11-letter words containing v, e, n
- art nouveau — Art Nouveau is a style of decoration and architecture that was common in the 1890s. It is characterized by flowing lines and patterns of flowers and leaves.
- at variance — If one thing is at variance with another, the two things seem to contradict each other.
- attentively — while giving attention; observantly: Please listen attentively.
- attentivity — The quality of being attentive; attentiveness.
- avant-garde — Avant-garde art, music, theatre, and literature is very modern and experimental.
- averageness — a quantity, rating, or the like that represents or approximates an arithmetic mean: Her golf average is in the 90s. My average in science has gone from B to C this semester.
- averruncate — to avert, to turn away
- aversion-to — a strong feeling of dislike, opposition, repugnance, or antipathy (usually followed by to): a strong aversion to snakes and spiders.
- bcg vaccine — a vaccine made from weakened strains of tubercle bacilli, used to produce immunity against tuberculosis.
- be revenged — to get revenge
- bean weevil — any of various beetles of the family Bruchidae (or Lariidae), the larvae of which live in the seeds of leguminous plants
- bedevilling — (British) present participle of bedevil.
- bedevilment — to torment or harass maliciously or diabolically, as with doubts, distractions, or worries.
- believingly — with belief; in a believing manner
- ben trovato — appropriate and characteristic even if untrue; happily invented or discovered.
- benedict iv — died a.d. 903, pope 900–03.
- benedict vi — died a.d. 974, pope 973–74.
- benedict xv — original name Giacomo della Chiesa. 1854–1922, pope (1914–22); noted for his repeated attempts to end World War I and for his organization of war relief
- benedictive — relating to a benediction or blessing
- benefactive — of or relating to a linguistic form, case, or semantic role that denotes the person or persons for whom an action is performed, as for his son in He opened the door for his son.
- benevolence — inclination or tendency to help or do good to others; charity
- bensenville — a town in NE Illinois.
- bereavement — Bereavement is the sorrow you feel or the state you are in when a relative or close friend dies.
- bevel joint — a miter joint, especially one in which two pieces meet at other than a right angle.
- bi-bivalent — separating into two bivalent ions
- biconvexity — the characteristic of having two convex surfaces
- blank verse — Blank verse is poetry that does not rhyme. In English literature it usually consists of lines with five stressed syllables.
- bonaventura — Saint, called the Seraphic Doctor. 1221–74, Italian Franciscan monk, mystic, theologian, and philosopher; author of a Life of St Francis and Journey of the Soul to God. Feast day: July 14
- bonaventure — Saint ("the Seraphic Doctor") 1221–74, Italian scholastic theologian.
- bondservant — a serf or slave
- bone spavin — a disease of the hock joint of horses in which enlargement occurs because of collected fluids (bog spavin) bony growth (bone spavin) or distention of the veins (blood spavin)
- boniface iv — Saint, pope a.d. 608–615.
- boniface vi — pope a.d. 896.
- brain fever — inflammation of the brain or its covering membranes
- bremerhaven — a port in NW Germany: an outport for Bremen. Pop: 118 276 (2003 est)
- broken vein — a ruptured blood vessel
- brownsville — city & port in S Tex., on the Rio Grande: pop. 140,000
- buena vista — a village in NE Mexico, near Saltillo: site of the defeat of the Mexicans by US forces (1847)
- bupivacaine — a local anaesthetic of long duration, used for nerve blocks
- cabin fever — If you describe someone as having cabin fever, you mean that they feel restless and irritable because they have been indoors in one place for too long.
- cablevision — cable television.
- cantilevers — Plural form of cantilever.
- caravanette — a motor vehicle with an area at the back that is equipped for living in
- carminative — able to relieve flatulence
- catonsville — a town in central Maryland, near Baltimore.
- cavaliering — a horseman, especially a mounted soldier; knight.
- cavernously — In a cavernous manner; like a cavern.
- cavernulous — possessing or being full of small cavities
- cavolo nero — an Italian variety of cabbage with dark green leaves
- celestine v — Saint (Pietro di Murrone or Morone) 1215–96, Italian ascetic: pope 1294.