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13-letter words containing v, d

  • disseminative — to scatter or spread widely, as though sowing seed; promulgate extensively; broadcast; disperse: to disseminate information about preventive medicine.
  • dissimilative — to modify by dissimilation.
  • dissolve into — If you dissolve into or dissolve in tears or laughter, you begin to cry or laugh, because you cannot control yourself.
  • distinctively — serving to distinguish; characteristic; distinguishing: the distinctive stripes of the zebra.
  • distributives — Plural form of distributive.
  • divarications — Plural form of divarication.
  • diversifiable — to make diverse, as in form or character; give variety or diversity to; variegate.
  • diversionists — Plural form of diversionist.
  • divertibility — the capability of being diverted
  • diverticulate — of or relating to a diverticulum
  • divertisement — (archaic) diversion; amusement; recreation.
  • dividing line — distinction
  • divine comedy — a narrative epic poem (14th century) by Dante.
  • divine mother — the creative, dynamic aspect of the Godhead, the consort or Shakti of Brahma, Vishnu, or Shiva, variously known as Devi, Durga, Kālī, Shakti, etc.
  • divine office — office (def 12c).
  • diving beetle — any of numerous predaceous water beetles of the family Dytiscidae, having the body adapted for swimming.
  • diving petrel — any of several small seabirds of the family Pelecanoididae, of Southern Hemisphere seas, having compact bodies, tubelike processes near the nostrils, and usually drab plumage.
  • diving reflex — a reflex of humans, other mammals, reptiles, and birds, triggered by immersion in cold water, that slows the heart rate and diverts blood flow to the brain, heart, and lungs: serves to conserve oxygen until breathing resumes and to delay potential brain damage.
  • divinyl ether — vinyl ether.
  • division bell — a bell rung in a parliament to signal a division
  • division ring — a ring in which the set of nonzero elements is a group with the operation of multiplication.
  • division sign — the symbol (÷) or (/) placed between two expressions and denoting division of the first by the second.
  • divorce court — a court having jurisdiction over termination of marital relations, as actions for divorce or annulment.
  • documentative — Of or pertaining to documents or documentation.
  • dolman sleeve — a sleeve tapered from a very large armhole to fit closely at the wrist, used on women's garments.
  • domical vault — cloistered vault.
  • double vision — diplopia.
  • downconverter — A device that converts a signal to a lower frequency, especially in television reception.
  • downers grove — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • draft version — a preliminary version
  • drink-driving — Drink-driving is the same as drunk driving.
  • drive a wedge — If someone drives a wedge between two people who are close, they cause ill feelings between them in order to weaken their relationship.
  • drive-through — the act of driving through a specified locality or place, especially driving into a place of business, completing a transaction from one's car, and driving out: a quick drive-through of Beverly Hills; The bank has outside tellers' windows to accept deposits by drive-through.
  • driver's seat — the seat from which a vehicle is operated.
  • driving chain — a roller chain that transmits power from one toothed wheel to another
  • driving force — impetus
  • driving range — a tract of land for practicing long golf shots, especially drives, with clubs and balls available for rent from the management.
  • driving wheel — Machinery. a main wheel that communicates motion to others.
  • dronkverdriet — drunk and maudlin
  • drummondville — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada.
  • drunk driving — the operating of a motor vehicle while drunk.
  • duff's device — The most dramatic use yet seen of fall through in C, invented by Tom Duff when he was at Lucasfilm. Trying to bum all the instructions he could out of an inner loop that copied data serially onto an output port, he decided to unroll it. He then realised that the unrolled version could be implemented by *interlacing* the structures of a switch and a loop: register n = (count + 7) / 8; /* count > 0 assumed */ switch (count % 8) { case 0: do { *to = *from++; case 7: *to = *from++; case 6: *to = *from++; case 5: *to = *from++; case 4: *to = *from++; case 3: *to = *from++; case 2: *to = *from++; case 1: *to = *from++; } while (--n > 0); } Shocking though it appears to all who encounter it for the first time, the device is actually perfectly valid, legal C. C's default fall through in case statements has long been its most controversial single feature; Duff observed that "This code forms some sort of argument in that debate, but I'm not sure whether it's for or against."
  • eavesdroppers — Plural form of eavesdropper.
  • eavesdropping — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
  • economy drive — a campaign by the government or a firm to reduce expenditure and make savings
  • endeavourment — the act of endeavouring
  • engine driver — sb who drives a train
  • escape device — a device with a collapsible extensible slide, used as an emergency exit, eg from a burning tall building
  • eve's pudding — a baked sponge pudding with a layer of apple at the bottom
  • even-tempered — mild mannered
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