11-letter words containing ve
- beaverboard — a stiff light board of compressed wood fibre, used esp to surface partitions
- beaverbrook — 1st Baron, title of William Maxwell Aitken. 1879–1964, British newspaper proprietor and Conservative politician, born in Canada, whose newspapers included the Daily Express; minister of information (1918); minister of aircraft production (1940–41)
- beavercreek — a town in SW Ohio.
- beech grove — a grove of beech trees
- belly-helve — a triphammer in which the cams act at a point along the helve, partway between the fulcrum and the head.
- benedictive — relating to a benediction or blessing
- benefactive — of or relating to a linguistic form, case, or semantic role that denotes the person or persons for whom an action is performed, as for his son in He opened the door for his son.
- bereavement — Bereavement is the sorrow you feel or the state you are in when a relative or close friend dies.
- bevel joint — a miter joint, especially one in which two pieces meet at other than a right angle.
- bevel wheel — a toothed wheel, set at an oblique angle to the axis
- biconvexity — the characteristic of having two convex surfaces
- bisociative — relating to bisociation
- black olive — a tropical American tree, Bucida buceras, having leathery leaves and greenish-yellow flowers.
- blank verse — Blank verse is poetry that does not rhyme. In English literature it usually consists of lines with five stressed syllables.
- bleed valve — a valve for running off a liquid from a tank, tube, etc, or for allowing accumulations of gas in a liquid to blow off
- blood level — the amount of a substance, as cholesterol, alcohol, or triglycerides, circulating in the bloodstream: often expressed as a percent or in milligrams or micrograms per deciliter of blood.
- blue velvet — a mixture of paregoric and Pyribenzamine taken by vein as an illicit drug.
- body swerve — (esp in football games) the act or an instance of swerving past an opponent
- bonaventura — Saint, called the Seraphic Doctor. 1221–74, Italian Franciscan monk, mystic, theologian, and philosopher; author of a Life of St Francis and Journey of the Soul to God. Feast day: July 14
- bonaventure — Saint ("the Seraphic Doctor") 1221–74, Italian scholastic theologian.
- brain fever — inflammation of the brain or its covering membranes
- brake lever — (on a bicycle) a lever on the handlebar that connects to the brake cable and thus operates the braking mechanism
- bravo-river — Mexican Rio Bravo. a river flowing from SW Colorado through central New Mexico and along the boundary between Texas and Mexico into the Gulf of Mexico. 1800 miles (2900 km) long.
- break cover — (esp of game animals) to come out from a shelter or hiding place
- bremerhaven — a port in NW Germany: an outport for Bremen. Pop: 118 276 (2003 est)
- broad river — a river in W North Carolina, flowing S to join the Saluda River, forming the Congaree River in South Carolina. 150 miles (241 km) long.
- broken vein — a ruptured blood vessel
- bubble over — to overflow, as boiling liquid
- bush clover — any of several plants or shrubs belonging to the genus Lespedeza, of the legume family, having pinnately trifoliate leaves and heads of pink, purple, cream, or white flowers.
- bust a move — go, leave
- busy beaver — (theory) (BB) One of a series of sets of Turing Machine programs. The BBs in the Nth set are programs of N states that produce a larger finite number of ones on an initially blank tape than any other program of N states. There is no program that, given input N, can deduce the productivity (number of ones output) of the BB of size N. The productivity of the BB of size 1 is 1. Some work has been done to figure out productivities of bigger Busy Beavers - the 7th is in the thousands.
- cabin fever — If you describe someone as having cabin fever, you mean that they feel restless and irritable because they have been indoors in one place for too long.
- calculative — the act or process of calculating; computation.
- calefactive — producing heat
- cantilevers — Plural form of cantilever.
- captivative — to attract and hold the attention or interest of, as by beauty or excellence; enchant: Her blue eyes and red hair captivated him.
- career move — a change of job, usually to a position with more responsibility and a higher income
- caressively — caressingly
- carminative — able to relieve flatulence
- carvelbuilt — Alternative form of carvel-built.
- castelvetro — Lodovico [loh-duh-vee-koh;; Italian law-daw-vee-kaw] /ˌloʊ dəˈvi koʊ;; Italian ˌlɔ dɔˈvi kɔ/ (Show IPA), 1505–71, Italian philologist and literary critic.
- causatively — acting as a cause; producing (often followed by of): a causative agency; an event causative of war.
- cavernously — In a cavernous manner; like a cavern.
- cavernulous — possessing or being full of small cavities
- celebrative — to observe (a day) or commemorate (an event) with ceremonies or festivities: to celebrate Christmas; to celebrate the success of a new play.
- cervelliere — a close-fitting cap of mail or plate; coif.
- chain drive — a chain of links passing over sprockets that transmits rotation from one shaft to another
- change over — If you change over from one thing to another, you stop doing one thing and start doing the other.
- changeovers — Plural form of changeover.
- check valve — a valve that closes by fluid pressure to prevent return flow