12-letter words containing ave
- agave family — the plant family Agavaceae, characterized by herbaceous or woody plants having rhizomes, a basal cluster of toothed, sword-shaped leaves, and a tall, dense spike of flowers, including the agave, century plant, dracaena, sansevieria, sisal, and yucca.
- annual leave — the time a person is allowed to take off work as holiday in any one-year period
- average life — the average time that an unstable particle or nucleus survives before it decays.
- averruncator — a long pair of shears used for pruning the higher branches of trees
- aversiveness — the condition of being characterized by aversion
- basket weave — a weave of fabrics resembling the weave used in basket making
- basketweaver — a person who advocates simple, natural, and unsophisticated living
- beaver cloth — beaver1 (def 8).
- beaver falls — a city in W Pennsylvania.
- beaver fever — an infectious disease caused by drinking water that has been contaminated by wildlife
- beaver state — Oregon (used as a nickname).
- broad-leaved — denoting trees other than conifers, most of which have broad rather than needle-shaped leaves
- buenaventura — a major port in W Colombia, on the Pacific coast. Pop: 250 000 (2005 est)
- cadaverously — In a cadaverous manner.
- carrier wave — a wave of fixed amplitude and frequency that is modulated in amplitude, frequency, or phase in order to carry a signal in radio transmission, etc
- cave cricket — any of several nocturnal, wingless, cricketlike long-horned grasshoppers of the family Gryllacrididae, characterized by a humpbacked appearance and inhabiting dark moist habitats, as caves, cellars, hollow trees, and the ground under logs and stones.
- cave dweller — a prehistoric person; person who lives in a cave
- cesar chavez — Carlos [kahr-lohs;; Spanish kahr-laws] /ˈkɑr loʊs;; Spanish ˈkɑr lɔs/ (Show IPA), 1899–1978, Mexican composer and conductor.
- clean-shaven — If a man is clean-shaven, he does not have a beard or a moustache.
- close-shaven — (of hair) cut very short
- cloverleaves — Plural form of cloverleaf.
- complex wave — a waveform consisting of a fundamental frequency with superimposed harmonics
- contraoctave — the octave that begins on the third C below middle C and ends on the second C below middle C
- contravening — to come or be in conflict with; go or act against; deny or oppose: to contravene a statement.
- craveability — (especially of a food) having qualities that engender an intense desire for more: All too often, salt, sugar, fat, and “crunch” make a food craveable.
- cross-staves — an instrument for measuring the angle of elevation of heavenly bodies, consisting of a calibrated staff with another shorter staff perpendicular to and sliding on it.
- dad and dave — stereotypes of the unsophisticated rural dweller before World War II
- depravedness — The state of being depraved; depravity.
- disgavelling — the act or quality of being without gavelkind
- eager beaver — a person who is excessively diligent or overly zealous.
- early leaver — a person who leaves something early, esp someone who opts out of a pension scheme before completing all his or her contributions
- eavesdropped — Simple past tense and past participle of eavesdrop.
- eavesdropper — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
- edith cavell — Edith Louisa, 1865–1915, English nurse: executed by the Germans in World War I.
- extraversion — Alternative spelling of extroversion.
- family leave — a leave of absence from work in order to have or take care of a baby or to care for an ailing family member.
- french leave — Sometimes Offensive. a departure without ceremony, permission, or notice: Taking French leave, he evaded his creditors.
- galley slave — a person condemned to work at an oar on a galley.
- goal average — the number of goals scored by a team divided by the number of goals it has conceded
- good heavens — You say 'Good heavens!' or 'Heavens!' to express surprise or to emphasize that you agree or disagree with someone.
- grave accent — a mark ( ˋ ) used to indicate:
- gravediggers — Plural form of gravedigger.
- gravel-blind — more blind or dim-sighted than sand-blind and less than stone-blind.
- graven image — an idol.
- gravenhages' — a Dutch name of The Hague.
- gravity wave — Astronomy, Physics. gravitational wave.
- gustave dore — (Paul) Gustave [pawl gy-stav] /pɔl güˈstav/ (Show IPA), 1832?–83, French painter, illustrator, and sculptor.
- have a (good — to feel (strongly) inclined to
- have a go at — attack verbally
- have a heart — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
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