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11-letter words containing v, e, d

  • shovelboard — the game of shuffleboard.
  • silver disc — (in Britain) an album certified to have sold 60 000 copies or a single certified to have sold 200 000 copies
  • silversides — any of several small fishes of the family Atherinidae, having a silvery stripe along each side, as Menidia menidia, inhabiting the Atlantic coast of the U.S.
  • slave trade — the business or process of procuring, transporting, and selling slaves, especially black Africans to the New World prior to the mid-19th century.
  • slaveholder — an owner of slaves.
  • sleeveboard — a small-scale ironing board for pressing sleeves, especially a narrow board that fits inside a coat sleeve.
  • slide valve — a valve that slides without lifting to open or close an aperture, as the valves of the ports in the cylinders of certain steam engines.
  • south devon — a breed of large red cattle originally from South Devon
  • spider vein — one of a radiating network of dilated capillaries on the skin.
  • ss van dine — Charles, born 1935, U.S. poet.
  • stern-drive — inboard-outboard (def 1).
  • stevedoring — the act or practice of loading or unloading a ship, ship's cargo, etc
  • study leave — sabbatical
  • subadditive — something that is added, as one substance to another, to alter or improve the general quality or to counteract undesirable properties: an additive that thins paint.
  • subdivisive — having a quality that subdivides
  • swedish ivy — any of various plants belonging to the genus Plectranthus, of the mint family, native to the Old World tropics, having rounded, scalloped or toothed leaves and widely cultivated as a houseplant.
  • swivel head — A swivel head is a bearing between the traveling block and the kelly.
  • swivel-eyed — having or displaying extreme or fanatical views
  • take a dive — to lose a prizefight purposely by pretending to get knocked out
  • take advice — receive guidance
  • taxi driver — sb employed to drive a cab
  • terra verde — green earth.
  • thorvaldsen — Albert Bertal [ahl-bert bar-tuh l] /ˈɑl bɛrt ˈbær təl/ (Show IPA), 1770–1844, Danish sculptor.
  • thread vein — a small red or purple capillary near to the surface of the skin
  • thumb drive — Also called flash memory drive, thumb drive, USB drive. a very small, portable, solid-state hard drive that can be inserted into a USB port for storage and retrieval of data.
  • time-served — (of a craftsman or tradesman) having completed an apprenticeship; fully trained and competent
  • travel card — a reusable ticket on more than one journey, route or mode of public transport which is usually valid for a fixed period of time and cheaper than paying for many separate trips
  • truckdriver — a person who drives a truck.
  • turtle dove — A turtle dove is a type of light-brown dove which makes a soft pleasant sound and which is said to behave in a very affectionate way towards its sexual partner and its young.
  • turtledoves — any of several small to medium-sized Old World doves of the genus Streptopelia, especially S. turtur, of Europe, having a long, graduated tail: noted for its soft, cooing call.
  • unactivated — to make active; cause to function or act.
  • unavoidable — unable to be avoided; inevitable: an unavoidable delay.
  • uncivilized — not civilized or cultured; barbarous.
  • unconceived — not conceived of or imagined
  • unconducive — tending to produce; contributive; helpful; favorable (usually followed by to): Good eating habits are conducive to good health.
  • unconserved — to prevent injury, decay, waste, or loss of: Conserve your strength for the race.
  • uncontrived — obviously planned or forced; artificial; strained: a contrived story.
  • unconverged — to tend to meet in a point or line; incline toward each other, as lines that are not parallel.
  • unconverted — noting a specified type of person who has been converted from the religion, beliefs, or attitudes characteristic of that type: a converted Christian; a converted thief.
  • unconvicted — to prove or declare guilty of an offense, especially after a legal trial: to convict a prisoner of a felony.
  • unconvinced — to move by argument or evidence to belief, agreement, consent, or a course of action: to convince a jury of his guilt; A test drive will convince you that this car handles well.
  • undefective — having a defect or flaw; faulty; imperfect: a defective machine.
  • undefensive — serving to defend; protective: defensive armament.
  • undelivered — to carry and turn over (letters, goods, etc.) to the intended recipient or recipients: to deliver mail; to deliver a package.
  • under cover — to be or serve as a covering for; extend over; rest on the surface of: Snow covered the fields.
  • underactive — insufficiently active: an underactive thyroid gland.
  • undercovert — a covering of undergrowth
  • underinvest — to invest or lay out insufficient money with the expectation of profit
  • underivable — to receive or obtain from a source or origin (usually followed by from).
  • underserved — to offer inadequate services or facilities to.
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