12-letter words containing ve
- extractively — in an extractive manner
- extraversion — Alternative spelling of extroversion.
- extroversion — (psychology) Concern with or an orientation toward others or what is outside oneself; behavior expressing such an orientation; the definitive characteristic of an extrovert.
- extrovertish — Extroverted.
- facial nerve — either one of the seventh pair of cranial nerves composed of motor fibers that control muscles of the face except those used in chewing.
- facilitative — to make easier or less difficult; help forward (an action, a process, etc.): Careful planning facilitates any kind of work.
- faits divers — brief news stories, as those typically found in some French newspapers, that are sensational, lurid, etc.
- fall in love — become infatuated
- 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.
- federatively — from a federative point of view
- fermentative — tending to produce or undergo fermentation.
- feverishness — The quality of being feverish.
- figuratively — of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, especially a metaphor; metaphorical and not literal: The word “head” has several figurative senses, as in “She's the head of the company.”. Synonyms: metaphorical, not literal, symbolic.
- five by five — short and fat.
- five fingers — any of certain species of potentilla having leaves of five leaflets, as Potentilla canadensis.
- five hundred — a variety of euchre in which a joker and widow are included, the object being to score 500 points first.
- five nations — (formerly) a confederacy of North American Indian peoples living mainly in and around present-day New York state, consisting of the Cayugas, Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, and Senecas
- five-and-ten — Also called five-and-ten-cent store [fahyv-uh n-ten-sent] /ˈfaɪv ənˈtɛnˌsɛnt/ (Show IPA), five-and-dime [fahyv-uh n-dahym] /ˈfaɪv ənˈdaɪm/ (Show IPA), dime store, ten-cent store. a store offering a wide assortment of inexpensive items, formerly costing five or ten cents, for personal and household use.
- five-by-five — short and fat.
- flight level — a specified height at which an aircraft is allowed to fly
- floppy drive — disk drive
- for evermore — forever; always
- forest grove — a town in NW Oregon.
- forward dive — a dive from a position facing the water in which the diver jumps up from the springboard, rotating the body forward, and enters the water either headfirst or feetfirst.
- french curve — a flat drafting instrument, usually consisting of a sheet of clear plastic, the edges of which are cut into several scroll-like curves enabling a draftsperson to draw lines of varying curvature.
- french leave — Sometimes Offensive. a departure without ceremony, permission, or notice: Taking French leave, he evaded his creditors.
- fuel poverty — the state of being unable to afford to heat one's home adequately
- fugitiveness — The quality of being fugitive; evanescence; volatility.
- galley slave — a person condemned to work at an oar on a galley.
- game reserve — wildlife park, safari park
- ganges river — a river flowing SE from the Himalayas in N India into the Bay of Bengal: sacred to Hindus. 1550 miles (2495 km) long.
- garden grove — a city in SW California.
- generatively — capable of producing or creating.
- get involved — play a part
- gingivectomy — surgical removal of gum tissue.
- give offence — to cause annoyance or displeasure to someone
- give offense — to offend; anger, insult, etc.
- give or take — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
- give over to — If something is given over or given up to a particular use, it is used entirely for that purpose.
- give rein to — Often, reins. a leather strap, fastened to each end of the bit of a bridle, by which the rider or driver controls a horse or other animal by pulling so as to exert pressure on the bit.
- give rise to — to get up from a lying, sitting, or kneeling posture; assume an upright position: She rose and walked over to greet me. With great effort he rose to his knees.
- give sb hell — If you say that something is giving you hell, you are emphasizing that it is causing you a lot of trouble or pain.
- give suck to — to give (a baby or young animal) milk from the breast or udder
- give the eye — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
- give vent to — to release (an emotion, passion, idea, etc) in an utterance or outburst
- give wing to — to enable to fly or soar on or as if on wings
- glove puppet — a small figure of a person or animal that fits over and is manipulated by the hand
- gloversville — a city in E New York.
- go overboard — over the side of a ship or boat, especially into or in the water: to fall overboard.
- goal average — the number of goals scored by a team divided by the number of goals it has conceded