11-letter words containing v, i, d, e
- dispositive — involving or affecting disposition or settlement: a dispositive clue in a case of embezzlement.
- disprovable — to prove (an assertion, claim, etc.) to be false or wrong; refute; invalidate: I disproved his claim.
- disprovided — Simple past tense and past participle of disprovide.
- disputative — Tending to dispute.
- disquietive — having a disquieting effect or character
- disserviced — harmful or injurious service; an ill turn.
- disservices — Plural form of disservice.
- dissevering — Present participle of dissever.
- dissipative — to scatter in various directions; disperse; dispel.
- dissolvable — to make a solution of, as by mixing with a liquid; pass into solution: to dissolve salt in water.
- distinctive — serving to distinguish; characteristic; distinguishing: the distinctive stripes of the zebra.
- distractive — tending to distract.
- ditto drive — (hardware, storage) The Ditto tape drives range in capacity from 120 megabytes to 1.6 gigabytes (data compression can roughly double these figures). The newer devices are designed for special tapes, though they will read standard tape types. The largest of tape stores up 3.2 GB. Using an enhanced floppy drive card the transfer rate approaches the claimed 19 MB/minute. External parallel port versions are also available.
- divaricated — Spread-out, divergent, especially of a branch etc. which is at nearly ninety degrees to the main stem.
- dive bomber — an airplane of the fighter-bomber type that drops its bombs while diving at the enemy.
- divellicate — to separate; pull apart
- divergement — the act of diverging, divergence
- divergences — Plural form of divergence.
- divergently — diverging; differing; deviating.
- divergingly — in a diverging manner
- diverseness — of a different kind, form, character, etc.; unlike: a wide range of diverse opinions.
- diversified — distinguished by various forms or by a variety of objects: diversified activity.
- diversifier — One who or that which diversifies.
- diversifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of diversify.
- diversiform — differing in form; of various forms.
- diversional — offering diversion or recreation; diverting.
- diversities — the state or fact of being diverse; difference; unlikeness: diversity of opinion.
- diverticula — 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.
- diverticuli — Misspelling of diverticula.
- divertingly — In a diverting manner.
- divestiture — the act of divesting.
- divestments — Plural form of divestment.
- dividedness — The quality of being divided.
- dividend on — cum dividend.
- divine mind — mind (def 18).
- diving bell — a chamber with an open bottom in which persons can go underwater without special apparatus, water being excluded from the upper part by compressed air fed in by a hose.
- divorcement — divorce; separation.
- doveishness — the characteristic of being like a dove, esp. in a political sense in the US
- dovetailing — a tenon broader at its end than at its base; pin.
- drink-drive — Drink-drive means relating to drink-driving.
- drive chain — a roller chain that transmits power from one toothed wheel to another
- drive screw — a fastener with a helical thread of coarse pitch that can be driven into wood with a hammer and removed with a screwdriver.
- drive shaft — a shaft for imparting torque from a power source or prime mover to machinery.
- drive train — 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.
- driver's ed — the preparation of students for driving tests, whether at school, in a car or through online courses
- drug-driver — a person who drives while under the influence of drugs
- du vigneaud — Vincent, 1901–78, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1955.
- duncanville — a town in N Texas.
- duplicative — a copy exactly like an original.
- edward viii — (Duke of Windsor) 1894–1972, king of Great Britain 1936: abdicated (son of George V; brother of George VI).