9-letter words containing ave
- navelwort — a European plant, Umbilicus rupestris, of the stonecrop family, having fleshy, round leaves and yellowish-green flowers.
- new haven — a seaport in S Connecticut, on Long Island Sound.
- niah cave — a limestone cave in Sarawak, Borneo, the site of the discovery of one of the earliest anatomically modern Homo sapiens skulls, dated c38,000 b.c.
- outbraved — Simple past tense and past participle of outbrave.
- outtravel — (transitive) To exceed in speed or distance travelled.
- palaverer — a person who palavers
- palsgrave — a German count palatine.
- pit grave — a shallow grave hollowed out of a bed of rock or the floor of a tholos.
- pretravel — occurring prior to travel
- primavera — a central American tree, Cybistax donnell-smithii, of the bignonia family, having showy, tubular yellow flowers.
- quavering — to shake tremulously; quiver or tremble: He stood there quavering with fear.
- rave hook — a hooklike tool for reaming old oakum out of seams in planking.
- ravelling — to disentangle or unravel the threads or fibers of (a woven or knitted fabric, rope, etc.).
- ravelment — entanglement; confusion.
- ravenings — rapacious behaviour and activities
- ravenlike — resembling a raven
- save face — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
- saver sub — A saver sub is a short piece of connecting pipe with threads on both ends, which is part of a drill string.
- scavenger — an animal or other organism that feeds on dead organic matter.
- sea raven — a large marine fish of the genus Hemitripterus, as H. americanus, common on the northern Atlantic coast of America.
- sharesave — (in Britain) a system by which employees can invest, risk-free, in their company's shares
- shaveling — Older Use: Disparaging. a clergyman with a shaven or tonsured head.
- shavetail — U.S. Army. a second lieutenant.
- shockwave — (tool) A program from Macromedia for viewing files created with Macromedia Director. Shockwave is freely available as a plug-in for the Netscape Navigator web browser. "Shocked" pages that incorporate documents created in Director can usually only be enjoyed by users with an ISDN or faster connection.
- shortwave — Electricity. a radio wave, shorter than that used in AM broadcasting, corresponding to frequencies of over 1600 kilohertz: used for long-distance reception or transmission.
- sine wave — a periodic oscillation, as simple harmonic motion, having the same geometric representation as a sine function.
- slave ant — an ant taken as a larva or pupa by ants of another species and becoming a working member of the captor colony.
- slaveling — a person in a condition of servility or slavery.
- slavenska — Mia [mee-ah] /ˈmi ɑ/ (Show IPA), (Mia Corak) 1914?–2002, U.S. dancer and choreographer, born in Yugoslavia.
- slavering — to let saliva run from the mouth; slobber; drool.
- slow wave — delta wave.
- spin wave — a magnetic wave propagated through a crystal lattice by a collective excitation of the spin angular momentum of electrons.
- stave off — one of the thin, narrow, shaped pieces of wood that form the sides of a cask, tub, or similar vessel.
- suaveness — a suave or smoothly agreeable quality.
- suboctave — an octave below another octave
- superwave — an exceptionally large wave
- tax haven — a foreign country or corporation used to avoid or reduce income taxes, especially by investors from another country.
- the raven — a lyric poem (1845) by Edgar Allan Poe.
- the waves — the sea
- timesaver — (of methods, devices, etc.) reducing the time spent or required to do something.
- traveling — activity: journeying
- travelled — having traveled, especially to distant places; experienced in travel.
- traveller — a person or thing that travels.
- traversal — to pass or move over, along, or through.
- unavenged — to take vengeance or exact satisfaction for: to avenge a grave insult.
- unaverage — not average or ordinary
- unaverted — to turn away or aside: to avert one's eyes.
- ungravely — in a light-hearted manner
- unraveled — to separate or disentangle the threads of (a woven or knitted fabric, a rope, etc.).
- unwavered — to flicker or quiver, as light: A distant beam wavered and then disappeared.