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13-letter words containing v, i, d, e

  • dispositively — in a dispositive manner
  • dispurveyance — the lack of provisions
  • disrespective — (obsolete) Showing a lack of respect; disrespectful.
  • disseminative — to scatter or spread widely, as though sowing seed; promulgate extensively; broadcast; disperse: to disseminate information about preventive medicine.
  • dissimilative — to modify by dissimilation.
  • dissolve into — If you dissolve into or dissolve in tears or laughter, you begin to cry or laugh, because you cannot control yourself.
  • distinctively — serving to distinguish; characteristic; distinguishing: the distinctive stripes of the zebra.
  • distributives — Plural form of distributive.
  • diversifiable — to make diverse, as in form or character; give variety or diversity to; variegate.
  • diversionists — Plural form of diversionist.
  • divertibility — the capability of being diverted
  • diverticulate — of or relating to a diverticulum
  • divertisement — (archaic) diversion; amusement; recreation.
  • dividing line — distinction
  • divine comedy — a narrative epic poem (14th century) by Dante.
  • divine mother — the creative, dynamic aspect of the Godhead, the consort or Shakti of Brahma, Vishnu, or Shiva, variously known as Devi, Durga, Kālī, Shakti, etc.
  • divine office — office (def 12c).
  • diving beetle — any of numerous predaceous water beetles of the family Dytiscidae, having the body adapted for swimming.
  • diving petrel — any of several small seabirds of the family Pelecanoididae, of Southern Hemisphere seas, having compact bodies, tubelike processes near the nostrils, and usually drab plumage.
  • diving reflex — a reflex of humans, other mammals, reptiles, and birds, triggered by immersion in cold water, that slows the heart rate and diverts blood flow to the brain, heart, and lungs: serves to conserve oxygen until breathing resumes and to delay potential brain damage.
  • divinyl ether — vinyl ether.
  • division bell — a bell rung in a parliament to signal a division
  • divorce court — a court having jurisdiction over termination of marital relations, as actions for divorce or annulment.
  • documentative — Of or pertaining to documents or documentation.
  • double vision — diplopia.
  • draft version — a preliminary version
  • drive a wedge — If someone drives a wedge between two people who are close, they cause ill feelings between them in order to weaken their relationship.
  • drive-through — the act of driving through a specified locality or place, especially driving into a place of business, completing a transaction from one's car, and driving out: a quick drive-through of Beverly Hills; The bank has outside tellers' windows to accept deposits by drive-through.
  • driver's seat — the seat from which a vehicle is operated.
  • driving force — impetus
  • driving range — a tract of land for practicing long golf shots, especially drives, with clubs and balls available for rent from the management.
  • driving wheel — Machinery. a main wheel that communicates motion to others.
  • dronkverdriet — drunk and maudlin
  • drummondville — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada.
  • duff's device — The most dramatic use yet seen of fall through in C, invented by Tom Duff when he was at Lucasfilm. Trying to bum all the instructions he could out of an inner loop that copied data serially onto an output port, he decided to unroll it. He then realised that the unrolled version could be implemented by *interlacing* the structures of a switch and a loop: register n = (count + 7) / 8; /* count > 0 assumed */ switch (count % 8) { case 0: do { *to = *from++; case 7: *to = *from++; case 6: *to = *from++; case 5: *to = *from++; case 4: *to = *from++; case 3: *to = *from++; case 2: *to = *from++; case 1: *to = *from++; } while (--n > 0); } Shocking though it appears to all who encounter it for the first time, the device is actually perfectly valid, legal C. C's default fall through in case statements has long been its most controversial single feature; Duff observed that "This code forms some sort of argument in that debate, but I'm not sure whether it's for or against."
  • eavesdropping — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
  • economy drive — a campaign by the government or a firm to reduce expenditure and make savings
  • engine driver — sb who drives a train
  • escape device — a device with a collapsible extensible slide, used as an emergency exit, eg from a burning tall building
  • eve's pudding — a baked sponge pudding with a layer of apple at the bottom
  • evening dress — formal clothing
  • eventide home — a retirement home
  • evidentiarily — In an evidentiary way.
  • expert advice — advice given by someone who has studied a subject thoroughly or who is very skilled at a particular job
  • exploded view — a drawing or photograph of a complicated mechanism that shows the individual parts separately, usually indicating their relative positions
  • face validity — the extent to which a psychological test appears to measure what it is intended to measure
  • fast dissolve — a transition that fades out one scene and replaces it with another, merging the two scenes imperceptibly
  • ferdinand vii — 1784–1833, king of Spain 1808, 1814–33.
  • ferrovanadium — a ferroalloy containing up to 55 percent vanadium.
  • field of view — field (def 13).
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