9-letter words containing v, d
- almoravid — a member of a Muslim dynasty ruling in Spain and northern Africa from 1056 to 1147.
- artevelde — Jacob van1290?-1345; Fl. statesman
- avertedly — in an averted or offended manner
- avid fart — a flashy and intrusive visual effects editing style
- avizandum — a judge's or court's decision to consider a case privately before giving judgment
- avocadoes — Alternative spelling of avocados Plural form of avocado.
- avoidable — Something that is avoidable can be prevented from happening.
- avoidably — In a manner so as to be avoidable.
- avoidance — Avoidance of someone or something is the act of avoiding them.
- ayurvedic — Ayurvedic medicine is a type of complementary medicine, originally from India, that uses herbs and other natural treatments.
- back dive — a dive in which the diver stands on the springboard with the back to the water and jumps up, arching backward to land either feetfirst facing the springboard or headfirst facing away from the springboard.
- bavardage — idle chattering
- bedcovers — Plural form of bedcover.
- bedeviled — to torment or harass maliciously or diabolically, as with doubts, distractions, or worries.
- belvedere — a building, such as a summerhouse or roofed gallery, sited to command a fine view
- belvidere — a city in N Illinois.
- berdichev — a city in W central Ukraine, SW of Kiev.
- berdyayev — Nikolai Aleksandrovich (nikaˈlaj alɪkˈsandrəvitʃ). 1874–1948, Russian philosopher. Although he was a Marxist, his Christian views led him to criticize Soviet communism and he was forced into exile (1922)
- beveridge — William Henry, 1st Baron Beveridge. 1879–1963, British economist, whose Report on Social Insurance and Allied Services (1942) formed the basis of social-security legislation in Britain
- bind over — If someone is bound over by a court or a judge, they are given an order and must do as the order says for a particular period of time.
- body wave — Geology. a transverse or longitudinal earthquake wave that travels through the interior of the earth (distinguished from surface wave).
- bondslave — a person held in bondage.
- boulevard — A boulevard is a wide street in a city, usually with trees along each side.
- bouvardia — a genus of flowering herbs and shrubs of the family Rubiaceae, native to tropical parts of Central America
- brevetted — a commission promoting a military officer to a higher rank without increase of pay and with limited exercise of the higher rank, often granted as an honor immediately before retirement.
- cabdriver — a taxi driver
- cadaveric — a dead body, especially a human body to be dissected; corpse.
- canvassed — to solicit votes, subscriptions, opinions, or the like from.
- card vote — a vote by delegates, esp at a trade-union conference, in which each delegate's vote counts as a vote by all his or her constituents
- cavaedium — atrium (def 1a).
- cavalcade — A cavalcade is a procession of people on horses or in cars or carriages.
- cavendish — tobacco that has been sweetened and pressed into moulds to form bars
- cavitands — Plural form of cavitand.
- cavitated — Simple past tense and past participle of cavitate.
- ci-devant — (esp of an office-holder) former; recent
- civil day — day (def 3c).
- civilised — to bring out of a savage, uneducated, or rude state; make civil; elevate in social and private life; enlighten; refine: Rome civilized the barbarians.
- civilized — If you describe a society as civilized, you mean that it is advanced and has sensible laws and customs.
- cleavaged — Having (a particular kind of) cleavage.
- cleveland — a former county of NE England formed in 1974 from parts of E Durham and N Yorkshire; replaced in 1996 by the unitary authorities of Hartlepool (Durham), Stockton-on-Tees (Durham), Middlesbrough (North Yorkshire) and Redcar and Cleveland (North Yorkshire)
- co-driver — one of two drivers who take turns to drive a car, esp in a rally
- codevelop — to develop jointly
- coevolved — Simple past tense and past participle of coevolve.
- cold wave — a sudden spell of low temperatures over a wide area, often following the passage of a cold front
- conceived — to form (a notion, opinion, purpose, etc.): He conceived the project while he was on vacation.
- conducive — If one thing is conducive to another thing, it makes the other thing likely to happen.
- conrad iv — 1228–54, king of Germany 1237–54 and Sicily 1251–54; uncrowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (son of Frederick II).
- conserved — Simple past tense and past participle of conserve.
- contrived — If you say that something someone says or does is contrived, you think it is false and deliberate, rather than natural and not planned.
- convected — to transfer (heat or a fluid) by convection.