12-letter words containing r, e, v
- desiderative — feeling or expressing desire
- detector van — a vehicle fitted with equipment that detects whether or not a house has a television. This is used to catch people who have not paid for a television licence and so are illegally using a television
- detritivores — Plural form of detritivore.
- devil's grip — pleurodynia (def 2).
- devil's mark — (in witchcraft) a mark, as a scar or blemish, on the body of a person who has made a compact with a devil.
- devirginized — Simple past tense and past participle of devirginize.
- devirginizer — Someone who devirginizes.
- devirginizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of devirginize.
- devitrifying — Present participle of devitrify.
- dewar vessel — a container with an evacuated space between two walls that are highly reflective, capable of maintaining its contents at a near-constant temperature over relatively long periods of time; thermos.
- digressively — In a digressive fashion.
- disadventure — misfortune; bad luck
- disbelievers — Plural form of disbeliever.
- discoverable — 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.
- discoverment — (obsolete) discovery.
- discoverture — the state of being discovert; freedom from coverture.
- discretively — in a discretive manner
- discursively — In a discursive manner.
- disprivacied — deprived of privacy
- disprivilege — to deprive of privilege
- disruptively — In a disruptive manner.
- dissertative — of or relating to dissertation
- disservicing — harmful or injurious service; an ill turn.
- disseverance — The act of dissevering; separation.
- disseverment — Disseverance.
- distributive — serving to distribute, assign, allot, or divide; characterized by or pertaining to distribution.
- disturbative — capable of disturbing
- ditransitive — noting or pertaining to a verb taking both a direct and an indirect object, as give in “I gave him the package.”.
- divergencies — Plural form of divergency.
- diversifying — Present participle of diversify.
- diversionary — tending to divert or distract the attention: diversionary tactics of the guerrilla fighters.
- diversionist — a person engaged in activities that divert attention from a primary focus.
- diverticular — Of or relating to diverticula.
- diverticulum — 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.
- divertimento — an instrumental composition in several movements, light and diverting in character, similar to a serenade.
- divestitures — Plural form of divestiture.
- divine right — doctrine that king's power was ordained by God
- divorce mill — a divorce court, especially such a court in a state or country that does not impose difficult requirements, as a long period of residence or humiliating grounds, on those who wish to dissolve their marriage.
- dolly varden — a woman's costume of the late 19th century, including a flower-trimmed, broad-brimmed hat and a dress consisting of a tight bodice and bouffant panniers in a flower print over a calf-length quilted petticoat.
- dorsiventral — Botany. having distinct dorsal and ventral sides, as most foliage leaves.
- dorsoventral — Zoology. pertaining to the dorsal and ventral aspects of the body; extending from the dorsal to the ventral side: the dorsoventral axis.
- dream vision — a conventional device used in narrative verse, employed especially by medieval poets, that presents a story as told by one who falls asleep and dreams the events of the poem: Dante's Divine Comedy exemplifies the dream vision in its most developed form.
- drink-driver — A drink-driver is someone who drives after drinking more than the amount of alcohol that is legally allowed.
- drive sb mad — If you say that someone or something drives you mad, you mean that you find them extremely annoying.
- driveability — the degree of smoothness and steadiness of acceleration of an automotive vehicle: The automatic transmission has been improved to give the new model better drivability.
- driving belt — a belt that carries movement from an engine or moving part to another moving part
- driving seat — In a vehicle such as a car or a bus, the driving seat is the seat where the person who is driving the vehicle sits.
- driving test — the examination that new drivers must take in order to be officially allowed to drive when not under instruction
- driving time — the time or estimated time to drive between two points or to one's destination.
- drove chisel — a chisel with a broad edge used for dressing stone