9-letter words containing v, e, d
- 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.
- 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
- cavitated — Simple past tense and past participle of cavitate.
- ci-devant — (esp of an office-holder) former; recent
- 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.
- 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.
- convented — Simple past tense and past participle of convent.
- converged — Simple past tense and past participle of converge.
- conversed — to talk informally with another or others; exchange views, opinions, etc., by talking.
- converted — (of a building) having been changed from a different use
- convicted — to prove or declare guilty of an offense, especially after a legal trial: to convict a prisoner of a felony.
- convinced — If you are convinced that something is true, you feel sure that it is true.
- convolved — Simple past tense and past participle of convolve.
- convulsed — to shake violently; agitate.
- coverdale — Miles. 1488–1568, the first translator of the complete Bible into English (1535)
- crevassed — containing deep cracks or fissures
- curvetted — Simple past tense and past participle of curvet.
- d'avenant — Sir William, 1606–68, English dramatist and producer: poet laureate 1638–68.
- dan river — a river in S Virginia and N North Carolina, flowing S and E to the Roanoke River. 180 miles (290 km) long.
- daredevil — Daredevil people enjoy doing physically dangerous things.
- dataglove — a glove connected to a computer and equipped with sensors allowing the actual movements of a person's hand to manipulate virtual objects
- dataviews — Graphical user interface development software from V.I.Corporation, aimed at constructing platform-independent interactive views of dynamic data.
- davenport — a tall narrow desk with a slanted writing surface and drawers at the side
- de moivre — Abraham [a-bra-am] /a braˈam/ (Show IPA), 1667–1754, French mathematician in England.