10-letter words containing v, r
- demiquaver — a sixteenth note; semiquaver.
- demivierge — a woman who engages in promiscuous sexual activity but retains her virginity
- denervated — Simple past tense and past participle of denervate.
- depravedly — in a depraved manner
- depressive — Depressive means relating to depression or to being depressed.
- deprivable — Capable of being, or liable to be, deprived.
- depurative — used for or capable of depurating; purifying; purgative
- derisively — characterized by or expressing derision; contemptuous; mocking: derisive heckling.
- derivation — The derivation of something, especially a word, is its origin or source.
- derivative — A derivative is something which has been developed or obtained from something else.
- derivatize — to alter (a chemical compound) via a chemical reaction, so that it becomes a derivative
- derivement — (obsolete) That which is derived; deduction; inference.
- derogative — lessening; belittling; derogatory.
- deservedly — You use deservedly to indicate that someone deserved what happened to them, especially when it was something good.
- detractive — tending or seeking to detract.
- detrivores — Plural form of detrivore.
- devalorize — Devalue.
- devanagari — a syllabic script in which Sanskrit, Hindi, and other modern languages of India are written
- 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.
- devil tree — jelutong (def 3).
- deviltries — Plural form of deviltry.
- 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)
- devourment — the act of devouring
- dichlorvos — an organophosphate insecticide used to control garden and household pests and to treat worm infections
- digressive — tending to digress; departing from the main subject.
- directives — Plural form of directive.
- disapprove — to think (something) wrong or reprehensible; censure or condemn in opinion.
- disc drive — disc
- 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.
- discretive — Marking distinction or separation; disjunctive.
- discursive — passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling.
- disenviron — to set free from a specific environment
- disfavored — unfavorable regard; displeasure; disesteem; dislike: The prime minister incurred the king's disfavor.
- dish gravy — meat juices, as from a roast, served as a gravy without seasoning or thickening.
- disimprove — (transitive, rare) to make worse.
- disk drive — computing: hardware
- disk-drive — a device that, using an access mechanism under program control, enables data to be read from or written on a spinning magnetic disk, magnetic disk pack, floppy disk, or optical disk.
- dispersive — serving or tending to disperse.
- disprovide — (obsolete, transitive) Not to provide; to fail to provide.
- disproving — Present participle of disprove.
- disruptive — causing, tending to cause, or caused by disruption; disrupting: the disruptive effect of their rioting.
- disservice — harmful or injurious service; an ill turn.
- dissevered — Simple past tense and past participle of dissever.
- dissolvers — Plural form of dissolver.
- distortive — to twist awry or out of shape; make crooked or deformed: Arthritis had distorted his fingers.
- divaricate — to spread apart; branch; diverge.
- dive brake — a flap deployed from the wings or fuselage of an aircraft, as a dive bomber or sailplane, that increases drag to permit a relatively steep angle of descent without a dangerous buildup in speed.
- divemaster — a professional qualified to oversee scuba diving operations, as in salvage work or at a resort, and responsible for procedures and safety, monitoring the whereabouts of divers underwater or at the surface, and making rescues when necessary.