12-letter words containing v, e
- dishevelment — to let down, as hair, or wear or let hang in loose disorder, as clothing.
- disincentive — something that discourages or deters; deterrent: High interest rates and government regulations are disincentives to investment.
- disinvesting — Present participle of disinvest.
- disjunctives — Plural form of disjunctive.
- dismissively — indicating dismissal or rejection; having the purpose or effect of dismissing, as from one's presence or from consideration: a curt, dismissive gesture.
- dispensative — Granting dispensation.
- disprivacied — deprived of privacy
- disprivilege — to deprive of privilege
- disquisitive — Relating to disquisition; fond of discussion or investigation; inquisitive.
- disruptively — In a disruptive manner.
- dissertative — of or relating to dissertation
- disservicing — harmful or injurious service; an ill turn.
- disseverance — The act of dissevering; separation.
- disseverment — Disseverance.
- dissociative — to sever the association of (oneself); separate: He tried to dissociate himself from the bigotry in his past.
- dissuasively — In a dissuasive manner.
- distributive — serving to distribute, assign, allot, or divide; characterized by or pertaining to distribution.
- disturbative — capable of disturbing
- ditransitive — noting or pertaining to a verb taking both a direct and an indirect object, as give in “I gave him the package.”.
- divergencies — Plural form of divergency.
- diversifying — Present participle of diversify.
- diversionary — tending to divert or distract the attention: diversionary tactics of the guerrilla fighters.
- diversionist — a person engaged in activities that divert attention from a primary focus.
- diverticular — Of or relating to diverticula.
- diverticulum — a blind, tubular sac or process branching off from a canal or cavity, especially an abnormal, saclike herniation of the mucosal layer through the muscular wall of the colon.
- divertimento — an instrumental composition in several movements, light and diverting in character, similar to a serenade.
- divestitures — Plural form of divestiture.
- dividendless — without dividends
- divine right — doctrine that king's power was ordained by God
- divisiveness — forming or expressing division or distribution.
- divorce mill — a divorce court, especially such a court in a state or country that does not impose difficult requirements, as a long period of residence or humiliating grounds, on those who wish to dissolve their marriage.
- dolly varden — a woman's costume of the late 19th century, including a flower-trimmed, broad-brimmed hat and a dress consisting of a tight bodice and bouffant panniers in a flower print over a calf-length quilted petticoat.
- dorsiventral — Botany. having distinct dorsal and ventral sides, as most foliage leaves.
- dorsoventral — Zoology. pertaining to the dorsal and ventral aspects of the body; extending from the dorsal to the ventral side: the dorsoventral axis.
- dovetail saw — a backsaw for fine woodworking, as dovetailing.
- dream vision — a conventional device used in narrative verse, employed especially by medieval poets, that presents a story as told by one who falls asleep and dreams the events of the poem: Dante's Divine Comedy exemplifies the dream vision in its most developed form.
- drink-driver — A drink-driver is someone who drives after drinking more than the amount of alcohol that is legally allowed.
- drive sb mad — If you say that someone or something drives you mad, you mean that you find them extremely annoying.
- driveability — the degree of smoothness and steadiness of acceleration of an automotive vehicle: The automatic transmission has been improved to give the new model better drivability.
- driving belt — a belt that carries movement from an engine or moving part to another moving part
- driving seat — In a vehicle such as a car or a bus, the driving seat is the seat where the person who is driving the vehicle sits.
- driving test — the examination that new drivers must take in order to be officially allowed to drive when not under instruction
- driving time — the time or estimated time to drive between two points or to one's destination.
- drove chisel — a chisel with a broad edge used for dressing stone
- drunk driver — A drunk driver is someone who drives after drinking more than the amount of alcohol that is legally allowed.
- dubitatively — in a dubitative manner
- dumdum fever — a chronic, usually fatal disease occurring in tropical areas of Asia and the Western Hemisphere, characterized by irregular fever, enlargement of the spleen, anemia, and emaciation, caused by the protozoan Leishmania donovani.
- durante vita — during life.
- dusty clover — a bush clover, Lespedeza capitata.
- dutch clover — white clover.