9-letter words containing ve
- bevelment — the process of bevelling
- beveridge — William Henry, 1st Baron Beveridge. 1879–1963, British economist, whose Report on Social Insurance and Allied Services (1942) formed the basis of social-security legislation in Britain
- biconcave — (of a lens) having concave faces on both sides; concavo-concave
- bienvenue — a welcome
- bijective — (of a function, relation, etc) associating two sets in such a way that every member of each set is uniquely paired with a member of the other
- bind over — If someone is bound over by a court or a judge, they are given an order and must do as the order says for a particular period of time.
- bioactive — (of a substance) having or producing an effect on living tissue
- blow over — If something such as trouble or an argument blows over, it ends without any serious consequences.
- body wave — Geology. a transverse or longitudinal earthquake wave that travels through the interior of the earth (distinguished from surface wave).
- boil over — When a liquid that is being heated boils over, it rises and flows over the edge of the container.
- boil-over — an unexpected result.
- bondslave — a person held in bondage.
- booklover — a person who enjoys reading books.
- bowl over — To bowl someone over means to push into them and make them fall to the ground.
- brainwave — If you have a brainwave, you suddenly have a clever idea.
- braveness — possessing or exhibiting courage or courageous endurance.
- breakeven — the level of commercial activity at which the total cost and total revenue of a business enterprise are equal
- breakover — jump (def 51).
- brevetted — a commission promoting a military officer to a higher rank without increase of pay and with limited exercise of the higher rank, often granted as an honor immediately before retirement.
- by halves — without being thorough or exhaustive
- cabdriver — a taxi driver
- cadaveric — a dead body, especially a human body to be dissected; corpse.
- calf love — temporary infatuation or love of an adolescent for a member of the opposite sex
- call-over — a preliminary hearing
- calmative — (of a remedy or agent) sedative
- camp oven — a metal pot or box with a heavy lid, used for baking over an open fire
- canaveral — Capecape on the E coast of Fla.: U.S. proving ground for missiles and spacecraft
- captative — (linguistics) Describing a verb (in some languages) that has a specific ending or other marker to indicate a hunting or catching function.
- captively — In a captive manner.
- caregiver — A caregiver is someone who is responsible for looking after another person, for example, a person who has a disability, or is ill or very young.
- caressive — resembling a caress or tending to caress
- carryover — If something is a carryover from an earlier time, it began during an earlier time but still exists or happens now.
- carve out — to make or create (a career)
- carve-out — to cut (a solid material) so as to form something: to carve a piece of pine.
- carveries — Plural form of carvery.
- causative — Causative factors are ones which are responsible for causing something.
- cave bear — an extinct bear, Ursus spelaeus, that lived in caves in Europe during the Pleistocene Epoch.
- caveators — a person who files or enters a caveat.
- cavendish — tobacco that has been sweetened and pressed into moulds to form bars
- cavernous — A cavernous room or building is very large inside, and so it reminds you of a cave.
- cavessons — Plural form of cavesson.
- cavewoman — A prehistoric woman who lived in caves.
- cavewomen — Plural form of cavewoman.
- cessative — (of a verbal form or aspect) expressing cessation.
- champleve — of or relating to a process of enamelling by which grooves are cut into a metal base and filled with enamel colours
- charvette — (Geordie, pejorative) A female charva.
- chevelure — the hazy or misty luminescence encircling a comet or star
- chevening — a mansion and estate in SE England, in western Kent: the official country residence of the British foreign secretary
- chew over — If you chew something over, you keep thinking about it.
- civet cat — any of several nocturnal, catlike carnivores (family Viverridae) of Africa, India, Malaysia, and S China, with spotted, yellowish fur: valued for its civet (sense 1)