10-letter words containing o, v, i
- disimprove — (transitive, rare) to make worse.
- disinvolve — (transitive) To uncover; to unfold or unroll; to disentangle.
- disprovide — (obsolete, transitive) Not to provide; to fail to provide.
- disproving — Present participle of disprove.
- dissolvent — capable of dissolving another substance.
- dissolvers — Plural form of dissolver.
- dissolving — Present participle of dissolve.
- distortive — to twist awry or out of shape; make crooked or deformed: Arthritis had distorted his fingers.
- divagation — to wander; stray.
- diversions — Plural form of diversion.
- divide off — If something divides an area off, it forms a barrier that keeps it separate from another area.
- divination — the practice of attempting to foretell future events or discover hidden knowledge by occult or supernatural means.
- divinatory — the practice of attempting to foretell future events or discover hidden knowledge by occult or supernatural means.
- divisional — the act or process of dividing; state of being divided.
- divisorial — Lb maths Related to a divisor.
- 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).
- dominative — dominating; controlling.
- dostoevski — ˈFeodor Miˈkhailovich (ˈfjɔˈdɔʀ mɪ xaɪlɔvɪtʃ) ; fy^ōˈd^ōr mi khīˈl^ōvich) 1821-81; Russ. novelist
- dove prion — a common petrel, Pachyptila desolata, of the southern seas, having a bluish back and white underparts
- dove prism — a prism that inverts a beam of light, often used in a telescope to produce an erect image.
- dovetailed — noting a partition line or a charge, as an ordinary, having a series of indentations suggesting dovetails.
- dovishness — The quality of being a dove (as opposed to a hawk).
- down-river — Something that is moving down-river is moving towards the mouth of a river, from a point further up the river. Something that is down-river is towards the mouth of a river.
- drive home — to cause to penetrate to the fullest extent
- durnovaria — the Latin name for a town in S England, administrative centre of Dorset: associated with Thomas Hardy, esp as the Casterbridge of his novels. Pop: 16 171 (2001)
- ecovillage — A community whose inhabitants seek to live according to ecological principles, causing as little impact on the environment as possible.
- elevations — Plural form of elevation.
- eluviation — (soil science, countable) The sideways or downward movement of dissolved or suspended material within soil caused by rainfall.
- endocervix — (anatomy) The mucous membrane of the cervical canal.
- endopelvic — (anatomy) Within the pelvis.
- enervation — A feeling of being drained of energy or vitality; fatigue.
- enveloping — Present participle of envelop.
- envenoming — Present participle of envenom.
- envigorate — Alternative spelling of invigorate.
- environics — the study of human and natural forces that determine an environment
- envisioned — Simple past tense and past participle of envision.
- equivocacy — Equivocalness.
- equivocate — Use ambiguous language so as to conceal the truth or avoid committing oneself.
- equivoques — Plural form of equivoque.
- ergonovine — Ergometrine.
- escoveitch — (West Indies) escabeche.
- espressivo — (to be performed) in an expressive manner
- estivation — Prolonged torpor or dormancy of an animal during a hot or dry period.
- eurovision — the network of the European Broadcasting Union for the exchange of news and television programmes amongst its member organizations and for the relay of news and programmes from outside the network
- evacuation — The action of evacuating a person or a place.
- evaluation — The making of a judgment about the amount, number, or value of something; assessment.
- evaporites — Plural form of evaporite.
- evaporitic — Of or pertaining to an evaporite.
- evocations — Plural form of evocation.