10-letter words containing v, i, l, e
- cultivates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cultivate.
- cumulative — If a series of events have a cumulative effect, each event makes the effect greater.
- d'oliviera — Basil (Lewis). 1931–2011, South African-born cricketer who played for England. The South African government's refusal to admit him to the country as part of the England touring party in 1968 led to South Africa being banned from international cricket
- daredevils — Plural form of daredevil.
- deceivable — capable of being deceived; gullible.
- decisively — having the power or quality of deciding; putting an end to controversy; crucial or most important: Your argument was the decisive one.
- decivilize — to cause (a person) to be uncivilized
- deflective — causing deflection.
- delineavit — (he or she) drew it: used formerly on prints alongside the name of the artist of the original drawing
- deliverers — Plural form of deliverer.
- delivereth — Archaic third-person singular form of deliver.
- deliveries — the carrying and turning over of letters, goods, etc., to a designated recipient or recipients.
- delivering — Present participle of deliver.
- delivery's — the carrying and turning over of letters, goods, etc., to a designated recipient or recipients.
- delusively — tending to delude; misleading; deceptive: a delusive reply.
- deprivable — Capable of being, or liable to be, deprived.
- derisively — characterized by or expressing derision; contemptuous; mocking: derisive heckling.
- desalivate — to arrest the flow of saliva in (a human or other animal).
- devalorize — Devalue.
- developing — If you talk about developing countries or the developing world, you mean the countries or the parts of the world that are poor and have few industries.
- devil book — (publication) "The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD Unix Operating System", by Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J. Karels, and John S. Quarterman (Addison-Wesley Publishers, 1989, ISBN 0-201-06196-1). The standard reference book on the internals of BSD Unix. So called because the cover has a picture depicting a little devil (a visual play on daemon) in sneakers, holding a pitchfork (referring to one of the characteristic features of Unix, the "fork(2)" system call).
- devil of a — Theology. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.
- devil tree — jelutong (def 3).
- devilishly — of, like, or befitting a devil; diabolical; fiendish.
- deviltries — Plural form of deviltry.
- devilwoods — Plural form of devilwood.
- devitalize — to lower or destroy the vitality of; make weak or lifeless
- devocalize — devoice.
- devolution — Devolution is the transfer of some authority or power from a central organization or government to smaller organizations or government departments.
- devotional — Devotional activities, writings, or objects relate to religious worship.
- dime novel — a cheap melodramatic or sensational novel, usually in paperback and selling for ten cents, especially such an adventure novel popular c1850 to c1920.
- disbelieve — to have no belief in; refuse or reject belief in: to disbelieve reports of UFO sightings.
- disemvowel — to remove the vowels from (a word in a text message, email, etc) in order to abbreviate it
- disenslave — to free from slave status
- disenvelop — to unfold
- disheveled — hanging loosely or in disorder; unkempt: disheveled hair.
- disinvolve — (transitive) To uncover; to unfold or unroll; to disentangle.
- displacive — That involves or causes displacement.
- dissolvent — capable of dissolving another substance.
- dissolvers — Plural form of dissolver.
- 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.
- divertible — to turn aside or from a path or course; deflect.
- divestible — capable of being divested, as an estate in land.
- 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).
- dovetailed — noting a partition line or a charge, as an ordinary, having a series of indentations suggesting dovetails.
- dragsville — something unpleasantly boring or tedious.