10-letter words containing v, d
- disbelieve — to have no belief in; refuse or reject belief in: to disbelieve reports of UFO sightings.
- disc drive — disc
- discovered — 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.
- discoverer — a person who discovers.
- discretive — Marking distinction or separation; disjunctive.
- discursive — passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling.
- discussive — (medicine, dated) A medicine that discusses or disperses morbid humours; a discutient.
- disemvowel — to remove the vowels from (a word in a text message, email, etc) in order to abbreviate it
- disenslave — to free from slave status
- disenvelop — to unfold
- disenviron — to set free from a specific environment
- disfavored — unfavorable regard; displeasure; disesteem; dislike: The prime minister incurred the king's disfavor.
- dish gravy — meat juices, as from a roast, served as a gravy without seasoning or thickening.
- disheveled — hanging loosely or in disorder; unkempt: disheveled hair.
- disimprove — (transitive, rare) to make worse.
- disinvited — Simple past tense and past participle of disinvite.
- disinvites — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disinvite.
- disinvolve — (transitive) To uncover; to unfold or unroll; to disentangle.
- disk drive — computing: hardware
- disk-drive — a device that, using an access mechanism under program control, enables data to be read from or written on a spinning magnetic disk, magnetic disk pack, floppy disk, or optical disk.
- dismissive — indicating dismissal or rejection; having the purpose or effect of dismissing, as from one's presence or from consideration: a curt, dismissive gesture.
- dispersive — serving or tending to disperse.
- displacive — That involves or causes displacement.
- disprovide — (obsolete, transitive) Not to provide; to fail to provide.
- disproving — Present participle of disprove.
- disruptive — causing, tending to cause, or caused by disruption; disrupting: the disruptive effect of their rioting.
- dissective — having the ability to dissect
- dissentive — (obsolete) disagreeing; inconsistent.
- disservice — harmful or injurious service; an ill turn.
- dissevered — Simple past tense and past participle of dissever.
- dissolvent — capable of dissolving another substance.
- dissolvers — Plural form of dissolver.
- dissolving — Present participle of dissolve.
- dissuasive — tending or liable to dissuade.
- distensive — Distending, or capable of being distended.
- distortive — to twist awry or out of shape; make crooked or deformed: Arthritis had distorted his fingers.
- disvaluing — Present participle of disvalue.
- divagation — to wander; stray.
- divaricate — to spread apart; branch; diverge.
- dive brake — a flap deployed from the wings or fuselage of an aircraft, as a dive bomber or sailplane, that increases drag to permit a relatively steep angle of descent without a dangerous buildup in speed.
- dive table — Often, dive tables. a numerical table used by scuba divers to determine time limits of dives, according to depth, as well as possible decompression delays during ascent and requisite surface intervals between dives.
- divemaster — a professional qualified to oversee scuba diving operations, as in salvage work or at a resort, and responsible for procedures and safety, monitoring the whereabouts of divers underwater or at the surface, and making rescues when necessary.
- divergence — the act, fact, or amount of diverging: a divergence in opinion.
- divergency — divergence; deviation.
- diversions — Plural form of diversion.
- divertible — to turn aside or from a path or course; deflect.
- divestible — capable of being divested, as an estate in land.
- divestment — the act of divesting.
- divide off — If something divides an area off, it forms a barrier that keeps it separate from another area.
- dividendus — (in prescriptions) meant to be divided.