9-letter words containing ve
- pet peeve — a particular and often continual annoyance; personal bugbear: This train service is one of my pet peeves.
- pick over — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
- pit grave — a shallow grave hollowed out of a bed of rock or the floor of a tholos.
- pit river — a river in N California, flowing S and W from the Modoc Plateau to the Sacramento River. 200 miles (320 km) long.
- placative — placatory.
- plaintive — expressing sorrow or melancholy; mournful: a plaintive melody.
- pollutive — to make foul or unclean, especially with harmful chemical or waste products; dirty: to pollute the air with smoke.
- polverine — a glassmaker's potash
- portative — capable of being carried; portable.
- portreeve — the reeve of a port
- posidrive — having a patent screwhead that allows greater torque
- positives — explicitly stated, stipulated, or expressed: a positive acceptance of the agreement.
- pre-loved — previously used or owned; secondhand.
- preactive — engaged in action; characterized by energetic work, participation, etc.; busy: an active life.
- precisive — characterized by accuracy or exactness: a precisive method of expressing oneself.
- prelusive — introductory.
- preserved — to keep alive or in existence; make lasting: to preserve our liberties as free citizens.
- preserver — to keep alive or in existence; make lasting: to preserve our liberties as free citizens.
- presurvey — to take a general or comprehensive view of or appraise, as a situation, area of study, etc.
- pretravel — occurring prior to travel
- prevented — to keep from occurring; avert; hinder: He intervened to prevent bloodshed.
- preventer — a person or thing that prevents.
- preverbal — of or relating to words: verbal ability.
- primavera — a central American tree, Cybistax donnell-smithii, of the bignonia family, having showy, tubular yellow flowers.
- primitive — being the first or earliest of the kind or in existence, especially in an early age of the world: primitive forms of life.
- privative — causing, or tending to cause, deprivation.
- proactive — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- probative — serving or designed for testing or trial.
- profusive — profuse; lavish; prodigal: profusive generosity.
- prolative — functioning to complete the predicate
- promotive — tending to promote.
- prove out — to show or be shown to be satisfactory, accurate, true, etc.
- provencal — of or relating to Provence, its people, or their language.
- provender — dry food, as hay or oats, for livestock or other domestic animals; fodder.
- proverbed — a short popular saying, usually of unknown and ancient origin, that expresses effectively some commonplace truth or useful thought; adage; saw.
- pull over — to draw or haul toward oneself or itself, in a particular direction, or into a particular position: to pull a sled up a hill.
- pulsative — throbbing; pulsating.
- pulverine — the alkaline ashes resulting from the burning of the barilla plant
- pulverise — to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.
- pulverize — to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.
- pulverous — consisting of tiny particles
- purgative — purging or cleansing, especially by causing evacuation of the bowels.
- purposive — having, showing, or acting with a purpose, intention, or design.
- push over — shove to the ground
- quavering — to shake tremulously; quiver or tremble: He stood there quavering with fear.
- quiverful — The amount held by a quiver.
- quivering — the act or state of quivering; a tremble or tremor.
- quiverish — given to quivering, tremulous
- quivertip — A flexible tip to a fishing rod that bends when a fish takes the bait.
- quotative — (linguistics) Form of the complementizer related to the verb say, found in many languages of West Africa and South Asia.