12-letter words containing v, d
- kavir desert — Dasht-e-Kavir.
- kidney vetch — an Old World plant, Anthyllis vulneraria, of the legume family, formerly used as a remedy for kidney diseases.
- la verendrye — Pierre Gaultier de Varenne [French pyer goh-tyey duh va-ren] /French pyɛr goʊˈtyeɪ də vaˈrɛn/ (Show IPA), Sieur de, 1685–1749, Canadian explorer of North America.
- landgraviate — the office, jurisdiction, or territory of a landgrave.
- landgravines — Plural form of landgravine.
- lap dissolve — dissolve (def 17).
- lavender bag — a small fabric bag filled with dried lavender flowers and placed amongst clothes or linen to scent them
- leave behind — fail to bring
- leopoldville — former name of Kinshasa.
- level-headed — having common sense and sound judgment; sensible.
- leveling rod — rod (def 19).
- lily-livered — weak or lacking in courage; cowardly; pusillanimous.
- linked verse — a Japanese verse form in which stanzas of three lines alternating with stanzas of two lines are composed by two or more poets in alternation.
- live spindle — a rounded rod, usually of wood, tapering toward each end, used in hand-spinning to twist into thread the fibers drawn from the mass on the distaff, and on which the thread is wound as it is spun.
- liverpudlian — a seaport in Merseyside, in W England, on the Mersey estuary.
- living death — a completely miserable, joyless existence, experience, situation, etc.; ordeal: He found the steaming jungle a living death.
- long-sleeved — having long sleeves
- lope de vega — Lope [loh-pey,, -pee;; Spanish law-pe] /ˈloʊ peɪ,, -pi;; Spanish ˈlɔ pɛ/ (Show IPA), (Lope Félix de Vega Carpio) 1562–1635, Spanish dramatist and poet.
- lord provost — the chief magistrate of any of certain large cities in Scotland.
- lorry driver — a person who drives a lorry; a truck driver
- 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.
- love handles — fat midriff
- madeira vine — a herbaceous tropical vine, Anredera cordifolia, having shiny leaves and small, fragrant, white flowers.
- madisonville — a city in W Kentucky.
- maid service — cleaner, cleaning business
- maidservants — Plural form of maidservant.
- maladjustive — Exhibiting or relating to maladjustment.
- markov model — (probability, simulation) A model or simulation based on Markov chains.
- mauve decade — the 1890s, considered as a social and cultural period characterized by prosperity and complacency.
- mediaevalism — Alternative spelling of medievalism.
- median nerve — a nerve that carries impulses between a part of the body and the central nervous system
- medievalisms — Plural form of medievalism.
- medievalists — Plural form of medievalist.
- meditatively — given to, characterized by, or indicative of meditation; contemplative.
- middle river — a city in N Maryland: suburb of Baltimore.
- middle voice — the voice or form used when the subject of a verb performs an action on itself (often the reflexive form)
- middle-level — occurring at or having a middle or intermediate position or status: middle-level management.
- milk-livered — timid; cowardly
- mis-delivery — the carrying and turning over of letters, goods, etc., to a designated recipient or recipients.
- misadventure — an instance of bad fortune; mishap.
- misadvisedly — ill-advisedly
- misconceived — Simple past tense and past participle of misconceive.
- misperceived — Simple past tense and past participle of misperceive.
- modificative — (grammar) That which modifies or qualifies, as a word or clause.
- motor-driven — propelled or made to function by means of a motor
- multi-voiced — having a voice of a specified kind (usually used in combination): shrill-voiced.
- multigravida — a pregnant woman who has been pregnant two or more times.
- multileveled — having different levels or planes: a multilevel stage set.
- muscovy duck — a large, crested, wild duck, Cairina moschata, of tropical America, that has been widely domesticated.
- needle valve — a valve with a needlelike part, a fine adjustment, or a small opening, especially a valve in which the opening is controlled by a needlelike or conical point that fits into a conical seat.