11-letter words containing v, d
- audiovisual — Audio-visual equipment and materials involve both recorded sound and pictures.
- avant-garde — Avant-garde art, music, theatre, and literature is very modern and experimental.
- avoirdupois — a system of weights used in many English-speaking countries. It is based on the pound, which contains 16 ounces or 7000 grains. 100 pounds (US) or 112 pounds (Brit) is equal to 1 hundredweight and 20 hundredweights equals 1 ton
- be revenged — to get revenge
- beaverboard — a stiff light board of compressed wood fibre, used esp to surface partitions
- bedevilling — (British) present participle of bedevil.
- bedevilment — to torment or harass maliciously or diabolically, as with doubts, distractions, or worries.
- benedict iv — died a.d. 903, pope 900–03.
- benedict vi — died a.d. 974, pope 973–74.
- benedict xv — original name Giacomo della Chiesa. 1854–1922, pope (1914–22); noted for his repeated attempts to end World War I and for his organization of war relief
- benedictive — relating to a benediction or blessing
- bleed valve — a valve for running off a liquid from a tank, tube, etc, or for allowing accumulations of gas in a liquid to blow off
- blood level — the amount of a substance, as cholesterol, alcohol, or triglycerides, circulating in the bloodstream: often expressed as a percent or in milligrams or micrograms per deciliter of blood.
- blue devils — a fit of depression or melancholy
- bodhisattva — (in Mahayana Buddhism) a divine being worthy of nirvana who remains on the human plane to help men to salvation
- body cavity — the internal cavity of any multicellular animal that contains the digestive tract, heart, kidneys, etc. In vertebrates it develops from the coelom
- body swerve — (esp in football games) the act or an instance of swerving past an opponent
- bondservant — a serf or slave
- bow divider — a bow compass, each leg of which terminates in a needle, used to transfer measurements from one area of a drawing to another.
- bridge view — a town in NE Illinois.
- broad river — a river in W North Carolina, flowing S to join the Saluda River, forming the Congaree River in South Carolina. 150 miles (241 km) long.
- buddy movie — a genre of film dealing with the relationship and adventures of two friends
- canvas duck — a lightweight cotton or linen fabric.
- chain drive — a chain of links passing over sprockets that transmits rotation from one shaft to another
- chili verde — a stew of beef or pork, or both, flavored with hot green peppers.
- civil death — (formerly) the loss of all civil rights because of a serious conviction
- clavichords — Plural form of clavichord.
- clever dick — a person considered to have an unwarrantably high opinion of his or her own ability or knowledge
- cloud cover — the state of the sky when it is covered with cloud
- coadjuvancy — (rare) cooperation, mutual effort, joint-help.
- coadventure — adventure in which two or more share.
- codeveloper — a fellow developer
- contravened — to come or be in conflict with; go or act against; deny or oppose: to contravene a statement.
- convalesced — Simple past tense and past participle of convalesce.
- conversated — to have a conversation; converse; talk.
- conveyanced — Simple past tense and past participle of conveyance.
- d'iberville — Sieur(born Pierre Le Moyne) 1661-1706; Fr. explorer in North America
- dandy fever — (in the West Indies) dengue.
- danger cave — a deep, stratified site in the eastern Great Basin, in Utah, occupied by Amerindian cultures from at least 7000 b.c. to historic times.
- data driven — A data driven architecture/language performs computations in an order dictated by data dependencies. Two kinds of data driven computation are dataflow and demand driven. From about 1970 research in parallel data driven computation increased. Centres of excellence emerged at MIT, CERT-ONERA in France, NTT and ETL in Japan and Manchester University.
- dative bond — coordinate bond
- dative-bond — a type of covalent bond between two atoms in which the bonding electrons are supplied by one of the two atoms.
- de beauvoir — Simone (simɔn). 1908–86, French existentialist novelist and feminist, whose works include Le Sang des autres (1944), Le Deuxième Sexe (1949), and Les Mandarins (1954)
- de seversky — Alexander P(rocofieff)1894-1974; U.S. aeronautical engineer, born in Russia
- de villiers — A(braham) B(enjamin), born 1984, South African cricketer; a prolific run-scorer in all forms of international cricket
- deactivated — Simple past tense and past participle of deactivate.
- deactivates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deactivate.
- deactivator — Any device used to deactivate something.
- deceivingly — to mislead by a false appearance or statement; delude: They deceived the enemy by disguising the destroyer as a freighter.
- decemvirate — a board of decemvirs