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9-letter words containing ve

  • sparkover — spark1 (def 2).
  • spillover — the act of spilling over.
  • spin wave — a magnetic wave propagated through a crystal lattice by a collective excitation of the spin angular momentum of electrons.
  • spoilfive — a game played by two to ten persons having five cards each.
  • standover — practising or relating to acts of threatening, intimidating or extorting money from people by force
  • stave off — one of the thin, narrow, shaped pieces of wood that form the sides of a cask, tub, or similar vessel.
  • stay over — spend the night
  • stevedore — a firm or individual engaged in the loading or unloading of a vessel.
  • stevenage — a town in N Hertfordshire, in SE England.
  • stevenson — Adlai Ewing [ad-ley yoo-ing] /ˈæd leɪ ˈyu ɪŋ/ (Show IPA), 1835–1914, vice president of the U.S. 1893–97.
  • stop over — stay overnight on a journey
  • stovepipe — a pipe, as of sheet metal, serving as a stove chimney or to connect a stove with a chimney flue.
  • suasively — persuasively; in a persuasive manner
  • suaveness — a suave or smoothly agreeable quality.
  • sub verbo — (used as a direction to a reference) under the word or heading. Abbreviation: s.v.
  • sub-level — a drift, dug through ore, into which overlying material, especially from an upper layer of ore, is caved.
  • subniveal — beneath the snow
  • suboctave — an octave below another octave
  • subsecive — left over or spare
  • subverbal — of or relating to words: verbal ability.
  • subverted — to overthrow (something established or existing).
  • suffusive — to overspread with or as with a liquid, color, etc.
  • summative — additive.
  • superhive — super (def 3).
  • supervene — to take place or occur as something additional or extraneous (sometimes followed by on or upon).
  • superwave — an exceptionally large wave
  • surveying — the science or scientific method of making surveys of land.
  • swan dive — into water
  • swan-dive — to perform a swan dive.
  • sweetveld — (in South Africa) a type of grazing characterized by high-quality grass
  • swingover — a shift or transfer in attitude, opinion, or the like.
  • sylvester — (Gerbert) died 1003, French ecclesiastic: pope 999–1003.
  • take five — a cardinal number, four plus one.
  • take over — the act of taking.
  • talk over — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
  • talkative — inclined to talk a great deal: One drink and she became very talkative.
  • tax haven — a foreign country or corporation used to avoid or reduce income taxes, especially by investors from another country.
  • tentative — of the nature of or made or done as a trial, experiment, or attempt; experimental: a tentative report on her findings.
  • the above — something that is above or previously mentioned
  • the novel — the literary genre represented by novels
  • the raven — a lyric poem (1845) by Edgar Allan Poe.
  • the river — the fifth and final community card to be dealt in a round of Texas hold 'em
  • the waves — the sea
  • throwover — designed to fit loosely over an object without being tied to it
  • tick over — If an engine is ticking over, it is running at a low speed or rate, for example when it is switched on but you are not actually using it.
  • tide over — the periodic rise and fall of the waters of the ocean and its inlets, produced by the attraction of the moon and sun, and occurring about every 12 hours.
  • timesaver — (of methods, devices, etc.) reducing the time spent or required to do something.
  • tk!solver — Software Arts 1983. Numerical constraint-oriented language. "The TK!Solver Book", M. Konopasek et al, McGraw-Hill 1984.
  • top-level — at a high level: a top-level conference.
  • traditive — traditional.
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