11-letter words containing ve
- air vesicle — a large air-filled intercellular space in some aquatic plants
- album cover — the front of the outer packaging of a record album, usually decorated and showing its title and the name of the artist
- alfven wave — a generally transverse magnetohydrodynamic wave that is propagated in a plasma
- alleviative — Also, alleviatory [uh-lee-vee-uh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee] /əˈli vi əˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i/ (Show IPA). serving to alleviate; palliative.
- alpha-waves — a pattern of slow brain waves (alpha waves) in normal persons at rest with closed eyes, thought by some to be associated with an alert but daydreaming mind.
- altercative — relating to altercation
- alternative — If one thing is an alternative to another, the first can be found, used, or done instead of the second.
- amativeness — (phrenology) The state or quality of being amative; propensity to love or sexual feelings.
- ambiversion — a condition or character trait that includes elements of both introversion and extroversion
- amur privet — a northern Chinese shrub, Ligustrum amurense, of the olive family, having hairy leaves and white flowers.
- amusiveness — the quality of being amusive
- anniversary — An anniversary is a date which is remembered or celebrated because a special event happened on that date in a previous year.
- anteversion — abnormal forward tilting of a bodily organ, esp the uterus
- antipoverty — acting against poverty
- antislavery — opposed to slavery, esp slavery of Black people
- antitussive — alleviating or suppressing coughing
- appellative — an identifying name or title; appellation
- apperceived — Simple past tense and past participle of apperceive.
- applicative — relevant or applicable
- appositives — Plural form of appositive.
- approbative — showing approbation or approval
- approvement — (obsolete, Old English law) Improvement of common lands by converting them for advantage of the landlord.
- arbitrative — having the power to arbitrate
- architraved — having an architrave or architraves
- architraves — Plural form of architrave.
- argumentive — argumentative
- arrivederci — goodbye
- art nouveau — Art Nouveau is a style of decoration and architecture that was common in the 1890s. It is characterized by flowing lines and patterns of flowers and leaves.
- art of love — Latin Ars Amatoria. a series of poems in three books (1? b.c.) by Ovid.
- arte povera — a style of minimal art originating in Italy in the late 1960s, making use of cheap and commonly available materials such as stones, newspapers etc
- assertively — confidently aggressive or self-assured; positive: aggressive; dogmatic: He is too assertive as a salesman.
- asseverated — Simple past tense and past participle of asseverate.
- associative — Associative thoughts are things that you think of because you see, hear, or think of something that reminds you of those things or which you associate with those things.
- assortative — Denoting or involving the preferential mating of animals or marrying of people with similar characteristics.
- attentively — while giving attention; observantly: Please listen attentively.
- attestative — relating to or of the nature of attestation
- attributive — relating to an attribute
- attuitively — in an attuitive manner
- autoreverse — a system in a tape player that automatically reverses the tape and plays another track when one track has finished
- average joe — An average Joe is an average or ordinary man.
- average out — If a set of numbers average out to a particular figure or if you average them out to that figure, their average is calculated to be that figure.
- averageness — a quantity, rating, or the like that represents or approximates an arithmetic mean: Her golf average is in the 90s. My average in science has gone from B to C this semester.
- averruncate — to avert, to turn away
- aversion-to — a strong feeling of dislike, opposition, repugnance, or antipathy (usually followed by to): a strong aversion to snakes and spiders.
- awash-river — a river in E Ethiopia, flowing NE through the Great Rift Valley to near the Djibouti border. 500 miles (805 km) long.
- basketweave — a weave of two or more yarns together, resembling that of a basket, esp in wool or linen fabric
- bath oliver — a kind of unsweetened biscuit
- be revenged — to get revenge
- beaver away — If you are beavering away at something, you are working very hard at it.
- beaver tail — a flat oval doughnut served fried and sugared