Words That Start With: DEV

• pass on or delegate to another

• be inherited by

• grow progressively worse

• make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation

• work out

• gain through experience

• come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)

• come into existence; take on form or shape

• change the use of and make available or usable

• elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses

• create by training and teaching

• be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest

• grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment

• become technologically advanced

• cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development

• generate gradually

• grow emotionally or mature

• make visible by means of chemical solutions

• superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry

• move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions

• move into a strategically more advantageous position

• elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme

• happen

• expand in the form of a series

• an inclination or desire; used in the plural in the phrase `left to your own devices'

• utter with tense vocal chords

• an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose

• something in an artistic work designed to achieve a particular effect

• any clever maneuver

• any ornamental pattern or design (as in embroidery)

• an emblematic design (especially in heraldry)

• zealous in devotion or affection

• (followed by `to') dedicated exclusively to a purpose or use

• a will disposing of real property

• (law) a gift of real property by will

• come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort

• arrange by systematic planning and united effort

• give by will, especially real property

• To make like a devil; to invest with the character of a devil.

• To annoy or bother.

• To work as a ‘devil’; to work for a lawyer or writer without fee or recognition.

• To prepare (food) with spices, making it spicy:

• Possessed by the Devil

• Grilled with a piquant sauce