11-letter words that end in ve
- river grove — a town in NE Illinois.
- sales drive — a period of events or activities aimed to promote sales of a particular product or services
- satin weave — one of the basic weave structures in which the filling threads are interlaced with the warp at widely separated intervals, producing the effect of an unbroken surface.
- sealed move — the last move before an adjournment, which is written down by the player making it, sealed in an envelope, and kept secret from his opponent until play is resumed
- segregative — to separate or set apart from others or from the main body or group; isolate: to segregate exceptional children; to segregate hardened criminals.
- semi-active — engaged in action; characterized by energetic work, participation, etc.; busy: an active life.
- shaft grave — a grave consisting of a deep, rectangular pit with vertical sides, roofed over with a stone slab.
- shirtsleeve — not wearing a jacket; informally dressed: a shirt-sleeve mob.
- shore leave — permission to spend time ashore, usually 48 hours or more, granted a member of a ship's company.
- singulative — a grammatical form or construction that expresses a singular entity or indicates that an individual is singled out from a group, especially as opposed to a collective noun, as snowflake as opposed to snow.
- slide valve — a valve that slides without lifting to open or close an aperture, as the valves of the ports in the cylinders of certain steam engines.
- speculative — pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by speculation, contemplation, conjecture, or abstract reasoning: a speculative approach.
- spirit cave — an archaeological site in Thailand that has produced evidence of very early plant domestication in Southeast Asia, dated c7000 b.c.
- sporulative — involving or relating to sporulation
- square wave — a graph, function, vibration, etc., that is periodic and equal to one constant on one half of the period and a different constant, which may be zero, on the other half.
- stern-drive — inboard-outboard (def 1).
- stimulative — serving to stimulate.
- study leave — sabbatical
- subadditive — something that is added, as one substance to another, to alter or improve the general quality or to counteract undesirable properties: an additive that thins paint.
- subcurative — of a dosage which is not strong enough to have a curing effect
- subdivisive — having a quality that subdivides
- subjunctive — (in English and certain other languages) noting or pertaining to a mood or mode of the verb that may be used for subjective, doubtful, hypothetical, or grammatically subordinate statements or questions, as the mood of be in if this be treason. Compare imperative (def 3), indicative (def 2).
- substantive — a noun.
- subtractive — tending to subtract; having power to subtract.
- sugar grove — sugarbush (def 2).
- superactive — engaged in action; characterized by energetic work, participation, etc.; busy: an active life.
- superlative — of the highest kind, quality, or order; surpassing all else or others; supreme; extreme: superlative wisdom.
- superoctave — an organ stop two octaves above the standard pitch
- suppositive — of the nature of or involving supposition; suppositional.
- suppressive — to put an end to the activities of (a person, body of persons, etc.): to suppress the Communist and certain left-leaning parties.
- suppurative — suppurating; characterized by suppuration.
- syncopative — relating to syncopation
- take a dive — to lose a prizefight purposely by pretending to get knocked out
- temperative — having a mitigating quality
- terremotive — related to an earthquake
- the algarve — an area in the south of Portugal, on the Atlantic; it approximately corresponds to the administrative district of Faro: fishing and tourism important
- thirty-five — a cardinal number, 30 plus 5.
- thumb drive — Also called flash memory drive, thumb drive, USB drive. a very small, portable, solid-state hard drive that can be inserted into a USB port for storage and retrieval of data.
- translative — of or relating to the transfer of something from one person, position, or place to another.
- trunksleeve — a sleeve that is puffed in shape or contains a large amount of fabric
- tug-of-love — Journalists sometimes use tug-of-love to refer to a situation in which the parents of a child are divorced and one of the parents tries to get the child from the other, for example by taking him or her illegally.
- turtle dove — A turtle dove is a type of light-brown dove which makes a soft pleasant sound and which is said to behave in a very affectionate way towards its sexual partner and its young.
- twenty-five — a cardinal number, 20 plus 5.
- twill weave — one of the basic weave structures in which the filling threads are woven over and under two or more warp yarns, producing a characteristic diagonal pattern.
- ulnar nerve — a nerve situated along the inner side of the arm and passing close to the surface of the skin near the elbow
- un-abrasive — any material or substance used for grinding, polishing, etc., as emery, pumice, or sandpaper.
- unassertive — confidently aggressive or self-assured; positive: aggressive; dogmatic: He is too assertive as a salesman.
- unattentive — characterized by or giving attention; observant: an attentive audience.
- uncombative — not combative or confrontational
- unconducive — tending to produce; contributive; helpful; favorable (usually followed by to): Good eating habits are conducive to good health.