12-letter words containing ve
- responsively — responding especially readily and sympathetically to appeals, efforts, influences, etc.: a responsive government.
- resurrective — of or relating to resurrection
- retractively — in a retractive manner
- retrievement — a retrieval
- retrodictive — of or relating to retrodicting or retrodiction
- retropulsive — of or relating to retropulsion
- retroversion — a looking or turning back.
- revegetation — to cause vegetation to grow again on: to revegetate eroded lands.
- revelational — the act of revealing or disclosing; disclosure.
- revenge porn — sexually suggestive images of someone, typically a former romantic partner, that are posted online or otherwise shared without the person's consent.
- revenue bond — a bond issued, as by a municipal utility, to finance a specific project, the income from which will be used for repaying the bond.
- reverberator — to reecho or resound: Her singing reverberated through the house.
- reverse arms — to turn one's arms upside down, esp as a token of mourning
- reverse dive — any dive in which the diver leaves the board facing the water, then rotates in the air to enter the water facing the board.
- reverse gear — The reverse gear of a vehicle is the gear which you use in order to make the vehicle go backwards.
- reverse shot — a shot that views the action from the opposite side of the previous shot, as during a conversation between two actors, giving the effect of looking from one actor to the other.
- reverse snob — a person overly proud of being one of or sympathetic to the common people, and who denigrates or shuns those of superior ability, education, social standing, etc.
- reverse turn — a manoeuvre which makes a vehicle move backwards and to the left or right
- reversionary — of, relating to, or involving a reversion.
- reversionist — a person who advocates reverting to the conditions, customs, ideals, etc., of an earlier era.
- river forest — a city in NE Illinois.
- river nelson — a river in central Canada, in N central Manitoba, flowing from Lake Winnipeg northeast to Hudson Bay. Length: about 650 km (400 miles)
- roman-fleuve — saga (def 3).
- rooseveltian — of, pertaining to, advocating, or following the principles, views, or policies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt or of Theodore Roosevelt.
- root version — The initial value of an object in a change management system.
- rotary valve — a valve that rotates continuously or through an arc to open and close.
- route survey — a survey for determining the route, grades, etc., of a railroad, highway, or power line.
- sacral nerve — any of the nerves arising in five pairs from the spinal cord in the sacrum.
- safety valve — a device that, when actuated by a gas or vapor pressure above a predetermined level, opens and allows the gas or vapor to escape until its pressure is reduced to a pressure equal to or below that of the predetermined level. Compare relief valve.
- sainte-beuve — Charles Augustin [sharl oh-gy-stan] /ʃarl oʊ güˈstɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1804–69, French literary critic.
- salve regina — a prayer in the form of a hymn to the Virgin Mary.
- samuel lover — Samuel, 1797–1868, Irish novelist, painter, and songwriter.
- sand verbena — any of several low, mostly trailing plants of the genus Abronia, of the western U.S., having showy, verbenalike flowers.
- save the day — solve a problem for sb
- sb's travels — the journeys someone makes to places a long way from their home
- scavengering — scavenging
- scheveningen — a town in the W Netherlands, near The Hague: seaside resort.
- screen saver — a program that displays a constantly shifting pattern on a screen when the computer is idle, originally used to prevent damage to the screen through continuous display of the same image but now used primarily for decoration.
- scrieveboard — the drawing board of a shipbuilder
- scrive board — a floorlike construction on which the lines of a vessel can be drawn or scribed at full size.
- sea lavender — an Old World, maritime plant, Limonium vulgare, of the leadwort family, having one-sided spikes of small, lavender-colored flowers.
- seismic wave — a wave of energy that is generated by an earthquake or other earth vibration and that travels within the earth or along its surface.
- self-evolved — to develop gradually: to evolve a scheme.
- self-starved — to die or perish from lack of food or nourishment.
- seronegative — showing no significant level of serum antibodies, or other immunologic marker in the serum, that would indicate previous exposure to the infectious agent being tested.
- seropositive — showing a significant level of serum antibodies, or other immunologic marker in the serum, indicating previous exposure to the infectious agent being tested.
- serve notice — to give formal warning or information, as of intentions; announce
- seven-eleven — shiner perch.
- seventy-five — a cardinal number, 70 plus 5.
- seventy-four — a cardinal number, 70 plus 4.