12-letter words containing s, a, v
- disadventure — misfortune; bad luck
- disapproving — Expressing an unfavorable opinion.
- 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.
- disgavelling — the act or quality of being without gavelkind
- disinvoltura — Self-assurance; lack of constraint.
- dispensative — Granting dispensation.
- disprivacied — deprived of privacy
- dissertative — of or relating to dissertation
- disseverance — The act of dissevering; separation.
- dissociative — to sever the association of (oneself); separate: He tried to dissociate himself from the bigotry in his past.
- dissuasively — In a dissuasive manner.
- 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.”.
- diversionary — tending to divert or distract the attention: diversionary tactics of the guerrilla fighters.
- 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.
- dovetail saw — a backsaw for fine woodworking, as dovetailing.
- 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.
- drive sb mad — If you say that someone or something drives you mad, you mean that you find them extremely annoying.
- driving sail — a sail that, when filled, tends to force the hull of a vessel downward (opposed to lifting sail).
- 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.
- dzhugashvili — Iosif Vissarionovich [Russian yaw-syif-vyi-suh-ryi-aw-nuh-vyich] /Russian ˈyɔ syɪf vyɪ sə ryɪˈɔ nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), Stalin, Joseph.
- eavesdropped — Simple past tense and past participle of eavesdrop.
- eavesdropper — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
- edwardsville — a town in SW Illinois.
- encaptivates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of encaptivate.
- endovascular — Within a blood vessel.
- enviableness — Enviability.
- envisagement — The act of envisaging.
- erev shabbat — the day before the Sabbath, i.e. Friday
- escape valve — a valve that releases air, steam, etc, above a certain pressure; relief valve or safety valve
- evanescently — In an evanescent manner.
- evangelicals — Plural form of evangelical.
- evangelistic — Seeking to convert others to the Christian faith; missionary.
- evaporations — Plural form of evaporation.
- evening star — Venus as seen after sunset
- everlastings — Plural form of everlasting.
- every bit as — equally, just as
- everydayness — (uncountable) The quality or state of happening every day, or frequently.
- eviscerating — Present participle of eviscerate.
- evisceration — A disemboweling; the removal of viscera.
- exasperative — having an exasperating or irritating nature
- exhaustively — In an exhaustive manner.
- extravasated — Simple past tense and past participle of extravasate.
- extravasates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of extravasate.
- extraversion — Alternative spelling of extroversion.
- faits divers — brief news stories, as those typically found in some French newspapers, that are sensational, lurid, etc.
- false gavial — a SE Asian crocodile, Tomistoma schlegeli, similar to but smaller than the gavial
- favorite son — (at a national political convention) a candidate nominated for office by delegates from his or her own state.
- favouredness — the quality of or extent to which something is favoured