10-letter words containing v, e, d
- devaluates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of devaluate.
- devanagari — a syllabic script in which Sanskrit, Hindi, and other modern languages of India are written
- devastated — If you are devastated by something, you are very shocked and upset by it.
- devastates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of devastate.
- devastator — to lay waste; render desolate: The invaders devastated the city. Synonyms: destroy, sack, despoil, raze, ruin, level. Antonyms: create, erect, develop.
- devastavit — the waste or mismanagement, whether wilful or by neglect, of a deceased person's estate by the executor of his or her will or another trustee of the estate
- developers — Plural form of developer.
- developing — If you talk about developing countries or the developing world, you mean the countries or the parts of the world that are poor and have few industries.
- deviations — Plural form of deviation.
- devil book — (publication) "The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD Unix Operating System", by Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J. Karels, and John S. Quarterman (Addison-Wesley Publishers, 1989, ISBN 0-201-06196-1). The standard reference book on the internals of BSD Unix. So called because the cover has a picture depicting a little devil (a visual play on daemon) in sneakers, holding a pitchfork (referring to one of the characteristic features of Unix, the "fork(2)" system call).
- devil of a — Theology. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.
- devil tree — jelutong (def 3).
- devilishly — of, like, or befitting a devil; diabolical; fiendish.
- deviltries — Plural form of deviltry.
- devilwoods — Plural form of devilwood.
- devitalize — to lower or destroy the vitality of; make weak or lifeless
- devocalize — devoice.
- devocation — A calling off or away.
- devolution — Devolution is the transfer of some authority or power from a central organization or government to smaller organizations or government departments.
- devonshire — 8th Duke of, title of Spencer Compton Cavendish. 1833–1908, British politician, also known (1858–91) as Lord Hartington. He led the Liberal Party (1874–80) and left it to found the Liberal Unionist Party (1886)
- devotement — The state of being devoted, or set apart by a vow.
- devotional — Devotional activities, writings, or objects relate to religious worship.
- devourment — the act of devouring
- devoutness — devoted to divine worship or service; pious; religious: a devout Catholic.
- digestives — Plural form of digestive.
- digressive — tending to digress; departing from the main subject.
- dime novel — a cheap melodramatic or sensational novel, usually in paperback and selling for ten cents, especially such an adventure novel popular c1850 to c1920.
- diminutive — small; little; tiny: a diminutive building for a model-train layout.
- directives — Plural form of directive.
- disadvance — to stop or cause to stop advancing
- disapprove — to think (something) wrong or reprehensible; censure or condemn in opinion.
- disbelieve — to have no belief in; refuse or reject belief in: to disbelieve reports of UFO sightings.
- disc drive — disc
- discovered — to see, get knowledge of, learn of, find, or find out; gain sight or knowledge of (something previously unseen or unknown): to discover America; to discover electricity. Synonyms: detect, espy, descry, discern, ascertain, unearth, ferret out, notice.
- discoverer — a person who discovers.
- discretive — Marking distinction or separation; disjunctive.
- discursive — passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling.
- discussive — (medicine, dated) A medicine that discusses or disperses morbid humours; a discutient.
- disemvowel — to remove the vowels from (a word in a text message, email, etc) in order to abbreviate it
- disenslave — to free from slave status
- disenvelop — to unfold
- disenviron — to set free from a specific environment
- disfavored — unfavorable regard; displeasure; disesteem; dislike: The prime minister incurred the king's disfavor.
- disheveled — hanging loosely or in disorder; unkempt: disheveled hair.
- disimprove — (transitive, rare) to make worse.
- disinvited — Simple past tense and past participle of disinvite.
- disinvites — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disinvite.
- disinvolve — (transitive) To uncover; to unfold or unroll; to disentangle.
- disk drive — computing: hardware
- disk-drive — a device that, using an access mechanism under program control, enables data to be read from or written on a spinning magnetic disk, magnetic disk pack, floppy disk, or optical disk.