12-letter words containing v, r
- debt service — the amount set aside annually in a fund to pay the interest and the part of the principal due on a debt.
- decemvirates — Plural form of decemvirate.
- decoratively — In a decorative manner.
- degenerative — A degenerative disease or condition is one that gets worse as time progresses.
- degressively — in a degressive fashion
- deleveraging — an instance of this: The economic crisis has forced a deleverage.
- deliberative — A deliberative institution or procedure has the power or the right to make important decisions.
- deliverables — items named in a contract, course, or project that must be delivered for its successful completion
- deliverances — Plural form of deliverance.
- delivery boy — a boy or youth who delivers merchandise for a store, as to the homes or offices of customers.
- delivery van — a small van used esp for delivery rounds
- demand curve — A demand curve is a graph showing the price of an item and the amount consumers want to buy.
- demo version — 1. An early, barely-functional version of a program which can be used for demonstration purposes as long as the operator uses *exactly* the right commands and skirts its numerous bugs, deficiencies, and unimplemented portions. 2. A special version of a finished program (frequently with some features crippled) which is distributed at little or no cost to the user for enticement purposes. See crippleware.
- dengue-fever — an infectious, eruptive fever of warm climates, usually epidemic, characterized especially by severe pains in the joints and muscles.
- depo-provera — a synthetic progestogen, C24H34O4, used to treat uterine or kidney cancer, to prevent conception for long periods, etc.
- depravedness — The state of being depraved; depravity.
- depreciative — Tending to depreciate (in value etc.).
- depressively — In a depressive manner.
- deprivations — Plural form of deprivation.
- derisiveness — (uncountable) The condition of being derisive.
- derivability — The condition of being derivable.
- derivational — Of or pertaining to derivation; relating to that which is derived.
- derivatively — derived.
- derived form — derivative (def 4).
- derived type — (programming) A type constructed from primitive types or other derived types using a type constructor function. This term is usually applied to procedural languages such as C or Ada. C's derived types are the array, function, pointer, structure, and union. Compare derived class.
- derived unit — a unit of measurement obtained by multiplication or division of the base units of a system without the introduction of numerical factors
- derived-form — something that has been derived.
- derogatively — lessening; belittling; derogatory.
- descriptives — Plural form of descriptive.
- deservedness — justly or rightly earned; merited: a deserved increase in salary.
- desiderative — feeling or expressing desire
- detector van — a vehicle fitted with equipment that detects whether or not a house has a television. This is used to catch people who have not paid for a television licence and so are illegally using a television
- detritivores — Plural form of detritivore.
- devil's grip — pleurodynia (def 2).
- devil's mark — (in witchcraft) a mark, as a scar or blemish, on the body of a person who has made a compact with a devil.
- devirginized — Simple past tense and past participle of devirginize.
- devirginizer — Someone who devirginizes.
- devirginizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of devirginize.
- devitrifying — Present participle of devitrify.
- dewar vessel — a container with an evacuated space between two walls that are highly reflective, capable of maintaining its contents at a near-constant temperature over relatively long periods of time; thermos.
- digressively — In a digressive fashion.
- disadventure — misfortune; bad luck
- disapproving — Expressing an unfavorable opinion.
- disbelievers — Plural form of disbeliever.
- discoverable — 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.
- discoverment — (obsolete) discovery.
- discoverture — the state of being discovert; freedom from coverture.
- discretively — in a discretive manner
- discursively — In a discursive manner.
- disinvoltura — Self-assurance; lack of constraint.