12-letter words containing v, e, d
- definitively — most reliable or complete, as of a text, author, criticism, study, or the like: the definitive biography of Andrew Jackson.
- degenerative — A degenerative disease or condition is one that gets worse as time progresses.
- degressively — in a degressive fashion
- deleveraging — an instance of this: The economic crisis has forced a deleverage.
- deliberative — A deliberative institution or procedure has the power or the right to make important decisions.
- deliverables — items named in a contract, course, or project that must be delivered for its successful completion
- deliverances — Plural form of deliverance.
- delivery boy — a boy or youth who delivers merchandise for a store, as to the homes or offices of customers.
- delivery van — a small van used esp for delivery rounds
- delusiveness — The state or quality of being delusive.
- demand curve — A demand curve is a graph showing the price of an item and the amount consumers want to buy.
- demo version — 1. An early, barely-functional version of a program which can be used for demonstration purposes as long as the operator uses *exactly* the right commands and skirts its numerous bugs, deficiencies, and unimplemented portions. 2. A special version of a finished program (frequently with some features crippled) which is distributed at little or no cost to the user for enticement purposes. See crippleware.
- demotivating — to provide with a motive, or a cause or reason to act; incite; impel.
- demotivation — the act of demotivating
- dengue-fever — an infectious, eruptive fever of warm climates, usually epidemic, characterized especially by severe pains in the joints and muscles.
- denominative — giving or constituting a name; naming
- denotatively — having power to denote.
- denunciative — Denunciatory.
- deoppilative — any drug which removes obstructions in the body
- depo-provera — a synthetic progestogen, C24H34O4, used to treat uterine or kidney cancer, to prevent conception for long periods, etc.
- depopulative — That depopulates.
- depravedness — The state of being depraved; depravity.
- depreciative — Tending to depreciate (in value etc.).
- depressively — In a depressive manner.
- deprivations — Plural form of deprivation.
- derisiveness — (uncountable) The condition of being derisive.
- derivability — The condition of being derivable.
- derivational — Of or pertaining to derivation; relating to that which is derived.
- derivatively — derived.
- derived form — derivative (def 4).
- derived type — (programming) A type constructed from primitive types or other derived types using a type constructor function. This term is usually applied to procedural languages such as C or Ada. C's derived types are the array, function, pointer, structure, and union. Compare derived class.
- derived unit — a unit of measurement obtained by multiplication or division of the base units of a system without the introduction of numerical factors
- derived-form — something that has been derived.
- derogatively — lessening; belittling; derogatory.
- descriptives — Plural form of descriptive.
- deservedness — justly or rightly earned; merited: a deserved increase in salary.
- desiderative — feeling or expressing desire
- desquamative — tending to cause desquamation; characterized by desquamation
- detector van — a vehicle fitted with equipment that detects whether or not a house has a television. This is used to catch people who have not paid for a television licence and so are illegally using a television
- detritivores — Plural form of detritivore.
- deux chevaux — a very small, inexpensive automobile
- devaluations — Plural form of devaluation.
- devastations — Plural form of devastation.
- developement — Obsolete spelling of development.
- developments — Plural form of development.
- deviationism — ideological deviation (esp from orthodox Communism)
- deviationist — One who deviates from accepted beliefs or policies, especially from a prescribed form of Communism.
- devil's club — a spiny shrub, Oplopanax horridus, of northwestern North America, having broad palmate leaves, greenish flowers, and clusters of bright red berries.
- devil's dung — asafetida.
- devil's grip — pleurodynia (def 2).