9-letter words containing ve
- investors — Plural form of investor.
- investure — (obsolete) To clothe; to invest.
- irruptive — of, relating to, or characterized by irruption.
- isolative — noting a change in part of the sound of a word made independently of the phonetic environment of that part.
- item veto — line-item veto.
- iterative — repeating; making repetition; repetitious.
- javelinas — Plural form of javelina.
- jaz drive — (hardware, storage) Iomega Corporation's drive which takes removable one or two gigabyte disk cartridges which contain conventional hard disks. Internal and external drives are available claiming an average transfer rate of 330 megabytes per minute - though that is dependent on the SCSI adapter, the parallel port adapter is unlikely to reach anything like this speed. The Jaz drive was the successor to the company's more establistablished Zip Drive.
- jeevesian — of, relating to, or like the butler Jeeves, who was, in the fiction of P. G. Wodehouse, a master of tact, euphemism, and ingenuity
- jive talk — black American slang
- juveniles — Plural form of juvenile.
- juvenilia — (literature, plural only) Works produced during an artist's or author's youth.
- juvenoids — Plural form of juvenoid.
- keel over — Nautical. a central fore-and-aft structural member in the bottom of a hull, extending from the stem to the sternpost and having the floors or frames attached to it, usually at right angles: sometimes projecting from the bottom of the hull to provide stability.
- key drive — a very small, portable storage device that plugs into a computer and facilitates moving data between machines
- kick over — to strike with the foot or feet: to kick the ball; to kick someone in the shins.
- kid glove — a glove made of kid leather.
- knaveship — a small proportion of milled grain that was due to the person who did the milling
- knockover — to strike a sounding blow with the fist, knuckles, or anything hard, especially on a door, window, or the like, as in seeking admittance, calling attention, or giving a signal: to knock on the door before entering.
- kvetching — Present participle of kvetch.
- ladyloves — Plural form of ladylove.
- lambative — (archaic) Taken by licking with the tongue.
- lambitive — a medicine that is taken by licking it with the tongue
- landgrave — (in medieval Germany) a count having jurisdiction over a large territory.
- las vegas — a city in SE Nevada.
- laticlave — (in ancient Rome) a broad purple stripe on the tunic of a Roman senator or high-ranking official, denoting their high social position
- laudative — containing or expressing praise: overwhelmed by the speaker's laudatory remarks.
- lavenders — Plural form of lavender.
- lawgivers — Plural form of lawgiver.
- laxatives — Plural form of laxative.
- leave off — to go out of or away from, as a place: to leave the house.
- leave out — to go out of or away from, as a place: to leave the house.
- leaveless — (obsolete) leafless.
- leavening — a substance, as yeast or baking powder, that causes fermentation and expansion of dough or batter.
- leavenous — containing leaven
- left over — remaining
- leftovers — Plural form of leftover.
- lek-river — a river in the central Netherlands, flowing W to the Meuse River; the N branch of the lower Rhine. 40 miles (64 km) long.
- let drive — to hit or aim
- level off — a device used for determining or adjusting something to a horizontal surface.
- level out — become even
- level-off — the maneuver of bringing an aircraft into a horizontal flying position after an ascent or descent.
- levelland — a city in NW Texas.
- levellers — a person or thing that levels.
- levelling — having no part higher than another; having a flat or even surface.
- levelness — having no part higher than another; having a flat or even surface.
- leveraged — Simple past tense and past participle of leverage.
- leverages — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of leverage.
- leverrier — Urbain Jean Joseph [yr-ban zhahn zhaw-zef] /ürˈbɛ̃ ʒɑ̃ ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), 1811–77, French astronomer.
- life vest — life jacket.