12-letter words containing v, e, n
- deleveraging — an instance of this: The economic crisis has forced a deleverage.
- deliverances — Plural form of deliverance.
- delivery van — a small van used esp for delivery rounds
- delusiveness — The state or quality of being delusive.
- 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.
- demotivating — to provide with a motive, or a cause or reason to act; incite; impel.
- demotivation — the act of demotivating
- dengue-fever — an infectious, eruptive fever of warm climates, usually epidemic, characterized especially by severe pains in the joints and muscles.
- denominative — giving or constituting a name; naming
- denotatively — having power to denote.
- denunciative — Denunciatory.
- depravedness — The state of being depraved; depravity.
- deprivations — Plural form of deprivation.
- derisiveness — (uncountable) The condition of being derisive.
- derivational — Of or pertaining to derivation; relating to that which is derived.
- derived unit — a unit of measurement obtained by multiplication or division of the base units of a system without the introduction of numerical factors
- deservedness — justly or rightly earned; merited: a deserved increase in salary.
- 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
- devaluations — Plural form of devaluation.
- devastations — Plural form of devastation.
- developement — Obsolete spelling of development.
- developments — Plural form of development.
- deviationism — ideological deviation (esp from orthodox Communism)
- deviationist — One who deviates from accepted beliefs or policies, especially from a prescribed form of Communism.
- devil's dung — asafetida.
- devilishness — The state or quality of being devilish.
- devirginized — Simple past tense and past participle of devirginize.
- devirginizer — Someone who devirginizes.
- devirginizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of devirginize.
- devitalizing — Present participle of devitalize.
- devitrifying — Present participle of devitrify.
- devon island — an island in the Nunavut Territory, N Canada. 20,900 sq. mi. (54,100 sq. km).
- devon minnow — a spinning lure intended to imitate the swimming motion of a minnow
- devotionally — In a devotional manner.
- diminutively — In a diminutive manner.
- disadvantage — absence or deprivation of advantage or equality.
- disadventure — misfortune; bad luck
- disbelieving — to have no belief in; refuse or reject belief in: to disbelieve reports of UFO sightings.
- discoverment — (obsolete) discovery.
- disgavelling — the act or quality of being without gavelkind
- dishevelling — Present participle of dishevel.
- dishevelment — to let down, as hair, or wear or let hang in loose disorder, as clothing.
- disincentive — something that discourages or deters; deterrent: High interest rates and government regulations are disincentives to investment.
- disinvesting — Present participle of disinvest.
- disjunctives — Plural form of disjunctive.
- dispensative — Granting dispensation.
- disservicing — harmful or injurious service; an ill turn.
- disseverance — The act of dissevering; separation.
- disseverment — Disseverance.