8-letter words containing ve
- creative — A creative person has the ability to invent and develop original ideas, especially in the arts.
- crescive — increasing; growing
- crevette — a shrimp or prawn, esp when served in its shell
- culverin — a long-range medium to heavy cannon used during the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries
- culverts — Plural form of culvert.
- curative — Something that has curative properties can cure people's illnesses.
- cursives — Plural form of cursive.
- curveted — Simple past tense and past participle of curvet.
- curvette — cuvette (def 1).
- cuvettes — Plural form of cuvette.
- cuxhaven — a port in NW Germany, at the mouth of the River Elbe. Pop: 52 876 (2003 est)
- davenant — Sir William. 1606–68, English dramatist and poet: poet laureate (1638–68). His plays include Love and Honour (1634)
- daventry — a town in central England, in Northamptonshire: light industries, site of an important international radio transmitter. Pop: 21 731 (2001)
- de koven — (Henry Louis) Reginald, 1861–1920, U.S. composer, conductor, and music critic.
- deceived — (of a person) Cause (someone) to believe something that is not true, typically in order to gain some personal advantage.
- deceiver — to mislead by a false appearance or statement; delude: They deceived the enemy by disguising the destroyer as a freighter.
- deceives — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deceive.
- decisive — If a fact, action, or event is decisive, it makes it certain that there will be a particular result.
- decurved — bent or curved downwards
- delative — noting a case whose distinctive function is to indicate place down from which.
- deletive — intended to destroy or remove
- delivers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deliver.
- delivery — Delivery or a delivery is the bringing of letters, parcels, or other goods to someone's house or to another place where they want them.
- delusive — tending to delude; misleading
- demavend — Damavand
- denotive — used or serving to denote; denotative.
- depraved — Depraved actions, things, or people are morally bad or evil.
- depraver — One who depraves or corrupts.
- depraves — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deprave.
- deprived — Deprived people or people from deprived areas do not have the things that people consider to be essential in life, for example acceptable living conditions or education.
- depriver — Agent noun of deprive; one who deprives.
- deprives — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deprive.
- derisive — A derisive noise, expression, or remark expresses contempt.
- descrive — to describe
- deserved — rightfully earned or merited; just
- deserver — One who deserves.
- deserves — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deserve.
- desilver — to remove silver from; to deprive of silver
- deveined — Having had veins removed from.
- develope — Obsolete spelling of develop.
- develops — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of develop.
- deventer — an industrial city in the E Netherlands, in Overijssel province, on the River IJssel: medieval intellectual centre; early centre of Dutch printing. Pop: 88 000 (2003 est)
- deverbal — (of a noun or adjective) derived from a verb.
- devereux — Robert, 2nd Earl of Essex, 1566–1601, British statesman, soldier, and courtier of Queen Elizabeth I.
- devolved — Simple past tense and past participle of devolve.
- devolves — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of devolve.
- dig over — If you dig over an area of soil, you dig it thoroughly, so that the soil becomes looser and free from lumps.
- dilative — serving or tending to dilate.
- dilutive — to make (a liquid) thinner or weaker by the addition of water or the like.
- discover — to see, get knowledge of, learn of, find, or find out; gain sight or knowledge of (something previously unseen or unknown): to discover America; to discover electricity. Synonyms: detect, espy, descry, discern, ascertain, unearth, ferret out, notice.