10-letter words containing v, o, s
- cross-vote — to vote against one's own party
- crossovers — Plural form of crossover.
- curvaceous — If someone describes a woman as curvaceous, they think she is attractive because of the curves of her body.
- curvacious — pleasingly curved
- datagloves — Plural form of dataglove.
- davenports — Plural form of davenport.
- davy jones — the ocean's bottom, esp when regarded as the grave of those lost or buried at sea
- depositive — having the capacity or tendency to deposit
- detrivores — Plural form of detrivore.
- devastator — to lay waste; render desolate: The invaders devastated the city. Synonyms: destroy, sack, despoil, raze, ruin, level. Antonyms: create, erect, develop.
- developers — Plural form of developer.
- deviations — Plural form of deviation.
- devilwoods — Plural form of devilwood.
- devonshire — 8th Duke of, title of Spencer Compton Cavendish. 1833–1908, British politician, also known (1858–91) as Lord Hartington. He led the Liberal Party (1874–80) and left it to found the Liberal Unionist Party (1886)
- devoutness — devoted to divine worship or service; pious; religious: a devout Catholic.
- dichlorvos — an organophosphate insecticide used to control garden and household pests and to treat worm infections
- disapprove — to think (something) wrong or reprehensible; censure or condemn in opinion.
- disavowing — Present participle of disavow.
- discovered — to see, get knowledge of, learn of, find, or find out; gain sight or knowledge of (something previously unseen or unknown): to discover America; to discover electricity. Synonyms: detect, espy, descry, discern, ascertain, unearth, ferret out, notice.
- discoverer — a person who discovers.
- disemvowel — to remove the vowels from (a word in a text message, email, etc) in order to abbreviate it
- disenvelop — to unfold
- disenviron — to set free from a specific environment
- disfavored — unfavorable regard; displeasure; disesteem; dislike: The prime minister incurred the king's disfavor.
- disimprove — (transitive, rare) to make worse.
- disinvolve — (transitive) To uncover; to unfold or unroll; to disentangle.
- disprovide — (obsolete, transitive) Not to provide; to fail to provide.
- disproving — Present participle of disprove.
- dissolvent — capable of dissolving another substance.
- dissolvers — Plural form of dissolver.
- dissolving — Present participle of dissolve.
- distortive — to twist awry or out of shape; make crooked or deformed: Arthritis had distorted his fingers.
- diversions — Plural form of diversion.
- divisional — the act or process of dividing; state of being divided.
- divisorial — Lb maths Related to a divisor.
- dorsovelar — articulated with the back of the tongue touching or near the soft palate, as (k) and (ŋ)
- dostoevski — ˈFeodor Miˈkhailovich (ˈfjɔˈdɔʀ mɪ xaɪlɔvɪtʃ) ; fy^ōˈd^ōr mi khīˈl^ōvich) 1821-81; Russ. novelist
- dostoevsky — Fyodor Mikhailovich [fyoh-der mi-kahy-luh-vich;; Russian fyaw-duh r myi-khahy-luh-vyich] /ˈfyoʊ dər mɪˈkaɪ lə vɪtʃ;; Russian ˈfyɔ dər myɪˈxaɪ lə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1821–81, Russian novelist.
- dove prism — a prism that inverts a beam of light, often used in a telescope to produce an erect image.
- dover sole — another name for the European sole
- dovishness — The quality of being a dove (as opposed to a hawk).
- duck-shove — to evade responsibility (for)
- duckshover — one who duckshoves, jumps a queue; cheats
- dust cover — a cloth or plastic covering used to protect furniture or equipment, as during a period of nonuse.
- eave spout — waterspout (def 1).
- eavesdrops — Plural form of eavesdrop.
- echo verse — a poem in which the words or syllables at the end of a line are repeated as a response in the next line, often for ironic purpose.
- elevations — Plural form of elevation.
- endeavours — Plural form of endeavour.
- endovenous — (anatomy) Inside a vein.