10-letter words containing v, e, n
- derivement — (obsolete) That which is derived; deduction; inference.
- detonative — (of an explosive, or ordnance) That is liable to detonate spontaneously.
- devanagari — a syllabic script in which Sanskrit, Hindi, and other modern languages of India are written
- developing — If you talk about developing countries or the developing world, you mean the countries or the parts of the world that are poor and have few industries.
- deviations — Plural form of deviation.
- devocation — A calling off or away.
- devolution — Devolution is the transfer of some authority or power from a central organization or government to smaller organizations or government departments.
- 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)
- devotement — The state of being devoted, or set apart by a vow.
- devotional — Devotional activities, writings, or objects relate to religious worship.
- devourment — the act of devouring
- devoutness — devoted to divine worship or service; pious; religious: a devout Catholic.
- dime novel — a cheap melodramatic or sensational novel, usually in paperback and selling for ten cents, especially such an adventure novel popular c1850 to c1920.
- diminutive — small; little; tiny: a diminutive building for a model-train layout.
- disadvance — to stop or cause to stop advancing
- disenslave — to free from slave status
- disenvelop — to unfold
- disenviron — to set free from a specific environment
- disinvited — Simple past tense and past participle of disinvite.
- disinvites — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disinvite.
- disinvolve — (transitive) To uncover; to unfold or unroll; to disentangle.
- dissentive — (obsolete) disagreeing; inconsistent.
- dissolvent — capable of dissolving another substance.
- distensive — Distending, or capable of being distended.
- divergence — the act, fact, or amount of diverging: a divergence in opinion.
- divergency — divergence; deviation.
- diversions — Plural form of diversion.
- divestment — the act of divesting.
- 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.
- divulgence — a divulging.
- dominative — dominating; controlling.
- dove prion — a common petrel, Pachyptila desolata, of the southern seas, having a bluish back and white underparts
- 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.
- drawknives — Plural form of drawknife.
- drivelines — Plural form of driveline.
- drivelling — saliva flowing from the mouth, or mucus from the nose; slaver.
- drivenness — past participle of drive.
- driver ant — army ant.
- drivetrain — the power train of an automotive vehicle consisting of all the components between the engine and driving wheels and including the clutch and axle, as well as the components of the driveline.
- durovernum — the Latin name for a city in SE England, in E Kent: starting point for St Augustine's mission to England (597 ad); cathedral where St Thomas à Becket was martyred (1170); seat of the archbishop and primate of England; seat of the University of Kent (1965). Pop: 43 552 (2001)
- dutch oven — a heavily constructed kettle with a close-fitting lid, used for pot roasts, stews, etc.
- dvd burner — A DVD burner is a piece of computer equipment that you use for copying data from a computer onto a DVD.
- east haven — a town in S Connecticut, near New Haven.
- eigenvalue — Each of a set of values of a parameter for which a differential equation has a nonzero solution (an eigenfunction) under given conditions.
- élan vital — a creative principle held by Henri Bergson to be present in all organisms and responsible for evolution