9-letter words containing ve
- vesicular — of or relating to a vesicle or vesicles.
- vespasian — (Titus Flavius Sabinus Vespasianus) a.d. 9–79, Roman emperor 70–79.
- vestibule — a passage, hall, or antechamber between the outer door and the interior parts of a house or building.
- vestigial — of, relating to, or of the nature of a vestige: a vestigial tail.
- vestigium — a vestigial structure of any kind; vestige.
- vestments — Vestments are the special clothes worn by priests during church ceremonies.
- vestryman — a member of a church vestry.
- vetchling — any of several slender, climbing plants belonging to the genus Lathyrus, of the legume family, similar to the vetch but having a winged or angular stem, as L. palustris, of North America.
- vetturino — a person who drives a vettura
- vexatious — causing vexation; troublesome; annoying: a vexatious situation.
- vexillary — (in ancient Rome) one of a class of veteran soldiers who served under a special banner.
- vexillate — having a vexillum or vexilla.
- vibrative — vibrating
- violative — involving violation.
- viverrine — of or relating to the Viverridae, a family of small carnivorous mammals including the civets, genets, palm cats, etc.
- waivering — Misspelling of wavering.
- wakeovers — Plural form of wakeover.
- waldgrave — (in the Holy Roman Empire) an officer having jurisdiction over a royal forest.
- walk over — If someone walks over you, they treat you very badly.
- walkovers — Plural form of walkover.
- war fever — widespread enthusiasm for going to war
- war grave — a grave of a person killed in battle; a ship that was sunk in battle with troops aboard
- warm over — having or giving out a moderate degree of heat, as perceived by the senses: a warm bath.
- wash over — water: cover
- wave band — band2 (def 9).
- wave base — the depth in a body of water at which the action of surface waves stops stirring the sediments
- wave down — If someone waves down a vehicle, they wave their hand as a signal to the driver to stop the vehicle.
- wave farm — facility that generates power from the tides
- wave moth — any of several small geometrid moths with wavy markings, such as the common wave (Deilinia exanthemata), with grey-marked wings, and the lighter common white wave (D. pusaria)
- wave tank — a shallow container of water in which waves are produced by vibrating an object in the water, used to observe or demonstrate wave phenomena.
- wave trap — a resonant-circuit filter between the antenna and the receiver for the suppression of unwanted frequencies. Compare resonance (def 5).
- wave-form — the shape of a wave, a graph obtained by plotting the instantaneous values of a periodic quantity against the time.
- wavebands — Plural form of waveband.
- waveforms — Plural form of waveform.
- wavefront — a surface, real or imaginary, that is the locus of all adjacent points at which the phase of oscillation is the same.
- waveguide — a conduit, as a metal tube, coaxial cable, or strand of glass fibers, used as a conductor or directional transmitter for various kinds of electromagnetic waves.
- wavellite — a hydrous aluminum fluorophosphate occurring as white to yellowish-green or brown aggregates of radiating fibers.
- wavemeter — a device for measuring the wavelength or frequency of a radio wave.
- wayleaves — Plural form of wayleave.
- weak verb — a regular verb
- wet shave — a shave in which lather and a razor are used, as opposed to an electric shaver
- whereover — (archaic) Over what.
- whichever — no matter which: whichever day; whichever ones you choose.
- whosoever — Whichever person; whoever.
- whysoever — Form of whyever.
- windhover — the kestrel, Falco tinnunculus.
- wingovers — Plural form of wingover.
- wire-wove — made of woven wire.
- wolverene — Alternative spelling of wolverine.
- wolverine — Also called carcajou. a stocky, carnivorous North American mammal, Gulo luscus, of the weasel family, having blackish, shaggy hair with white markings.