10-letter words that end in ve
- crime wave — When more crimes than usual are committed in a particular place, you can refer to this as a crime wave.
- cumulative — If a series of events have a cumulative effect, each event makes the effect greater.
- cunctative — delay; tardiness.
- cyberglove — (hardware, virtual reality) A data glove sold by Virtual Technologies. The spandex-like glove houses 18 sensors to track accurately just about every move your hand is capable of making. The accompanying software includes a three-dimensional hand model that can he added to any virtual reality application. The glove includes a mount for Polhemus and Ascension sensors.
- data glove — (hardware, virtual reality) An input device for virtual reality in the form of a glove which measures the movements of the wearer's fingers and transmits them to the computer. Sophisticated data gloves also measure movement of the wrist and elbow. A data glove may also contain control buttons or act as an output device, e.g. vibrating under control of the computer. The user usually sees a virtual image of the data glove and can point or grip and push objects. Examples are Fifth Dimension Technologies (5DT)'s 5th Glove, and Virtual Technologies' CyberGlove. A cheaper alternative is InWorld VR's CyberWand.
- datatrieve — (database, language) A query and report system for use with DEC's VMS (RMS, VAX Rdb/VMS or VAX DBMS).
- decorative — Something that is decorative is intended to look pretty or attractive.
- dedicative — of or relating to dedication; serving as a dedication.
- definitive — Something that is definitive provides a firm conclusion that cannot be questioned.
- deflective — causing deflection.
- defunctive — of or relating to the dead; funereal.
- degressive — reducing by gradual amounts
- delta wave — any of the slowest electrical brain waves, having frequencies less than four hertz and indicating, in adults, deep sleep or brain disease
- denotative — able to denote; designative
- depositive — having the capacity or tendency to deposit
- depressive — Depressive means relating to depression or to being depressed.
- depurative — used for or capable of depurating; purifying; purgative
- derivative — A derivative is something which has been developed or obtained from something else.
- derogative — lessening; belittling; derogatory.
- despective — Disparaging, derogatory; looking down upon.
- detonative — (of an explosive, or ordnance) That is liable to detonate spontaneously.
- detractive — tending or seeking to detract.
- digressive — tending to digress; departing from the main subject.
- diminutive — small; little; tiny: a diminutive building for a model-train layout.
- disapprove — to think (something) wrong or reprehensible; censure or condemn in opinion.
- disbelieve — to have no belief in; refuse or reject belief in: to disbelieve reports of UFO sightings.
- disc drive — disc
- discretive — Marking distinction or separation; disjunctive.
- discursive — passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling.
- discussive — (medicine, dated) A medicine that discusses or disperses morbid humours; a discutient.
- disenslave — to free from slave status
- disimprove — (transitive, rare) to make worse.
- disinvolve — (transitive) To uncover; to unfold or unroll; to disentangle.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- dominative — dominating; controlling.
- drop valve — a valve, as for a steam engine, that drops freely to close.
- dubitative — doubting; doubtful.
- duck-shove — to evade responsibility (for)
- earth wave — any elastic wave traveling through the material of the earth, as a wave caused by an earthquake.
- enervative — Causing enervation.