14-letter words containing v, d
- desert varnish — the dark, lustrous coating or crust, usually of manganese and iron oxides, that forms on rocks, pebbles, etc., when exposed to weathering in the desert.
- detective work — If you do some detective work, you do something to find out more about a subject or situation that puzzles you.
- detective-like — like a detective; having characteristics of a detective
- determinatives — Plural form of determinative.
- devaluationist — a person, as an economist, who advocates the devaluation of a currency.
- developability — to bring out the capabilities or possibilities of; bring to a more advanced or effective state: to develop natural resources; to develop one's musical talent.
- device control — (character) One of the four ASCII characters, DC1, DC2, DC3, and DC4, once used to remotely control equipment (e.g. a paper tape reader) via electromagnetic switches. The characters were usually paired, DC1/DC3 turning one device on/off, and DC2/DC4 another.
- device manager — (operating system) The Microsoft Windows control panel applet used to enable, disable and configure the hardware on which Windows is running. You can launch Device Manager via the Control Panel/System or directly with: rundll32.exe devmgr.dll DeviceManager_Execute (2008-04-16)
- devil's island — one of the three Safety Islands, off the coast of French Guiana: formerly a leper colony, then a French penal colony from 1895 until 1938. Area: less than 2 sq km (1 sq mile)
- devil's tattoo — a rapid or nervous drumming with the fingers or feet
- devil's-tongue — a foul-smelling, fleshy plant, Amorphophallus rivieri, of the Old World tropics, having flowers on a spike surrounded by a dark-red spathe.
- devil-may-care — If you say that someone has a devil-may-care attitude, you mean that they seem relaxed and do not seem worried about the consequences of their actions.
- devitalization — The act of devitalizing.
- dialect survey — a survey carried out in order to ascertain which dialect forms are used in which area
- diaper service — a service that provides clean diapers to parents and takes away dirty diapers to wash them
- digital divide — the socioeconomic and other disparities between those people who have opportunities and skills enabling them to benefit from digital resources, especially the Internet, and those who do not have these opportunities or skills: programs that help to bridge the digital divide between rich and poor countries.
- digital native — a person who has been familiar with computers, the Internet, and other digital technology from a young age. Compare digital immigrant.
- digressiveness — The quality or state of being digressive.
- diminutiveness — The state or quality of being diminutive.
- dinner service — set of crockery and cutlery
- disadvantaging — Present participle of disadvantage.
- disadventurous — unlucky or disastrous
- disaggregative — separating from the mass or into parts
- disapprovingly — to think (something) wrong or reprehensible; censure or condemn in opinion.
- disassociative — That disassociates; that causes disassociation.
- disassortative — (mathematics) Describing a graph (or network) in which nodes of low degree are more likely to connect with nodes high degree.
- disaster movie — a film in which a disastrous event such as an earthquake, fire, air crash etc is the focus of the action
- disbelievingly — In a disbelieving manner; in a manner that is difficult to believe.
- discovery club — a division of Camp Fire, Inc., for members who are 12 or 13 years of age.
- discriminative — constituting a particular quality, trait, or difference; characteristic; notable.
- discursiveness — passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling.
- disincentivise — Alternative spelling of disincentivize.
- disincentivize — to discourage or deter by removing incentives: The expiration of tax credits will disincentivize future participation in the energy-efficiency program. More affordable cholesterol-lowering medication may disincentivize people from adopting a vegetarian diet.
- disintegrative — to separate into parts or lose intactness or solidness; break up; deteriorate: The old book is gradually disintegrating with age.
- disinvestiture — the act or state of being disinvested
- disinvolvement — the action or process of withdrawing from an obligation or commitment, especially from a political or military involvement: The secretary of state promised disinvolvement from the alliance.
- dismissiveness — A form of denial, characterized by either passively showing indifference or disregard, or actively dismissing or rejecting ideas or evidence.
- dispensatively — in a dispensative manner
- disprovability — The ability to be disproven; refutability.
- disruptiveness — causing, tending to cause, or caused by disruption; disrupting: the disruptive effect of their rioting.
- dissuasiveness — The quality of being dissuasive.
- distributively — serving to distribute, assign, allot, or divide; characterized by or pertaining to distribution.
- distributivity — (mathematics) the fact of being distributive.
- ditransitivity — (grammar) The state or quality of being ditransitive.
- diverging lens — a lens that causes a beam of parallel rays to diverge after refraction, as from a virtual image; a lens that has a negative focal length.
- diverticulated — having diverticula
- diverticulitis — inflammation of one or more diverticula, characterized by abdominal pain, fever, and changes in bowel movements.
- diverticulosis — the presence of saclike herniations of the mucosal layer of the colon through the muscular wall, common among older persons and usually producing no symptoms except occasional rectal bleeding.
- divertissement — a diversion or entertainment.
- dividend cover — the number of times that a company's dividends to shareholders could be paid out of its annual profits after tax, used as an indication of the probability that dividends will be maintained in subsequent years