12-letter words containing ve
- drive sb mad — If you say that someone or something drives you mad, you mean that you find them extremely annoying.
- driveability — the degree of smoothness and steadiness of acceleration of an automotive vehicle: The automatic transmission has been improved to give the new model better drivability.
- drove chisel — a chisel with a broad edge used for dressing stone
- drunk driver — A drunk driver is someone who drives after drinking more than the amount of alcohol that is legally allowed.
- dubitatively — in a dubitative manner
- dumdum fever — a chronic, usually fatal disease occurring in tropical areas of Asia and the Western Hemisphere, characterized by irregular fever, enlargement of the spleen, anemia, and emaciation, caused by the protozoan Leishmania donovani.
- dusty clover — a bush clover, Lespedeza capitata.
- dutch clover — white clover.
- duvet jacket — a down-filled jacket used esp by mountaineers
- e-government — the provision of government information and services by means of the internet and other computer resources
- 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.
- edulcorative — edulcorant
- effectiveley — Misspelling of effectively.
- effervescent — effervescing; bubbling.
- effervescing — Present participle of effervesce.
- effervescive — Tending to produce effervescence.
- effusiveness — unduly demonstrative; lacking reserve: effusive greetings; an effusive person.
- eigenvectors — Plural form of eigenvector.
- eighty-seven — a score traditionally regarded as being unlucky
- electiveness — Quality of being elective.
- energy level — energy of physical system when stationary
- envenomation — The injection of a venom etc by means of a sting, etc.
- escape valve — a valve that releases air, steam, etc, above a certain pressure; relief valve or safety valve
- even-pinnate — with pinnate leaflets that are symmetrically paired
- evenhandedly — In an evenhanded manner.
- evening gown — a special dress, usually a long one, that a woman wears to a formal occasion in the evening
- evening meal — dinner or supper
- evening star — Venus as seen after sunset
- evening wear — smart clothing designed for wearing at formal occasions during the evening
- event-driven — (programming) A kind of program, such as a graphical user interface, with a main loop which just waits for events to occur. Each event has an associated handler which is passed the details of the event, e.g. mouse button 3 pressed at position (355, 990). For example, X window system and most Visual Basic application programs are event-driven. See also callback.
- eventfulness — The property of being eventful.
- everblooming — (of a plant) blooming repeatedly during the growing season
- everchanging — Which changes frequently and, presumably, will continue to do so forever.
- everlastings — Plural form of everlasting.
- every bit as — equally, just as
- everydayness — (uncountable) The quality or state of happening every day, or frequently.
- everywhither — (archaic,or,poetic) to everywhere.
- exaggerative — Marked by exaggeration.
- exasperative — having an exasperating or irritating nature
- exclusive of — not including or allowing for; ignoring
- exclusive or — (logic) (XOR, EOR) /X or, E or/ A two-input function whose result is true if one input is true and the other is false. The truth table is A | B | A xor B --+---+-------- F | F | F F | T | T T | F | T T | T | F The output is thus true if the inputs are not equal. If one input is false, the other is passed unchanged whereas if one input is true, the other is inverted. In Boolean algebra, exclusive or is often written as a plus in a circle: "⊕". The circle may be omitted suggesting addition modulo two. In digital logic, an exclusive or logic gate is drawn like a normal inclusive or gate but with a curved line across both inputs: {exclusive or gate " />.
- exhaustively — In an exhaustive manner.
- exploitative — In the nature of exploitation; acting to exploit someone or something.
- export drive — a united effort to increase a country's exports
- expressively — In an expressive manner.
- exprobrative — signifying reproach, reproachful