11-letter words containing v, a
- designative — to mark or point out; indicate; show; specify.
- devaluating — Present participle of devaluate.
- devaluation — a decrease in the exchange value of a currency against gold or other currencies, brought about by a government
- devastating — If you describe something as devastating, you are emphasizing that it is very harmful or damaging.
- devastation — Devastation is severe and widespread destruction or damage.
- devastators — Plural form of devastator.
- developable — Able to be developed, in particular.
- deverbative — a word formed or derived from a verb
- devitalized — to deprive of vitality or vital properties; make lifeless; weaken.
- devitalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of devitalize.
- devocalized — Simple past tense and past participle of devocalize.
- devotionals — Plural form of devotional.
- diapositive — a positive transparency; slide
- diffractive — causing or pertaining to diffraction.
- diluvialism — the theory, generally abandoned in the mid-19th century, that the earth's surface was shaped by the biblical flood
- diluvialist — a person who believes in the theory of diluvialism
- dis-favored — unfavorable regard; displeasure; disesteem; dislike: The prime minister incurred the king's disfavor.
- disapproval — the act or state of disapproving; a condemnatory feeling, look, or utterance; censure: stern disapproval.
- disapproved — Simple past tense and past participle of disapprove.
- disapprover — One who disapproves.
- disapproves — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disapprove.
- disavowable — capable of being disavowed
- disfavoring — Present participle of disfavor.
- disfavoured — Simple past tense and past participle of disfavour.
- disfavourer — one who does not favour
- disgavelled — freed from gavelkind
- displuviate — (of the atrium of an ancient Roman house) having roofs sloping downward and outward from a central opening.
- disprovable — to prove (an assertion, claim, etc.) to be false or wrong; refute; invalidate: I disproved his claim.
- disputative — Tending to dispute.
- dissipative — to scatter in various directions; disperse; dispel.
- dissolvable — to make a solution of, as by mixing with a liquid; pass into solution: to dissolve salt in water.
- distractive — tending to distract.
- divaricated — Spread-out, divergent, especially of a branch etc. which is at nearly ninety degrees to the main stem.
- divaricator — to spread apart; branch; diverge.
- divellicate — to separate; pull apart
- diversional — offering diversion or recreation; diverting.
- diverticula — 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.
- divinations — Plural form of divination.
- diving boat — a boat used as a tender for divers or others working under water.
- divisionary — the act or process of dividing; state of being divided.
- divulgation — to make publicly known; publish.
- divulgatory — to make publicly known; publish.
- dobby weave — a weave with small, geometric patterns
- dovetailing — a tenon broader at its end than at its base; pin.
- dr. zhivago — a novel (1958) by Boris Pasternak.
- drivability — 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.
- drive chain — a roller chain that transmits power from one toothed wheel to another
- drive shaft — a shaft for imparting torque from a power source or prime mover to machinery.
- drive train — 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.
- du vigneaud — Vincent, 1901–78, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1955.