12-letter words containing v, d
- biodiversity — Biodiversity is the existence of a wide variety of plant and animal species living in their natural environment.
- bioflavonoid — any of a group of biologically active flavone compounds that may help maintain the blood's capillary walls, reducing the likelihood of hemorrhaging: widely found in plants, esp. citrus fruits
- blood spavin — a disease of the hock joint of horses in which enlargement occurs because of collected fluids (bog spavin) bony growth (bone spavin) or distention of the veins (blood spavin)
- blood vessel — Blood vessels are the narrow tubes through which your blood flows.
- blood volume — the total quantity of blood in the body
- blue devil's — a blue capsule or tablet containing the barbiturate amobarbital or its derivative.
- bond servant — a person who serves in bondage; slave.
- boulevardier — (originally in Paris) a fashionable man, esp one who frequents public places
- brevicaudate — having a short tail.
- broad-leaved — denoting trees other than conifers, most of which have broad rather than needle-shaped leaves
- cadaverously — In a cadaverous manner.
- cantilevered — A cantilevered structure is constructed using cantilevers.
- cape dezhnev — a cape in NE Russia at the E end of Chukchi Peninsula: the northeasternmost point of Asia
- cape verdean — of or relating to Cape Verde or its inhabitants
- captive-bred — bred in captivity
- cardioactive — of or relating to a drug or other substance affecting the function of the heart.
- cash advance — an amount of money borrowed as a short-term loan against a salary, credit card, etc
- cash-starved — A cash-starved company or organization does not have enough money to operate properly, usually because another organization, such as the government, is not giving them the money that they need.
- cattle drive — the process of moving cattle across country, often carried out by cowboys on horseback
- cave dweller — a prehistoric person; person who lives in a cave
- cd-rom drive — A CD-ROM drive is the device that you use with a computer to play CD-ROMs.
- circumvented — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
- circumvolved — Simple past tense and past participle of circumvolve.
- civic-minded — having, showing, or actively carrying out one's concern for the condition and affairs of one's community; public-spirited
- civilianized — Simple past tense and past participle of civilianize.
- clovenfooted — having split hoofs, once assumed to represent the halves of a single undivided hoof, as in cattle.
- coach driver — a person who drives a coach
- codiscoverer — a fellow discoverer
- conductively — In a conductive manner.
- conductivity — the property of transmitting heat, electricity, or sound
- controverted — to argue against; dispute; deny; oppose.
- convexedness — The state or quality of being convexed.
- conveyorized — to equip (a factory or the like) with conveyor belts.
- convolutedly — twisted; coiled.
- coordinative — of the same order or degree; equal in rank or importance.
- countermoved — Simple past tense and past participle of countermove.
- cover ground — to move or traverse a certain distance
- cradle vault — barrel vault.
- crane driver — a person who drives a crane
- crospovidone — Crospovidone is a substance used in tablets as a binder or disintegrant.
- culvertailed — dove-tailed
- cum dividend — (of shares, etc) with the right to current dividend
- curvicaudate — having a curved tail
- cutaway dive — a back dive in which the diver rotates the body to enter the water headfirst facing the springboard.
- dad and dave — stereotypes of the unsophisticated rural dweller before World War II
- danube river — a river in central and SE Europe, flowing E from southern Germany to the Black Sea. 1725 miles (2775 km) long.
- daredeviltry — reckless daring; venturesome boldness.
- david souter — David H. born 1939, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1990–2009.
- david turner — (person) Professor David A Turner. One of the pioneers of functional languages. He designed several languages, including, SASL (1976), KRC (1981), and Miranda, many of which were implemented using combinators and the S-K reduction machine which he defined. He coined the name "ZF expression" for the list comprehension. He worked at UKC and set up a company, Research Software Limited to market Miranda.
- davis strait — a strait between Baffin Island, in Canada, and Greenland