11-letter words containing v, o, t
- cover sheet — top page of a document
- cover story — a story that is alluded to or illustrated on the cover of a magazine
- covermounts — Plural form of covermount.
- covert coat — a short topcoat worn for hunting
- cross vault — a vault or ceiling created by the intersection of vaults.
- crown vetch — a trailing leguminous European plant, Coronilla varia, with clusters of white or pink flowers: cultivated in North America as a border plant
- cultivation — the planting, tending, improving, or harvesting of crops or plants
- cultivators — Plural form of cultivator.
- dative bond — coordinate bond
- dative-bond — a type of covalent bond between two atoms in which the bonding electrons are supplied by one of the two atoms.
- deactivator — Any device used to deactivate something.
- declivitous — fairly steep
- decurvation — the act of curving downwards
- deevolution — any process of formation or growth; development: the evolution of a language; the evolution of the airplane.
- deformative — making worse by alteration
- demotivated — to provide with a motive, or a cause or reason to act; incite; impel.
- demotivator — to provide with a motive, or a cause or reason to act; incite; impel.
- demy octavo — a book size, 81⁄2 by 51⁄2 inches
- denervation — to cut off the nerve supply from (an organ or body part) by surgery or anesthetic block.
- denver boot — A Denver boot is a large metal device which is fitted to the wheel of an illegally parked car or other vehicle in order to prevent it from being driven away. The driver has to pay to have the device removed.
- deo volente — God willing
- depravation — to make morally bad or evil; vitiate; corrupt.
- deprivation — If you suffer deprivation, you do not have or are prevented from having something that you want or need.
- derivations — Plural form of derivation.
- detritivore — an organism that uses organic waste as a food source, as certain insects.
- detritovore — any organism that feeds on detritus
- devaluation — a decrease in the exchange value of a currency against gold or other currencies, brought about by a government
- devastation — Devastation is severe and widespread destruction or damage.
- devastators — Plural form of devastator.
- development — Development is the gradual growth or formation of something.
- devolvement — to transfer or delegate (a duty, responsibility, etc.) to or upon another; pass on.
- devotedness — State of being devoted.
- devotionals — Plural form of devotional.
- devotionist — a person who practises formal devotion
- diapositive — a positive transparency; slide
- discoverist — advocating or using the discovery method.
- dispositive — involving or affecting disposition or settlement: a dispositive clue in a case of embezzlement.
- 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.
- divaricator — to spread apart; branch; diverge.
- divinations — Plural form of divination.
- diving boat — a boat used as a tender for divers or others working under water.
- divisionist — One who supports division (of a territory, etc.).
- divorcement — divorce; separation.
- divulgation — to make publicly known; publish.
- divulgatory — to make publicly known; publish.
- donkey vote — a vote on a preferential ballot on which the voter's order of preference follows the order in which the candidates are listed
- dovetailing — a tenon broader at its end than at its base; pin.
- duvet cover — the baglike cover into which the duvet is placed when you make a bed and which often makes a top sheet unnecessary
- earth mover — a vehicle, as a bulldozer, for pushing or carrying excavated earth from place to place.
- earthmovers — Plural form of earthmover.