10-letter words containing d, e, v
- dismissive — indicating dismissal or rejection; having the purpose or effect of dismissing, as from one's presence or from consideration: a curt, dismissive gesture.
- dispersive — serving or tending to disperse.
- displacive — That involves or causes displacement.
- disprovide — (obsolete, transitive) Not to provide; to fail to provide.
- disruptive — causing, tending to cause, or caused by disruption; disrupting: the disruptive effect of their rioting.
- dissective — having the ability to dissect
- dissentive — (obsolete) disagreeing; inconsistent.
- disservice — harmful or injurious service; an ill turn.
- dissevered — Simple past tense and past participle of dissever.
- dissolvent — capable of dissolving another substance.
- dissolvers — Plural form of dissolver.
- dissuasive — tending or liable to dissuade.
- distensive — Distending, or capable of being distended.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- divergence — the act, fact, or amount of diverging: a divergence in opinion.
- divergency — divergence; deviation.
- diversions — Plural form of diversion.
- divertible — to turn aside or from a path or course; deflect.
- divestible — capable of being divested, as an estate in land.
- divestment — the act of divesting.
- divide off — If something divides an area off, it forms a barrier that keeps it separate from another area.
- dividendus — (in prescriptions) meant to be divided.
- divineness — The quality of being divine; divinity.
- divineress — a female diviner
- divinities — the quality of being divine; divine nature.
- 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).
- dominative — dominating; controlling.
- 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 color — warm gray with a slight purplish or pinkish tint.
- dove prion — a common petrel, Pachyptila desolata, of the southern seas, having a bluish back and white underparts
- 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
- dovetailed — noting a partition line or a charge, as an ordinary, having a series of indentations suggesting dovetails.
- dovishness — The quality of being a dove (as opposed to a hawk).
- down-river — Something that is moving down-river is moving towards the mouth of a river, from a point further up the river. Something that is down-river is towards the mouth of a river.
- downcurved — curved downward at the edges or end: his downcurved mouth conveyed his disappointment; downcurved beak.
- dragsville — something unpleasantly boring or tedious.
- drawknives — Plural form of drawknife.
- drawshaves — Plural form of drawshave.
- drive away — depart in a vehicle