11-letter words containing ve
- divestments — Plural form of divestment.
- dobby weave — a weave with small, geometric patterns
- doveishness — the characteristic of being like a dove, esp. in a political sense in the US
- dovetailing — a tenon broader at its end than at its base; pin.
- drink-drive — Drink-drive means relating to drink-driving.
- drive chain — a roller chain that transmits power from one toothed wheel to another
- drive screw — a fastener with a helical thread of coarse pitch that can be driven into wood with a hammer and removed with a screwdriver.
- drive shaft — a shaft for imparting torque from a power source or prime mover to machinery.
- drive train — the power train of an automotive vehicle consisting of all the components between the engine and driving wheels and including the clutch and axle, as well as the components of the driveline.
- driver's ed — the preparation of students for driving tests, whether at school, in a car or through online courses
- drug-driver — a person who drives while under the influence of drugs
- dumb sheave — a block having no sheave or other part rolling with the movement of a line.
- dumpy level — an instrument consisting of a spirit level mounted under and parallel to a telescope, the latter being rigidly attached to its supports.
- duplicative — a copy exactly like an original.
- duvet cover — the baglike cover into which the duvet is placed when you make a bed and which often makes a top sheet unnecessary
- earth mover — a vehicle, as a bulldozer, for pushing or carrying excavated earth from place to place.
- earthmovers — Plural form of earthmover.
- eave trough — gutter (def 3).
- eavestrough — gutter (def 3).
- ebola fever — Also called Ebola fever, Ebola hemorrhagic fever, Ebola virus disease. a usually fatal disease, a type of hemorrhagic fever, caused by the Ebola virus and marked by high fever, severe gastrointestinal distress, and bleeding.
- ecomovement — an organized movement to deal with environmental issues, reduce emissions, etc
- effectively — adequate to accomplish a purpose; producing the intended or expected result: effective teaching methods; effective steps toward peace.
- effervesced — Simple past tense and past participle of effervesce.
- effervesces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of effervesce.
- eigenvector — A vector that when operated on by a given operator gives a scalar multiple of itself.
- ejaculative — Ejaculatory.
- elaborative — Serving to elaborate.
- eleven-plus — The eleven-plus is an exam which was taken by children in Britain at about the age of eleven, in order to decide which secondary school they should go to.
- eliminative — Of, pertaining to, or producing elimination.
- elucidative — Explanatory, clarifying; that serves to elucidate.
- elusiveness — The state of being elusive.
- emulatively — So as to emulate.
- enclavement — An enclave.
- engravement — Engraving.
- enlivenment — The act of enlivening; animation.
- enslavement — The action of making someone a slave; subjugation.
- entry-level — basic/beginner
- enumerative — Of, pertaining to or based on enumeration.
- envelopment — The act of enveloping.
- envenomated — Simple past tense and past participle of envenomate.
- enver pasha — 1881–1922, Turkish soldier and leader of the Young Turks: minister of war (1914–18)
- eradicative — Tending or serving to eradicate; curing or destroying thoroughly, as a disease or any evil.
- erosiveness — The state or quality of being erosive.
- evaporative — Relating to or involving evaporation.
- evasiveness — The quality of being evasive.
- eve teasing — sexual harassment of a woman or women, esp verbally, usually in a public place
- even though — although, despite the fact that
- even-handed — person
- even-steven — having no balance of debt; neither owing or being owed
- eveningwear — Clothes suitable for a formal occasion in the evening.