10-letter words containing v, i, d, e
- dissevered — Simple past tense and past participle of dissever.
- dissolvent — capable of dissolving another substance.
- dissolvers — Plural form of dissolver.
- dissuasive — tending or liable to dissuade.
- distensive — Distending, or capable of being distended.
- distortive — to twist awry or out of shape; make crooked or deformed: Arthritis had distorted his fingers.
- divaricate — to spread apart; branch; diverge.
- dive brake — a flap deployed from the wings or fuselage of an aircraft, as a dive bomber or sailplane, that increases drag to permit a relatively steep angle of descent without a dangerous buildup in speed.
- dive table — Often, dive tables. a numerical table used by scuba divers to determine time limits of dives, according to depth, as well as possible decompression delays during ascent and requisite surface intervals between dives.
- divemaster — a professional qualified to oversee scuba diving operations, as in salvage work or at a resort, and responsible for procedures and safety, monitoring the whereabouts of divers underwater or at the surface, and making rescues when necessary.
- divergence — the act, fact, or amount of diverging: a divergence in opinion.
- divergency — divergence; deviation.
- diversions — Plural form of diversion.
- divertible — to turn aside or from a path or course; deflect.
- divestible — capable of being divested, as an estate in land.
- divestment — the act of divesting.
- divide off — If something divides an area off, it forms a barrier that keeps it separate from another area.
- dividendus — (in prescriptions) meant to be divided.
- divineness — The quality of being divine; divinity.
- divineress — a female diviner
- divinities — the quality of being divine; divine nature.
- divisively — In a divisive manner.
- divulgated — to make publicly known; publish.
- divulgence — a divulging.
- dog violet — a violet, Viola canina, that grows in Europe and N Asia and has blue yellow-spurred flowers
- dolce vita — sweet life; the good life perceived as one of physical pleasure and self-indulgence (usually preceded by la).
- dominative — dominating; controlling.
- dostoevski — ˈFeodor Miˈkhailovich (ˈfjɔˈdɔʀ mɪ xaɪlɔvɪtʃ) ; fy^ōˈd^ōr mi khīˈl^ōvich) 1821-81; Russ. novelist
- dove prion — a common petrel, Pachyptila desolata, of the southern seas, having a bluish back and white underparts
- dove prism — a prism that inverts a beam of light, often used in a telescope to produce an erect image.
- dovetailed — noting a partition line or a charge, as an ordinary, having a series of indentations suggesting dovetails.
- dovishness — The quality of being a dove (as opposed to a hawk).
- down-river — Something that is moving down-river is moving towards the mouth of a river, from a point further up the river. Something that is down-river is towards the mouth of a river.
- dragsville — something unpleasantly boring or tedious.
- drawknives — Plural form of drawknife.
- drive away — depart in a vehicle
- drive home — to cause to penetrate to the fullest extent
- drive time — the time or estimated time to drive between two points or to one's destination.
- drive-thru — a takeaway restaurant, bank, etc designed so that customers can use it without leaving their cars
- drive-time — driving time.
- drivelines — Plural form of driveline.
- drivelling — saliva flowing from the mouth, or mucus from the nose; slaver.
- drivenness — past participle of drive.
- driver ant — army ant.
- driverless — not having a human driver in control: The horse became startled and the now driverless horse-drawn carriage ran into a car. without a human operator: driverless machinery.
- driveshaft — A rotating shaft that transmits torque in an engine.
- drivetrain — the power train of an automotive vehicle consisting of all the components between the engine and driving wheels and including the clutch and axle, as well as the components of the driveline.
- dubitative — doubting; doubtful.
- dullsville — something boring or dull: That movie was strictly dullsville.
- dust devil — a small whirlwind 10–100 feet (3–30 meters) in diameter and from several hundred to 1000 feet (305 meters) high, common in dry regions on hot, calm afternoons and made visible by the dust, debris, and sand it picks up from the ground.