12-letter words containing s, e, v, r, d
- 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.
- divestitures — Plural form of divestiture.
- 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.
- drive sb mad — If you say that someone or something drives you mad, you mean that you find them extremely annoying.
- 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
- drove chisel — a chisel with a broad edge used for dressing stone
- dusty clover — a bush clover, Lespedeza capitata.
- eavesdropped — Simple past tense and past participle of eavesdrop.
- eavesdropper — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
- edwardsville — a town in SW Illinois.
- endovascular — Within a blood vessel.
- everydayness — (uncountable) The quality or state of happening every day, or frequently.
- extravasated — Simple past tense and past participle of extravasate.
- faits divers — brief news stories, as those typically found in some French newspapers, that are sensational, lurid, etc.
- favouredness — the quality of or extent to which something is favoured
- food service — the preparation, delivery, serving, etc., of ready-to-eat foods: The cafeteria employs over 20 people in food service.
- gold reserve — the stock of gold held by a government or central bank to back its promissory notes or currency or to settle its international debts.
- gravediggers — Plural form of gravedigger.
- gustave dore — (Paul) Gustave [pawl gy-stav] /pɔl güˈstav/ (Show IPA), 1832?–83, French painter, illustrator, and sculptor.
- gypsy driver — the driver of a gypsy cab
- half-starved — to die or perish from lack of food or nourishment.
- hepadnavirus — Any member of the virus family Hepadnaviridae, capable of causing liver infections in humans and animals.
- hudson river — Henry, died 1611? English navigator and explorer.
- impoverished — reduced to poverty.
- invertedness — Quality of being inverted.
- jurisdictive — Jurisdictional.
- kavir desert — Dasht-e-Kavir.
- landgravines — Plural form of landgravine.
- linked verse — a Japanese verse form in which stanzas of three lines alternating with stanzas of two lines are composed by two or more poets in alternation.
- maid service — cleaner, cleaning business
- maidservants — Plural form of maidservant.
- mis-delivery — the carrying and turning over of letters, goods, etc., to a designated recipient or recipients.
- misadventure — an instance of bad fortune; mishap.
- misperceived — Simple past tense and past participle of misperceive.
- negev desert — the desert region of S Israel
- neurodiverse — Exhibiting neurodiversity; varying in mental configuration.
- over-indexes — (in a nonfiction book, monograph, etc.) a more or less detailed alphabetical listing of names, places, and topics along with the numbers of the pages on which they are mentioned or discussed, usually included in or constituting the back matter.
- over-stuffed — stuffed or filled to excess.
- overboldness — The state or fact of being too bold; audacity.
- overconsumed — Simple past tense and past participle of overconsume.
- overdevelops — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overdevelop.
- overdiagnose — (medicine) To diagnose something more often than it actually occurs.
- overdiscount — to discount excessively
- overdressing — Present participle of overdress.