9-letter words containing ve
- revenuers — an agent of the U.S. Treasury Department, especially one whose responsibility is to enforce laws against illegal distilling or bootlegging of alcoholic liquor.
- reverable — to regard with respect tinged with awe; venerate: The child revered her mother.
- reverence — a feeling or attitude of deep respect tinged with awe; veneration.
- reversely — opposite or contrary in position, direction, order, or character: an impression reverse to what was intended; in reverse sequence.
- reversion — the act of turning something the reverse way.
- revertant — a gene, organism, or strain that has undergone a back mutation.
- revertive — of or related to reverting
- revetment — a facing of masonry or the like, especially for protecting an embankment.
- revulsive — tending to alter the distribution of blood by revulsion.
- revved up — a revolution (in an engine or the like).
- river bed — bottom of a stream
- river bug — a small inflatable single-seat craft that resembles an armchair
- riverbank — the slopes bordering a river.
- riverboat — any shallow-draft boat used on rivers.
- riverdale — a city in NE Illinois.
- riverhead — the source or spring of a river.
- riverlike — resembling a river
- riverside — a city in SW California.
- riverview — a town in SE New Brunswick, in SE Canada.
- riverwalk — a paved walkway along the side of a river
- riverward — Also, riverwards. toward a river.
- riverweed — any of several chiefly tropical submerged aquatic plants of the genus Podostemum and related genera, growing in rapidly moving streams.
- rivet set — a tool for forming a head on a rivet after driving.
- rivetting — a metal pin for passing through holes in two or more plates or pieces to hold them together, usually made with a head at one end, the other end being hammered into a head after insertion.
- rock dove — a European pigeon, Columba livia, from which most domestic pigeons have been developed.
- roll over — to move along a surface by revolving or turning over and over, as a ball or a wheel.
- roosevelt — (Anna) Eleanor, 1884–1962, U.S. diplomat, author, and lecturer (wife of Franklin Delano Roosevelt).
- rove-over — (in sprung rhythm) of or relating to the completion of a metrical foot, incomplete at the end of one line, with a syllable or syllables from the beginning of the next line.
- rover boy — a courageous and principled person who is somewhat naïve and inexperienced.
- sail-over — a repetition of an indecisive or interrupted run of a racing yacht.
- salvemini — Gaetano [gah-e-tah-naw] /ˌgɑ ɛˈtɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1873–1957, Italian historian in the U.S.
- sama-veda — one of the Samhitas, a collection of mantras and tunes used in connection with the Rig-Veda.
- save face — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
- saver sub — A saver sub is a short piece of connecting pipe with threads on both ends, which is part of a drill string.
- scavenger — an animal or other organism that feeds on dead organic matter.
- scrivener — scribe1 (defs 1, 2).
- sea level — the horizontal plane or level corresponding to the surface of the sea at mean level between high and low tide.
- sea raven — a large marine fish of the genus Hemitripterus, as H. americanus, common on the northern Atlantic coast of America.
- sea rover — a pirate.
- seclusive — tending to seclude, especially oneself.
- secretive — secretory.
- seductive — tending to seduce; enticing; beguiling; captivating: a seductive smile.
- selective — having the function or power of selecting; making a selection.
- self-love — the instinct by which one's actions are directed to the promotion of one's own welfare or well-being, especially an excessive regard for one's own advantage.
- semibreve — a note half the length of a breve; whole note.
- sensitive — endowed with sensation; having perception through the senses.
- serve out — dish up, distribute: food
- serveries — Chiefly British. a food counter in a cafeteria or pub.
- sevenbark — wild hydrangea.
- sevenfold — comprising seven parts or members.