12-letter words containing ve
- infinitively — a verb form found in many languages that functions as a noun or is used with auxiliary verbs, and that names the action or state without specifying the subject, as French venir “to come,” Latin esse “to be,” fuisse “to have been.”.
- ingravescent — (esp of a disease) becoming more severe
- initiatively — an introductory act or step; leading action: to take the initiative in making friends.
- innovatively — tending to innovate, or introduce something new or different; characterized by innovation.
- insubmissive — Unwilling to submit; not submissive, disobedient.
- insusceptive — insusceptible
- intake valve — a valve in the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine that opens at the proper moment in the cycle to allow the fuel-air mixture to be drawn into the cylinder.
- intellective — having power to understand; intelligent; cognitive.
- intempestive — untimely or inopportune
- interceptive — to take, seize, or halt (someone or something on the way from one place to another); cut off from an intended destination: to intercept a messenger.
- interconvert — to subject to interconversion; interchange.
- interdictive — Having the power to prohibit.
- interinvolve — to involve mutually or reciprocally
- interjective — Interjectional.
- intermissive — of, relating to, or characterized by intermission.
- interpretive — serving to interpret; explanatory.
- interruptive — to cause or make a break in the continuity or uniformity of (a course, process, condition, etc.).
- intervenient — intervening, as in place, time, order, or action.
- interventing — Present participle of intervent.
- intervention — the act or fact of intervening.
- intoxicative — of or relating to intoxicants or intoxication.
- intransitive — noting or having the quality of an intransitive verb.
- intraveneous — Misspelling of intravenous.
- intravesical — Within the urinary bladder.
- introductive — serving or used to introduce; preliminary; beginning: an introductory course; an introductory paragraph.
- introversion — the act of introverting or the state of being introverted.
- introversive — the act of introverting or the state of being introverted.
- introverting — a shy person.
- introvertish — Introverted.
- introvertive — the act of introverting or the state of being introverted.
- invasiveness — The quality of being invasive.
- inveiglement — to entice, lure, or ensnare by flattery or artful talk or inducements (usually followed by into): to inveigle a person into playing bridge.
- inventioneer — (rare) inventor.
- inventorying — Present participle of inventory.
- invercargill — a city on S South Island, in New Zealand.
- invert sugar — a mixture of the dextrorotatory forms of glucose and fructose, formed naturally in fruits and produced artificially in syrups or fondants by treating cane sugar with acids.
- invertebrate — Zoology. not vertebrate; without a backbone. of or relating to creatures without a backbone.
- invertedness — Quality of being inverted.
- investigable — capable of being investigated.
- investigated — Simple past tense and past participle of investigate.
- investigates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of investigate.
- investigator — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
- investitures — Plural form of investiture.
- inveterately — settled or confirmed in a habit, practice, feeling, or the like: an inveterate gambler.
- inveteration — The act of making inveterate.
- invigorative — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
- involvedness — very intricate or complex: an involved reply.
- involvements — Plural form of involvement.
- irreflective — Without mental reflection.
- irrelatively — In an irrelative manner.