10-letter words containing v, a
- dolce vita — sweet life; the good life perceived as one of physical pleasure and self-indulgence (usually preceded by la).
- dominative — dominating; controlling.
- dorsovelar — articulated with the back of the tongue touching or near the soft palate, as (k) and (ŋ)
- dovetailed — noting a partition line or a charge, as an ordinary, having a series of indentations suggesting dovetails.
- dragsville — something unpleasantly boring or tedious.
- drawknives — Plural form of drawknife.
- drawshaves — Plural form of drawshave.
- drive away — depart in a vehicle
- driver ant — army ant.
- driveshaft — A rotating shaft that transmits torque in an engine.
- drivetrain — the power train of an automotive vehicle consisting of all the components between the engine and driving wheels and including the clutch and axle, as well as the components of the driveline.
- driving at — to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation.
- drop valve — a valve, as for a steam engine, that drops freely to close.
- dry valley — a valley originally produced by running water but now waterless
- dubitative — doubting; doubtful.
- 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)
- duumvirate — a coalition of two persons holding the same office, as in ancient Rome.
- dvd player — machine: plays DVDs
- earth wave — any elastic wave traveling through the material of the earth, as a wave caused by an earthquake.
- earthmover — a vehicle, as a bulldozer, for pushing or carrying excavated earth from place to place.
- east haven — a town in S Connecticut, near New Haven.
- east river — a strait in SE New York separating Manhattan Island from Long Island and connecting New York Bay and Long Island Sound.
- eau de vie — brandy, especially a coarser and less purified variety.
- eave spout — waterspout (def 1).
- eavesdrops — Plural form of eavesdrop.
- echeverria — Esteban [es-te-vahn] /ɛsˈtɛ vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1805–51, Argentine poet.
- ecovillage — A community whose inhabitants seek to live according to ecological principles, causing as little impact on the environment as possible.
- edward vii — (Albert Edward"the Peacemaker") 1841–1910, king of Great Britain and Ireland 1901–10 (son of Queen Victoria).
- eigenvalue — Each of a set of values of a parameter for which a differential equation has a nonzero solution (an eigenfunction) under given conditions.
- élan vital — a creative principle held by Henri Bergson to be present in all organisms and responsible for evolution
- elevations — Plural form of elevation.
- eluviation — (soil science, countable) The sideways or downward movement of dissolved or suspended material within soil caused by rainfall.
- endeavored — Simple past tense and past participle of endeavor.
- endeavours — Plural form of endeavour.
- enervating — Causing one to feel drained of energy or vitality.
- enervation — A feeling of being drained of energy or vitality; fatigue.
- enervative — Causing enervation.
- engravable — Capable of being engraved (upon).
- engravings — Plural form of engraving.
- entitative — Considered as pure entity; abstracted from all circumstances, that is, regarded as entity alone, apart from attendant circumstances.
- entreative — pleading
- entry visa — a visa giving official permission to enter a country of which you are not a national
- envenomate — (of a snake, scorpion, spider, or insect) poison by biting or stinging.
- envigorate — Alternative spelling of invigorate.
- envisaging — Present participle of envisage.
- equivalate — To equate, to consider or make equal or equivalent (to, with). never doubt the trinidad GAINS.
- equivalent — Equal in value, amount, function, meaning, etc.
- equivalise — To make equivalent.
- equivocacy — Equivocalness.
- equivocate — Use ambiguous language so as to conceal the truth or avoid committing oneself.