12-letter words containing v, d, u
- disinvoltura — Self-assurance; lack of constraint.
- disjunctives — Plural form of disjunctive.
- disquisitive — Relating to disquisition; fond of discussion or investigation; inquisitive.
- disruptively — In a disruptive manner.
- dissuasively — In a dissuasive manner.
- distributive — serving to distribute, assign, allot, or divide; characterized by or pertaining to distribution.
- disturbative — capable of disturbing
- 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.
- divestitures — Plural form of divestiture.
- drug-driving — driving while under the influence of drugs, esp illegal drugs
- drunk driver — A drunk driver is someone who drives after drinking more than the amount of alcohol that is legally allowed.
- dubitatively — in a dubitative manner
- duck-shoving — the evasion of responsibility by someone
- dumdum fever — a chronic, usually fatal disease occurring in tropical areas of Asia and the Western Hemisphere, characterized by irregular fever, enlargement of the spleen, anemia, and emaciation, caused by the protozoan Leishmania donovani.
- durante vita — during life.
- dusty clover — a bush clover, Lespedeza capitata.
- dutch clover — white clover.
- duvet jacket — a down-filled jacket used esp by mountaineers
- dvapara yuga — the third of the Yugas, not as good as the Treta Yuga but better than the Kali Yuga.
- dzhugashvili — Iosif Vissarionovich [Russian yaw-syif-vyi-suh-ryi-aw-nuh-vyich] /Russian ˈyɔ syɪf vyɪ sə ryɪˈɔ nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), Stalin, Joseph.
- edulcorative — edulcorant
- edvard munch — Edvard [ed-vahrd] /ˈɛd vɑrd/ (Show IPA), 1863–1944, Norwegian painter and graphic artist.
- endeavouring — Present participle of endeavour.
- endovascular — Within a blood vessel.
- favouredness — the quality of or extent to which something is favoured
- five hundred — a variety of euchre in which a joker and widow are included, the object being to score 500 points first.
- food vacuole — a membrane-enclosed cell vacuole with a digestive function, containing material taken up in by the process of phagocytosis.
- ground cover — the herbaceous plants and low shrubs in a forest, considered as a whole.
- ground level — ground state.
- guadalquivir — a river in S Spain, flowing W to the Gulf of Cádiz. 374 miles (602 km) long.
- gustave dore — (Paul) Gustave [pawl gy-stav] /pɔl güˈstav/ (Show IPA), 1832?–83, French painter, illustrator, and sculptor.
- 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.
- Îles du vent — a group of islands in the S Pacific, in French Polynesia in the W Society Archipelago: Moorea, Maio (Tubuai Manu), and Mehetia and Tetiaroa. Pop: 184 222 (2002)
- ill-favoured — unpleasant in appearance; homely or ugly.
- individual's — a single human being, as distinguished from a group.
- individually — one at a time; separately: The delegates were introduced individually.
- individuated — Simple past tense and past participle of individuate.
- individuates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of individuate.
- inequivalved — having the valves of the shell of a mollusk unequal in size
- input device — a peripheral device, as a keyboard or stylus, used to enter data into a computer for processing.
- introductive — serving or used to introduce; preliminary; beginning: an introductory course; an introductory paragraph.
- jordan curve — simple closed curve.
- jurisdictive — Jurisdictional.
- liverpudlian — a seaport in Merseyside, in W England, on the Mersey estuary.
- louver board — one of a series of overlapping, sloping boards used as louvers in an opening, so arranged as to admit air but to exclude rain or cut off visibility from the outside.
- maladjustive — Exhibiting or relating to maladjustment.
- mauve decade — the 1890s, considered as a social and cultural period characterized by prosperity and complacency.
- misadventure — an instance of bad fortune; mishap.