11-letter words containing ve
- seroconvert — (of an individual) to produce antibodies specific to, and in response to the presence in the blood of, a particular antigen, such as a virus or vaccine
- server farm — a collection of computer servers (usually in a business, organization, etc) used to accomplish tasks for which multiple machines are needed
- seven hills — a town in N Ohio.
- seven isles — a city in SE Quebec, in E Canada, on the St. Lawrence, near its mouth.
- seven pines — Fair Oaks (def 1).
- seven-seven — the 7th of July 2005, the day on which a series of suicide bombings were carried out on the London public transport system by Islamic fundamentalists
- seventeenth — next after the sixteenth; being the ordinal number for 17.
- seventh-day — designating certain Christian denominations that make Saturday their chief day of rest and religious observance: Seventh-Day Adventists.
- seventy-one — a cardinal number, 70 plus 1.
- seventy-six — a cardinal number, 70 plus 6.
- seventy-two — a cardinal number, 70 plus 2.
- severalfold — comprising several parts or members.
- sex-starved — deprived of sexual gratification
- shaft grave — a grave consisting of a deep, rectangular pit with vertical sides, roofed over with a stone slab.
- shift lever — the lever mounted on the steering column or floor of a vehicle that enables the driver to shift gears.
- shirtsleeve — not wearing a jacket; informally dressed: a shirt-sleeve mob.
- shiveringly — in a shivering manner, usually from cold or fright
- shore leave — permission to spend time ashore, usually 48 hours or more, granted a member of a ship's company.
- short novel — a prose narrative midway between the novel and the short story in length and scope
- short-lived — living or lasting only a little while.
- shovel beak — a deformity of the beak in intensively reared chicks
- shovelboard — the game of shuffleboard.
- silver bass — white bass.
- silver beet — a variety of beet, Beta vulgaris cicla, having large firm green leaves: staple cooked green vegetable in Australia and New Zealand
- silver bell — any North American shrub or small tree belonging to the genus Halesia, of the storax family, having toothed leaves and drooping white, bell-shaped flowers.
- silver book — (publication) Jensen and Wirth's infamous "Pascal User Manual and Report", so called because of the silver cover of the widely distributed Springer-Verlag second edition of 1978 (ISBN 0-387-90144-2). See also book titles, Pascal.
- silver disc — (in Britain) an album certified to have sold 60 000 copies or a single certified to have sold 200 000 copies
- silver fern — a formalized spray of fern leaf, silver on a black background: the symbol of New Zealand sporting teams, esp the All Blacks
- silver fizz — an alcoholic drink made with gin, lemon juice, sugar, and egg white.
- silver foil — silver or silver-colored metal in foil form.
- silver gilt — an ornamental coating of silver, silver leaf, or a silver-colored substance.
- silver goal — (in certain competitions) a goal scored in a full half of extra time that is played if a match is drawn. This goal counts as the winner if it is the only goal scored in the full half or full period of extra time
- silver gray — a light brownish-gray.
- silver hake — a common hake, Merluccius bilinearis, occurring off the Atlantic coast of North America and popular as a food fish.
- silver leaf — silver in the form of very thin foil.
- silver orfe — one of the two varieties of orfe, an aquarium fish
- silver star — a bronze star with a small silver star at the center, awarded to a soldier who has been cited in orders for gallantry in action, when the citation does not warrant the award of a Medal of Honor or the Distinguished Service Cross.
- silver thaw — glaze (def 17).
- silver vine — a vine, Actinidia polygama, of eastern Asia, having fragrant, white flowers and yellow, edible fruit and, in the male plant, leaves with silvery-white markings.
- silver-gilt — an ornamental coating of silver, silver leaf, or a silver-colored substance.
- silver-gray — gray with a silvery luster
- silver-grey — light grey that resembles silver
- silverberry — a shrub, Elaeagnus commutata (or E. argentea), of north-central North America, having silvery leaves and flowers and silvery, drupelike edible fruit.
- silverchair — Australian rock group (formed 1994): comprising Daniel Johns (born 1979; vocals, guitar), Ben Gillies (born 1979, drums) and Chris Joannou (born 1979, bass guitar); their albums include Frogstomp (1995) and Young Modern (2007)
- silverpoint — a technique of drawing with a silver stylus on specially prepared paper.
- silversides — any of several small fishes of the family Atherinidae, having a silvery stripe along each side, as Menidia menidia, inhabiting the Atlantic coast of the U.S.
- silversmith — a person whose occupation is making and repairing articles of silver.
- silverwares — articles, especially eating and serving utensils, made of silver, silver-plated metals, stainless steel, etc.
- silvester i — Saint, died a.d. 335, pope 314–335.
- silvestrian — of or relating to woodland