9-letter words containing v, e, n
- bevelment — the process of bevelling
- bevin boy — (in Britain during World War II) a young man selected by ballot to work in a coal mine instead of doing conventional military service
- biconcave — (of a lens) having concave faces on both sides; concavo-concave
- bienvenue — a welcome
- bienville — Sieur de(born Jean Baptiste Le Moyne) 1680-1768; Fr. colonizer & governor of Louisiana: founder of New Orleans
- 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.
- binervate — (of leaves) having two longitudinal ribs
- bivalence — the semantic principle that there are exactly two truth values, so that every meaningful statement is either true or false
- bivalency — Chemistry. having a valence of two. having two valences, as aluminum with valences of two and three.
- bivoltine — producing two broods in one year, as certain silkworm moths.
- bondslave — a person held in bondage.
- brainwave — If you have a brainwave, you suddenly have a clever idea.
- brake van — the coach or vehicle from which the guard applies the brakes; guard's van
- brake-van — the caboose of a railway train.
- 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
- calavance — any of several varieties of pulse yielded by plants of the genus Dolichos
- camp oven — a metal pot or box with a heavy lid, used for baking over an open fire
- campervan — (Australia, NZ, British) A vehicle that provides both transport and sleeping accommodation.
- canaveral — Capecape on the E coast of Fla.: U.S. proving ground for missiles and spacecraft
- canvassed — to solicit votes, subscriptions, opinions, or the like from.
- canvasser — to solicit votes, subscriptions, opinions, or the like from.
- canvasses — to solicit votes, subscriptions, opinions, or the like from.
- caravaner — One who travels in a caravan (convoy or procession).
- carnivore — A carnivore is an animal that eats meat.
- 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.
- centumvir — one of a body of judges responsible for presiding over civil court cases
- cervantes — Miguel de (miˈɣɛl ðe), full surname Cervantes Saavedra. 1547–1616, Spanish dramatist, poet, and prose writer, most famous for Don Quixote (1605), which satirizes the chivalric romances and greatly influenced the development of the novel
- chavannes — Puvis de [py-vee duh] /püˈvi də/ (Show IPA), Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre.
- cherenkov — Pavel Alekseyevich (ˈpavɪl alɪkˈsjejɪvitʃ). 1904–90, Soviet physicist: noted for work on the effects produced by high-energy particles: shared Nobel prize for physics 1958
- chernigov — a city in N central Ukraine, on the River Desna: tyres, pianos, consumer goods. Pop: 308 000 (2005 est)
- chevening — a mansion and estate in SE England, in western Kent: the official country residence of the British foreign secretary
- chevronel — a narrow chevron, one-half the usual breadth or less.
- ci-devant — (esp of an office-holder) former; recent
- civilness — of, relating to, or consisting of citizens: civil life; civil society.
- clavering — Present participle of claver.
- clement v — original name Bertrand de Got. ?1264–1314, pope (1305–14): removed the papal seat from Rome to Avignon in France (1309)
- cleveland — a former county of NE England formed in 1974 from parts of E Durham and N Yorkshire; replaced in 1996 by the unitary authorities of Hartlepool (Durham), Stockton-on-Tees (Durham), Middlesbrough (North Yorkshire) and Redcar and Cleveland (North Yorkshire)
- cognitive — Cognitive means relating to the mental process involved in knowing, learning, and understanding things.
- coke oven — an oven in which coal is converted into coke
- conceived — to form (a notion, opinion, purpose, etc.): He conceived the project while he was on vacation.
- conceiver — to form (a notion, opinion, purpose, etc.): He conceived the project while he was on vacation.
- conceives — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of conceive.
- conclaves — A private meeting.
- conducive — If one thing is conducive to another thing, it makes the other thing likely to happen.
- confervae — Plural form of conferva.