause or reason to act; incite; impel.
- denervation — to cut off the nerve supply from (an organ or body part) by surgery or anesthetic block.
- denver boot — A Denver boot is a large metal device which is fitted to the wheel of an illegally parked car or other vehicle in order to prevent it from being driven away. The driver has to pay to have the device removed.
- depravation — to make morally bad or evil; vitiate; corrupt.
- deprivation — If you suffer deprivation, you do not have or are prevented from having something that you want or need.
- derivations — Plural form of derivation.
- detritivore — an organism that uses organic waste as a food source, as certain insects.
- detritovore — any organism that feeds on detritus
- devastators — Plural form of devastator.
- devouringly — In a devouring manner; rapaciously, consumingly.
- dis-favored — unfavorable regard; displeasure; disesteem; dislike: The prime minister incurred the king's disfavor.
- disapproval — the act or state of disapproving; a condemnatory feeling, look, or utterance; censure: stern disapproval.
- disapproved — Simple past tense and past participle of disapprove.
- disapprover — One who disapproves.
- disapproves — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disapprove.
- discoverers — Plural form of discoverer.
- discoveries — The action or process of discovering or being discovered.
- discovering — Present participle of discover.
- discoverist — advocating or using the discovery method.
- disfavoring — Present participle of disfavor.
- disfavoured — Simple past tense and past participle of disfavour.
- disfavourer — one who does not favour
- disprovable — to prove (an assertion, claim, etc.) to be false or wrong; refute; invalidate: I disproved his claim.
- disprovided — Simple past tense and past participle of disprovide.
- ditto drive — (hardware, storage) The Ditto tape drives range in capacity from 120 megabytes to 1.6 gigabytes (data compression can roughly double these figures). The newer devices are designed for special tapes, though they will read standard tape types. The largest of tape stores up 3.2 GB. Using an enhanced floppy drive card the transfer rate approaches the claimed 19 MB/minute. External parallel port versions are also available.
- divaricator — to spread apart; branch; diverge.
- dive bomber — an airplane of the fighter-bomber type that drops its bombs while diving at the enemy.
- diversiform — differing in form; of various forms.
- diversional — offering diversion or recreation; diverting.
- divisionary — the act or process of dividing; state of being divided.
- divorcement — divorce; separation.
- divulgatory — to make publicly known; publish.
- dr. zhivago — a novel (1958) by Boris Pasternak.
- driving dog — (on a lathe) a clamp securing a piece of work and engaging with a slot in a faceplate.
- duvet cover — the baglike cover into which the duvet is placed when you make a bed and which often makes a top sheet unnecessary
- earth mover — a vehicle, as a bulldozer, for pushing or carrying excavated earth from place to place.
- earthmovers — Plural form of earthmover.
- earthmoving — of or relating to earthmovers: earthmoving machinery.
- eave trough — gutter (def 3).
- eavestrough — gutter (def 3).
- ebola fever — Also called Ebola fever, Ebola hemorrhagic fever, Ebola virus disease. a usually fatal disease, a type of hemorrhagic fever, caused by the Ebola virus and marked by high fever, severe gastrointestinal distress, and bleeding.
- ebola virus — a highly contagious virus of the family Filoviridae that causes Ebola, a usually fatal disease.
- echoviruses — Plural form of echovirus.