9-letter words containing ve
- radiative — giving off radiation.
- rake over — If you say that someone is raking over something that has been said, done, or written in the past, you mean that they are examining and discussing it in detail, in a way that you do not think is very pleasant.
- ram drive — RAM disk
- rave hook — a hooklike tool for reaming old oakum out of seams in planking.
- ravelling — to disentangle or unravel the threads or fibers of (a woven or knitted fabric, rope, etc.).
- ravelment — entanglement; confusion.
- ravenings — rapacious behaviour and activities
- ravenlike — resembling a raven
- re-verify — to prove the truth of, as by evidence or testimony; confirm; substantiate: Events verified his prediction.
- real live — You use real live to say that someone or something is present or exists, when you want to indicate that you think this is exciting and unusual or unexpected.
- reapprove — to approve (something) again
- receptive — having the quality of receiving, taking in, or admitting.
- recessive — tending to go, move, or slant back; receding.
- reclusive — a person who lives in seclusion or apart from society, often for religious meditation.
- reconvene — to come together or assemble, usually for some public purpose.
- reconvert — to convert again.
- recovered — to get back or regain (something lost or taken away): to recover a stolen watch.
- recoveree — a person found against in a recovery case, from whom costs or property are recovered
- recoverer — to get back or regain (something lost or taken away): to recover a stolen watch.
- recoveror — a person who is successful in a recovery case, for whom costs or property are recovered
- recursive — recursion
- red river — a river flowing E from NW Texas along the S boundary of Oklahoma into the Mississippi River in Louisiana. About 1300 miles (2095 km) long.
- red rover — a children's game in which two teams, some distance apart, face each other and take turns designating an opposing player to run toward their line. Any player who fails to break through their clasped hands becomes a member of that team.
- redeliver — to deliver again.
- redevelop — to develop (something) again.
- reductive — of or relating to reduction; serving to reduce or abridge: an urgent need for reductive measures.
- refective — of or relating to refection; refreshing
- reflexive — Grammar. (of a verb) taking a subject and object with identical referents, as shave in I shave myself. (of a pronoun) used as an object to refer to the subject of a verb, as myself in I shave myself.
- reinvolve — to include as a necessary circumstance, condition, or consequence; imply; entail: This job involves long hours and hard work.
- rejective — to refuse to have, take, recognize, etc.: to reject the offer of a better job.
- relatives — a person who is connected with another or others by blood or marriage.
- remissive — characterized by remission or decrease.
- removedly — in a removed, remote, or distant manner
- reobserve — to observe again
- repulsive — causing repugnance or aversion: a repulsive mask.
- resistive — capable of or inclined to resistance; resisting.
- resolvent — resolving; causing solution; solvent.
- retentive — tending or serving to retain something.
- retortive — having or containing a retort
- retrieved — to recover or regain: to retrieve the stray ball.
- retriever — a person or thing that retrieves.
- retrovert — to turn back, to revert
- retrusive — the act of moving a tooth backward.
- rev. ver. — Revised Version (of the Bible)
- revealing — to make known; disclose; divulge: to reveal a secret.
- revelator — a person who makes a revelation.
- revelling — to take great pleasure or delight (usually followed by in): to revel in luxury.
- revelries — reveling; boisterous festivity: Their revelry could be heard across the river.
- revelrous — of or relating to revelry
- revengive — vengeful, seeking revenge