10-letter words containing r, e, v, i, s
- crash dive — a sudden steep dive from the surface by a submarine
- crash-dive — a rapid dive by a submarine made at a steep angle, especially to avoid attack from a surface vessel or airplane.
- crescively — in a crescive or increasing manner
- crevassing — Present participle of crevasse.
- cross vine — a woody bignoniaceous vine, Bignonia capreolata, of the southeastern US, having large trumpet-shaped reddish flowers
- cross-vein — a transverse vein that connects adjacent longitudinal veins in the wing of an insect.
- cross-vine — a climbing or creeping woody vine, Bignonia capreolata, of the bignonia family, having yellow-red trumpet-shaped flowers and a stem that shows a crosslike arrangement in cross section.
- cutis vera — cutis.
- daredevils — Plural form of daredevil.
- degressive — reducing by gradual amounts
- deliverers — Plural form of deliverer.
- deliveries — the carrying and turning over of letters, goods, etc., to a designated recipient or recipients.
- delivery's — the carrying and turning over of letters, goods, etc., to a designated recipient or recipients.
- depressive — Depressive means relating to depression or to being depressed.
- derisively — characterized by or expressing derision; contemptuous; mocking: derisive heckling.
- detrivores — Plural form of detrivore.
- deviltries — Plural form of deviltry.
- devonshire — 8th Duke of, title of Spencer Compton Cavendish. 1833–1908, British politician, also known (1858–91) as Lord Hartington. He led the Liberal Party (1874–80) and left it to found the Liberal Unionist Party (1886)
- digressive — tending to digress; departing from the main subject.
- directives — Plural form of directive.
- disapprove — to think (something) wrong or reprehensible; censure or condemn in opinion.
- disc drive — disc
- discovered — to see, get knowledge of, learn of, find, or find out; gain sight or knowledge of (something previously unseen or unknown): to discover America; to discover electricity. Synonyms: detect, espy, descry, discern, ascertain, unearth, ferret out, notice.
- discoverer — a person who discovers.
- discretive — Marking distinction or separation; disjunctive.
- discursive — passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling.
- disenviron — to set free from a specific environment
- disfavored — unfavorable regard; displeasure; disesteem; dislike: The prime minister incurred the king's disfavor.
- disimprove — (transitive, rare) to make worse.
- disk drive — computing: hardware
- disk-drive — a device that, using an access mechanism under program control, enables data to be read from or written on a spinning magnetic disk, magnetic disk pack, floppy disk, or optical disk.
- dispersive — serving or tending to disperse.
- disprovide — (obsolete, transitive) Not to provide; to fail to provide.
- disruptive — causing, tending to cause, or caused by disruption; disrupting: the disruptive effect of their rioting.
- disservice — harmful or injurious service; an ill turn.
- dissevered — Simple past tense and past participle of dissever.
- dissolvers — Plural form of dissolver.
- distortive — to twist awry or out of shape; make crooked or deformed: Arthritis had distorted his fingers.
- divemaster — a professional qualified to oversee scuba diving operations, as in salvage work or at a resort, and responsible for procedures and safety, monitoring the whereabouts of divers underwater or at the surface, and making rescues when necessary.
- diversions — Plural form of diversion.
- divineress — a female diviner
- dove prism — a prism that inverts a beam of light, often used in a telescope to produce an erect image.
- dragsville — something unpleasantly boring or tedious.
- drawknives — Plural form of drawknife.
- drivelines — Plural form of driveline.
- drivenness — past participle of drive.
- 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.
- driveshaft — A rotating shaft that transmits torque in an engine.
- east river — a strait in SE New York separating Manhattan Island from Long Island and connecting New York Bay and Long Island Sound.
- engravings — Plural form of engraving.