14 Letter 14 Letter 11 Letter Countdown Words Containing V

AVA (6) AVE (6) [noun] An Ave Maria. | [noun] A reverential salutation. | [noun] A broad street, especially one bordered by trees. AVO (6) [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Macanese pataca. | [noun] The large, usually yellowish-green or black, pulpy fruit of the avocado tree. | [noun] The avocado tree, Persea americana, of the laurel family. DEV (7) EVE (6) [noun] The day or night before, usually used for holidays, such as Christmas Eve. | [noun] Evening, night. | [noun] The period of time when something is just about to happen or to be introduced GUV (7) [noun] A form of address, usually to an unknown male or a superior. An informal form of sir. IVY (9) [noun] Any of several woody, climbing or trailing evergreen plants of the genus Hedera. | [noun] Any similar plant of any genus. LAV (6) [noun] An item of jewellery consisting of a pendant, sometimes with one stone, suspended from a necklace. | [noun] A kind of microphone intended to clip onto the lapel at about the level of the pendant on a lavalier. | [noun] A vessel or fixture for washing, particularly: LEV (6) [noun] The currency of Bulgaria, divided into 100 stotinki LUV (6) OVA (6) [noun] The female gamete in animals; the egg cell. REV (6) [verb] To increase the speed of a motor, or to operate at a higher speed. | [noun] Revolution | [noun] A member of the Christian clergy; a minister. TAV (6) VAC (8) [noun] A vacation. | [noun] A vacuum cleaner. | [verb] To vacuum; to clean with a vacuum cleaner. VAN (6) [noun] A covered vehicle used for carrying goods or people, usually roughly cuboid in shape, longer and higher than a car but smaller than a truck/lorry. | [noun] An enclosed railway vehicle for transport of goods. | [noun] A light wagon, either covered or open, used by tradesmen and others for the transportation of goods. | [noun] The leading units at the front of an army or fleet. | [noun] A shovel used in cleansing ore. | [noun] A fan or other contrivance, such as a sieve, for winnowing grain. VAR (6) [noun] A unit of electrical power, in an AC circuit, equal to the power dissipated when 1 volt produces a current of 1 ampere. | [noun] Something that is variable. | [noun] Something whose value may be dictated or discovered. VAS (6) [noun] A vessel or duct transporting any bodily fluid, such as blood, lymph, chyle, or semen. | [noun] (specifically) The vas deferens. VAT (6) [noun] A large tub, such as is used for making wine or for tanning. | [noun] A square, hollow place on the back of a calcining furnace, where tin ore is laid to dry. | [noun] A vessel for holding holy water. VAU (6) VAV (9) [noun] The sixth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, ו. VAW (9) VEE (6) [noun] The name of the Latin-script letter V. | [noun] Something with the shape of the letter V. | [noun] The arc of the field, forward of the batsman, from cover to midwicket, in which drives are played VEG (7) [noun] Vegetable. | [verb] To vegetate; to engage in complete inactivity; to rest | [adjective] Vegetarian | [noun] A unit of subjective weight, equivalent to the perceived weight of lifting 100 grams. VET (6) [noun] A veterinarian or veterinary surgeon. | [noun] A veteran (a former soldier or other member of an armed forces). | [verb] To thoroughly check or investigate particularly with regard to providing formal approval. VEX (13) [noun] A trouble. | [verb] To trouble aggressively, to harass. | [verb] To annoy, irritate. VIA (6) [noun] A main road or highway, especially in ancient Rome. (Mainly used in set phrases, below.) | [noun] A small hole in a printed circuit board filled with metal which connects two or more layers. | [preposition] By way of; passing through. VIE (6) [noun] A contest. | [verb] To fight for superiority; to contend; to compete eagerly so as to gain something. | [verb] To rival (something), etc. VIG (7) [noun] A charge taken on bets, as by a bookie or gambling establishment. | [noun] The interest on a loan of money, especially for loans made by a usurer or loan shark. | [noun] An amount owed on account of or payment of a bookie's charge or of interest. VIM (8) [noun] Ready vitality and vigour. VIS (6) [noun] Force; energy; might; power. | [noun] A member of the peerage, above a baron but below a count or earl. | [noun] Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Tanaecia. Other butterflies in this genus are called earls and counts. | [noun] A Burmese unit of measure for weight, approximately 1.63293 kilograms (3.6 pounds). VOE (6) [noun] A narrow sea inlet, particularly in the Shetland Islands, similar to a fjord. VOW (9) [noun] A solemn promise to perform some act, or behave in a specified manner, especially a promise to live and act in accordance with the rules of a religious order. | [noun] A declaration or assertion. | [noun] A votive offering. VOX (13) [noun] The voice, especially one's singing voice. | [noun] A vox pop. VUG (7) [noun] A small to medium-sized cavity inside rock that may be formed through a variety of processes.

ARVO (7) [noun] Afternoon. AVER (7) [verb] To assert the truth of, to affirm with confidence; to declare in a positive manner. | [verb] To prove or justify a plea. | [verb] To avouch, prove, or verify; to offer to verify. | [noun] Possessions, property, belongings, wealth. | [noun] A work-horse, working ox, or other beast of burden. AVES (7) [noun] An Ave Maria. | [noun] A reverential salutation. AVID (8) [adjective] Enthusiastic; keen; eager; showing great interest in something or desire to do something AVOS (7) [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Macanese pataca. | [noun] The large, usually yellowish-green or black, pulpy fruit of the avocado tree. | [noun] The avocado tree, Persea americana, of the laurel family. AVOW (10) [noun] Avowal | [verb] To declare openly and boldly, as something believed to be right; to own, acknowledge or confess frankly. | [verb] To bind or devote by a vow. BEVY (12) [noun] (collective) A group of animals, in particular quail. | [noun] (collective) A group of women. | [noun] (collective) A large group or collection. CAVE (9) [noun] A large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground or in the face of a cliff or a hillside. | [noun] A hole, depression, or gap in earth or rock, whether natural or man-made. | [noun] A storage cellar, especially for wine or cheese. | [interjection] (public school slang) look out!; beware! CAVY (12) [noun] A tailless rodent of the family Caviidae and the genus Cavia, with short ears and larger than a hamster; the species Cavia porcellus is often kept as a pet. | [noun] A rodent of any of several species within the family Caviidae. | [noun] A living experimental subject. COVE (9) [noun] A hollow in a rock; a cave or cavern. | [noun] A concave vault or archway, especially the arch of a ceiling. | [noun] A small coastal inlet, especially one having high cliffs protecting vessels from prevailing winds. | [noun] (thieves' cant) A fellow; a man. | [verb] To brood, cover, over, or sit over, as birds their eggs. DAVY (11) DEVA (8) [noun] A god in Vedic mythology, Hinduism and Buddhism. DEVS (8) DIVA (8) [noun] Any female celebrity, usually a well known singer or actress. | [noun] A person who may be considered or who considers herself (or by extension himself) much more important than others, has high expectations of others and who is extremely demanding and fussy when it comes to personal privileges. DIVE (8) [noun] A jump or plunge into water. | [noun] A headfirst jump toward the ground or into another substance. | [noun] A downward swooping motion. | [noun] Any female celebrity, usually a well known singer or actress. | [noun] A supernatural entity of disagreeable nature. DOVE (8) [noun] A pigeon, especially one smaller in size; a bird (often arbitrarily called either a pigeon or a dove or both) of more than 300 species of the family Columbidae. | [noun] A person favouring conciliation and negotiation rather than conflict. | [noun] Term of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle. | [verb] To swim under water. EAVE (7) [noun] Eaves: the underside of a roof that extends beyond the external walls of a building. ENVY (10) [noun] Resentful desire of something possessed by another or others (but not limited to material possessions). | [noun] An object of envious notice or feeling. | [noun] Hatred, enmity, ill-feeling. EVEN (7) [noun] (diminutive) An even number. | [verb] To make flat and level. | [verb] To equal. | [noun] Evening. EVER (7) [adjective] Occurring at any time, occurring even but once during a timespan. | [adverb] Always, frequently, forever. | [adverb] Continuously, constantly, all the time (for the complete duration). EVES (7) [noun] The day or night before, usually used for holidays, such as Christmas Eve. | [noun] Evening, night. | [noun] The period of time when something is just about to happen or to be introduced EVIL (7) [noun] Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good. | [noun] Something which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; something which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; harm; injury; mischief. | [noun] A malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil (scrofula). | [adverb] Wickedly, evilly, iniquitously FAVA (10) [noun] A fava bean; a bean (seed or seed pod) of the plant Vicia faba or the plant itself. FAVE (10) [noun] Favorite (US) or favourite (UK) | [verb] Favorite (US) or favourite (UK) | [adjective] Favorite (US) or favourite (UK). FIVE (10) [noun] The digit/figure 5. | [noun] A banknote with a denomination of five units of currency. See also fiver. | [noun] Anything measuring five units, as length. GAVE (8) [verb] (ditransitive) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere. | [verb] (ditransitive) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something). | [verb] To yield slightly when a force is applied. GIVE (8) [noun] The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it; a tendency to yield under pressure; resilence. | [verb] (ditransitive) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere. | [verb] (ditransitive) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something). | [noun] A shackle or fetter, especially for the leg. GUVS (8) GYVE (11) [noun] A shackle or fetter, especially for the leg. | [verb] To shackle, fetter, chain. HAVE (10) [noun] A wealthy or privileged person. | [noun] One who has some (contextually specified) thing. | [verb] To possess, own. | [noun] A fraud or deception; something misleading. HIVE (10) [noun] A structure, whether artificial or natural, for housing a swarm of honeybees. | [noun] The bees of one hive; a swarm of bees. | [noun] A place swarming with busy occupants; a crowd. HOVE (10) [verb] To remain suspended in air, water etc.; to float, to hover. | [verb] To wait, linger. | [verb] To move on or by. | [verb] To raise; lift; hold up. | [verb] To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing). JAVA (14) [noun] A blend of coffee imported from the island of Java. | [noun] Coffee in general. | [noun] A dance popular in France in the early 20th century. JIVE (14) [noun] A dance style popular in the 1940–50s. | [noun] Swing, a style of jazz music. | [noun] A slang associated with jazz musicians; hepcat patois or hipster jargon. | [verb] To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride, to mock, to taunt. KAVA (11) [noun] A plant from the South Pacific, Piper methysticum. | [noun] An intoxicating beverage made from the kava plant. KIVA (11) [noun] A ceremonial underground chamber in a Pueblo village. KVAS (11) LAVA (7) [noun] The molten rock ejected by a volcano from its crater or fissured sides. | [noun] Magma. | [noun] A shade of red, named after the volcanic lava. LAVE (7) [verb] To pour or throw out, as water; lade out; bail; bail out. | [verb] To draw, as water; drink in. | [verb] To give bountifully; lavish. | [noun] (archaic or dialectal) The remainder, rest; that which is left, remnant; others. LAVS (7) [noun] An item of jewellery consisting of a pendant, sometimes with one stone, suspended from a necklace. | [noun] A kind of microphone intended to clip onto the lapel at about the level of the pendant on a lavalier. | [noun] A vessel or fixture for washing, particularly: LEVA (7) [noun] The currency of Bulgaria, divided into 100 stotinki LEVO (7) [adjective] (of an optically active compound or crystal) That rotates the plane of polarized light to the left, or anticlockwise. LEVY (10) [noun] The act of levying. | [noun] The tax, property or people so levied. | [verb] To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property. | [noun] The Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar, valued at elevenpence when the dollar was rated at seven shillings and sixpence. LIVE (7) [verb] To be alive; to have life. | [verb] To have permanent residence somewhere, to inhabit, to reside. | [verb] To survive; to persevere; to continue. | [noun] Life LOVE (7) [noun] Strong affection. | [noun] A person who is the object of romantic feelings; a darling, a sweetheart, a beloved. | [noun] A term of friendly address, regardless of feelings. | [verb] To praise; commend. | [noun] (racquet sports) Zero, no score. LUVS (7) MOVE (9) [noun] The act of moving; a movement. | [noun] An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose. | [noun] A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand combat, etc. NAVE (7) [noun] The middle or body of a church, extending from the transepts to the principal entrances. | [noun] A hub of a wheel. | [noun] The navel. NAVY (10) [noun] A country's entire sea force, including ships and personnel. | [noun] A governmental department in charge of a country's sea force. | [noun] A dark blue colour, usually called navy blue. NEVE (7) [noun] Nephew. | [noun] A male cousin. | [noun] A grandson. NEVI (7) [noun] Any of a number of different, usually benign, pigmented, raised or otherwise abnormal lesions of the skin. NOVA (7) [noun] Any sudden brightening of a previously inconspicuous star. OVAL (7) [noun] An elongated round shape resembling an egg or ellipse. | [noun] A thing having such a shape, such as an arena. | [noun] In a projective plane, a set of points such that no three are collinear and there is a unique tangent line at each point. OVEN (7) [noun] A chamber used for baking or heating. OVER (7) [noun] A set of six legal balls bowled. | [noun] Any surplus amount of money, goods delivered, etc. | [verb] To go over, or jump over. | [noun] A shore, riverbank. OVUM (9) [noun] The female gamete in animals; the egg cell. PAVE (9) [verb] To cover something with paving slabs. | [verb] To cover with stone, concrete, blacktop or other solid covering, especially to aid travel. | [verb] To pave the way for; to make easy and smooth. RAVE (7) [noun] An enthusiastic review (such as of a play). | [noun] An all-night dance party with electronic dance music (techno, trance, drum and bass etc.) and possibly drug use. | [noun] The genres of electronic dance music usually associated with rave parties. | [noun] One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh. | [verb] To tear apart by force; to rend; to split; to cleave. REVS (7) [noun] Revolution | [noun] A member of the Christian clergy; a minister. RIVE (7) [noun] A place torn; a rent; a rift. | [verb] To tear apart by force; to rend; to split; to cleave. | [verb] To pierce or cleave with a weapon. | [noun] A bank or shore. ROVE (7) [noun] A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boatbuilding. | [noun] A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and lightly twisted, preparatory to further processing; a roving. | [noun] The act of wandering; a ramble. | [verb] To pass (a rope) through a hole or opening, especially so as to fasten it. SAVE (7) [noun] In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring. | [noun] When a relief pitcher comes into a game leading by 3 points (runs) or less, and his team wins while continually being ahead. | [noun] A point in a professional wrestling match when one or more wrestlers run to the ring to aid a fellow wrestler who is being beaten. SHIV (10) [noun] A knife, especially a makeshift one fashioned from something not normally used as a weapon (like a plastic spoon or a toothbrush). | [noun] A particular woody by-product of processing flax or hemp. | [verb] To stab someone with a shiv. SPIV (9) [noun] A smartly dressed person who trades in illicit, black-market or stolen goods. | [noun] A flashy con artist, often homeless, who lives by his wits. | [noun] In Scotland Yard usage, a low and common thief. TAVS (7) TIVY (10) ULVA (7) UVEA (7) [noun] The middle of the three concentric layers that make up the eye; it is pigmented and vascular, and comprises the choroid, the ciliary body, and the iris. VACS (9) [noun] A vacation. | [noun] A vacuum cleaner. VAGI (8) VAIL (7) [noun] Profit; return; proceeds. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) Money given to servants by visitors; a gratuity; also vale. | [noun] Submission. | [noun] Something hung up or spread out to hide or protect the face, or hide an object from view; usually of gauze, crepe, or similar diaphanous material. VAIN (7) [adjective] Overly proud of oneself, especially concerning appearance; having a high opinion of one's own accomplishments with slight reason. | [adjective] Having no real substance, value, or importance; empty; void; worthless; unsatisfying. | [adjective] Effecting no purpose; pointless, futile. VAIR (7) [noun] A type of fur from a squirrel with a black back and white belly, much used on garments in the Middle Ages. | [noun] An heraldic fur formed by a regular tessellation of bell shapes in two colours, (for example in the image, blue and white). VALE (7) [noun] A valley. | [interjection] (usually seen in obituaries) Farewell. VAMP (11) [noun] The top part of a boot or shoe, above the sole and welt and in front of the ankle seam, that covers the instep and toes; the front part of an upper; the analogous part of a stocking. | [noun] Something added to give an old thing a new appearance. | [noun] Something patched up, pieced together, improvised, or refurbished. | [noun] A flirtatious, seductive woman, especially one who exploits men by using their sexual desire for her. | [noun] A volunteer firefighter. VANE (7) [noun] A weather vane | [noun] Any of several usually relatively thin, rigid, flat, or sometimes curved surfaces radially mounted along an axis, as a blade in a turbine or a sail on a windmill, that is turned by or used to turn a fluid | [noun] The flattened, web-like part of a feather, consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft VANG (8) [verb] To take; undertake for. | [verb] (as a godparent) To undertake for at the baptismal font; be godfather or godmother to. | [noun] A line extended down from the end of a yard or a gaff, used to regulate its position VANS (7) [noun] A covered vehicle used for carrying goods or people, usually roughly cuboid in shape, longer and higher than a car but smaller than a truck/lorry. | [noun] An enclosed railway vehicle for transport of goods. | [noun] A light wagon, either covered or open, used by tradesmen and others for the transportation of goods. VARA (7) VARS (7) [noun] A unit of electrical power, in an AC circuit, equal to the power dissipated when 1 volt produces a current of 1 ampere. | [noun] Something that is variable. | [noun] Something whose value may be dictated or discovered. VARY (10) [noun] Alteration; change. | [verb] To change with time or a similar parameter. | [verb] To institute a change in, from a current state; to modify. VASA (7) [noun] A parrot of a variety that is native to Madagascar. VASE (7) [noun] An upright open container used mainly for displaying fresh, dried, or artificial flowers. | [noun] The body of the Corinthian capital. VAST (7) [noun] A vast space. | [adjective] Very large or wide (literally or figuratively). | [adjective] Very great in size, amount, degree, intensity, or especially extent. VATS (7) [noun] A large tub, such as is used for making wine or for tanning. | [noun] A square, hollow place on the back of a calcining furnace, where tin ore is laid to dry. | [noun] A vessel for holding holy water. VATU (7) [noun] The national currency of Vanuatu. VAUS (7) VAVS (10) [noun] The sixth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, ו. VAWS (10) VEAL (7) [noun] The flesh of a calf (i.e. a young bovine) used for food. VEEP (9) [noun] (US politics) The Vice President of the United States; the office of Vice President of the United States, especially during an election cycle where several are in the running for the nomination. | [noun] Any vice president (in a corporation, organization, etc.) VEER (7) [verb] To let out (a sail-line), to allow (a sheet) to run out. | [noun] A turn or swerve; an instance of veering. | [verb] To change direction or course suddenly; to swerve. VEES (7) [noun] The name of the Latin-script letter V. | [noun] Something with the shape of the letter V. | [noun] The arc of the field, forward of the batsman, from cover to midwicket, in which drives are played VEIL (7) [noun] Something hung up or spread out to hide or protect the face, or hide an object from view; usually of gauze, crepe, or similar diaphanous material. | [noun] A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense. | [noun] The calyptra of mosses. VEIN (7) [noun] A blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart. | [noun] (in plural) The entrails of a shrimp. | [noun] In leaves, a thickened portion of the leaf containing the vascular bundle. VELA (7) [noun] A thin membrane, resembling a veil, such as: | [noun] An accessory cloud resembling a veil extending over a large distance. Normally associated with cumulus and cumulonimbus. VELD (8) [noun] The open pasture land or grassland of South Africa and neighboring countries. VENA (7) VEND (8) [noun] The act of vending or selling; a sale. | [noun] The total sales of coal from a colliery. | [verb] To hawk or to peddle merchandise. | [noun] The letter Ꝩ/ꝩ, used in Old Norse, related to the rune wynn (ᚹ, whence also Latin-script Ƿ/ƿ) but with the bowl open at the top, like a y. VENT (7) [noun] An opening through which gases, especially air, can pass. | [noun] A small aperture. | [noun] The opening of a volcano from which lava flows. | [noun] Ventriloquism. | [noun] Sale; opportunity to sell; market | [noun] A baiting place; an inn. | [noun] Ventilation or ventilator. VERA (7) VERB (9) [noun] (grammar) A word that indicates an action, event, or state. | [noun] Any word; a vocable. | [noun] An action as opposed to a trait or thing. VERT (7) [noun] A green colour, now only in heraldry; represented in engraving by diagonal parallel lines 45 degrees counter-clockwise. | [noun] Green undergrowth or other vegetation growing in a forest, as a potential cover for deer. | [noun] The right to fell trees or cut shrubs in a forest. | [noun] In sport, a type of bicycle stunt competition. | [noun] Vertebrate VERY (10) [adjective] True, real, actual. | [adjective] The same; identical. | [adjective] With limiting effect: mere. VEST (7) [noun] A loose robe or outer garment worn historically by men in Arab or Middle Eastern countries. | [noun] A sleeveless garment that buttons down the front, worn over a shirt, and often as part of a suit; a waistcoat. | [noun] A sleeveless garment, often with a low-cut neck, usually worn under a shirt or blouse. VETO (7) [noun] A political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc. | [noun] An invocation of that right. | [noun] An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction. VETS (7) [noun] A veterinarian or veterinary surgeon. | [noun] A veteran (a former soldier or other member of an armed forces). | [verb] To thoroughly check or investigate particularly with regard to providing formal approval. VEXT (14) VIAL (7) [noun] A glass vessel or bottle, especially a small tube-shaped bottle used to store medicine, perfume or other chemical. | [verb] To put or keep in, or as in, a vial. VIBE (9) [noun] A vibraphone. | [noun] Vibration. | [noun] A vibrator (sex toy). VICE (9) [noun] A bad habit. | [noun] Any of various crimes related (depending on jurisdiction) to prostitution, pornography, gambling, alcohol, or drugs. | [noun] A defect in the temper or behaviour of a horse, such as to make the animal dangerous, to injure its health, or to diminish its usefulness. | [noun] A mechanical screw apparatus used for clamping or holding (also spelled vise). | [noun] One who acts in place of a superior. VIDE (8) [verb] Divide (separate into parts, cleave asunder) | [verb] (Parliamentary jargon) Divide (ordering the members of a legislative assembly to divide into two groups (the ayes and the nays) for the counting of the members’ votes) | [verb] See; consult; refer to. A remark directing the reader to look to the specified place for epexegesis. VIED (8) [verb] To fight for superiority; to contend; to compete eagerly so as to gain something. | [verb] To rival (something), etc. | [verb] To do or produce in emulation, competition, or rivalry; to put in competition; to bandy. VIER (7) VIES (7) [verb] To fight for superiority; to contend; to compete eagerly so as to gain something. | [verb] To rival (something), etc. | [verb] To do or produce in emulation, competition, or rivalry; to put in competition; to bandy. VIEW (10) [noun] (physical) Visual perception. | [noun] A picture, drawn or painted; a sketch. | [noun] (psychological) Opinion, judgement, imagination. VIGA (8) [noun] A roughly-made rafter or roof timber, especially in a Latin American village VIGS (8) VILE (7) [adjective] Morally low; base; despicable. | [adjective] Causing physical or mental repulsion; horrid. VILL (7) [noun] The smallest administrative unit of land in feudal England, corresponding to the Anglo-Saxon tithing and the modern parish. | [noun] A villa; a country residence. | [verb] (now uncommon or literary) To wish, desire (something). VIMS (9) VINA (7) [noun] A plucked stringed instrument with five or seven steel strings stretched on a long fretted finger-board over two gourds, used mostly in Carnatic Indian classical music. VINE (7) [noun] The climbing plant that produces grapes. | [noun] Any plant of the genus Vitis. | [noun] (by extension) Any similar climbing or trailing plant. VINO (7) [noun] Wine. VINY (10) VIOL (7) [noun] A stringed instrument related to the violin family, but held in the lap between the legs like a cello, usually with C-holes, a flat back, a fretted neck and six strings, played with an underhanded bow hold. | [verb] To play the viol. VIRL (7) VISA (7) [noun] A permit to enter and leave a country, normally issued by the authorities of the country to be visited. | [verb] To endorse (a passport, etc.). VISE (7) [noun] An instrument consisting of two jaws, closing by a screw, lever, cam, or the like, for holding work, as in filing. | [verb] To clamp with or as with a vise. | [verb] To examine and endorse (a passport, etc.); to visa. VITA (7) [noun] A curriculum vitae. VIVA (10) [noun] A shout of applause. | [verb] To cheer, applaud | [interjection] Long live ... ! (used to express acclaim or support). | [noun] An oral examination, typically for an academic qualification. VIVE (10) VOES (7) [noun] A narrow sea inlet, particularly in the Shetland Islands, similar to a fjord. VOID (8) [noun] An empty space; a vacuum. | [noun] An extended region of space containing no galaxies | [noun] A collection of adjacent vacancies inside a crystal lattice. | [noun] A voidee. VOLE (7) [noun] Any of a large number of species of small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae of the family Cricetidae which are not lemmings or muskrats. | [noun] A deal in a card game, écarté, that draws all the tricks. | [verb] To win all the tricks by a vole. VOLT (7) [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical potential and electromotive force (voltage); the potential difference across a conductor when a current of one ampere uses one watt of power. Symbol: V | [noun] A circular tread; a gait by which a horse going sideways round a centre makes two concentric tracks. | [noun] A sudden movement to avoid a thrust. VOTE (7) [noun] A formalized choice on matters of administration or other democratic activities | [noun] An act or instance of participating in such a choice, e.g., by submitting a ballot | [noun] An ardent wish or desire; a vow; a prayer VOWS (10) [noun] A solemn promise to perform some act, or behave in a specified manner, especially a promise to live and act in accordance with the rules of a religious order. | [noun] A declaration or assertion. | [noun] A votive offering. VROW (10) VUGG (9) VUGH (11) VUGS (8) [noun] A small to medium-sized cavity inside rock that may be formed through a variety of processes. WAVE (10) [verb] To move back and forth repeatedly and somewhat loosely. | [verb] To move one’s hand back and forth (generally above the shoulders) in greeting or departure. | [verb] (metonymic) To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion, as of the hand; to signify by waving; to beckon; to signal; to indicate. | [noun] A moving disturbance in the level of a body of liquid; an undulation. | [verb] To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forego. WAVY (13) [adjective] Rising or swelling in waves. | [adjective] Full of waves. | [adjective] Moving to and fro; undulating. | [noun] The snow goose (Chen caerulescens) WIVE (10) [verb] To marry (a woman). | [verb] To provide (someone) with a wife. WOVE (10) [verb] To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another. | [verb] To spin a cocoon or a web. | [verb] To unite by close connection or intermixture.

ABOVE (10) [noun] Heaven. | [noun] Something, especially a person's name in legal documents, that appears higher on the same page or on a preceding page. | [noun] Higher authority. AGAVE (9) [noun] A plant of the genus Agave, which includes the maguey or century plant (Agave americana), which produces a gigantic flower stem at maturity. AIVER (8) AJIVA (15) [noun] In Jainism, the term for non-living matter or substances that lack a soul, as opposed to jiva (living beings). ALIVE (8) [adjective] Having life; living; not dead | [adjective] In a state of action; in force or operation; existent | [adjective] Busy with activity of many living beings; swarming; thronged; busy. ANVIL (8) [noun] A heavy iron block used in the blacksmithing trade as a surface upon which metal can be struck and shaped. | [noun] An incus bone in the middle ear. | [noun] A stone or other hard surface used by a bird for breaking the shells of snails. ARVAL (8) [adjective] Relating to plowed land or fields; of or pertaining to arable land. ARVOS (8) [noun] Afternoon. AVAIL (8) [noun] Effect in achieving a goal or aim; purpose, use (now usually in negative constructions). | [noun] Proceeds; profits from business transactions. | [noun] An advertising slot or package. AVANT (8) [noun] The front of an army; the vanguard. AVAST (8) [interjection] Hold fast!; desist!; stay!. | [interjection] (in imitation of pirates) listen!; pay attention! AVENS (8) [noun] A plant of the genus Geum, especially Geum urbanum, or herb bennet. | [noun] A plant of the genus Dryas. AVERS (8) [verb] To assert the truth of, to affirm with confidence; to declare in a positive manner. | [verb] To prove or justify a plea. | [verb] To avouch, prove, or verify; to offer to verify. AVERT (8) [verb] To turn aside or away. | [verb] To ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of. | [verb] To turn away. AVGAS (9) [noun] Gasoline fuel for piston-engined aircraft. AVIAN (8) [noun] A bird. | [noun] A bird-like or flying creature. | [noun] (furry fandom) Someone who roleplays or describes themselves as being a bird or bird-like animal character with human characteristics. AVION (8) AVISO (8) [noun] A notice or warning, especially one issued by a government or authority. | [noun] In maritime contexts, a fast sailing ship used for carrying dispatches or messages. AVOID (9) [verb] To try not to meet or communicate with (a person); to shun | [verb] To keep away from; to keep clear of; to stay away from | [verb] To try not to do something or to have something happen AVOWS (11) [verb] To declare openly and boldly, as something believed to be right; to own, acknowledge or confess frankly. | [verb] To bind or devote by a vow. | [verb] To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See avowry. BEVEL (10) [noun] An edge that is canted, one that is not a 90-degree angle; a chamfer. | [noun] An instrument consisting of two rules or arms, jointed together at one end, and opening to any angle, for adjusting the surfaces of work to the same or a given inclination; a bevel square. | [verb] To give a canted edge to a surface; to chamfer. BEVOR (10) [noun] A piece of armor that protects the lower face and chin, often hinged to the visor of a helmet. BOVID (11) [noun] An animal of the family Bovidae (such as the antelope, gazelle, goat, and sheep). BRAVA (10) [interjection] An exclamation of approval or praise, typically used to express appreciation for a performance. | [noun] A shout of "brava" as an expression of acclaim. BRAVE (10) [noun] A Native American warrior. | [noun] A man daring beyond discretion; a bully. | [noun] A challenge; a defiance; bravado. BRAVI (10) BRAVO (10) [noun] A hired soldier; an assassin; a desperado. | [noun] A shout of "bravo!" | [noun] The letter B in the ICAO spelling alphabet. BREVE (10) [noun] A semicircular diacritical mark (˘) placed above a vowel, commonly used to mark its quantity as short. | [noun] A double whole note. | [noun] Any writ or precept under seal, issued out of any court. CALVE (10) [verb] To give birth to a calf | [verb] To assist in a cow's giving birth to a calf | [verb] To give birth to (a calf) CARVE (10) [noun] A carucate. | [noun] The act of carving | [verb] To cut. CAVED (11) [verb] To surrender. | [verb] To collapse. | [verb] To hollow out or undermine. CAVER (10) [noun] A person who explores caves. | [noun] A person who makes concessions or retreats from a position. CAVES (10) [noun] A large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground or in the face of a cliff or a hillside. | [noun] A hole, depression, or gap in earth or rock, whether natural or man-made. | [noun] A storage cellar, especially for wine or cheese. CAVIE (10) [noun] A guinea pig, especially as used in laboratory experiments. CAVIL (10) [noun] A petty or trivial objection or criticism. | [verb] To criticise for petty or frivolous reasons. CHEVY (16) [noun] A hunt or pursuit; a chase. | [noun] A cry used in hunting. | [noun] The game of prisoners' bars. CHIVE (13) [noun] A perennial plant, Allium schoenoprasum, related to the onion. | [noun] (in the plural) The leaves of this plant used as a herb. | [noun] The style and stigma of a flower, especially saffron. | [noun] (thieves' cant) A knife. CHIVY (16) [noun] A hunt or pursuit; a chase. | [noun] A cry used in hunting. | [noun] The game of prisoners' bars. CIVET (10) [noun] A carnivorous catlike animal, Civettictis civetta, that produces a musky secretion. It is two to three feet long, with black bands and spots on the body and tail. | [noun] The musky perfume produced by the animal. | [noun] Any animal in the family Viverridae or the similar family Nandiniidae CIVIC (12) [adjective] Of, relating to, or belonging to a city, a citizen, or citizenship; municipal or civil. | [adjective] Of or relating to the citizen, or of good citizenship and its rights and duties. CIVIE (10) [noun] A civilian, especially a person not in the military or armed forces. CIVIL (10) [adjective] Having to do with people and government office as opposed to the military or religion. | [adjective] Behaving in a reasonable or polite manner. | [adjective] Relating to private relations among citizens, as opposed to criminal matters. CIVVY (16) [noun] A civilian; someone who is not in the military. CLAVE (10) [verb] To split or sever something with, or as if with, a sharp instrument. | [verb] To break a single crystal (such as a gemstone or semiconductor wafer) along one of its more symmetrical crystallographic planes (often by impact), forming facets on the resulting pieces. | [verb] To make or accomplish by or as if by cutting. | [noun] A characteristic pattern of beats, especially the 3-2 son clave. CLAVI (10) [noun] Plural of clavis, a key or keylike structure, especially in anatomy or biology. CLOVE (10) [noun] A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree. | [noun] A clove tree, of the species Syzygium aromaticum (syn. Caryophyllus aromaticus), native to the Moluccas (Indonesian islands), which produces the spice. | [noun] An old English measure of weight, containing 7 pounds (3.2 kg), i.e. half a stone. | [noun] Any one of the separate bulbs that make up the larger bulb of garlic. | [verb] To split or sever something with, or as if with, a sharp instrument. | [noun] A narrow valley with steep sides, used in areas of North America first settled by the Dutch COVED (11) [verb] To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove. | [verb] To brood, cover, over, or sit over, as birds their eggs. COVEN (10) [noun] A formal group or assembly of witches. | [noun] A family, group or assembly of vampires. | [noun] A clique that shares common interests or activities. COVER (10) [noun] A lid. | [noun] Area or situation which screens a person or thing from view. | [noun] The front and back of a book, magazine, CD package, etc. COVES (10) [noun] A hollow in a rock; a cave or cavern. | [noun] A concave vault or archway, especially the arch of a ceiling. | [noun] A small coastal inlet, especially one having high cliffs protecting vessels from prevailing winds. COVET (10) [verb] To wish for with eagerness; to desire possession of, often enviously. | [verb] To long for inordinately or unlawfully; to hanker after (something forbidden). | [verb] To yearn; to have or indulge an inordinate desire, especially for another's possession. COVEY (13) [noun] A group of 8–12 (or more) quail. | [noun] A brood of partridges, grouse, etc. | [noun] A party or group (of persons or things). | [noun] A man. COVIN (10) [noun] Fraud, deception. CRAVE (10) [noun] A formal application to a court to make a particular order. | [verb] To desire strongly, so as to satisfy an appetite; to long or yearn for. | [verb] To ask for earnestly; to beg; to claim. CURVE (10) [noun] A gentle bend, such as in a road. | [noun] A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line. | [noun] A grading system based on the scale of performance of a group used to normalize a right-skewed grade distribution (with more lower scores) into a bell curve, so that more can receive higher grades, regardless of their actual knowledge of the subject. CURVY (13) [adjective] Having curves. | [adjective] Buxom or curvaceous. DAVEN (9) [verb] To recite the Jewish liturgy; to pray DAVIT (9) [noun] A spar formerly used on board of ships, as a crane to hoist the flukes of the anchor to the top of the bow, without injuring the sides of the ship. | [noun] A crane, often working in pairs and usually made of steel, used to lower things over an edge of a long drop off, such as lowering a maintenance trapeze down a building or launching a lifeboat over the side of a ship. DEAVE (9) DELVE (9) [verb] To dig the ground, especially with a shovel. | [verb] To search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate, fathom, trace out | [verb] To dig, to excavate. | [noun] A pit or den. DEVAS (9) [noun] A god in Vedic mythology, Hinduism and Buddhism. DEVEL (9) DEVIL (9) [noun] An evil creature. | [noun] (with article) The chief devil; Satan. | [noun] A fictional image of a man, usually red or orange in skin color; with a set of horns on his head, a pointed goatee and a long tail and carrying a pitchfork; that represents evil and portrayed to children in an effort to discourage bad behavior. DEVON (9) [noun] (Eastern Australia) A type of processed meat sausage. DIVAN (9) [noun] A Muslim council of state, specifically that of viziers of the Ottoman Empire that discussed and recommended new laws and law changes to a higher authority (the sultan). | [noun] The council chamber where this court is held; (by extension), any court of justice. | [noun] Any council or assembly. DIVAS (9) [noun] Any female celebrity, usually a well known singer or actress. | [noun] A person who may be considered or who considers herself (or by extension himself) much more important than others, has high expectations of others and who is extremely demanding and fussy when it comes to personal privileges. DIVED (10) [verb] To swim under water. | [verb] To jump into water head-first. | [verb] To jump headfirst toward the ground or into another substance. DIVER (9) [noun] Someone who dives, especially as a sport. | [noun] Someone who works underwater; a frogman. | [noun] The loon (bird). DIVES (9) [noun] A supernatural entity of disagreeable nature. | [noun] A jump or plunge into water. | [noun] A headfirst jump toward the ground or into another substance. DIVOT (9) [noun] A torn-up piece of turf, especially by a golf club in making a stroke or by a horse's hoof. | [noun] A disruption in an otherwise smooth contour. DIVVY (15) [noun] A dividend; a share or portion. | [verb] To divide into portions. | [noun] A foolish person. | [adjective] Divine; very pleasant, wonderful. DOVEN (9) DOVES (9) [noun] A pigeon, especially one smaller in size; a bird (often arbitrarily called either a pigeon or a dove or both) of more than 300 species of the family Columbidae. | [noun] A person favouring conciliation and negotiation rather than conflict. | [noun] Term of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle. DRAVE (9) DRIVE (9) [noun] Motivation to do or achieve something; ability coupled with ambition. | [noun] Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business. | [noun] An act of driving animals forward, as to be captured, hunted etc. DROVE (9) [noun] A number of cattle driven to market or new pastures. | [noun] (usually in the plural) A large number of people on the move (literally or figuratively). | [noun] (collective) A group of hares. | [verb] To provide an impetus for motion or other physical change, to move an object by means of the provision of force thereto. DUVET (9) [noun] A thick, padded quilt used instead of blankets. | [noun] A cover for a quilt or comforter. EAVED (9) EAVES (8) [noun] The underside of a roof that extends beyond the external walls of a building. ELVER (8) [noun] A young eel. ELVES (8) [noun] A luminous spirit presiding over nature and fertility and dwelling in the world of Álfheim (Elfland). Compare angel, nymph, fairy. | [noun] Any from a race of mythical, supernatural beings resembling but seen as distinct from human beings. They are usually delicate-featured and skilled in magic or spellcrafting; sometimes depicted as clashing with dwarves, especially in modern fantasy literature. | [noun] Any of the magical, typically forest-guarding races bearing some similarities to the Norse álfar (through Tolkien's Eldar). ENVOI (8) [noun] A short stanza at the end of a poem, used either to address a person or to comment on the preceding body of the poem. ENVOY (11) [noun] A short stanza at the end of a poem, used either to address a person or to comment on the preceding body of the poem. | [noun] A diplomatic agent of the second rank, next in status after an ambassador. | [noun] A representative. ERVIL (8) EVADE (9) [verb] To get away from by cunning; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to cleverly escape from | [verb] To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from. | [verb] To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding. EVENS (8) [noun] (diminutive) An even number. | [verb] To make flat and level. | [verb] To equal. EVENT (8) [noun] An occurrence; something that happens. | [noun] A prearranged social activity (function, etc.) | [noun] One of several contests that combine to make up a competition. | [verb] To be emitted or breathed out; to evaporate. EVERT (8) [verb] To turn inside out (like a pocket being emptied) or outwards. | [verb] To move (someone or something) out of the way. | [verb] To turn upside down; to overturn. EVERY (11) EVICT (10) [verb] To expel (one or more people) from their property; to force (one or more people) to move out. EVILS (8) [noun] Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good. | [noun] Something which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; something which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; harm; injury; mischief. | [noun] A malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil (scrofula). EVITE (8) [verb] To avoid. EVOKE (12) [verb] To call out; to draw out or bring forth. | [verb] To cause the manifestation of something (emotion, picture, etc.) in someone's mind or imagination. | [verb] To elicit a response. FAUVE (11) FAVAS (11) [noun] A fava bean; a bean (seed or seed pod) of the plant Vicia faba or the plant itself. FAVES (11) [noun] Favorite (US) or favourite (UK) | [verb] Favorite (US) or favourite (UK) FAVOR (11) [noun] A kind or helpful deed; an instance of voluntarily assisting (someone). | [noun] Goodwill; benevolent regard. | [noun] A small gift; a party favor. FAVUS (11) FEVER (11) [noun] A higher than normal body temperature of a person (or, generally, a mammal), usually caused by disease. | [noun] (usually in combination with one or more preceding words) Any of various diseases. | [noun] A state of excitement or anxiety. FIVER (11) [noun] A banknote with a value of five units of currency. | [noun] (by extension) The value in money that this represents. | [noun] A clenched fist. FIVES (11) [noun] The digit/figure 5. | [noun] A banknote with a denomination of five units of currency. See also fiver. | [noun] Anything measuring five units, as length. FOVEA (11) [noun] A slight depression or pit in a bone or organ. | [noun] The retinal fovea, or fovea centralis, responsible for sharp central vision. GANEV (9) GAVEL (9) [noun] Rent. | [noun] Usury; interest on money. | [noun] An old Saxon and Welsh form of tenure by which an estate passed, on the holder's death, to all the sons equally. | [noun] A wooden mallet, used by a courtroom judge, or by a committee chairman, struck against a sounding block to quieten those present, or by an auctioneer to accept the highest bid at auction. | [noun] A small heap of grain, not tied up into a bundle. | [noun] A gable. GAVOT (9) GIVEN (9) [verb] (ditransitive) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere. | [verb] (ditransitive) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something). | [verb] To yield slightly when a force is applied. GIVER (9) [noun] One who gives; a donor or contributor. GIVES (9) [verb] (ditransitive) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere. | [verb] (ditransitive) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something). | [verb] To yield slightly when a force is applied. | [noun] A shackle or fetter, especially for the leg. GLOVE (9) [noun] An item of clothing other than a mitten, covering all or part of the hand and fingers, but usually allowing independent movement of the fingers. | [noun] A baseball mitt. | [noun] The ability to catch a hit ball. GRAVE (9) [noun] An excavation in the earth as a place of burial | [noun] Any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. | [noun] (by extension) Death, destruction. | [verb] To dig. | [noun] A written accent used in French, Italian, and other languages. è is an e with a grave accent (`). | [noun] A count, prefect, or person holding office. | [verb] To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch — so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose. GRAVY (12) [noun] A thick sauce made from the fat or juices that come out from meat or vegetables as they are being cooked. | [noun] A type of gravy. | [noun] (Italian-American) Sauce used for pasta. GROVE (9) [noun] A small forest. | [noun] An orchard of fruit trees. | [noun] (Druidism) A place of worship. GUAVA (9) [noun] A tropical tree or shrub of the myrtle family, Psidium guajava. | [noun] Its yellowish tropical fruit, 1¼ to 2 inches, globular or pear-shaped with thin, yellow, green or brown skin, is often made into jams and jellies. The meat is yellowish or pale green to pink in color. | [noun] A medium reddish-pink colour, like that of guava flesh (also called guava pink). GYVED (13) GYVES (12) [noun] A shackle or fetter, especially for the leg. HALVA (11) [noun] A confection usually made from crushed sesame seeds and honey. It is a traditional dessert in South Asia, the Mediterranean and the Middle East. HALVE (11) [verb] To reduce to half the original amount. | [verb] To divide into two halves. | [verb] To make up half of. HAVEN (11) [noun] A harbour or anchorage protected from the sea. | [noun] (by extension) A place of safety; a refuge or sanctuary. | [noun] (by extension) A peaceful place. HAVER (11) [verb] To hem and haw | [verb] To talk foolishly; to chatter. | [noun] Oats (the cereal). | [noun] One who has something; a possessor. HAVES (11) [noun] The wealthy or privileged, contrasted to those who are poor or deprived: the have nots. HAVOC (13) [noun] Widespread devastation, destruction | [noun] Mayhem | [verb] To pillage. HEAVE (11) [noun] An effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy. | [noun] An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, etc. | [noun] A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode. HEAVY (14) [noun] A villain or bad guy; the one responsible for evil or aggressive acts. | [noun] A doorman, bouncer or bodyguard. | [noun] A large multi-engined aircraft. (The term heavy normally follows the call-sign when used by air traffic controllers.) | [adjective] Having the heaves. HELVE (11) [noun] The handle or haft of a tool or weapon. | [noun] A forge hammer lifted by a cam acting on the helve between the fulcrum and the head. | [verb] To furnish (an axe, etc.) with a helve. HIVED (12) [verb] To enter or possess a hive. | [verb] To form a hive-like entity. | [verb] To collect into a hive. HIVES (11) [noun] Itchy, swollen, red areas of the skin which can appear quickly in response to an allergen or due to other conditions. | [noun] A structure, whether artificial or natural, for housing a swarm of honeybees. | [noun] The bees of one hive; a swarm of bees. HOVEL (11) [noun] An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather. | [noun] A poor cottage; a small, mean house; a hut. | [noun] In the manufacture of porcelain, a large, conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped. HOVER (11) [noun] The act of hovering | [verb] To float in the air. | [verb] To linger or hang in one place, especially in an uncertain manner. | [noun] A cover; a shelter; a protection. INVAR (8) [noun] An alloy of iron containing 35.5% nickel, and having a very low coefficient of expansion. IVIED (9) [adjective] Overgrown with ivy or another climbing plant. IVIES (8) [noun] Any of several woody, climbing or trailing evergreen plants of the genus Hedera. | [noun] Any similar plant of any genus. IVORY (11) [noun] The hard white form of dentin which forms the tusks of elephants, walruses and other animals. | [noun] A creamy white color, the color of ivory. | [noun] Something made from or resembling ivory. JAVAS (15) JIVED (16) [verb] To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride, to mock, to taunt. | [verb] To say in a mocking or taunting manner. | [verb] To make a mocking remark or remarks; to jeer. JIVER (15) JIVES (15) [verb] To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride, to mock, to taunt. | [verb] To say in a mocking or taunting manner. | [verb] To make a mocking remark or remarks; to jeer. JIVEY (18) KAVAS (12) [noun] A plant from the South Pacific, Piper methysticum. | [noun] An intoxicating beverage made from the kava plant. KEEVE (12) [noun] A vat or tub in which the mash is made; a mash tub. | [noun] (bleaching) A bleaching vat; a kier. | [noun] A large vat used in dressing ores. KEVEL (12) [noun] A strong cleat to which large ropes are belayed. | [noun] A stonemason's hammer. | [noun] A gazelle. KEVIL (12) KIVAS (12) [noun] A ceremonial underground chamber in a Pueblo village. KNAVE (12) [noun] A boy; especially, a boy servant. | [noun] Any male servant; a menial. | [noun] A tricky, deceitful fellow; a dishonest person. KVASS (12) [noun] A type of traditional fermented Russian beverage with little or no alcohol, made from bread, often flavored with fruit. LAEVO (8) LARVA (8) [noun] An early stage of growth for some insects and amphibians, in which after hatching from their egg, insects are wingless and resemble a caterpillar or grub, and amphibians lack limbs and resemble fish. | [noun] An animal in the aforementioned stage. | [noun] A form of a recently born or hatched animal that is quite different from its adult stage. LAVAS (8) [noun] The molten rock ejected by a volcano from its crater or fissured sides. | [noun] Magma. | [noun] A shade of red, named after the volcanic lava. LAVED (9) [verb] To pour or throw out, as water; lade out; bail; bail out. | [verb] To draw, as water; drink in. | [verb] To give bountifully; lavish. LAVER (8) [noun] A red alga/seaweed, Porphyra umbilicalis (syn. Porphyra laciniata), eaten as a vegetable. | [noun] Other seaweeds similar in appearance or use, especially: | [noun] One who laves: a washer. LAVES (8) [verb] To pour or throw out, as water; lade out; bail; bail out. | [verb] To draw, as water; drink in. | [verb] To give bountifully; lavish. LEAVE (8) [verb] To have a consequence or remnant. | [verb] To depart; to separate from. | [verb] To transfer something. | [noun] The action of the batsman not attempting to play at the ball. | [noun] Permission to be absent; time away from one's work. | [verb] To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant. | [verb] To produce leaves or foliage. | [verb] To raise; to levy. LEAVY (11) LEVEE (8) [noun] An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi. | [noun] The steep bank of a river. | [noun] The border of an irrigated field. | [noun] The act of rising; getting up, especially in the morning after rest. LEVEL (8) [noun] A tool for finding whether a surface is level, or for creating a horizontal or vertical line of reference. | [noun] A distance relative to a given reference elevation. | [noun] Degree or amount. LEVER (8) [noun] (except in generalized senses below) A crowbar. | [noun] A rigid piece which is capable of turning about one point, or axis (the fulcrum), and in which are two or more other points where forces are applied; — used for transmitting and modifying force and motion. | [noun] A small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device (like a button). | [adverb] Rather. | [noun] A levee. LEVIN (8) [noun] Lightning; a bolt of lightning; also, a bright flame or light. LIEVE (8) LIVED (9) [verb] To be alive; to have life. | [verb] To have permanent residence somewhere, to inhabit, to reside. | [verb] To survive; to persevere; to continue. LIVEN (8) [verb] To cause to be more lively, or to become more lively. | [verb] To be alive; to have life. | [verb] To have permanent residence somewhere, to inhabit, to reside. LIVER (8) [noun] A large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients, destroys toxins and produces bile. It is responsible for thousands of biochemical reactions. | [noun] This organ, as taken from animals used as food. | [noun] A dark brown colour, tinted with red and gray, like the colour of liver. | [noun] Someone who lives (usually in a specified way). LIVES (8) LIVID (9) [adjective] Having a dark, bluish appearance. | [adjective] Pale, pallid. | [adjective] So angry that one turns pale; very angry; furious. LIVRE (8) LOVAT (8) [noun] A dusty blue-green colour. | [adjective] Of a dusty blue-green colour. LOVED (9) [verb] (usually transitive, sometimes intransitive, stative) To have a strong affection for (someone or something). | [verb] To need, thrive on. | [verb] To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like. LOVER (8) [noun] One who loves and cares for another person in a romantic way; a sweetheart, love, soulmate, boyfriend, girlfriend or spouse. | [noun] A sexual partner, especially one with whom someone is having an affair. | [noun] A person who loves something. | [noun] A type of turret on the roof of certain medieval buildings designed to allow ventilation or the admission of light. LOVES (8) [noun] Strong affection. | [noun] A person who is the object of romantic feelings; a darling, a sweetheart, a beloved. | [noun] A term of friendly address, regardless of feelings. MARVY (13) [adjective] Great, awesome, brilliant MAUVE (10) [noun] A bright purple synthetic dye. | [noun] The colour of this dye; a pale purple or violet colour. | [adjective] Having a pale purple colour. MAVEN (10) [noun] An expert in a given field. MAVIE (10) MAVIN (10) MAVIS (10) [noun] Song thrush. MOVED (11) [verb] To change place or posture; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another. | [verb] To act; to take action; to begin to act | [verb] To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and live at another place. See also move out and move in. MOVER (10) [noun] Someone who or something that moves. | [noun] A dancer. | [noun] A person employed to help people move their possessions from one residence to another. MOVES (10) [noun] The act of moving; a movement. | [noun] An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose. | [noun] A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand combat, etc. MOVIE (10) [noun] A recorded sequence of images displayed on a screen at a rate sufficiently fast to create the appearance of motion. | [noun] (usually plural) A cinema. NAEVI (8) [noun] A pigmented, raised or otherwise abnormal area on the skin. Naevi may be congenital or acquired, and are always benign. NAIVE (8) [noun] A naive person; a greenhorn. | [adjective] Lacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgement; unsophisticated. | [adjective] Not having been exposed to something. NAVAL (8) [adjective] Of or relating to a navy. | [adjective] Of or relating to ships in general. NAVAR (8) NAVEL (8) [noun] The indentation or bump remaining in the abdomen of mammals where the umbilical cord was attached before birth. | [noun] The central part or point of anything; the middle. | [noun] A navel orange. NAVES (8) [noun] The middle or body of a church, extending from the transepts to the principal entrances. | [noun] A hub of a wheel. | [noun] The navel. NAVVY (14) [noun] A laborer on a civil engineering project such as a canal or railroad. | [verb] To carry out physical labor on a civil engineering project. NERVE (8) [noun] A bundle of neurons with their connective tissue sheaths, blood vessels and lymphatics. | [noun] A neuron. | [noun] A vein in a leaf; a grain in wood NERVY (11) [adjective] Having nerve; bold; brazen. | [adjective] Feeling nervous, anxious or agitated. | [adjective] Strong; sinewy. NEVER (8) [adverb] At no time; on no occasion; in no circumstance. | [adverb] Not at any other time; not on any other occasion; not previously. | [adverb] Negative particle (used to negate verbs in the simple past tense; also used absolutely). NEVES (8) NEVUS (8) [noun] Any of a number of different, usually benign, pigmented, raised or otherwise abnormal lesions of the skin. NIEVE (8) NIVAL (8) [adjective] Abounding with snow; snowy; snow-covered (now especially in reference to plant habitats). | [adjective] Found or thriving in snowy conditions. NOVAE (8) [noun] Any sudden brightening of a previously inconspicuous star. NOVAS (8) [noun] Any sudden brightening of a previously inconspicuous star. NOVEL (8) [adjective] Newly made, formed or evolved; having no precedent; of recent origin; new. | [adjective] Original, especially in an interesting way; new and striking; not of the typical or ordinary type. | [noun] A work of prose fiction, longer than a novella. | [noun] A novelty; something new. | [noun] A new legal constitution in ancient Rome. OAVES (8) OGIVE (9) [noun] The curve of a cumulative distribution function. | [noun] A Gothic pointed arch, or a rib of a Gothic vault. | [noun] The pointed, curved nose of a bullet, missile, or rocket. OLIVE (8) [noun] A tree, Olea europaea, cultivated since ancient times in the Mediterranean for its fruit and the oil obtained from it. | [noun] The small oval fruit of this tree, eaten ripe (usually black) or unripe (usually green). | [noun] The wood of the olive tree. OVALS (8) [noun] An elongated round shape resembling an egg or ellipse. | [noun] A thing having such a shape, such as an arena. | [noun] In a projective plane, a set of points such that no three are collinear and there is a unique tangent line at each point. OVARY (11) [noun] A female reproductive organ, often paired, that produces ova and in mammals secretes the hormones estrogen and progesterone. | [noun] The lower part of a pistil or carpel that bears ovules and ripens into fruit. OVATE (8) [adjective] Shaped like an egg. | [adjective] (of leaves) With the broadest extremity near the base. | [noun] An Irish bard. OVENS (8) [noun] A chamber used for baking or heating. OVERS (8) [noun] A set of six legal balls bowled. | [noun] Any surplus amount of money, goods delivered, etc. | [noun] A shore, riverbank. OVERT (8) [adjective] Open and not concealed or secret. OVINE (8) [noun] A sheep. | [adjective] Of, pertaining to, resembling, or being a sheep | [adjective] (by extension) resembling a sheep in character; passive, of low intelligence and acquiescent OVOID (9) [noun] Something that is oval in shape. | [adjective] Shaped like an oval. | [adjective] Egg-shaped; shaped like an oval, but more tapered at one end; ovate. OVOLI (8) OVOLO (8) [noun] A classical convex moulding carved with an egg-and-dart ornament. OVULE (8) [noun] The structure in a plant that develops into a seed after fertilization; the megasporangium of a seed plant with its enclosing integuments. | [noun] An immature ovum in mammals. PARVE (10) [adjective] Of food: that has no meat or milk in any form as an ingredient. | [adjective] (by extension) Neutral, bland, inoffensive. PARVO (10) PAVAN (10) [noun] A native or inhabitant of Padua. | [noun] An imitation coin resembling old Roman bronze coins, made at Padua in the 16th century. | [noun] A stately Spanish dance. PAVED (11) [verb] To cover something with paving slabs. | [verb] To cover with stone, concrete, blacktop or other solid covering, especially to aid travel. | [verb] To pave the way for; to make easy and smooth. PAVER (10) [noun] A flat stone used to pave a pathway, such as a walkway to one's home. | [noun] One who paves; one who lays pavement. PAVES (10) [verb] To cover something with paving slabs. | [verb] To cover with stone, concrete, blacktop or other solid covering, especially to aid travel. | [verb] To pave the way for; to make easy and smooth. PAVID (11) PAVIN (10) PAVIS (10) PEAVY (13) [noun] A tool used to manipulate logs, having a thick wooden handle, a steel point, and a curved hooked arm. Similar to a cant-hook, but shorter and stouter, and with a pointed end. PEEVE (10) [noun] An annoyance or grievance. | [verb] To annoy; vex. PIVOT (10) [noun] A thing on which something turns; specifically a metal pointed pin or short shaft in machinery, such as the end of an axle or spindle. | [noun] (by extension) Something or someone having a paramount significance in a certain situation. | [noun] Act of turning on one foot. POOVE (10) [noun] Less common variant of poof (male homosexual). PRIVY (13) [noun] An outdoor facility for urination and defecation, whether open (latrine) or enclosed (outhouse). | [noun] A lavatory: a room with a toilet. | [noun] A toilet: a fixture used for urination and defecation. PROVE (10) [verb] To proofread. | [verb] To make resistant, especially to water. | [verb] To allow yeast-containing dough to rise. | [verb] To proofread. RAVED (9) [verb] To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging. | [verb] To speak or write wildly or incoherently. | [verb] To talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion or excitement; followed by about, of, or (formerly) on. RAVEL (8) [noun] A snarl; a complication. | [noun] A ravelled thread. | [verb] To tangle; entangle; entwine confusedly, become snarled; thus to involve; perplex; confuse. RAVEN (8) [noun] Any of several, generally large and lustrous black species of birds in the genus Corvus, especially the common raven, Corvus corax. | [noun] A jet-black colour. | [adjective] Of the color of the raven; jet-black | [noun] Rapine; rapacity. RAVER (8) [noun] A person who attends rave parties, or who belongs to that subculture. | [noun] A person who raves or rants. RAVES (8) [noun] An enthusiastic review (such as of a play). | [noun] An all-night dance party with electronic dance music (techno, trance, drum and bass etc.) and possibly drug use. | [noun] The genres of electronic dance music usually associated with rave parties. RAVIN (8) [noun] Food obtained by violence; plunder; prey; raven. | [verb] To dine or feast upon plunder or goods seized by violence. | [adjective] Ravenous. REAVE (8) [verb] To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove. | [verb] To deprive (a person) of something through theft or violence. | [verb] To split, tear, break apart. REEVE (8) [noun] Any of several local officials, with varying responsibilities. | [noun] The president of a township or municipal district council. | [noun] The holder of a proposed but unadopted commissioned rank of the Royal Air Force, equivalent to wing commander. | [verb] To pass (a rope) through a hole or opening, especially so as to fasten it. | [noun] A female of the species Philomachus pugnax, a highly gregarious, medium-sized wading bird of Eurasia; the male is a ruff. REIVE (8) [verb] To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove. | [verb] To deprive (a person) of something through theft or violence. | [verb] To split, tear, break apart. REVEL (8) [noun] An instance of merrymaking; a celebration. | [noun] A kind of dance. | [noun] A wake for the dead. | [noun] The outer side of a window or door frame; the jamb. REVET (8) [verb] To face (an embankment, etc.) with masonry, wood, or other material. REVUE (8) [noun] A form of theatrical entertainment in which recent events, popular fads, etc., are parodied. Any entertainment featuring skits, dances, and songs. RIVAL (8) [noun] A competitor (person, team, company, etc.) with the same goal as another, or striving to attain the same thing. Defeating a rival may be a primary or necessary goal of a competitor. | [noun] Someone or something with similar claims of quality or distinction as another. | [noun] One having a common right or privilege with another; a partner. RIVED (9) [verb] To tear apart by force; to rend; to split; to cleave. | [verb] To pierce or cleave with a weapon. RIVEN (8) [verb] To tear apart by force; to rend; to split; to cleave. | [verb] To pierce or cleave with a weapon. | [adjective] Torn apart. RIVER (8) [noun] A large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a lower point, oftentimes ending in another body of water, such as an ocean or in an inland sea. | [noun] Any large flow of a liquid in a single body. | [noun] The last card dealt in a hand. | [noun] One who rives or splits. RIVES (8) [noun] A place torn; a rent; a rift. | [verb] To tear apart by force; to rend; to split; to cleave. | [verb] To pierce or cleave with a weapon. RIVET (8) [noun] A cylindrical mechanical fastener that attaches multiple parts together by fitting through a hole and deforming the head(s) at either end. | [noun] Any fixed point or certain basis. | [noun] A light kind of footman's armour. ROVED (9) [verb] To shoot with arrows (at). | [verb] To roam, or wander about at random, especially over a wide area. | [verb] To roam or wander through. ROVEN (8) ROVER (8) [noun] (usually in the plural) A randomly selected target. | [noun] One who roves, a wanderer, a nomad. | [noun] A vagabond, a tramp, an unsteady, restless person, one who by habit doesn't settle down or marry. | [noun] A pirate. ROVES (8) [verb] To shoot with arrows (at). | [verb] To roam, or wander about at random, especially over a wide area. | [verb] To roam or wander through. SALVE (8) [noun] An ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects. | [noun] Any remedy or action that soothes or heals. | [verb] To calm or assuage. | [verb] To save (the appearances or the phenomena); to explain (a celestial phenomenon); to account for (the apparent motions of the celestial bodies). | [interjection] Hail; a greeting. | [verb] To say “salve” to; to greet; to salute. SALVO (8) [noun] An exception; a reservation; an excuse. | [noun] A concentrated fire from pieces of artillery, as in endeavoring to make a break in a fortification; a volley. | [noun] A salute paid by a simultaneous, or nearly simultaneous, firing of a number of cannon. SAVED (9) [verb] To prevent harm or difficulty. | [verb] To put aside, to avoid. | [adjective] Rescued from the consequences of sin. SAVER (8) [noun] One who saves. | [noun] One who keeps savings more than usual. SAVES (8) [noun] In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring. | [noun] When a relief pitcher comes into a game leading by 3 points (runs) or less, and his team wins while continually being ahead. | [noun] A point in a professional wrestling match when one or more wrestlers run to the ring to aid a fellow wrestler who is being beaten. SAVIN (8) [noun] The evergreen shrub Juniperus sabina, endemic to Europe, which yields a medicinal oil. | [noun] The poisonous dried tips of this plant, with anthelmintic properties, used as a drug. | [noun] The eastern red cedar, Juniperus virginiana, of eastern North America. SAVOR (8) [noun] The specific taste or smell of something. | [noun] A distinctive sensation. | [noun] Sense of smell; power to scent, or trace by scent. | [verb] To possess a particular taste or smell, or a distinctive quality. SAVOY (11) [noun] Savoy cabbage | [noun] An Italian noble family, which became the ruling (hereditary) dynasty of Sardinia and later of Italy | [noun] A member of the Savoy noble family SAVVY (14) [noun] Shrewdness. | [verb] To understand. | [adjective] Shrewd, well-informed and perceptive. SCHAV (13) SELVA (8) [noun] Heavily forested ground in the Amazon basin. SERVE (8) [noun] An act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play in various games. | [noun] A portion of food or drink, a serving. | [verb] (personal) To provide a service (or, by extension, a product, especially food or drink). SERVO (8) [noun] A servomechanism or servomotor. | [verb] To control by means of a servocontrol | [noun] A service station, being a place to buy petrol for cars etc., as well as various convenience items, with or without actual car service facilities. SEVEN (8) [noun] The digit/figure 7 or an occurrence thereof. | [noun] A card bearing seven pips. | [numeral] A numerical value equal to 7; the number following six and preceding eight. This many dots: (•••••••). SEVER (8) [verb] To cut free. | [verb] To suffer disjunction; to be parted or separated. | [verb] To make a separation or distinction; to distinguish. SHAVE (11) [verb] To make bald or shorter by using a tool such as a razor or pair of electric clippers to cut the hair close to the skin. | [verb] To cut anything in this fashion. | [verb] To remove hair from one's face by this means. | [noun] An instance of shaving. SHIVA (11) [noun] A weeklong period of formal mourning for a close relative. SHIVE (11) [noun] A slice, especially of bread. | [noun] A sheave. | [noun] A beam or plank of split wood. | [noun] A splinter or fragment of the woody core of flax or hemp broken off in braking or scutching | [noun] A knife, especially a makeshift one fashioned from something not normally used as a weapon (like a plastic spoon or a toothbrush). | [noun] A weeklong period of formal mourning for a close relative. SHIVS (11) [noun] A knife, especially a makeshift one fashioned from something not normally used as a weapon (like a plastic spoon or a toothbrush). | [noun] A particular woody by-product of processing flax or hemp. | [verb] To stab someone with a shiv. SHOVE (11) [noun] A rough push. | [noun] An all-in bet. | [noun] A forward movement of packed river-ice. SIEVE (8) [noun] A device with a mesh bottom to separate, in a granular material, larger particles from smaller ones, or to separate solid objects from a liquid. | [noun] A process, physical or abstract, that arrives at a final result by filtering out unwanted pieces of input from a larger starting set of input. | [noun] A kind of coarse basket. SILVA (8) SIVER (8) SKIVE (12) [noun] Something very easy, where one can slack off without penalty. | [noun] An act of avoiding lessons or work. | [verb] To avoid one's lessons or work (chiefly at school or university); shirk. | [noun] A rotating iron disk coated with oil and diamond dust used to polish the facets of a diamond. SLAVE (8) [noun] A person who is held in servitude as the property of another person, and whose labor (and often also whose body and life) is subject to the owner's volition and control. | [noun] A drudge; one who labors or is obliged (e.g. by prior contract) to labor like a slave with limited rights, e.g. an indentured servant. | [noun] An abject person. SOAVE (8) SOLVE (8) [noun] (chiefly law enforcement) A solution; an explanation. | [verb] To find an answer or solution to a problem or question; to work out. | [verb] To find the values of variables that satisfy a system of equations and/or inequalities. SPIVS (10) [noun] A smartly dressed person who trades in illicit, black-market or stolen goods. | [noun] A flashy con artist, often homeless, who lives by his wits. | [noun] In Scotland Yard usage, a low and common thief. STAVE (8) [noun] One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; especially, one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, a pail, etc. | [noun] One of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel | [noun] A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff. STOVE (8) [noun] A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room. | [noun] A device for heating food, (UK) a cooker. | [noun] A hothouse (heated greenhouse). | [verb] To fit or furnish with staves or rundles. SUAVE (8) [noun] Sweet talk. | [adjective] Charming, confident and elegant. SWIVE (11) [verb] To copulate with (a woman). | [verb] To cut a crop in a sweeping or rambling manner, hence to reap; cut for harvest. SYLVA (11) TRAVE (8) TROVE (8) [noun] A treasure trove; a collection of treasure. | [noun] A collection of things. ULVAS (8) UVEAL (8) UVEAS (8) [noun] The middle of the three concentric layers that make up the eye; it is pigmented and vascular, and comprises the choroid, the ciliary body, and the iris. UVULA (8) [noun] The fleshy appendage that hangs from the back of the palate, that closes the nasopharynx during swallowing. | [noun] The slight elevation in the mucous membrane immediately behind the internal urethral orifice of the urinary bladder, caused by the middle lobe of the prostate. | [noun] An object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring; a clapper. VACUA (10) [noun] A region of space that contains no matter. | [noun] (plural only "vacuums") A vacuum cleaner. | [noun] The condition of rarefaction, or reduction of pressure below that of the atmosphere, in a vessel, such as the condenser of a steam engine, which is nearly exhausted of air or steam, etc. VAGAL (9) [adjective] Of or relating to the vagus nerve. VAGUE (9) [noun] A wandering; a vagary. | [noun] An indefinite expanse. | [verb] To wander; to roam; to stray. VAGUS (9) VAILS (8) [noun] Profit; return; proceeds. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) Money given to servants by visitors; a gratuity; also vale. | [noun] Submission. VAIRS (8) VAKIL (12) [noun] A lawyer or advocate mainly a representative in the court of law and a vakil can be a representative, especially of a political figure; an official or ambassador. VALES (8) [noun] A valley. VALET (8) [noun] A man's personal male attendant, responsible for his clothes and appearance. | [noun] A hotel employee performing such duties for guests. | [noun] (professional wrestling) A female performer in professional wrestling, acting as either a manager or personal chaperone; often used to attract and titillate male members of the audience. VALID (9) [adjective] Well grounded or justifiable, pertinent. | [adjective] Acceptable, proper or correct; in accordance with the rules. | [adjective] Related to the current topic, or presented within context, relevant. VALOR (8) [noun] Value; worth. | [noun] Strength of mind in regard to danger; that quality which enables a person to encounter danger with firmness VALSE (8) [noun] A waltz. VALUE (8) [noun] The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable. | [noun] The degree of importance given to something. | [noun] That which is valued or highly esteemed, such as one's morals, morality, or belief system. VALVE (11) [noun] A device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid through a pipe. | [noun] A device that admits fuel and air into the cylinder of an internal combustion engine, or one that allows combustion gases to exit. | [noun] One or more membranous partitions, flaps, or folds, which permit the passage of the contents of a vessel or cavity in one direction, but stop or control the flow in the opposite direction VAMPS (12) [noun] The top part of a boot or shoe, above the sole and welt and in front of the ankle seam, that covers the instep and toes; the front part of an upper; the analogous part of a stocking. | [noun] Something added to give an old thing a new appearance. | [noun] Something patched up, pieced together, improvised, or refurbished. VANDA (9) VANED (9) VANES (8) [noun] A weather vane | [noun] Any of several usually relatively thin, rigid, flat, or sometimes curved surfaces radially mounted along an axis, as a blade in a turbine or a sail on a windmill, that is turned by or used to turn a fluid | [noun] The flattened, web-like part of a feather, consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft VANGS (9) [noun] A line extended down from the end of a yard or a gaff, used to regulate its position VAPID (11) [adjective] Offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging. | [adjective] Lifeless, dull, or banal. | [adjective] Tasteless, bland, or insipid. VAPOR (10) [noun] Cloudy diffused matter such as mist, steam or fumes suspended in the air. | [noun] The gaseous state of a substance that is normally a solid or liquid. | [noun] Something insubstantial, fleeting, or transitory; unreal fancy; vain imagination; idle talk; boasting. VARAS (8) VARIA (8) VARIX (15) [noun] A varicose, i.e. swollen and knotted, vein | [noun] In mollusks, a particular ridge on the shell, corresponding to a former position of the aperture. VARNA (8) [noun] Any of the four original castes in Hinduism, or the system of such castes VARUS (8) [noun] A deformity in which the foot is turned inward. | [noun] Acne. VARVE (11) [noun] An annual layer of sediment or sedimentary rock. VASAL (8) VASES (8) [noun] An upright open container used mainly for displaying fresh, dried, or artificial flowers. | [noun] The body of the Corinthian capital. VASTS (8) [noun] A vast space. VASTY (11) VATIC (10) [adjective] Pertaining to a prophet; prophetic, oracular. VATUS (8) VAULT (8) [noun] An arched masonry structure supporting and forming a ceiling, whether freestanding or forming part of a larger building. | [noun] Any arched ceiling or roof. | [noun] Anything resembling such a downward-facing concave structure, particularly the sky and caves. | [noun] An act of vaulting, formerly by deer; a leap or jump. VAUNT (8) [noun] A boast; an instance of vaunting. | [verb] To speak boastfully. | [verb] To speak boastfully about. | [noun] The first part. VEALS (8) VEALY (11) VEENA (8) [noun] A plucked stringed instrument with five or seven steel strings stretched on a long fretted finger-board over two gourds, used mostly in Carnatic Indian classical music. VEEPS (10) [noun] (US politics) The Vice President of the United States; the office of Vice President of the United States, especially during an election cycle where several are in the running for the nomination. | [noun] Any vice president (in a corporation, organization, etc.) VEERS (8) [noun] A turn or swerve; an instance of veering. VEERY (11) [noun] An American thrush (Catharus fuscescens) common in the Northern United States and Canada. VEGAN (9) [noun] A person who does not eat, drink or otherwise consume any animal products | [noun] A person committed to avoiding products and practices that inherently involve animal use, including all foods containing animal products, and to abstaining from direct and intentional harm to animals as far as possible; an adherent to veganism. | [adjective] (of a product or practice, especially food) Not containing animal products (meat, eggs, milk, leather, etc) or inherently involving animal use. VEGIE (9) [noun] A vegetable. | [noun] A vegetarian. VEILS (8) [noun] Something hung up or spread out to hide or protect the face, or hide an object from view; usually of gauze, crepe, or similar diaphanous material. | [noun] A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense. | [noun] The calyptra of mosses. VEINS (8) [noun] A blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart. | [noun] (in plural) The entrails of a shrimp. | [noun] In leaves, a thickened portion of the leaf containing the vascular bundle. VEINY (11) VELAR (8) [noun] A sound articulated at the soft palate | [adjective] Articulated at the velum or soft palate. | [adjective] Referring to a veil or velum. VELDS (9) [noun] The open pasture land or grassland of South Africa and neighboring countries. VELDT (9) [noun] The open pasture land or grassland of South Africa and neighboring countries. VELUM (10) [noun] A thin membrane, resembling a veil, such as: | [noun] An accessory cloud resembling a veil extending over a large distance. Normally associated with cumulus and cumulonimbus. VENAE (8) VENAL (8) [adjective] Venous; pertaining to veins. | [adjective] For sale; available for purchase. | [adjective] Of a position, privilege etc.: available for purchase rather than assigned on merit. VENDS (9) [verb] To hawk or to peddle merchandise. | [verb] To sell wares through a vending machine. VENGE (9) VENIN (8) VENOM (10) [noun] A poison carried by an animal, usually injected into an enemy or prey by biting or stinging. | [noun] Feeling or speech marked by spite or malice; vitriol. | [verb] To infect with venom; to envenom; to poison. VENTS (8) [noun] An opening through which gases, especially air, can pass. | [noun] A small aperture. | [noun] The opening of a volcano from which lava flows. VENUE (8) [noun] A theater, auditorium, arena, or other area designated for sporting or entertainment events. | [noun] A neighborhood or near place; the place or county in which anything is alleged to have happened; also, the place where an action is laid, or the district from which a jury comes. | [noun] A bout; a hit; a turn. See venew. VERBS (10) [noun] (grammar) A word that indicates an action, event, or state. | [noun] Any word; a vocable. | [noun] An action as opposed to a trait or thing. VERGE (9) [noun] A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger. | [noun] An edge or border. | [noun] The phallus. | [verb] To be or come very close; to border; to approach. VERSE (8) [noun] A poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme. | [noun] Poetic form in general. | [noun] One of several similar units of a song, consisting of several lines, generally rhymed. | [verb] To oppose, to compete against, especially in a video game. VERSO (8) [noun] The back side of a flat object which is to be examined visually, as for reading, such as a sheet, leaf, coin or medal; | [noun] The left-hand page of a book of a script which reads from left to right, usually having an even page number. VERST (8) [noun] A Russian unit of length, equivalent to about 1.07 kilometres or about 2/3 of a mile. VERTS (8) [noun] A green colour, now only in heraldry; represented in engraving by diagonal parallel lines 45 degrees counter-clockwise. | [noun] Green undergrowth or other vegetation growing in a forest, as a potential cover for deer. | [noun] The right to fell trees or cut shrubs in a forest. VERTU (8) [noun] The fine arts as a subject of study or expertise; understanding of arts and antiquities. | [noun] Objets d'art collectively. | [noun] Especially with reference to the writings of Machiavelli (1469–1527): the requisite qualities for political or military success; vitality, determination; power. VERVE (11) [noun] Excitement of imagination such as that which animates a poet, artist, or musician, in composing or performing | [noun] Artistic energy and enthusiasm | [noun] Vigour, vitality and liveliness VESTA (8) [noun] A short match, made of wood or wax VESTS (8) [noun] A loose robe or outer garment worn historically by men in Arab or Middle Eastern countries. | [noun] A sleeveless garment that buttons down the front, worn over a shirt, and often as part of a suit; a waistcoat. | [noun] A sleeveless garment, often with a low-cut neck, usually worn under a shirt or blouse. VETCH (13) [noun] Any of several leguminous plants, of the genus Vicia, often grown as green manure and for their edible seeds | [noun] Any of several similar plants within the subfamily Faboideae VEXED (16) [verb] To trouble aggressively, to harass. | [verb] To annoy, irritate. | [verb] To cause (mental) suffering to; to distress. VEXER (15) VEXES (15) [verb] To trouble aggressively, to harass. | [verb] To annoy, irritate. | [verb] To cause (mental) suffering to; to distress. VEXIL (15) VIALS (8) [noun] A glass vessel or bottle, especially a small tube-shaped bottle used to store medicine, perfume or other chemical. | [verb] To put or keep in, or as in, a vial. VIAND (9) [noun] An item of food eaten with rice. VIBES (10) [noun] A vibraphone. | [noun] Vibration. | [noun] A vibrator (sex toy). VICAR (10) [noun] In the Church of England, the priest of a parish, receiving a salary or stipend but not tithes. | [noun] In the Roman Catholic and some other churches, a cleric acting as local representative of a higher ranking member of the clergy. | [noun] A person acting on behalf of, or representing, another person. VICED (11) VICES (10) [noun] A bad habit. | [noun] Any of various crimes related (depending on jurisdiction) to prostitution, pornography, gambling, alcohol, or drugs. | [noun] A defect in the temper or behaviour of a horse, such as to make the animal dangerous, to injure its health, or to diminish its usefulness. VICHY (16) VIDEO (9) [noun] Television, television show, movie. | [noun] A short film clip, with or without audio (as in a music video, or one of the plethora of user-generated short movies on sites such as YouTube). | [noun] Motion picture stored on VHS or some other format. VIERS (8) VIEWS (11) [noun] (physical) Visual perception. | [noun] A picture, drawn or painted; a sketch. | [noun] (psychological) Opinion, judgement, imagination. VIEWY (14) VIGAS (9) [noun] A roughly-made rafter or roof timber, especially in a Latin American village VIGIL (9) [noun] An instance of keeping awake during normal sleeping hours, especially to keep watch or pray. | [noun] A period of observation or surveillance at any hour. | [noun] The eve of a religious festival in which staying awake is part of the ritual devotions. VIGOR (9) [noun] Active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; energy. | [noun] Strength or force in animal or vegetable nature or action. | [noun] Strength; efficacy; potency. VILER (8) [adjective] Morally low; base; despicable. | [adjective] Causing physical or mental repulsion; horrid. VILLA (8) [noun] (plural "villas") A house, often larger and more expensive than average, in the countryside or on the coast, often used as a retreat. | [noun] (plural "villas") A family house, often semi-detached, in a middle class street. | [noun] (plural "villae") A country house, with farm buildings around a courtyard. VILLI (8) [noun] A small projection from a membrane, particularly those found in the mucous membranes of the intestines. | [noun] One of the fine soft hairs on fruits, flowers, and other parts of plants. VILLS (8) [noun] The smallest administrative unit of land in feudal England, corresponding to the Anglo-Saxon tithing and the modern parish. | [noun] A villa; a country residence. VIMEN (10) VINAL (8) VINAS (8) [noun] A plucked stringed instrument with five or seven steel strings stretched on a long fretted finger-board over two gourds, used mostly in Carnatic Indian classical music. VINCA (10) [noun] Any of several evergreen shrubs, of the genus Vinca, including the periwinkle VINED (9) VINES (8) [noun] The climbing plant that produces grapes. | [noun] Any plant of the genus Vitis. | [noun] (by extension) Any similar climbing or trailing plant. VINIC (10) VINOS (8) VINYL (11) [noun] The univalent radical CH2=CH−, derived from ethylene. | [noun] Any of various compounds and substances containing the vinyl radical, especially various tough, flexible, shiny plastics. | [noun] Phonograph records as a medium. VIOLA (8) [noun] A stringed instrument of the violin family, somewhat larger than a violin, played under the chin, and having a deeper tone. | [noun] An organ stop having a similar tone. | [noun] A 10-string steel-string acoustic guitar, used in Brazilian folk music. | [noun] (botany) Any of several flowering plants, of the genus Viola, including the violets and pansies. | [interjection] Lo, there it is; see here; ta-da; presto; behold! VIOLS (8) [noun] A stringed instrument related to the violin family, but held in the lap between the legs like a cello, usually with C-holes, a flat back, a fretted neck and six strings, played with an underhanded bow hold. VIPER (10) [noun] A venomous snake in the family Viperidae. | [noun] A dangerous, treacherous, or malignant person. | [noun] A person who smokes marijuana. VIRAL (8) [noun] A video, image or text spread by "word of mouth" on the internet or by e-mail for humorous, political or marketing purposes. | [adjective] Of or relating to a biological virus. | [adjective] Caused by a virus. VIREO (8) [noun] Any of a number of small insectivorous passerine birds, of the genus Vireo, that have grey-green plumage. | [noun] Any bird of the family Vireonidae, which includes vireos, shrike-vireo, greenlets and peppershrikes. | [noun] (in plural) The family Vireonidae. VIRES (8) VIRGA (9) [noun] A type of note used in plainsong notation, having a tail and representing a single tone. | [noun] A streak of rain or snow that is dissipated in falling and does not reach the ground, commonly appearing descending from a cloud layer. | [noun] (measurement) A unit of length: a rod, pole or perch (5½ yards); or a unit of area: a square rod, pole or perch. VIRID (9) VIRLS (8) VIRTU (8) [noun] The fine arts as a subject of study or expertise; understanding of arts and antiquities. | [noun] Objets d'art collectively. | [noun] Especially with reference to the writings of Machiavelli (1469–1527): the requisite qualities for political or military success; vitality, determination; power. VIRUS (8) [noun] A submicroscopic, non-cellular structure consisting of a core of DNA or RNA surrounded by a protein coat, that requires a living host cell to replicate, and often causes disease in the host organism. | [noun] A disease caused by these organisms. | [noun] Venom, as produced by a poisonous animal etc. VISAS (8) [noun] A permit to enter and leave a country, normally issued by the authorities of the country to be visited. | [verb] To endorse (a passport, etc.). VISED (9) VISES (8) [noun] An instrument consisting of two jaws, closing by a screw, lever, cam, or the like, for holding work, as in filing. | [verb] To clamp with or as with a vise. | [verb] To examine and endorse (a passport, etc.); to visa. VISIT (8) [noun] A single act of visiting. | [noun] A meeting with a doctor at their surgery or the doctor's at one's home. | [verb] To habitually go to (someone in distress, sickness etc.) to comfort them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.) VISOR (8) [noun] A part of a helmet, arranged so as to lift or open, and so show the face. The openings for seeing and breathing are generally in it. | [noun] A mask for the face. | [noun] The fore piece of a cap, projecting over, and protecting the eyes. VISTA (8) [noun] A distant view or prospect, especially one seen through some opening, avenue or passage. | [noun] A site offering such a view. | [noun] A vision; a view presented to the mind in prospect or in retrospect by the imagination. VITAE (8) VITAL (8) [adjective] Relating to, or characteristic of life. | [adjective] Necessary to the continuation of life; being the seat of life; being that on which life depends. | [adjective] Invigorating or life-giving. VITTA (8) [noun] A fillet, or garland for the head. | [noun] A longitudinal stripe. | [noun] An oil tube in the fruit of some plants. VIVAS (11) [noun] A shout of applause. | [noun] An oral examination, typically for an academic qualification. VIVID (12) [noun] A felt-tipped permanent marker. | [adjective] (of perception) Clear, detailed or powerful. | [adjective] (of an image) Bright, intense or colourful. VIXEN (15) [noun] A female fox. | [noun] A malicious, quarrelsome or temperamental woman. | [noun] A racy or salacious woman. VIZIR (17) VIZOR (17) [noun] A part of a helmet, arranged so as to lift or open, and so show the face. The openings for seeing and breathing are generally in it. | [noun] A mask for the face. | [noun] The fore piece of a cap, projecting over, and protecting the eyes. VOCAL (10) [noun] A vocal sound; specifically, a purely vocal element of speech, unmodified except by resonance; a vowel or a diphthong; a tonic element; a tonic; distinguished from a subvocal, and a nonvocal | [noun] (Roman Catholic Church) A man who has a right to vote in certain elections. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to the voice or speech VOCES (10) VODKA (13) [noun] A clear distilled alcoholic liquor made from grain mash. | [noun] A serving of the above beverage. | [noun] Neutral spirits distilled (or treated after distillation) so as to have no distinctive character, aroma, taste or color. VODUN (9) [noun] Any of a group of related religious practices found chiefly in and around the Caribbean, particularly in Haiti and Louisiana. | [noun] The spiritual beliefs of the Ewe/Fon of West Africa, practiced chiefly in Benin and in the south of Togo. | [noun] Any sort of magical or irrational approach to a problem. VOGIE (9) VOGUE (9) [noun] The prevailing fashion or style. | [noun] Popularity or a current craze. | [noun] A highly stylized modern dance that evolved out of the Harlem ballroom scene in the 1960s. VOICE (10) [noun] Sound uttered by the mouth, especially by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character | [noun] Sound made through vibration of the vocal cords; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; — distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in whispering and voiceless consonants. | [noun] The tone or sound emitted by an object | [verb] To give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish; to announce VOIDS (9) [noun] An empty space; a vacuum. | [noun] An extended region of space containing no galaxies | [noun] A collection of adjacent vacancies inside a crystal lattice. VOILA (8) [interjection] Lo, there it is; see here; ta-da; presto; behold! VOILE (8) [noun] A light, translucent cotton fabric used for making curtains and dresses. VOLAR (8) [adjective] Pertaining to the palm of the hand or the sole of the foot. VOLED (9) VOLES (8) [noun] Any of a large number of species of small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae of the family Cricetidae which are not lemmings or muskrats. | [noun] A deal in a card game, écarté, that draws all the tricks. VOLTA (8) VOLTE (8) [noun] A turning; a time (chiefly used in phrases signifying that the part is to be repeated). | [noun] A volte | [noun] A turning point or point of change in a poem, most commonly a sonnet. VOLTI (8) VOLTS (8) [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical potential and electromotive force (voltage); the potential difference across a conductor when a current of one ampere uses one watt of power. Symbol: V | [noun] A circular tread; a gait by which a horse going sideways round a centre makes two concentric tracks. | [noun] A sudden movement to avoid a thrust. VOLVA (11) [noun] A cup-shaped mass at the base of various fungi. | [noun] In Old Norse society, a female practitioner of magic divination and prophecy. | [noun] (by extension) Any prophetess, sooth-sayer, or witch. VOMER (10) [noun] The vomer bone; the small thin bone that forms part of the septum between the nostrils. VOMIT (10) [noun] The regurgitated former contents of a stomach; vomitus. | [noun] The act of regurgitating. | [noun] That which causes vomiting; an emetic. VOTED (9) [verb] To cast a vote; to assert a formalized choice in an election | [verb] To choose or grant by means of a vote, or by general consent VOTER (8) [noun] Someone who votes. VOTES (8) [noun] A formalized choice on matters of administration or other democratic activities | [noun] An act or instance of participating in such a choice, e.g., by submitting a ballot | [noun] An ardent wish or desire; a vow; a prayer VOUCH (13) [noun] Warrant; attestation. | [verb] To take responsibility for; to express confidence in; to witness; to obtest. | [verb] To warrant; to maintain by affirmations VOWED (12) [verb] To make a vow; to promise. | [verb] To make a vow regarding (something). | [verb] To declare publicly that one has made a vow, usually to show one's determination or to announce an act of retaliation. VOWEL (11) [noun] A sound produced by the vocal cords with relatively little restriction of the oral cavity, forming the prominent sound of a syllable. | [noun] A letter representing the sound of vowel; in English, the vowels are a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y. | [verb] To add vowel points to a consonantal script (e.g. niqqud in Hebrew or harakat in Arabic) VOWER (11) VROOM (10) [noun] The sound of an engine revving up. | [verb] To move with great speed; to zoom. | [interjection] The sound of an engine revving up. VROUW (11) [noun] A Dutchwoman. VROWS (11) VUGGS (10) VUGGY (13) VUGHS (12) VULGO (9) VULVA (11) [noun] The external female sexual organs, collectively. VYING (12) [verb] To fight for superiority; to contend; to compete eagerly so as to gain something. | [verb] To rival (something), etc. | [verb] To do or produce in emulation, competition, or rivalry; to put in competition; to bandy. WAIVE (11) [verb] To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forego. | [verb] To put aside, avoid. | [verb] To outlaw (someone). | [verb] To move from side to side; to sway. | [noun] A woman put out of the protection of the law; an outlawed woman. WAVED (12) [verb] To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forego. | [verb] To put aside, avoid. | [verb] To outlaw (someone). WAVER (11) [noun] An act of wavering, vacillating, etc. | [noun] Someone who waves, enjoys waving, etc. | [noun] Someone who specializes in waving (hair treatment). WAVES (11) [verb] To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forego. | [verb] To put aside, avoid. | [verb] To outlaw (someone). WAVEY (14) WEAVE (11) [noun] A type or way of weaving. | [noun] Human or artificial hair worn to alter one's appearance, either to supplement or to cover the natural hair. | [verb] To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another. | [verb] To move by turning and twisting. WIVED (12) [verb] To marry (a woman). | [verb] To provide (someone) with a wife. WIVER (11) WIVES (11) [noun] A married woman, especially in relation to her spouse. | [noun] The female of a pair of mated animals. | [noun] An adult female human. WOVEN (11) [verb] To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another. | [verb] To spin a cocoon or a web. | [verb] To unite by close connection or intermixture.

ABOVES (11) ABVOLT (11) [noun] A unit of electrical potential difference equal to one billionth of a volt, used in the centimeter-gram-second system of units. ACTIVE (11) [noun] A person or thing that is acting or capable of acting. | [noun] Any component that is not passive. See Passivity (engineering). | [adjective] Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting;—opposed to passive, that receives. ADVECT (12) [verb] To transport (something) by advection. ADVENT (10) [noun] Arrival; onset; a time when something first comes or appears ADVERB (12) [noun] (grammar) A word that modifies a verb, adjective, other adverbs, or various other types of words, phrases, or clauses. | [verb] To make into or become an adverb. ADVERT (10) [noun] An advertisement, an ad. | [verb] To take notice, to pay attention (to). | [verb] To turn attention to, to take notice of (something). ADVICE (12) [noun] An opinion offered in an effort to be helpful. | [noun] Deliberate consideration; knowledge. | [noun] (commonly in plural) Information or news given; intelligence ADVISE (10) [verb] To give advice to; to offer an opinion to, as worthy or expedient to be followed. | [verb] To recommend; to offer as advice. | [verb] To give information or notice to; to inform or counsel; — with of before the thing communicated. AGAVES (10) [noun] A plant of the genus Agave, which includes the maguey or century plant (Agave americana), which produces a gigantic flower stem at maturity. AIVERS (9) AJIVAS (16) [noun] Plural of ajiva, a term from Jainism referring to non-living matter or substance that lacks consciousness, as distinguished from jiva (living souls). ALCOVE (11) [noun] A small recessed area set off from a larger room. | [noun] A shady retreat. ALEVIN (9) [noun] Newly hatched fish, especially salmon. ALVINE (9) ANVILS (9) [noun] A heavy iron block used in the blacksmithing trade as a surface upon which metal can be struck and shaped. | [noun] An incus bone in the middle ear. | [noun] A stone or other hard surface used by a bird for breaking the shells of snails. ARRIVE (9) [verb] To reach; to get to a certain place. | [verb] To obtain a level of success or fame; to succeed. | [verb] To come; said of time. ATAVIC (11) AVAILS (9) [noun] Effect in achieving a goal or aim; purpose, use (now usually in negative constructions). | [noun] Proceeds; profits from business transactions. | [noun] An advertising slot or package. AVATAR (9) [noun] The incarnation of a deity, particularly Vishnu. | [noun] The physical embodiment of an idea or concept; a personification. | [noun] A digital representation of a person or being; often, it can take on any of various forms, as a participant chooses. e.g. 3D, animated, photo, sketch of a person or a person's alter ego, sometimes used in a virtual world or virtual chat room. AVAUNT (9) [noun] A vaunt; a boast. | [verb] To advance; to move forward; to elevate. | [verb] To depart; to move away. AVENGE (10) [noun] An act of vengeance; a revenge. | [verb] To take vengeance (for); to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer. | [verb] To take vengeance. AVENUE (9) [noun] A broad street, especially one bordered by trees. | [noun] A way or opening for entrance into a place; a passage by which a place may be reached; a way of approach or of exit. | [noun] The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered. AVERSE (9) [verb] To turn away. | [adjective] Having a repugnance or opposition of mind. | [adjective] Turned away or backward. AVERTS (9) [verb] To turn aside or away. | [verb] To ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of. | [verb] To turn away. AVIANS (9) [noun] A bird. | [noun] A bird-like or flying creature. | [noun] (furry fandom) Someone who roleplays or describes themselves as being a bird or bird-like animal character with human characteristics. AVIARY (12) [noun] A house, enclosure, large cage, or other place for keeping birds confined; a birdhouse. AVIATE (9) [verb] To operate an aircraft. AVIDIN (10) [noun] A tetrameric protein produced in the oviducts of birds, reptiles and amphibians and deposited in the whites of their eggs. AVIDLY (13) [adverb] In an avid manner; greedily; eagerly. AVIONS (9) [noun] Plural of avion, a French word for airplane that is used in English in certain contexts, particularly in aviation and historical discussions. | [noun] Aircraft or planes collectively. AVISOS (9) AVOCET (11) [noun] Any of four species of wading birds in the genus Recurvirostra, of the family Recurvirostridae, with long, slender recurved bills, long legs, and webbed feet. AVOIDS (10) [verb] To try not to meet or communicate with (a person); to shun | [verb] To keep away from; to keep clear of; to stay away from | [verb] To try not to do something or to have something happen AVOSET (9) [noun] A wading bird with a slender upturned bill, found in warm regions. AVOUCH (14) [noun] Evidence; declaration | [verb] To declare freely and openly; to assert. | [verb] To acknowledge deliberately; to admit; to confess; to sanction. AVOWAL (12) [noun] A declaration or assertion of something; an open acknowledgment or admission. AVOWED (13) [verb] To declare openly and boldly, as something believed to be right; to own, acknowledge or confess frankly. | [verb] To bind or devote by a vow. | [verb] To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See avowry. AVOWER (12) [noun] One who avows; a person who makes a solemn declaration or assertion. AVULSE (9) [verb] To tear off forcibly. BEAVER (11) [noun] A semiaquatic rodent of the genus Castor, having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet. | [noun] A hat, of various shapes, made from a felted beaver fur (or later of silk), fashionable in Europe between 1550 and 1850. | [noun] The pubic hair and/or vulva of a woman. | [noun] A portion of plate armour to protect the lower face and the neck, typically in two parts, called upper bevor and lower bevor. BEEVES (11) [noun] The meat from a cow, bull or other bovine. | [noun] (plural: beefs) A grudge; dislike (of something or someone); lack of faith or trust (in something or someone); a reason for a dislike or grudge. (often + with) BEHAVE (14) [verb] To conduct (oneself) well, or in a given way. | [verb] To act, conduct oneself in a specific manner; used with an adverbial of manner. | [verb] To conduct, manage, regulate (something). BEHOVE (14) [verb] To befit, to suit. | [verb] To be necessary for (someone). | [verb] To be in the best interest of; to benefit. BELIVE (11) BEVELS (11) [noun] An edge that is canted, one that is not a 90-degree angle; a chamfer. | [noun] An instrument consisting of two rules or arms, jointed together at one end, and opening to any angle, for adjusting the surfaces of work to the same or a given inclination; a bevel square. | [verb] To give a canted edge to a surface; to chamfer. BEVIES (11) [noun] (collective) A group of animals, in particular quail. | [noun] (collective) A group of women. | [noun] (collective) A large group or collection. BEVORS (11) [noun] Plural of bevor, a piece of armor that protects the lower face and neck. | [noun] A drinking glass or cup with a wide mouth. BOVIDS (12) [noun] An animal of the family Bovidae (such as the antelope, gazelle, goat, and sheep). BOVINE (11) [noun] An animal of the family, subfamily, tribe, or genera including cattle, buffaloes and bison. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to cattle. | [adjective] Belonging to the family, subfamily, tribe, or genera including cows, buffalo, and bison. BRAVAS (11) [noun] Plural of brava, an exclamation of approval or applause, typically shouted at a musical or theatrical performance. | [noun] Plural of brava, a hired assassin or mercenary, especially in Italian contexts. BRAVED (12) [verb] To encounter with courage and fortitude, to defy, to provoke. | [verb] To adorn; to make fine or showy. BRAVER (11) [adjective] Strong in the face of fear; courageous. | [adjective] Having any sort of superiority or excellence. | [adjective] Making a fine show or display. BRAVES (11) [noun] A Native American warrior. | [noun] A man daring beyond discretion; a bully. | [noun] A challenge; a defiance; bravado. BRAVOS (11) [noun] A hired soldier; an assassin; a desperado. | [noun] A shout of "bravo!" | [noun] The letter B in the ICAO spelling alphabet. BREVES (11) [noun] A semicircular diacritical mark (˘) placed above a vowel, commonly used to mark its quantity as short. | [noun] A double whole note. | [noun] Any writ or precept under seal, issued out of any court. BREVET (11) [noun] A military document entitling a commissioned officer to hold a higher rank temporarily, but without an increase in pay. | [noun] A warrant from the government, granting a privilege, title, or dignity, as in France. | [noun] An organized, long-distance bicycle ride — not a race, but a test of endurance — which follows a designated but unmarked route passing through check points. CALVED (12) [verb] To give birth to a calf | [verb] To assist in a cow's giving birth to a calf | [verb] To give birth to (a calf) CALVES (11) [noun] A young cow or bull. | [noun] Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light-coloured leather used in bookbinding. | [noun] A young deer, elephant, seal, whale or giraffe (also used of some other animals). CANVAS (11) [noun] A type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp, useful for making sails and tents or as a surface for paintings. | [noun] A piece of canvas cloth stretched across a frame on which one may paint. | [noun] A basis for creative work. CARVED (12) [verb] To cut. | [verb] To cut meat in order to serve it. | [verb] To shape to sculptural effect; to produce (a work) by cutting, or to cut (a material) into a finished work. CARVEL (11) [noun] A light, usually lateen-rigged sailing ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish for about 300 years from the 15th century, first for trade and later for voyages of exploration. | [noun] The sea blubber (Cyanea capillata); A jellyfish (Medusozoa). CARVEN (11) [verb] To cut. | [verb] To cut meat in order to serve it. | [verb] To shape to sculptural effect; to produce (a work) by cutting, or to cut (a material) into a finished work. CARVER (11) [noun] Someone who carves. | [noun] A carving knife. | [noun] A butcher. CARVES (11) [verb] To cut. | [verb] To cut meat in order to serve it. | [verb] To shape to sculptural effect; to produce (a work) by cutting, or to cut (a material) into a finished work. CASAVA (11) [noun] A tropical plant with starchy roots used to make tapioca and cassava flour. CAVEAT (11) [noun] A warning. | [noun] A qualification or exemption. | [noun] A formal objection. CAVERN (11) [noun] A large cave. | [noun] An underground chamber. | [verb] To form a cavern or deep depression in. CAVERS (11) [noun] People who explore caves. | [noun] Plural of caver, one who participates in caving or spelunking. CAVIAR (11) [noun] Roe of the sturgeon or other large fish, considered a delicacy. | [noun] Something whose flavour is too fine for the vulgar taste. CAVIES (11) [noun] A chicken coop. | [noun] A tailless rodent of the family Caviidae and the genus Cavia, with short ears and larger than a hamster; the species Cavia porcellus is often kept as a pet. | [noun] A rodent of any of several species within the family Caviidae. CAVILS (11) [verb] To criticise for petty or frivolous reasons. CAVING (12) [verb] To surrender. | [verb] To collapse. | [verb] To hollow out or undermine. CAVITY (14) [noun] A hole or hollow depression. | [noun] A hollow area within the body (such as the sinuses). | [noun] A small or large hole in a tooth caused by caries; often also a soft area adjacent to the hole also affected by caries. CAVORT (11) [verb] (originally intransitive) To prance, said of mounts | [verb] To move about carelessly, playfully or boisterously. CERVID (12) [noun] Any animal (such as the deer) of the family Cervidae. CERVIX (18) [noun] The neck | [noun] The necklike portion of any part, as of the womb. | [noun] The lower, narrow portion of the uterus where it joins with the top end of the vagina. CHEVRE (14) [noun] A type of soft cheese from goat’s milk, originating in France, often formed in a cylinder. CHIVES (14) [noun] A perennial plant, Allium schoenoprasum, related to the onion. | [noun] (in the plural) The leaves of this plant used as a herb. | [noun] The style and stigma of a flower, especially saffron. CHIVVY (20) [noun] Something that encourages one to act; a goad, a spur. | [verb] To coerce or hurry along, as by persistent request. | [verb] To subject to harassment or verbal abuse. CIVETS (11) [noun] A carnivorous catlike animal, Civettictis civetta, that produces a musky secretion. It is two to three feet long, with black bands and spots on the body and tail. | [noun] The musky perfume produced by the animal. | [noun] Any animal in the family Viverridae or the similar family Nandiniidae CIVICS (13) [noun] The study of good citizenship and proper membership in a community. CIVIES (11) [noun] Civilian clothes, as opposed to military uniform. | [noun] Civilians collectively. CIVISM (13) CLAVER (11) CLAVES (11) [noun] A percussion instrument, consisting of two sticks or blocks, in which one is struck against the other in order to produce a sound. CLAVUS (11) [noun] A hard thickening of the skin, typically on the foot, caused by pressure or friction. | [noun] In architecture, a convex molding or a type of architectural ornament. CLEAVE (11) [noun] Flat, smooth surface produced by cleavage, or any similar surface produced by similar techniques, as in glass. | [verb] To split or sever something with, or as if with, a sharp instrument. | [verb] To break a single crystal (such as a gemstone or semiconductor wafer) along one of its more symmetrical crystallographic planes (often by impact), forming facets on the resulting pieces. | [verb] To cling, adhere or stick fast to something; used with to or unto. CLEVER (11) [adjective] Nimble with hands or body; skillful; adept. | [adjective] Resourceful, sometimes to the point of cunning. | [adjective] Smart, intelligent, or witty; mentally quick or sharp. CLEVIS (11) [noun] A U-shaped coupling having holes at each end, through which a bolt is run; used especially to fit attachments to a tractor or other vehicle as it allows a degree of rotation about the bolt. CLIVIA (11) [noun] Any plant of the genus Clivia, native to southern Africa. CLOVEN (11) [verb] To split or sever something with, or as if with, a sharp instrument. | [verb] To break a single crystal (such as a gemstone or semiconductor wafer) along one of its more symmetrical crystallographic planes (often by impact), forming facets on the resulting pieces. | [verb] To make or accomplish by or as if by cutting. CLOVER (11) [noun] A plant of the genus Trifolium with leaves usually divided into three (rarely four) leaflets and with white or red flowers. | [noun] The second Lenormand card, representing hope, optimism and short-term luck. CLOVES (11) [noun] A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree. | [noun] A clove tree, of the species Syzygium aromaticum (syn. Caryophyllus aromaticus), native to the Moluccas (Indonesian islands), which produces the spice. | [noun] An old English measure of weight, containing 7 pounds (3.2 kg), i.e. half a stone. COEVAL (11) [noun] Something of the same era. | [noun] Somebody of the same age. | [adjective] Of the same age; contemporary. CONVEX (18) [noun] Any convex body or surface. | [adjective] Curved or bowed outward like the outside of a bowl or sphere or circle | [adjective] (of a set in Euclidean space) arranged such that for any two points in the set, a straight line between the two points is contained within the set. CONVEY (14) [verb] To move (something) from one place to another. | [verb] To take or carry (someone) from one place to another. | [verb] To communicate; to make known; to portray. CONVOY (14) [noun] One or more merchant ships sailing in company to the same general destination under the protection of naval vessels. | [noun] A group of vehicles travelling together for safety, especially one with an escort. | [noun] The act of convoying; protection. CORVEE (11) [noun] Unpaid labor required by a feudal lord. | [noun] Labor, especially for roads or dams, in lieu of taxes. CORVES (11) [noun] A large basket, especially as used for coal. | [noun] A container (basket, wooden box with holes etc.) used to store live fish underwater. | [noun] A wooden frame, sled, or low-wheeled wagon, to convey coal or ore in the mines. CORVET (11) [noun] A light leap or bound of a horse in which all four feet leave the ground together. | [verb] To perform a corvet; to leap or prance. COVENS (11) [noun] A formal group or assembly of witches. | [noun] A family, group or assembly of vampires. | [noun] A clique that shares common interests or activities. COVERS (11) [noun] A lid. | [noun] Area or situation which screens a person or thing from view. | [noun] The front and back of a book, magazine, CD package, etc. COVERT (11) [noun] A covering. | [noun] A disguise. | [noun] A hiding place. COVETS (11) [verb] To wish for with eagerness; to desire possession of, often enviously. | [verb] To long for inordinately or unlawfully; to hanker after (something forbidden). | [verb] To yearn; to have or indulge an inordinate desire, especially for another's possession. COVEYS (14) [noun] A group of 8–12 (or more) quail. | [noun] A brood of partridges, grouse, etc. | [noun] A party or group (of persons or things). COVING (12) [noun] A concave surface forming a junction between a ceiling and a wall. | [noun] The vertical sides connecting the jambs with the breast of a fireplace. COVINS (11) [noun] Plural of covin; a secret agreement or conspiracy, especially one involving fraud or deceit. CRAVAT (11) [noun] A wide fabric band worn as a necktie by men having long ends hanging in front. | [noun] A decorative fabric band or scarf worn around the neck by women. | [noun] A bandage resembling a cravat, particularly a triangular bandage folded into a strip. CRAVED (12) [verb] To desire strongly, so as to satisfy an appetite; to long or yearn for. | [verb] To ask for earnestly; to beg; to claim. | [verb] To call for; to require as a course of action. CRAVEN (11) [noun] A coward. | [verb] To make craven. | [adjective] Unwilling to fight; lacking even the rudiments of courage; extremely cowardly. CRAVER (11) [noun] One who craves or desires something intensely. CRAVES (11) [verb] To desire strongly, so as to satisfy an appetite; to long or yearn for. | [verb] To ask for earnestly; to beg; to claim. | [verb] To call for; to require as a course of action. CULVER (11) [noun] A pigeon or dove, especially a wood pigeon. CURVED (12) [verb] To bend; to crook. | [verb] To cause to swerve from a straight course. | [verb] To bend or turn gradually from a given direction. CURVES (11) [noun] A gentle bend, such as in a road. | [noun] A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line. | [noun] A grading system based on the scale of performance of a group used to normalize a right-skewed grade distribution (with more lower scores) into a bell curve, so that more can receive higher grades, regardless of their actual knowledge of the subject. CURVET (11) [noun] A particular leap in which a horse raises both forelegs at once, equally advanced, and, as the forelegs are falling, raises the hind legs, so that all the legs are in the air at once. | [noun] A prank; a frolic. | [verb] Of a horse or, by extension, another animal: to leap about, to frolic. CURVEY (14) DATIVE (10) [noun] (grammar) The dative case. | [adjective] (grammar) Noting the case of a noun which expresses the remoter or indirect object, generally indicated in English by to or for with the objective. | [adjective] In one’s gift; capable of being disposed of at will and pleasure, as an office or other privilege. DAVENS (10) [verb] To recite the Jewish liturgy; to pray DAVIES (10) DAVITS (10) [noun] A spar formerly used on board of ships, as a crane to hoist the flukes of the anchor to the top of the bow, without injuring the sides of the ship. | [noun] A crane, often working in pairs and usually made of steel, used to lower things over an edge of a long drop off, such as lowering a maintenance trapeze down a building or launching a lifeboat over the side of a ship. DEAVED (11) DEAVES (10) DELVED (11) [verb] To dig the ground, especially with a shovel. | [verb] To search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate, fathom, trace out | [verb] To dig, to excavate. DELVER (10) DELVES (10) [verb] To dig the ground, especially with a shovel. | [verb] To search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate, fathom, trace out | [verb] To dig, to excavate. DERIVE (10) [verb] To obtain or receive (something) from something else. | [verb] To deduce (a conclusion) by reasoning. | [verb] To find the derivation of (a word or phrase). DEVEIN (10) [verb] To remove the vein-like colon from (shrimp). DEVELS (10) DEVEST (10) DEVICE (12) [noun] Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one. | [noun] A peripheral device; an item of hardware. | [noun] A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice. DEVILS (10) [noun] An evil creature. | [noun] (with article) The chief devil; Satan. | [noun] A fictional image of a man, usually red or orange in skin color; with a set of horns on his head, a pointed goatee and a long tail and carrying a pitchfork; that represents evil and portrayed to children in an effort to discourage bad behavior. DEVISE (10) [noun] The act of leaving real property in a will. | [noun] Such a will, or a clause in such a will. | [noun] The real property left in such a will. DEVOID (11) [verb] To empty out; to remove. | [adjective] Empty; having none of; completely without DEVOIR (10) [noun] (often in plural) Duty, business; something that one must do. DEVONS (10) [noun] (Eastern Australia) A type of processed meat sausage. DEVOTE (10) [verb] To give one's time, focus one's efforts, commit oneself, etc. entirely for, on, or to a certain matter | [verb] To consign over; to doom | [verb] To execrate; to curse DEVOUR (10) [verb] To eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously. | [verb] To rapidly destroy, engulf, or lay waste. | [verb] To take in avidly with the intellect or with one's gaze. DEVOUT (10) [noun] A devotee. | [noun] A devotional composition, or part of a composition; devotion. | [adjective] Devoted to religion or to religious feelings and duties; pious; extremely religious. DIVANS (10) [noun] A Muslim council of state, specifically that of viziers of the Ottoman Empire that discussed and recommended new laws and law changes to a higher authority (the sultan). | [noun] The council chamber where this court is held; (by extension), any court of justice. | [noun] Any council or assembly. DIVERS (10) [noun] Someone who dives, especially as a sport. | [noun] Someone who works underwater; a frogman. | [noun] The loon (bird). | [adjective] Consisting of many different elements; various. DIVERT (10) [verb] To turn aside from a course. | [verb] To distract. | [verb] To entertain or amuse (by diverting the attention) DIVEST (10) [verb] To strip, deprive, or dispossess (someone) of something (such as a right, passion, privilege, or prejudice). | [verb] To sell off or be rid of through sale, especially of a subsidiary. | [verb] To undress. DIVIDE (11) [noun] A thing that divides. | [noun] An act of dividing. | [noun] A distancing between two people or things. DIVINE (10) [noun] One skilled in divinity; a theologian. | [noun] A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman. | [noun] (often capitalized, with 'the') God or a god, particularly in its aspect as a transcendental concept. | [verb] To foretell (something), especially by the use of divination. DIVING (11) [verb] To swim under water. | [verb] To jump into water head-first. | [verb] To jump headfirst toward the ground or into another substance. DIVOTS (10) [noun] A torn-up piece of turf, especially by a golf club in making a stroke or by a horse's hoof. | [noun] A disruption in an otherwise smooth contour. DOVENS (10) DOVISH (13) DRIVEL (10) [noun] Senseless talk; nonsense | [noun] Saliva, drool | [noun] A fool; an idiot. | [noun] A servant; a drudge. DRIVEN (10) [verb] To provide an impetus for motion or other physical change, to move an object by means of the provision of force thereto. | [verb] To provide an impetus for a non-physical change, especially a change in one's state of mind. | [verb] To displace either physically or non-physically, through the application of force. DRIVER (10) [noun] One who drives something, in any sense of the verb to drive. | [noun] Something that drives something, in any sense of the verb to drive. | [noun] A person who drives a motorized vehicle such as a car or a bus. DRIVES (10) [noun] Motivation to do or achieve something; ability coupled with ambition. | [noun] Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business. | [noun] An act of driving animals forward, as to be captured, hunted etc. DROVED (11) [verb] To herd cattle; particularly over a long distance. | [verb] To finish (stone) with a drove chisel. DROVER (10) DROVES (10) [noun] A number of cattle driven to market or new pastures. | [noun] (usually in the plural) A large number of people on the move (literally or figuratively). | [noun] (collective) A group of hares. DUVETS (10) [noun] A thick, padded quilt used instead of blankets. | [noun] A cover for a quilt or comforter. DYVOUR (13) ELEVEN (9) [noun] A cricket team of eleven players. Hence first eleven - the team of best cricket players (at a school), second eleven - the "B" team, etc. | [noun] A football team of eleven players; the starting lineup. | [noun] Used instead of ! to amplify an exclamation, imitating someone who forgets to press the shift key while typing exclamation points. ELEVON (9) [noun] A moveable surface at the trailing edge of a tailless airplane (such as the space shuttle) that provides pitch and roll control. ELUVIA (9) ELVERS (9) [noun] A young eel. ELVISH (12) [adjective] Of or having to do with elves; elven. ENDIVE (10) [noun] A leafy salad vegetable, Cichorium endivia, which is often confused with common chicory (Cichorium intybus). ENVIED (10) [adjective] That is the object of envy. | [verb] To feel displeasure or hatred towards (someone) for their good fortune or possessions. | [verb] To have envious feelings (at). ENVIER (9) ENVIES (9) [noun] Resentful desire of something possessed by another or others (but not limited to material possessions). | [noun] An object of envious notice or feeling. | [noun] Hatred, enmity, ill-feeling. ENVOIS (9) [noun] A short stanza at the end of a poem, used either to address a person or to comment on the preceding body of the poem. ENVOYS (12) [noun] A short stanza at the end of a poem, used either to address a person or to comment on the preceding body of the poem. | [noun] A diplomatic agent of the second rank, next in status after an ambassador. | [noun] A representative. ERVILS (9) EVADED (11) [verb] To get away from by cunning; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to cleverly escape from | [verb] To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from. | [verb] To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding. EVADER (10) EVADES (10) [verb] To get away from by cunning; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to cleverly escape from | [verb] To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from. | [verb] To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding. EVENED (10) [verb] To make flat and level. | [verb] To equal. | [verb] To be equal. | [verb] To occur; to happen; to come to pass. EVENER (9) [noun] One who, or that which, makes even. | [noun] In vehicles, a swinging crossbar, to the ends of which other crossbars, or whiffletrees, are hung, to equalize the draught when two or three horses are used abreast. | [noun] A raddle (instrument used by weavers). EVENLY (12) [adverb] So as to form a flat surface. | [adverb] In a fair manner of distribution, giving the same amount or number to each; equally. | [adverb] In a manner that leaves no remainder. EVENTS (9) [noun] An occurrence; something that happens. | [noun] A prearranged social activity (function, etc.) | [noun] One of several contests that combine to make up a competition. EVERTS (9) [verb] To turn inside out (like a pocket being emptied) or outwards. | [verb] To move (someone or something) out of the way. | [verb] To turn upside down; to overturn. EVICTS (11) [verb] To expel (one or more people) from their property; to force (one or more people) to move out. EVILER (9) EVILLY (12) EVINCE (11) [verb] To show or demonstrate clearly; to manifest. EVITED (10) [verb] To avoid. EVITES (9) [verb] To avoid. EVOKED (14) [verb] To call out; to draw out or bring forth. | [verb] To cause the manifestation of something (emotion, picture, etc.) in someone's mind or imagination. | [verb] To elicit a response. EVOKER (13) EVOKES (13) [verb] To call out; to draw out or bring forth. | [verb] To cause the manifestation of something (emotion, picture, etc.) in someone's mind or imagination. | [verb] To elicit a response. EVOLVE (12) [verb] To move in regular procession through a system. | [verb] To change; transform. | [verb] To come into being; develop. EVZONE (18) [noun] A member of the Greek presidential guard. | [noun] An infantryman of a select corps of the Greek army. EXUVIA (16) FAUVES (12) FAVELA (12) [noun] A slum or shantytown, especially in Brazil FAVISM (14) FAVORS (12) [noun] A kind or helpful deed; an instance of voluntarily assisting (someone). | [noun] Goodwill; benevolent regard. | [noun] A small gift; a party favor. FAVOUR (12) [noun] A kind or helpful deed; an instance of voluntarily assisting (someone). | [noun] Goodwill; benevolent regard. | [noun] A small gift; a party favor. FERVID (13) [adjective] Intensely hot, emotional, or zealous. FERVOR (12) [noun] An intense, heated emotion; passion, ardor. | [noun] A passionate enthusiasm for some cause. | [noun] Heat. FEVERS (12) [noun] A higher than normal body temperature of a person (or, generally, a mammal), usually caused by disease. | [noun] (usually in combination with one or more preceding words) Any of various diseases. | [noun] A state of excitement or anxiety. FIVERS (12) [noun] A banknote with a value of five units of currency. | [noun] (by extension) The value in money that this represents. | [noun] A clenched fist. FLAVIN (12) [noun] Any of a class of tricyclic heterocyclic compounds derived from riboflavin; found especially as the adenine dinucleotide (FAD) FLAVOR (12) [noun] The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect. | [noun] A substance used to produce a taste. Flavoring. | [noun] A variety (of taste) attributed to an object. FOVEAE (12) [noun] A slight depression or pit in a bone or organ. | [noun] The retinal fovea, or fovea centralis, responsible for sharp central vision. FOVEAL (12) FOVEAS (12) FRIVOL (12) [noun] An unserious person; a shallow person. | [noun] An idle diversion or pastime; a frivolity. | [verb] To behave frivolously. GANEVS (10) GARVEY (13) GAVAGE (11) [noun] A process of force-feeding a goose for foie gras | [noun] A process of force-feeding cattle for veal | [noun] Feeding by means of a tube passed into the stomach GAVELS (10) [noun] Rent. | [noun] Usury; interest on money. | [noun] An old Saxon and Welsh form of tenure by which an estate passed, on the holder's death, to all the sons equally. GAVIAL (10) [noun] The crocodilian Gavialis gangeticus; any species of the family Gavialidae. GAVOTS (10) GENEVA (10) GIVENS (10) [noun] A condition that is assumed to be true without further evaluation. GIVERS (10) [noun] One who gives; a donor or contributor. GIVING (11) [verb] (ditransitive) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere. | [verb] (ditransitive) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something). | [verb] To yield slightly when a force is applied. GLAIVE (10) [noun] A light lance with a long, sharp-pointed head. | [noun] A weapon consisting of a pole with a large blade fixed on the end, the edge of which is on the outside curve. | [noun] A sword, particularly a broadsword. GLOVED (11) [verb] To catch the ball in a baseball mitt. | [verb] To put a glove or gloves on. | [verb] To touch a delivery with one's glove while the gloved hand is on the bat. Under the rules of cricket, the batsman is deemed to have hit the ball. GLOVER (10) [noun] A person who makes or sells gloves. GLOVES (10) [noun] An item of clothing other than a mitten, covering all or part of the hand and fingers, but usually allowing independent movement of the fingers. | [noun] A baseball mitt. | [noun] The ability to catch a hit ball. GOVERN (10) [noun] The act of governing | [verb] To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority in. | [verb] To control the actions or behavior of; to keep under control; to restrain. GRAVED (11) [verb] To dig. | [verb] To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave. | [verb] To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture. GRAVEL (10) [noun] Small fragments of rock, used for laying on the beds of roads and railways, and as ballast. | [noun] A type or grade of small rocks, differentiated by mineral type, size range, or other characteristics. | [noun] A particle from 2 to 64 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale GRAVEN (10) [verb] To dig. | [verb] To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave. | [verb] To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture. | [verb] To make graven or engraved | [verb] To make or become grave (serious or sombre) GRAVER (10) [noun] A burin | [noun] A carver, sculptor, or engraver | [adjective] Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness; not cheerful. GRAVES (10) [noun] An excavation in the earth as a place of burial | [noun] Any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. | [noun] (by extension) Death, destruction. GRAVID (11) [adjective] Pregnant; now used chiefly of egg-laying animals, or metaphorically. GREAVE (10) [noun] A bush; a tree; a grove. | [noun] A bough; a branch. | [noun] A ditch or trench. | [noun] A piece of armour that protects the leg, especially the shin. | [verb] To clean (a ship's bottom); to grave. GRIEVE (10) [verb] To cause sorrow or distress to. | [verb] To feel very sad about; to mourn; to sorrow for. | [verb] To experience grief. | [noun] A governor of a town or province. GRIVET (10) [noun] An Old World monkey, Chlorocebus aethiops, with long white tufts of hair along the sides of the face. GROOVE (10) [noun] A long, narrow channel or depression; e.g., such a slot cut into a hard material to provide a location for an engineering component, a tyre groove, or a geological channel or depression. | [noun] A fixed routine. | [noun] The middle of the strike zone in baseball where a pitch is most easily hit. GROOVY (13) [adjective] Of, pertaining to, or having grooves. | [adjective] Set in one's ways. | [noun] A trendy and fashionable person. GROVED (11) GROVEL (10) [verb] To be prone on the ground. | [verb] To crawl. | [verb] To abase oneself before another person. GROVES (10) [noun] A small forest. | [noun] An orchard of fruit trees. | [noun] (Druidism) A place of worship. GUAVAS (10) [noun] A tropical tree or shrub of the myrtle family, Psidium guajava. | [noun] Its yellowish tropical fruit, 1¼ to 2 inches, globular or pear-shaped with thin, yellow, green or brown skin, is often made into jams and jellies. The meat is yellowish or pale green to pink in color. | [noun] A medium reddish-pink colour, like that of guava flesh (also called guava pink). GYVING (14) HALVAH (15) [noun] A confection usually made from crushed sesame seeds and honey. It is a traditional dessert in South Asia, the Mediterranean and the Middle East. HALVAS (12) HALVED (13) [verb] To reduce to half the original amount. | [verb] To divide into two halves. | [verb] To make up half of. HALVES (12) [noun] One of two usually roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided, or considered as divided. | [noun] Half of a standard measure; frequently used for half a pint of beer or cider. | [noun] (preceded by “a” or a number) The fraction obtained by dividing 1 by 2. HAVENS (12) [verb] To put into, or provide with a haven. HAVERS (12) [verb] To hem and haw | [verb] To talk foolishly; to chatter. | [noun] Oats (the cereal). HAVING (13) [verb] To possess, own. | [verb] To hold, as something at someone's disposal. | [verb] Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject. HAVIOR (12) HAVOCS (14) [verb] To pillage. | [verb] To cause havoc. HEAVED (13) [verb] To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing). | [verb] To throw, cast. | [verb] To rise and fall. HEAVEN (12) [noun] The sky, specifically: | [noun] The abode of God or the gods, traditionally conceived as beyond the sky; especially: | [noun] The afterlife of the blessed dead, traditionally conceived as opposed to an afterlife of the wicked and unjust (compare hell); specifically: HEAVER (12) HEAVES (12) [noun] An effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy. | [noun] An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, etc. | [noun] A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode. HELVED (13) HELVES (12) [noun] The handle or haft of a tool or weapon. | [noun] A forge hammer lifted by a cam acting on the helve between the fulcrum and the head. HIVING (13) [verb] To enter or possess a hive. | [verb] To form a hive-like entity. | [verb] To collect into a hive. HOOVED (13) HOOVES (12) [noun] The tip of a toe of an ungulate such as a horse, ox or deer, strengthened by a thick keratin covering. | [noun] The human foot. | [noun] An ungula. HOVELS (12) [noun] An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather. | [noun] A poor cottage; a small, mean house; a hut. | [noun] In the manufacture of porcelain, a large, conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped. HOVERS (12) [verb] To float in the air. | [verb] To linger or hang in one place, especially in an uncertain manner. | [verb] To waver, or be uncertain. HUMVEE (14) [noun] A diesel-powered, four-wheel drive tactical military vehicle that can carry a wide variety of military hardware IMPROV (13) [noun] Improvisation. | [noun] A form of live entertainment characterized by improvisation and interaction with the audience. | [verb] To perform improv. INVADE (10) [verb] To move into. | [verb] To enter by force in order to conquer. | [verb] To infest or overrun. INVARS (9) INVENT (9) [verb] To design a new process or mechanism. | [verb] To create something fictional for a particular purpose. | [verb] To come upon; to find; to discover. INVERT (9) [noun] A homosexual. | [noun] An inverted arch (as in a sewer). * | [noun] The base of a tunnel on which the road or railway may be laid and used when construction is through unstable ground. It may be flat or form a continuous curve with the tunnel arch. INVEST (9) [verb] To spend money, time, or energy on something, especially for some benefit or purpose; used with in. | [verb] To clothe or wrap (with garments). | [verb] To put on (clothing). | [noun] An unnamed tropical weather pattern "to investigate" for development into a significant (named) system. INVITE (9) [verb] To ask for the presence or participation of someone or something. | [verb] To request formally. | [verb] To encourage. | [noun] An invitation. INVOKE (13) [verb] To call upon (a person, a god) for help, assistance or guidance. | [verb] To solicit, petition for, appeal to a favorable attitude. | [verb] To call to mind (something) for some purpose. INWOVE (12) JARVEY (19) JAYVEE (19) JIVERS (16) JIVIER (16) JIVING (17) [verb] To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride, to mock, to taunt. | [verb] To say in a mocking or taunting manner. | [verb] To make a mocking remark or remarks; to jeer. JOVIAL (16) [adjective] Cheerful and good-humoured; jolly, merry. | [adjective] Pertaining to the astrological influence of the planet Jupiter; having the characteristics of a person under such influence (see sense 1). KAVASS (13) KEEVES (13) [noun] A vat or tub in which the mash is made; a mash tub. | [noun] (bleaching) A bleaching vat; a kier. | [noun] A large vat used in dressing ores. KELVIN (13) [noun] In the International System of Units, the base unit of thermodynamic temperature; 1/273.16 of the thermodynamic temperature of the triple point of water. Shown as "K". | [noun] A unit interval on the Kelvin scale. | [noun] (usually as postpositioned adjective) A unit for a specific temperature on the Kelvin scale. KEVELS (13) [noun] A strong cleat to which large ropes are belayed. | [noun] A stonemason's hammer. | [noun] A gazelle. KEVILS (13) KIDVID (15) [noun] Video material produced for children. KNAVES (13) [noun] A boy; especially, a boy servant. | [noun] Any male servant; a menial. | [noun] A tricky, deceitful fellow; a dishonest person. KNIVES (13) [noun] A utensil or a tool designed for cutting, consisting of a flat piece of hard material, usually steel or other metal (the blade), usually sharpened on one edge, attached to a handle. The blade may be pointed for piercing. | [noun] A weapon designed with the aforementioned specifications intended for slashing and/or stabbing and too short to be called a sword. A dagger. | [noun] Any blade-like part in a tool or a machine designed for cutting, such as that of a chipper. KUVASZ (22) KVASES (13) KVETCH (18) [noun] A person who endlessly whines or complains; a person who finds fault with anything. | [noun] An instance of kvetching; a complaint or whine. | [verb] To whine or complain, often needlessly and incessantly. LARVAE (9) [noun] An early stage of growth for some insects and amphibians, in which after hatching from their egg, insects are wingless and resemble a caterpillar or grub, and amphibians lack limbs and resemble fish. | [noun] An animal in the aforementioned stage. | [noun] A form of a recently born or hatched animal that is quite different from its adult stage. LARVAL (9) [adjective] Of or relating to a larva or larvae. | [adjective] Being a larva. | [adjective] Characteristic of larvae. LARVAS (9) LAVABO (11) [noun] A ritual involving the washing of one's hands at a church's offertory before handling the Eucharist. | [noun] The small towel used to dry the priest's hands following the ritual. | [noun] A washbasin, particularly the one in a church used in the ritual. LAVAGE (10) [noun] A washing. | [noun] A washing of a hollow organ. | [verb] To wash a hollow organ LAVEER (9) LAVERS (9) [noun] A red alga/seaweed, Porphyra umbilicalis (syn. Porphyra laciniata), eaten as a vegetable. | [noun] Other seaweeds similar in appearance or use, especially: | [noun] One who laves: a washer. LAVING (10) [verb] To pour or throw out, as water; lade out; bail; bail out. | [verb] To draw, as water; drink in. | [verb] To give bountifully; lavish. LAVISH (12) [verb] To give out extremely generously; to squander. | [verb] To give out to (somebody) extremely generously. | [adjective] Expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal. LEAVED (10) [verb] To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant. | [verb] To produce leaves or foliage. | [verb] To raise; to levy. LEAVEN (9) [noun] Any agent used to make dough rise or to have a similar effect on baked goods. | [noun] Anything that makes a general assimilating change in the mass. | [verb] To add a leavening agent. LEAVER (9) [noun] (UK politics) Someone who supports Brexit, the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union. | [noun] One who leaves. LEAVES (9) [noun] The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants. | [noun] Anything resembling the leaf of a plant. | [noun] A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin. LEKVAR (13) LEVANT (9) [noun] A disappearing or absconding after losing a bet. | [verb] To abscond or run away, especially to avoid paying money or debts. | [adjective] Rising, of an animal. LEVEED (10) LEVEES (9) [noun] An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi. | [noun] The steep bank of a river. | [noun] The border of an irrigated field. LEVELS (9) [noun] A tool for finding whether a surface is level, or for creating a horizontal or vertical line of reference. | [noun] A distance relative to a given reference elevation. | [noun] Degree or amount. LEVERS (9) [noun] (except in generalized senses below) A crowbar. | [noun] A rigid piece which is capable of turning about one point, or axis (the fulcrum), and in which are two or more other points where forces are applied; — used for transmitting and modifying force and motion. | [noun] A small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device (like a button). LEVIED (10) [verb] To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property. | [verb] To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority. | [verb] To draft someone into military service. LEVIER (9) LEVIES (9) [noun] The act of levying. | [noun] The tax, property or people so levied. | [verb] To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property. LEVINS (9) LEVITY (12) [noun] Lightness of manner or speech, frivolity; lack of appropriate seriousness; inclination to make a joke of serious matters. | [noun] Lack of steadiness. | [noun] The state or quality of being light, buoyancy. LIEVER (9) LIVELY (12) [noun] Term of address. | [adjective] Full of life; energetic. | [adjective] Bright, glowing, vivid; strong, vigorous. | [adverb] Vigorously. LIVENS (9) [verb] To cause to be more lively, or to become more lively. LIVERS (9) [noun] A large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients, destroys toxins and produces bile. It is responsible for thousands of biochemical reactions. | [noun] This organ, as taken from animals used as food. | [noun] A dark brown colour, tinted with red and gray, like the colour of liver. LIVERY (12) [noun] Any distinctive identifying uniform worn by a group, such as the uniform worn by chauffeurs and male servants. | [noun] The whole body of liverymen, members of livery companies. | [noun] The paint scheme of a vehicle or fleet of vehicles. | [adjective] Like liver. LIVEST (9) LIVIER (9) LIVING (10) [verb] To be alive; to have life. | [verb] To have permanent residence somewhere, to inhabit, to reside. | [verb] To survive; to persevere; to continue. LIVRES (9) LIVYER (12) LOAVES (9) [noun] (also loaf of bread) A block of bread after baking. | [noun] Any solid block of food, such as meat or sugar. | [noun] Shortened from "loaf of bread", the brain or the head (mainly in the phrase use one's loaf). | [noun] An offer; choice; an opportunity; chance. LOUVER (9) [noun] A type of turret on the roof of certain medieval buildings designed to allow ventilation or the admission of light. | [noun] (chiefly in plural) A series of sloping overlapping slats or boards which admit air and light but exclude rain etc. | [noun] Any of a system of slits, as in the hood of an automobile, for ventilation. LOUVRE (9) [noun] A type of turret on the roof of certain medieval buildings designed to allow ventilation or the admission of light. | [noun] (chiefly in plural) A series of sloping overlapping slats or boards which admit air and light but exclude rain etc. | [noun] Any of a system of slits, as in the hood of an automobile, for ventilation. LOVAGE (10) [noun] A perennial Mediterranean herb, Levisticum officinale, with odor and flavor resembling celery. | [noun] A liquor made from this herb. | [noun] Various species in the genus Ligusticum (generally with an adjective to differentiate them from Levisticum) LOVATS (9) LOVELY (12) [noun] An attractive, lovely person, especially a (professional) beauty. | [noun] Term of fond address. | [noun] A lovely object. | [adjective] Worthy of praise. LOVERS (9) [noun] A type of turret on the roof of certain medieval buildings designed to allow ventilation or the admission of light. | [noun] (chiefly in plural) A series of sloping overlapping slats or boards which admit air and light but exclude rain etc. | [noun] Any of a system of slits, as in the hood of an automobile, for ventilation. LOVING (10) [verb] (usually transitive, sometimes intransitive, stative) To have a strong affection for (someone or something). | [verb] To need, thrive on. | [verb] To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like. MAGLEV (12) [noun] A train propelled by magnetic levitation. | [adjective] Describing a train, system, etc, that operates by magnetic levitation. MARVEL (11) [noun] That which causes wonder; a prodigy; a miracle. | [noun] Wonder, astonishment. | [verb] To become filled with wonderment or admiration; to be amazed at something. MAUVES (11) [noun] A bright purple synthetic dye. | [noun] The colour of this dye; a pale purple or violet colour. MAVENS (11) [noun] An expert in a given field. MAVIES (11) MAVINS (11) MAYVIN (14) MIKVAH (18) [noun] A ritual bath in which various Jewish purifications are performed. MIKVEH (18) [noun] A ritual bath in which various Jewish purifications are performed. MOSHAV (14) [noun] An Israeli town or settlement: in particular, a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the Labour Zionists during the second aliyah. MOTIVE (11) [noun] An idea or communication that makes one want to act, especially from spiritual sources; a divine prompting. | [noun] An incentive to act in a particular way; a reason or emotion that makes one want to do something; anything that prompts a choice of action. | [noun] A limb or other bodily organ that can move. MOVERS (11) [noun] Someone who or something that moves. | [noun] A dancer. | [noun] A person employed to help people move their possessions from one residence to another. MOVIES (11) [noun] A recorded sequence of images displayed on a screen at a rate sufficiently fast to create the appearance of motion. | [noun] (usually plural) A cinema. | [noun] (by extension) The cinema MOVING (12) [verb] To change place or posture; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another. | [verb] To act; to take action; to begin to act | [verb] To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and live at another place. See also move out and move in. NAEVUS (9) [noun] A pigmented, raised or otherwise abnormal area on the skin. Naevi may be congenital or acquired, and are always benign. NAIVER (9) NAIVES (9) NATIVE (9) [noun] An aboriginal inhabitant of a region colonized by English-speaking people; in particular: | [adjective] Aboriginal inhabitant of a region colonized by English-speaking people; in particular: | [noun] A person who is native to a place; a person who was born in a place. NAVAID (10) [noun] Any form of aid to navigation, particularly applying to shipping and aviation. Examples: lighthouse, or ILS (instrument landing system) NAVARS (9) NAVELS (9) [noun] The indentation or bump remaining in the abdomen of mammals where the umbilical cord was attached before birth. | [noun] The central part or point of anything; the middle. | [noun] A navel orange. NAVIES (9) [noun] A country's entire sea force, including ships and personnel. | [noun] A governmental department in charge of a country's sea force. | [noun] A dark blue colour, usually called navy blue. NERVED (10) [verb] To give courage. | [verb] To give strength; to supply energy or vigour. | [adjective] Vigorous, strong; courageous. NERVES (9) [noun] A bundle of neurons with their connective tissue sheaths, blood vessels and lymphatics. | [noun] A neuron. | [noun] A vein in a leaf; a grain in wood NEVOID (10) NIEVES (9) NOVELS (9) [noun] A work of prose fiction, longer than a novella. | [noun] A fable; a short tale, especially one of many making up a larger work. | [noun] A novelty; something new. NOVENA (9) [noun] A recitation of prayers and devotions for nine consecutive days, especially one to a saint to ask for their intercession. NOVICE (11) [noun] A beginner; one who is not very familiar or experienced in a particular subject. | [noun] A new member of a religious order accepted on a conditional basis, prior to confirmation. OBVERT (11) [verb] To turn so as to show another side. | [verb] To turn towards the front. OCTAVE (11) [noun] An interval of twelve semitones spanning eight degrees of the diatonic scale, representing a doubling or halving in pitch frequency. | [noun] The pitch an octave higher than a given pitch. | [noun] A coupler on an organ which allows the organist to sound the note an octave above the note of the key pressed (cf sub-octave) OCTAVO (11) [noun] A sheet of paper 7 to 10 inches (= 17.78 to 25.4 cm) high and 4.5 to 6 inches (= 11.43 to 15.24 cm) wide, the size varying with the large original sheet used to create it. It is made by folding the original sheet three times to produce eight leaves. | [noun] A book of octavo pages. OEUVRE (9) [noun] A work of art. | [noun] The complete body of an artist's work. OGIVAL (10) OGIVES (10) [noun] The curve of a cumulative distribution function. | [noun] A Gothic pointed arch, or a rib of a Gothic vault. | [noun] The pointed, curved nose of a bullet, missile, or rocket. OLIVES (9) [noun] A tree, Olea europaea, cultivated since ancient times in the Mediterranean for its fruit and the oil obtained from it. | [noun] The small oval fruit of this tree, eaten ripe (usually black) or unripe (usually green). | [noun] The wood of the olive tree. OTTAVA (9) OUTVIE (9) [verb] To outdo a competitor or rival. OVALLY (12) OVERDO (10) [verb] To do too much; to exceed what is proper or true in doing; to carry too far. | [verb] To cook for too long. | [verb] To give (someone or something) too much work; to require too much effort or strength of (someone); to use up too much of (something). OVERED (10) OVERLY (12) [adjective] Superficial; not thorough; careless, negligent, inattentive. | [adjective] Having a sense of superiority, haughty. | [adjective] Excessive; too great. OVIBOS (11) OVINES (9) OVISAC (11) OVOIDS (10) [noun] Something that is oval in shape. OVOLOS (9) OVONIC (11) OVULAR (9) OVULES (9) [noun] The structure in a plant that develops into a seed after fertilization; the megasporangium of a seed plant with its enclosing integuments. | [noun] An immature ovum in mammals. PAREVE (11) [adjective] Of food: that has no meat or milk in any form as an ingredient. | [adjective] (by extension) Neutral, bland, inoffensive. PARVIS (11) [noun] An enclosed courtyard in front of a building, especially a cathedral. | [noun] A portico surrounding such a space. | [noun] The porch of a church, or the room over it. PARVOS (11) PAVANE (11) [noun] A musical style characteristic of the 16th and 17th centuries. | [noun] A moderately slow, courtly processional dance in duple time/meter. PAVANS (11) [noun] A native or inhabitant of Padua. | [noun] An imitation coin resembling old Roman bronze coins, made at Padua in the 16th century. | [noun] A stately Spanish dance. PAVEED (12) PAVERS (11) [noun] A flat stone used to pave a pathway, such as a walkway to one's home. | [noun] One who paves; one who lays pavement. PAVING (12) [verb] To cover something with paving slabs. | [verb] To cover with stone, concrete, blacktop or other solid covering, especially to aid travel. | [verb] To pave the way for; to make easy and smooth. PAVINS (11) PAVIOR (11) [noun] A person who lays paving slabs. | [noun] A machine that is used to tamp down paving slabs. | [noun] A brick or slab used for paving. PAVISE (11) PEAVEY (14) [noun] A tool used to manipulate logs, having a thick wooden handle, a steel point, and a curved hooked arm. Similar to a cant-hook, but shorter and stouter, and with a pointed end. PEEVED (12) [verb] To annoy; vex. PEEVES (11) [noun] An annoyance or grievance. | [verb] To annoy; vex. PELVES (11) [noun] The large compound bone structure at the base of the spine that supports the legs. It consists of hip bone, sacrum and coccyx. | [noun] A funnel-shaped cavity, especially such a cavity in the kidney into which urine passes towards the ureter PELVIC (13) [adjective] Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the pelvis PELVIS (11) [noun] The large compound bone structure at the base of the spine that supports the legs. It consists of hip bone, sacrum and coccyx. | [noun] A funnel-shaped cavity, especially such a cavity in the kidney into which urine passes towards the ureter PIVOTS (11) [noun] A thing on which something turns; specifically a metal pointed pin or short shaft in machinery, such as the end of an axle or spindle. | [noun] (by extension) Something or someone having a paramount significance in a certain situation. | [noun] Act of turning on one foot. PLOVER (11) [noun] Any of various wading birds of the family Charadriidae. POOVES (11) [noun] A male homosexual, especially one who is effeminate. | [noun] Less common variant of poof (male homosexual). PREVUE (11) PRIVET (11) [noun] Any of various shrubs and small trees in the genus Ligustrum. | [interjection] Hello, hi PROVED (12) [verb] To proofread. | [verb] To make resistant, especially to water. | [verb] To allow yeast-containing dough to rise. PROVEN (11) [verb] To proofread. | [verb] To make resistant, especially to water. | [verb] To allow yeast-containing dough to rise. PROVER (11) PROVES (11) [verb] To proofread. | [verb] To make resistant, especially to water. | [verb] To allow yeast-containing dough to rise. PURVEY (14) [verb] To prepare in advance (for or to do something); to plan, make provision. | [verb] To furnish or provide. | [verb] To procure; to get. QIVIUT (18) QUAVER (18) [noun] A trembling shake. | [noun] A trembling of the voice, as in speaking or singing. | [noun] An eighth note, drawn as a crotchet (quarter note) with a tail. QUIVER (18) [noun] A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun. | [noun] A ready storage location for figurative tools or weapons. | [noun] The collective noun for cobras. | [adjective] Nimble, active. | [verb] To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion; to tremble; to quake; to shudder; to shiver. RAVAGE (10) [noun] Grievous damage or havoc. | [noun] Depredation or devastation | [verb] To devastate or destroy something. RAVELS (9) [verb] To tangle; entangle; entwine confusedly, become snarled; thus to involve; perplex; confuse. | [verb] To undo the intricacies of; to disentangle or clarify. | [verb] To pull apart (especially cloth or a seam); unravel. RAVENS (9) [noun] Any of several, generally large and lustrous black species of birds in the genus Corvus, especially the common raven, Corvus corax. | [noun] A jet-black colour. | [noun] Rapine; rapacity. RAVERS (9) [noun] A person who attends rave parties, or who belongs to that subculture. | [noun] A person who raves or rants. RAVINE (9) [noun] A deep narrow valley or gorge in the earth's surface worn by running water. | [noun] Rapine; rapacity. | [noun] Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence. RAVING (10) [verb] To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging. | [verb] To speak or write wildly or incoherently. | [verb] To talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion or excitement; followed by about, of, or (formerly) on. RAVINS (9) RAVISH (12) [verb] To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force. | [verb] (usually passive) To transport with joy or delight; to delight to ecstasy. | [verb] To rape. REAVED (10) REAVER (9) REAVES (9) [verb] To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove. | [verb] To deprive (a person) of something through theft or violence. | [verb] To split, tear, break apart. REAVOW (12) REEVED (10) [verb] To pass (a rope) through a hole or opening, especially so as to fasten it. | [adjective] Of a rope, passed through a hole, ring or pulley. REEVES (9) [noun] Any of several local officials, with varying responsibilities. | [noun] The president of a township or municipal district council. | [noun] The holder of a proposed but unadopted commissioned rank of the Royal Air Force, equivalent to wing commander. REGAVE (10) REGIVE (10) REIVED (10) [verb] To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove. | [verb] To deprive (a person) of something through theft or violence. | [verb] To split, tear, break apart. REIVER (9) REIVES (9) [verb] To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove. | [verb] To deprive (a person) of something through theft or violence. | [verb] To split, tear, break apart. RELEVE (9) RELIVE (9) [verb] To experience (something) again; to live over again. | [verb] To bring back to life; to revive, resuscitate. | [verb] To come back to life. REMOVE (11) [noun] The act of removing something. | [noun] (archaic) Removing a dish at a meal in order to replace it with the next course, a dish thus replaced, or the replacement. | [noun] (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last RENVOI (9) [noun] A situation in which a court, tasked with deciding which state's law should apply to a case, decides to apply the law of the forum, based on the determination that a court from another involved state would also apply the law of the forum. | [noun] Cross-reference in text; a sign that refers to something introduced earlier in a text. REPAVE (11) REVAMP (13) [noun] A renovation, revision or improvement. | [verb] To renovate, revise, improve or renew. REVEAL (9) [noun] The outer side of a window or door frame; the jamb. | [noun] A revelation; an uncovering of what was hidden. | [noun] (obsolete in the US) The side of an opening for a window, doorway, or the like, between the door frame or window frame and the outer surface of the wall; or, where the opening is not filled with a door, etc., the whole thickness of the wall; the jamb. REVELS (9) [noun] The outer side of a window or door frame; the jamb. | [noun] A revelation; an uncovering of what was hidden. | [noun] (obsolete in the US) The side of an opening for a window, doorway, or the like, between the door frame or window frame and the outer surface of the wall; or, where the opening is not filled with a door, etc., the whole thickness of the wall; the jamb. REVERB (11) [noun] (audio effects) An electronic effect which simulates echoes or reverberations in the sound signal being processed. | [verb] To echo. | [verb] To apply a reverb (electronic echo effect) to. REVERE (9) [noun] A revers | [verb] To regard someone or something with great awe or devotion. | [verb] To honour in a form lesser than worship, e.g. a saint, or an idol REVERS (9) [noun] A lapel of a garment, turned back to show the reverse side. REVERT (9) [noun] One who, or that which, reverts. | [noun] One who reverts to that religion which he had adhered to before having converted to another | [noun] (due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) A convert to Islam. REVERY (12) REVEST (9) REVETS (9) [verb] To face (an embankment, etc.) with masonry, wood, or other material. REVIEW (12) [noun] A second or subsequent reading of a text or artifact in an attempt to gain new insights. | [noun] An account intended as a critical evaluation of a text or a piece of work. | [noun] A judicial reassessment of a case or an event. REVILE (9) [noun] Reproach; reviling | [verb] To attack (someone) with abusive language. REVISE (9) [noun] A review or a revision. | [noun] A second proof sheet; a proof sheet taken after the first or a subsequent correction. | [verb] To look at again, to reflect on. REVIVE (12) [verb] To return to life; to become reanimated or reinvigorated. | [verb] To return to life; to cause to recover life or strength; to cause to live anew. | [verb] To recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression. REVOKE (13) [noun] The act of revoking in a game of cards. | [noun] A renege; a violation of important rules regarding the play of tricks in trick-taking card games serious enough to render the round invalid. | [noun] A violation ranked in seriousness somewhat below overt cheating, with the status of a more minor offense only because, when it happens, it is usually accidental. REVOLT (9) [noun] An act of revolt. | [verb] To rebel, particularly against authority. | [verb] To repel greatly. REVOTE (9) [noun] An act of voting again | [verb] To vote again. REVUES (9) [noun] A form of theatrical entertainment in which recent events, popular fads, etc., are parodied. Any entertainment featuring skits, dances, and songs. REVVED (13) [verb] To increase the speed of a motor, or to operate at a higher speed. REWOVE (12) RIEVER (9) RIVAGE (10) RIVALS (9) [noun] A competitor (person, team, company, etc.) with the same goal as another, or striving to attain the same thing. Defeating a rival may be a primary or necessary goal of a competitor. | [noun] Someone or something with similar claims of quality or distinction as another. | [noun] One having a common right or privilege with another; a partner. RIVERS (9) [noun] A large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a lower point, oftentimes ending in another body of water, such as an ocean or in an inland sea. | [noun] Any large flow of a liquid in a single body. | [noun] The last card dealt in a hand. RIVETS (9) [noun] A cylindrical mechanical fastener that attaches multiple parts together by fitting through a hole and deforming the head(s) at either end. | [noun] Any fixed point or certain basis. | [noun] A light kind of footman's armour. RIVING (10) [verb] To tear apart by force; to rend; to split; to cleave. | [verb] To pierce or cleave with a weapon. | [noun] A strip of a townfield. ROVERS (9) [noun] (usually in the plural) A randomly selected target. | [noun] One who roves, a wanderer, a nomad. | [noun] A vagabond, a tramp, an unsteady, restless person, one who by habit doesn't settle down or marry. ROVING (10) [verb] To shoot with arrows (at). | [verb] To roam, or wander about at random, especially over a wide area. | [verb] To roam or wander through. SALIVA (9) [noun] A clear, slightly alkaline liquid secreted into the mouth by the salivary glands and mucous glands, consisting of water, mucin, protein, and enzymes. It moistens the mouth, lubricates ingested food, and begins the breakdown of starches. SALVED (10) [verb] To calm or assuage. | [verb] To heal by applications or medicaments; to apply salve to; to anoint. | [verb] To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good. SALVER (9) [noun] One who salves or cures. | [noun] One who pretends to cure; a quacksalver. | [noun] One who salves or saves goods, etc. from destruction or loss. | [noun] A tray used to display or serve food or other items (such as a visiting card). SALVES (9) [noun] An ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects. | [noun] Any remedy or action that soothes or heals. SALVIA (9) [noun] A plant in the genus Salvia, such as sage. SALVOR (9) [noun] One who salvages; especially, one who voluntarily assists in saving a distressed ship or its goods at sea. SALVOS (9) [noun] An exception; a reservation; an excuse. | [noun] A concentrated fire from pieces of artillery, as in endeavoring to make a break in a fortification; a volley. | [noun] A salute paid by a simultaneous, or nearly simultaneous, firing of a number of cannon. SAVAGE (10) [noun] An uncivilized or feral human; a barbarian. | [noun] A defiant person. | [verb] To attack or assault someone or something ferociously or without restraint. SAVANT (9) [noun] A person of learning, especially one who is versed in literature or science. | [noun] A person who is considered eminent because of their achievements. | [noun] A person with significant mental disabilities who is very gifted in one area of activity, such as playing the piano or mental arithmetic. SAVATE (9) [noun] A form of French martial art that involves combinations of punching and kicking moves SAVERS (9) [noun] One who saves. | [noun] One who keeps savings more than usual. SAVINE (9) [noun] The evergreen shrub Juniperus sabina, endemic to Europe, which yields a medicinal oil. | [noun] The poisonous dried tips of this plant, with anthelmintic properties, used as a drug. | [noun] The eastern red cedar, Juniperus virginiana, of eastern North America. SAVING (10) [verb] To prevent harm or difficulty. | [verb] To put aside, to avoid. | [noun] A reduction in cost or expenditure. SAVINS (9) [noun] The evergreen shrub Juniperus sabina, endemic to Europe, which yields a medicinal oil. | [noun] The poisonous dried tips of this plant, with anthelmintic properties, used as a drug. | [noun] The eastern red cedar, Juniperus virginiana, of eastern North America. SAVIOR (9) [noun] A person who saves someone, rescues another from harm. | [noun] A child who is born to provide an organ or cell transplant to a sibling who has an otherwise fatal disease (used in combination, with "sibling", "baby", "child", "brother", "sister", etc.) SAVORS (9) [noun] The specific taste or smell of something. | [noun] A distinctive sensation. | [noun] Sense of smell; power to scent, or trace by scent. SAVORY (12) [noun] A savory snack. | [adjective] Tasty, attractive to the palate. | [adjective] Salty and/or spicy, but not sweet. | [noun] Any of several Mediterranean herbs, of the genus Satureja, grown as culinary flavourings. SAVOUR (9) [noun] The specific taste or smell of something. | [noun] A distinctive sensation. | [noun] Sense of smell; power to scent, or trace by scent. | [verb] To possess a particular taste or smell, or a distinctive quality. SAVOYS (12) [noun] Savoy cabbage | [noun] An Italian noble family, which became the ruling (hereditary) dynasty of Sardinia and later of Italy | [noun] A member of the Savoy noble family SCHAVS (14) SCRIVE (11) SCURVY (14) [noun] A disease caused by insufficient intake of vitamin C leading to the formation of livid spots on the skin, spongy gums, loosening of the teeth and bleeding into the skin and from almost all mucous membranes. | [adjective] Covered or affected with scurf or scabs; scabby; scurfy; specifically, diseased with the scurvy. | [adjective] Contemptible, despicable, low, disgustingly mean. SELVAS (9) [noun] Heavily forested ground in the Amazon basin. SELVES (9) [noun] One individual's personality, character, demeanor, or disposition. | [noun] The subject of one's own experience of phenomena: perception, emotions, thoughts. | [noun] An individual person as the object of his own reflective consciousness (plural selves). SERVAL (9) [noun] A medium-sized African wild cat, Leptailurus serval, formerly Felis serval. SERVED (10) [verb] (personal) To provide a service (or, by extension, a product, especially food or drink). | [verb] To treat (someone) in a given manner. | [verb] To be suitor to; to be the lover of. SERVER (9) [noun] A program that provides services to other programs or devices, either in the same computer or over a computer network. | [noun] A computer dedicated to running such programs. | [noun] One who serves. SERVES (9) [noun] An act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play in various games. | [noun] A portion of food or drink, a serving. | [verb] (personal) To provide a service (or, by extension, a product, especially food or drink). SERVOS (9) [noun] A servomechanism or servomotor. | [noun] A service station, being a place to buy petrol for cars etc., as well as various convenience items, with or without actual car service facilities. SEVENS (9) [noun] The digit/figure 7 or an occurrence thereof. | [noun] A card bearing seven pips. | [noun] Rugby sevens. SEVERE (9) [adjective] Very bad or intense. | [adjective] Strict or harsh. | [adjective] Sober, plain in appearance, austere. SEVERS (9) [verb] To cut free. | [verb] To suffer disjunction; to be parted or separated. | [verb] To make a separation or distinction; to distinguish. SHAVED (13) [verb] To make bald or shorter by using a tool such as a razor or pair of electric clippers to cut the hair close to the skin. | [verb] To cut anything in this fashion. | [verb] To remove hair from one's face by this means. SHAVEN (12) [verb] To make bald or shorter by using a tool such as a razor or pair of electric clippers to cut the hair close to the skin. | [verb] To cut anything in this fashion. | [verb] To remove hair from one's face by this means. SHAVER (12) [noun] One who shaves. | [noun] A barber, one whose occupation is to shave. | [noun] A tool or machine for shaving; an electric razor. SHAVES (12) [verb] To make bald or shorter by using a tool such as a razor or pair of electric clippers to cut the hair close to the skin. | [verb] To cut anything in this fashion. | [verb] To remove hair from one's face by this means. SHAVIE (12) SHEAVE (12) [noun] A wheel having a groove in the rim for a rope to work in, and set in a block, mast, or similar; the wheel of a pulley. | [noun] A sliding scutcheon for covering a keyhole. | [verb] To gather and bind into a sheaf. SHEEVE (12) SHELVE (12) [noun] A rocky ledge or shelf. | [verb] To place on a shelf. | [verb] To set aside; to quit or postpone. SHELVY (15) SHIVAH (15) [noun] A weeklong period of formal mourning for a close relative. SHIVAS (12) SHIVER (12) [noun] The act of shivering. | [noun] A bodily response to early hypothermia.Wp | [verb] To tremble or shake, especially when cold or frightened. | [noun] A fragment or splinter, especially of glass or stone. SHIVES (12) [noun] A knife, especially a makeshift one fashioned from something not normally used as a weapon (like a plastic spoon or a toothbrush). | [noun] A particular woody by-product of processing flax or hemp. | [noun] A slice, especially of bread. SHOVED (13) [verb] To push, especially roughly or with force. | [verb] To move off or along by an act of pushing, as with an oar or pole used in a boat; sometimes with off. | [verb] (by ellipsis) To make an all-in bet. SHOVEL (12) [noun] A hand tool with a handle, used for moving portions of material such as earth, snow, and grain from one place to another, with some forms also used for digging. Not to be confused with a spade, which is designed solely for small-scale digging and incidental tasks such as chopping of small roots. | [noun] A spade. | [verb] To move materials with a shovel. SHOVER (12) SHOVES (12) [noun] A rough push. | [noun] An all-in bet. | [noun] A forward movement of packed river-ice. SHRIVE (12) [verb] To hear or receive a confession (of sins etc.) | [verb] To prescribe penance or absolution. | [verb] To confess, and receive absolution. SHROVE (12) [verb] To hear or receive a confession (of sins etc.) | [verb] To prescribe penance or absolution. | [verb] To confess, and receive absolution. SIEVED (10) [verb] To strain, sift or sort using a sieve. | [verb] To concede; let in | [adjective] Passed through a sieve. SIEVES (9) [noun] A device with a mesh bottom to separate, in a granular material, larger particles from smaller ones, or to separate solid objects from a liquid. | [noun] A process, physical or abstract, that arrives at a final result by filtering out unwanted pieces of input from a larger starting set of input. | [noun] A kind of coarse basket. SILVAE (9) SILVAN (9) [adjective] Pertaining to the forest, or woodlands. | [adjective] Residing in a forest or wood. | [adjective] Wooded, or covered in forest. | [noun] Tellurium SILVAS (9) SILVER (9) [noun] A lustrous, white, metallic element, atomic number 47, atomic weight 107.87, symbol Ag. | [noun] (collectively) Coins made from silver or any similar white metal. | [noun] (collectively) Cutlery and other eating utensils, whether silver or made from some other white metal. SILVEX (16) SIVERS (9) SKIVED (14) [verb] To avoid one's lessons or work (chiefly at school or university); shirk. | [verb] To pare or shave off the rough or thick parts of. SKIVER (13) SKIVES (13) [noun] Something very easy, where one can slack off without penalty. | [noun] An act of avoiding lessons or work. | [verb] To avoid one's lessons or work (chiefly at school or university); shirk. SKIVVY (19) [noun] A female domestic servant, especially one employed for menial work. | [noun] (Vietnam War) A prostitute. | [noun] A close-fitting, long-sleeved T-shirt with a rolled collar. SLAVED (10) [verb] To work as a slaver, to enslave people. | [verb] To work hard. | [verb] To place a device under the control of another. SLAVER (9) [noun] Saliva running from the mouth; drool. | [verb] To drool saliva from the mouth; to slobber. | [verb] To fawn. | [noun] A person engaged in the slave trade. SLAVES (9) [noun] A person who is held in servitude as the property of another person, and whose labor (and often also whose body and life) is subject to the owner's volition and control. | [noun] A drudge; one who labors or is obliged (e.g. by prior contract) to labor like a slave with limited rights, e.g. an indentured servant. | [noun] An abject person. SLAVEY (12) [noun] A male servant. | [noun] A maid, maidservant. SLEAVE (9) SLEEVE (9) [noun] The part of a garment that covers the arm. | [noun] A (usually tubular) covering or lining to protect a piece of machinery etc. | [noun] A protective jacket or case, especially for a record, containing art and information about the contents; also the analogous leaflet found in a packaged CD. SLIVER (9) [noun] A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter. | [noun] A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which precedes spinning. | [noun] Bait made of pieces of small fish. Compare kibblings. SLOVEN (9) [noun] A habitually dirty or untidy man or boy; the male equivalent of slattern, or slut. | [noun] A low, base, lewd person. | [noun] An immoral woman. SNIVEL (9) [noun] The act of snivelling. | [noun] Nasal mucus; snot. | [verb] To breathe heavily through the nose while it is congested with nasal mucus. SOAVES (9) SOEVER (9) [adverb] In any fashion, of any kind; used for emphasis after words such as how, what, which etc. SOLVED (10) [verb] To find an answer or solution to a problem or question; to work out. | [verb] To find the values of variables that satisfy a system of equations and/or inequalities. | [verb] To algebraically manipulate an equation or inequality into a form that isolates a chosen variable on one side, so that the other side consists of an expression that may be used to generate solutions. SOLVER (9) SOLVES (9) [verb] To find an answer or solution to a problem or question; to work out. | [verb] To find the values of variables that satisfy a system of equations and/or inequalities. | [verb] To algebraically manipulate an equation or inequality into a form that isolates a chosen variable on one side, so that the other side consists of an expression that may be used to generate solutions. SOVIET (9) [adjective] (history) Pertaining to the Soviet Union or its constituent republics. | [adjective] Supporting or representing the Soviet Union or Sovietism; Sovietist. | [noun] A workers' council, an institution first formed during the 1905 Russian Revolution and then instituted as the main form of communist government at all levels in the Soviet Union; by extension, a similar organization in early Chinese communism and elsewhere. SOVRAN (9) SPAVIE (11) SPAVIN (11) [noun] A disease of horses characterized by a bony swelling developed on the hock as the result of inflammation of the bones. STARVE (9) [verb] To die; in later use especially to die slowly, waste away. | [verb] To die because of lack of food or of not eating. | [verb] To be very hungry. STAVED (10) [verb] To fit or furnish with staves or rundles. | [verb] (usually with 'in') To break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst. | [verb] (with 'off') To push, or keep off, as with a staff. STAVES (9) [noun] (plural staffs or staves) A long, straight, thick wooden rod or stick, especially one used to assist in walking. | [noun] (plural staves) A series of horizontal lines on which musical notes are written; a stave. | [noun] (plural staff or staffs) The employees of a business. | [noun] One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; especially, one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, a pail, etc. STEEVE (9) [noun] The angle which a bowsprit makes with the horizon, or with the line of the vessel's keel. | [noun] A spar, with a block at one end, used in stowing cotton bales and similar cargo needing to be packed tightly. | [verb] To project upward, or make an angle with the horizon or with the line of a vessel's keel; said of the bowsprit, etc. STIVER (9) [noun] (money) A small Dutch coin worth one twentieth of a guilder. | [noun] Anything of small value. STOVER (9) STOVES (9) [noun] A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room. | [noun] A device for heating food, (UK) a cooker. | [noun] A hothouse (heated greenhouse). STRIVE (9) [noun] Striving; earnest endeavor; hard work. | [noun] Exertion or contention for superiority, either by physical or intellectual means. | [noun] Bitter conflict, sometimes violent. STROVE (9) SUAVER (9) [adjective] Charming, confident and elegant. SURVEY (12) [noun] The act of surveying; a general view. | [noun] A particular view; an examination, especially an official examination, of a particular group of items, in order to ascertain the condition, quantity, or quality. | [noun] The operation of finding the contour, dimensions, position, or other particulars of any part of the Earth's surface. SVARAJ (16) SVELTE (9) [adjective] Attractively thin; gracefully slender. | [adjective] Refined, delicate. SWERVE (12) [noun] A sudden movement out of a straight line, for example to avoid a collision. | [noun] A deviation from duty or custom. | [verb] To stray; to wander; to rove. SWEVEN (12) SWIVED (13) [verb] To copulate with (a woman). | [verb] To cut a crop in a sweeping or rambling manner, hence to reap; cut for harvest. SWIVEL (12) [noun] A piece, as a ring or hook, attached to another piece by a pin, in such a manner as to permit rotation about the pin as an axis. | [noun] A small piece of ordnance, turning on a point or swivel; called also swivel gun. | [noun] Strength of mind or character that enables one to overcome adversity; confidence; force of will. SWIVES (12) SWIVET (12) [noun] A state or condition of haste, flutter; extreme discomposure or distress; irritation, exasperation, annoyance. SYLVAE (12) SYLVAN (12) [noun] One who resides in the woods. | [noun] A fabled deity of the wood; a faun, a satyr. | [adjective] Pertaining to the forest, or woodlands. SYLVAS (12) SYLVIN (12) TAVERN (9) [noun] A building containing a bar licensed to sell alcoholic drinks, and usually offering accommodation; an inn. THIEVE (12) [verb] To commit theft. THRAVE (12) THRIVE (12) [verb] To grow or increase stature; to grow vigorously or luxuriantly, to flourish. | [verb] To increase in wealth or success; to prosper, be profitable. THROVE (12) [verb] To grow or increase stature; to grow vigorously or luxuriantly, to flourish. | [verb] To increase in wealth or success; to prosper, be profitable. TRAVEL (9) [noun] The act of traveling; passage from place to place. | [noun] (in the plural) A series of journeys. | [noun] (in the plural) An account of one's travels. TRAVES (9) TREVET (9) TRIVET (9) [noun] A stand with three short legs, especially for cooking over a fire. | [noun] A stand, sometimes with short, stumpy feet, used to support hot dishes and protect a table; a hot coaster | [noun] A weaver's knife. See trevat. TRIVIA (9) [noun] Insignificant trifles of little importance, especially items of unimportant information | [noun] A quiz game that involves obscure facts. | [noun] (in medieval universities) The lower division of the liberal arts; grammar, logic and rhetoric. TROVER (9) [noun] Taking possession of personal property which has been found. | [noun] A legal action brought to recover such property by its original owner. TROVES (9) [noun] A treasure trove; a collection of treasure. | [noun] A collection of things. TURVES (9) [noun] A layer of earth covered with grass; sod. | [noun] A piece of such a layer cut from the soil. May be used as sod to make a lawn, dried for peat, stacked to form earthen structures, etc. | [noun] A sod of peat used as fuel. TWELVE (12) [noun] A group of twelve items. | [noun] A twelve-bore gun. | [noun] A jury (normally composed of twelve persons). UNEVEN (9) [verb] To make uneven. | [adjective] Not even | [adjective] Not level or smooth UNLIVE (9) UNROVE (9) UNVEIL (9) [verb] To remove a veil from; to uncover; to reveal something hidden. | [verb] To remove a veil; to reveal oneself. UNVEXT (16) UNWOVE (12) UPDIVE (12) UPDOVE (12) UPHOVE (14) UVEOUS (9) UVULAE (9) [noun] The fleshy appendage that hangs from the back of the palate, that closes the nasopharynx during swallowing. | [noun] The slight elevation in the mucous membrane immediately behind the internal urethral orifice of the urinary bladder, caused by the middle lobe of the prostate. | [noun] An object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring; a clapper. UVULAR (9) [noun] A sound articulated with the uvula. | [adjective] Of or relating to the uvula. | [adjective] Of a sound, articulated with the uvula. UVULAS (9) [noun] The fleshy appendage that hangs from the back of the palate, that closes the nasopharynx during swallowing. | [noun] The slight elevation in the mucous membrane immediately behind the internal urethral orifice of the urinary bladder, caused by the middle lobe of the prostate. | [noun] An object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring; a clapper. VACANT (11) [adjective] Not occupied; empty. | [adjective] Showing no intelligence or interest. VACATE (11) [verb] To move out of a dwelling, either by choice or by eviction. | [verb] To leave an office or position. | [verb] To have a court judgement set aside; to annul. VACUUM (13) [noun] A region of space that contains no matter. | [noun] (plural only "vacuums") A vacuum cleaner. | [noun] The condition of rarefaction, or reduction of pressure below that of the atmosphere, in a vessel, such as the condenser of a steam engine, which is nearly exhausted of air or steam, etc. VADOSE (10) [adjective] Of or pertaining to water beneath the surface of the earth which is located above the level of the permanent groundwater. VAGARY (13) [noun] An erratic, unpredictable occurrence or action. | [noun] An impulsive or illogical desire; a caprice or whim. VAGILE (10) VAGINA (10) [noun] The passage leading from the opening of the vulva to the cervix of the uterus for copulation and childbirth in female mammals. | [noun] A similar part in some invertebrates. | [noun] A sheath-like structure, such as the leaf of a grass that surrounds a stem. VAGROM (12) VAGUER (10) [adjective] Not clearly expressed; stated in indefinite terms. | [adjective] Not having a precise meaning. | [adjective] Not clearly defined, grasped, or understood; indistinct; slight. VAHINE (12) VAILED (10) [verb] To pay homage, bow, submit, defer (to someone or something); to yield, give way (to something). | [verb] To remove as a sign of deference, as a hat. | [verb] To lower, let fall; to allow or cause to sink. VAINER (9) [adjective] Overly proud of oneself, especially concerning appearance; having a high opinion of one's own accomplishments with slight reason. | [adjective] Having no real substance, value, or importance; empty; void; worthless; unsatisfying. | [adjective] Effecting no purpose; pointless, futile. VAINLY (12) [adverb] In a vain pursuit; to no avail; She searched vainly for her reflection in the shattered mirror. | [adverb] With a vain attitude; in a self-approving manner; She stared vainly at her reflection in the mirror. VAKEEL (13) [noun] A native attorney, lawyer or agent. | [noun] An ambassador. VAKILS (13) [noun] A lawyer or advocate mainly a representative in the court of law and a vakil can be a representative, especially of a political figure; an official or ambassador. VALETS (9) [noun] A man's personal male attendant, responsible for his clothes and appearance. | [noun] A hotel employee performing such duties for guests. | [noun] (professional wrestling) A female performer in professional wrestling, acting as either a manager or personal chaperone; often used to attract and titillate male members of the audience. VALGUS (10) [adjective] Knock-kneed (having the distal part of a limb displaced or twisted away from the midline of the body) VALINE (9) [noun] An essential amino acid 2-amino-3-methylbutanoic acid found in most animal proteins. VALISE (9) [noun] A piece of hand luggage such as a suitcase or travelling bag. VALKYR (16) VALLEY (12) [noun] An elongated depression between hills or mountains, often with a river flowing through it. | [noun] The area which drains into a river. | [noun] Any structure resembling one, e.g., the meeting point of two pitched roofs. VALORS (9) VALOUR (9) [noun] Value; worth. | [noun] Strength of mind in regard to danger; the quality which enables a person to encounter danger with firmness | [noun] A brave man; a man of valour. VALSES (9) [noun] A waltz. VALUED (10) [verb] To estimate the value of; judge the worth of something. | [verb] To fix or determine the value of; assign a value to, as of jewelry or art work. | [verb] To regard highly; think much of; place importance upon. VALUER (9) [noun] A person who valuates; an assessor or appraiser. | [noun] A person who appreciates something and sets a value on it. VALUES (9) [noun] The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable. | [noun] The degree of importance given to something. | [noun] That which is valued or highly esteemed, such as one's morals, morality, or belief system. VALUTA (9) [noun] A foreign currency; any monetary standard. VALVAL (12) VALVAR (12) VALVED (13) VALVES (12) [noun] A device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid through a pipe. | [noun] A device that admits fuel and air into the cylinder of an internal combustion engine, or one that allows combustion gases to exit. | [noun] One or more membranous partitions, flaps, or folds, which permit the passage of the contents of a vessel or cavity in one direction, but stop or control the flow in the opposite direction VAMOSE (11) VAMPED (14) [verb] To patch, repair, or refurbish. | [verb] Often as vamp up: to fabricate or put together (something) from existing material, or by adding new material to something existing. | [verb] To cobble together, to extemporize, to improvise. VAMPER (13) VANDAL (10) [noun] A person who needlessly destroys, defaces, or damages other people's property. VANDAS (10) VANISH (12) [noun] The brief terminal part of a vowel or vocal element, differing more or less in quality from the main part. | [noun] A magic trick in which something seems to disappear. | [verb] To become invisible or to move out of view unnoticed. VANITY (12) [noun] That which is vain, futile, or worthless; that which is of no value, use or profit. | [noun] Excessive pride in or admiration of one's own abilities, appearance or achievements. | [noun] A dressing table used to apply makeup, preen, and coif hair. The table is normally quite low and similar to a desk, with drawers and one or more mirrors on top. Either a chair or bench is used to sit upon. VANMAN (11) VANMEN (11) VANNED (10) VANNER (9) VAPORS (11) [noun] Cloudy diffused matter such as mist, steam or fumes suspended in the air. | [noun] The gaseous state of a substance that is normally a solid or liquid. | [noun] Something insubstantial, fleeting, or transitory; unreal fancy; vain imagination; idle talk; boasting. VAPORY (14) [adjective] Resembling vapor; vaporous. | [adjective] Characterized by the presence of vapor; full of, or obscured by, vapor. VAPOUR (11) [noun] Cloudy diffused matter such as mist, steam or fumes suspended in the air. | [noun] The gaseous state of a substance that is normally a solid or liquid. | [noun] Something insubstantial, fleeting, or transitory; unreal fancy; vain imagination; idle talk; boasting. VARIED (10) [adjective] Diverse or miscellaneous | [adjective] Having been changed or modified | [adjective] Variegated VARIER (9) VARIES (9) [verb] To change with time or a similar parameter. | [verb] To institute a change in, from a current state; to modify. | [verb] Not to remain constant: to change with time or a similar parameter. VARLET (9) [noun] A servant or attendant. | [noun] Specifically, a youth acting as a knight's attendant at the beginning of his training for knighthood. | [noun] A rogue or scoundrel. VARNAS (9) [noun] Any of the four original castes in Hinduism, or the system of such castes VAROOM (11) VARVED (13) VARVES (12) [noun] An annual layer of sediment or sedimentary rock. VASSAL (9) [noun] The grantee of a fief, feud, or fee; one who keeps land of a superior, and who vows fidelity and homage to him, normally a lord of a manor; a feudatory; a feudal tenant. | [noun] A subordinate | [verb] To treat as a vassal or to reduce to the position of a vassal; to subject to control; to enslave. VASTER (9) [adjective] Very large or wide (literally or figuratively). | [adjective] Very great in size, amount, degree, intensity, or especially extent. | [adjective] Waste; desert; desolate; lonely. VASTLY (12) [adverb] Greatly, in a vast manner. VATFUL (12) VATTED (10) [verb] To put into a vat. | [verb] To blend (wines or spirits) in a vat; figuratively, to mix or blend elements as if with wines or spirits. VAULTS (9) [noun] An arched masonry structure supporting and forming a ceiling, whether freestanding or forming part of a larger building. | [noun] Any arched ceiling or roof. | [noun] Anything resembling such a downward-facing concave structure, particularly the sky and caves. VAULTY (12) VAUNTS (9) [noun] A boast; an instance of vaunting. | [verb] To speak boastfully. | [verb] To speak boastfully about. VAUNTY (12) VAWARD (13) VEALED (10) VEALER (9) [noun] A calf intended for use as veal. VECTOR (11) [noun] A directed quantity, one with both magnitude and direction; the signed difference between two points. | [noun] An ordered tuple representing a directed quantity or the signed difference between two points. | [noun] Any member of a (generalized) vector space. VEEJAY (19) [noun] Someone who presents a television programme of videos; a video jockey. | [verb] To work as a video jockey; to present videos. | [noun] Vagina, vulva. VEENAS (9) [noun] A plucked stringed instrument with five or seven steel strings stretched on a long fretted finger-board over two gourds, used mostly in Carnatic Indian classical music. VEEPEE (11) VEERED (10) [verb] To let out (a sail-line), to allow (a sheet) to run out. | [verb] To change direction or course suddenly; to swerve. | [verb] (of the wind) To shift in a clockwise direction (if in the Northern Hemisphere, or in a counterclockwise direction if in the Southern Hemisphere). VEGANS (10) [noun] A person who does not eat, drink or otherwise consume any animal products | [noun] A person committed to avoiding products and practices that inherently involve animal use, including all foods containing animal products, and to abstaining from direct and intentional harm to animals as far as possible; an adherent to veganism. VEGETE (10) VEGGIE (11) [noun] A vegetable. | [noun] A vegetarian. | [adjective] Vegetarian; suitable for vegetarians VEGIES (10) [noun] A vegetable. | [noun] A vegetarian. VEILED (10) [verb] To dress in, or decorate with, a veil. | [verb] To conceal as with a veil. | [adjective] Covered by a veil. VEILER (9) VEINAL (9) VEINED (10) [verb] To mark with veins or a vein-like pattern. | [adjective] (sometimes in combination) Having veins or veinlike markings. VEINER (9) VELARS (9) [noun] A sound articulated at the soft palate VELATE (9) VELDTS (10) [noun] The open pasture land or grassland of South Africa and neighboring countries. VELLUM (11) [noun] A type of parchment paper made from the skin of a lamb, baby goat, or calf. | [noun] A writing paper of very high quality. VELOCE (11) VELOUR (9) [noun] A knit fabric similar to velvet, but usually somewhat coarser. VELURE (9) VELVET (12) [noun] A closely woven fabric (originally of silk, now also of cotton or man-made fibres) with a thick short pile on one side. | [noun] Very fine fur, including the skin and fur on a deer's antlers. | [noun] A female chinchilla; a sow. VENDED (11) [verb] To hawk or to peddle merchandise. | [verb] To sell wares through a vending machine. VENDEE (10) [noun] The person to whom something is sold; a purchaser. VENDER (10) [noun] A person or a company that vends or sells. | [noun] A vending machine. VENDOR (10) [noun] A person or a company that vends or sells. | [noun] A vending machine. | [verb] To bundle third-party dependencies with the source code for one's own program. VENDUE (10) [noun] A public auction. VENEER (9) [noun] A thin decorative covering of fine material (usually wood) applied to coarser wood or other material. | [noun] An attractive appearance that covers or disguises true nature or feelings. | [verb] To apply veneer to. VENERY (12) [noun] The hunting of wild animals. | [noun] Game animals. | [noun] The pursuit of sexual pleasure or indulgence. VENGED (11) VENGES (10) VENIAL (9) [adjective] Pardonable; able to be forgiven. | [adjective] Excusable; trifling VENINE (9) VENINS (9) VENIRE (9) VENOMS (11) [noun] A poison carried by an animal, usually injected into an enemy or prey by biting or stinging. | [noun] Feeling or speech marked by spite or malice; vitriol. | [verb] To infect with venom; to envenom; to poison. VENOSE (9) VENOUS (9) [adjective] Of or pertaining to veins. | [adjective] Possessing veins. | [adjective] Having numerous veins. VENTED (10) [verb] To allow gases to escape. | [verb] To allow to escape through a vent. | [verb] To express a strong emotion. VENTER (9) [noun] A vendor. | [noun] A woman with offspring | [noun] A protuberant, usually hollow structure, notably: | [noun] One who vents, who is vocal about feelings or problems. VENUES (9) [noun] A theater, auditorium, arena, or other area designated for sporting or entertainment events. | [noun] A neighborhood or near place; the place or county in which anything is alleged to have happened; also, the place where an action is laid, or the district from which a jury comes. | [noun] A bout; a hit; a turn. See venew. VENULE (9) [noun] A small vein, especially one that connects capillaries to a larger vein. VERBAL (11) [noun] (grammar) A verb form which does not function as a predicate, or a word derived from a verb. In English, infinitives, participles and gerunds are verbals. | [noun] A confession given to police. | [verb] To induce into fabricating a confession. VERBID (12) VERDIN (10) [noun] A small, yellow-headed passerine bird, Auriparus flaviceps, endemic to desert areas of the southwestern United States, that is the only species of family Remizidae found in the New World. VERGED (11) [verb] To be or come very close; to border; to approach. | [verb] To bend or incline; to tend downward; to slope. VERGER (10) [noun] One who carries a verge, or emblem of office. | [noun] A lay person who takes care of the interior of a church and acts as an attendant during services, where he or she carries the verge (or virge). In the United States, the office is generally combined with that of sexton. | [noun] An usher; also, in major ecclesiastical landmarks, a tour guide. VERGES (10) [noun] A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger. | [noun] An edge or border. | [noun] The phallus. VERIER (9) VERIFY (15) [verb] To substantiate or prove the truth of something | [verb] To confirm or test the truth or accuracy of something | [verb] To affirm something formally, under oath VERILY (12) [adverb] Truly; doubtlessly; honestly; in truth. | [adverb] Confidently, certainly VERISM (11) [noun] Presenting common, everyday subjects, specifically eschewing the heroic or legendary. | [noun] An artistic movement, from 19th-century Italian literature and opera, in which rural and everyday people and themes were treated in an often melodramatic manner VERIST (9) VERITE (9) VERITY (12) [noun] Truth, fact or reality, especially an enduring religious or ethical truth. | [noun] A true statement; an established doctrine. VERMES (11) [noun] A narrow, worm-like structure found in animal brains between the hemispheres of the cerebellum; it is the site of termination of the spinocerebellar pathways that carry subconscious proprioception. VERMIN (11) [noun] Any one of various common types of small insects or animals which cause harm and annoyance. | [noun] Animals that prey on game, such as foxes or weasels. | [noun] Obnoxious, or mean and offensive person or people. VERMIS (11) [noun] A narrow, worm-like structure found in animal brains between the hemispheres of the cerebellum; it is the site of termination of the spinocerebellar pathways that carry subconscious proprioception. VERNAL (9) [adjective] Pertaining to or occurring in spring. | [adjective] Having characteristics like spring; fresh, young, youthful. VERNIX (16) [noun] Vernix caseosa; a fatty deposit covering the skin of newborn babies. VERSAL (9) [adjective] Universal | [noun] Ornamental letter that begins a section VERSED (10) [verb] To compose verses. | [verb] To tell in verse, or poetry. | [verb] To educate about, to teach about. VERSER (9) VERSES (9) [noun] A poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme. | [noun] Poetic form in general. | [noun] One of several similar units of a song, consisting of several lines, generally rhymed. VERSET (9) [noun] A very short organ interlude or prelude. | [noun] A verse. VERSOS (9) [noun] The back side of a flat object which is to be examined visually, as for reading, such as a sheet, leaf, coin or medal; | [noun] The left-hand page of a book of a script which reads from left to right, usually having an even page number. VERSTE (9) VERSTS (9) [noun] A Russian unit of length, equivalent to about 1.07 kilometres or about 2/3 of a mile. VERSUS (9) [preposition] Against; in opposition to. | [preposition] Compared with, as opposed to. | [preposition] Bringing a legal action against, as used in the title of a court case in which the first party indicates the plaintiff (or appellant or the like), and the second indicates the defendant (or respondent or the like). VERTEX (16) [noun] The highest point of something. | [noun] The highest surface on the skull. | [noun] The common point of the two rays of the angle, or its equivalent structure in polyhedra (meeting of edges) and higher order polytopes. VERTUS (9) VERVES (12) VERVET (12) [noun] A small African monkey, Cercopithecus aethiops or Chlorocebus pygerythrus, having a long tail, a black face with white cheek tufts and a greenish-brown coat VESICA (11) VESPER (11) [noun] The bell that summons worshipers to vespers; the vesper-bell | [noun] The evening. | [noun] A vesper martini. VESPID (12) VESSEL (9) [noun] Any craft designed for transportation on water, such as a ship or boat. | [noun] A craft designed for transportation through air or space. | [noun] Dishes and cutlery collectively, especially if made of precious metals. VESTAL (9) [noun] A virgin consecrated to Vesta, and to the service of watching the sacred fire, which was to be perpetually kept burning upon her altar; a vestal virgin. | [noun] A female virgin; a woman who has never had sexual relations. | [noun] A nun. VESTAS (9) [noun] A short match, made of wood or wax VESTED (10) [verb] To clothe with, or as with, a vestment, or garment; to dress; to robe; to cover, surround, or encompass closely. | [verb] To clothe with authority, power, etc.; to put in possession; to invest; to furnish; to endow; followed by with and the thing conferred. | [verb] To place or give into the possession or discretion of some person or authority; to commit to another; with in before the possessor. VESTEE (9) [noun] A dickey, notably made to resemble a vest and be worn under a coat | [noun] A small woman's vest. VESTRY (12) [noun] A room in a church where the clergy put on their vestments and where these are stored; also used for meetings and classes; a sacristy. | [noun] A committee of parishioners elected to administer the temporal affairs of a parish. | [noun] An assembly of persons who manage parochial affairs; so called because usually held in a vestry. VETOED (10) [verb] To use a veto against. VETOER (9) VETOES (9) [noun] A political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc. | [noun] An invocation of that right. | [noun] An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction. VETTED (10) [verb] To thoroughly check or investigate particularly with regard to providing formal approval. | [adjective] Having undergone an investigation and been approved. VEXERS (16) VEXILS (16) VEXING (17) [verb] To trouble aggressively, to harass. | [verb] To annoy, irritate. | [verb] To cause (mental) suffering to; to distress. VIABLE (11) [noun] An organism that is able to live and develop. | [adjective] Able to live on its own (as for a newborn). | [adjective] Able to be done, possible. VIABLY (14) VIALED (10) VIANDS (10) [noun] An item of food eaten with rice. VIATIC (11) VIATOR (9) VIBIST (11) [noun] A vibraphone player; someone that plays the vibraphone. VIBRIO (11) [noun] Any of several bacteria, of the genus Vibrio, shaped like a curved rod. VICARS (11) [noun] In the Church of England, the priest of a parish, receiving a salary or stipend but not tithes. | [noun] In the Roman Catholic and some other churches, a cleric acting as local representative of a higher ranking member of the clergy. | [noun] A person acting on behalf of, or representing, another person. VICING (12) VICTIM (13) [noun] One that is harmed—killed, injured, subjected to oppression, deceived, or otherwise adversely affected—by someone or something, especially another person or event, force, or condition; in particular: | [noun] A living being which is slain and offered as a sacrifice, usually in a religious rite. VICTOR (11) [noun] The winner in a fight or contest. | [noun] The letter V in the ICAO spelling alphabet. VICUNA (11) [noun] A South American mammal, Vicugna vicugna, closely related to the alpaca, llama, and guanaco. VIDEOS (10) [noun] Television, television show, movie. | [noun] A short film clip, with or without audio (as in a music video, or one of the plethora of user-generated short movies on sites such as YouTube). | [noun] Motion picture stored on VHS or some other format. VIEWED (13) [verb] To look at. | [verb] To regard in a stated way. | [adjective] Having been viewed; having been seen, watched or witnessed. VIEWER (12) [noun] Someone who views a spectacle; an onlooker or spectator. | [noun] Someone who watches television. | [noun] Any optical device used to view photographic slides. VIGILS (10) [noun] An instance of keeping awake during normal sleeping hours, especially to keep watch or pray. | [noun] A period of observation or surveillance at any hour. | [noun] The eve of a religious festival in which staying awake is part of the ritual devotions. VIGORS (10) VIGOUR (10) [noun] Active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; energy. | [noun] Strength or force in animal or vegetable nature or action. | [noun] Strength; efficacy; potency. VIKING (14) [noun] One of the Scandinavian or other Northern European seafaring warriors that raided (and then settled) the British Isles and other parts of Europe in the 8th to the 11th centuries and, according to many historians, were the first Europeans to reach North America. | [noun] (by extension) A stock character common in the fantasy genre, namely a barbarian, generally equipped with an axe or sword and a helmet adorned with horns. | [noun] A Norseman (mediaeval Scandinavian). VILELY (12) VILEST (9) [adjective] Morally low; base; despicable. | [adjective] Causing physical or mental repulsion; horrid. VILIFY (15) [verb] To say defamatory things about someone or something; to speak ill of. | [verb] To belittle through speech; to put down. VILLAE (9) VILLAS (9) [noun] (plural "villas") A house, often larger and more expensive than average, in the countryside or on the coast, often used as a retreat. | [noun] (plural "villas") A family house, often semi-detached, in a middle class street. | [noun] (plural "villae") A country house, with farm buildings around a courtyard. VILLUS (9) [noun] A small projection from a membrane, particularly those found in the mucous membranes of the intestines. | [noun] One of the fine soft hairs on fruits, flowers, and other parts of plants. VIMINA (11) VINALS (9) VINCAS (11) [noun] Any of several evergreen shrubs, of the genus Vinca, including the periwinkle VINEAL (9) VINERY (12) [noun] A vineyard. | [noun] A structure, usually enclosed with glass, for rearing and protecting vines; a grapery. VINIER (9) VINIFY (15) [verb] To convert the juice of a fruit (especially that of the grape) into wine by fermentation. VINING (10) [noun] A twisting, twining pattern or motion. | [adjective] Growing in the manner of a vine; twisting and entwining. VINOUS (9) [adjective] Pertaining to or having the characteristics of wine. | [adjective] Tending to drink wine excessively. | [adjective] Affected by the drinking of wine. VINYLS (12) [noun] The univalent radical CH2=CH−, derived from ethylene. | [noun] Any of various compounds and substances containing the vinyl radical, especially various tough, flexible, shiny plastics. | [noun] Phonograph records as a medium. VIOLAS (9) [noun] A stringed instrument of the violin family, somewhat larger than a violin, played under the chin, and having a deeper tone. | [noun] An organ stop having a similar tone. | [noun] A 10-string steel-string acoustic guitar, used in Brazilian folk music. VIOLET (9) [noun] A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice. | [noun] The bulb of such a plant. | [noun] The genus as a whole. VIOLIN (9) [noun] A musical four-string instrument, generally played with a bow or by plucking the string, with the pitch set by pressing the strings at the appropriate place with the fingers; also any instrument of the violin family. | [noun] A violinist. | [verb] To play on, or as if on, a violin. VIPERS (11) [noun] A venomous snake in the family Viperidae. | [noun] A dangerous, treacherous, or malignant person. | [noun] A person who smokes marijuana. VIRAGO (10) [noun] A woman given to undue belligerence or ill manner at the slightest provocation. | [noun] A woman who is scolding, domineering, or highly opinionated. | [noun] A woman who is rough, loud, and aggressive. VIREOS (9) [noun] Any of a number of small insectivorous passerine birds, of the genus Vireo, that have grey-green plumage. | [noun] Any bird of the family Vireonidae, which includes vireos, shrike-vireo, greenlets and peppershrikes. | [noun] (in plural) The family Vireonidae. VIRGAS (10) VIRGIN (10) [noun] A person who has never had sexual intercourse, or sometimes, one who has never engaged in any sexual activity at all. | [noun] (early Christian Church) a woman noted for religious piety who has never been married. | [noun] One who has never used or experienced a specified thing. VIRILE (9) [adjective] Being manly; having characteristics associated with being male, such as strength; exhibiting masculine traits to an exaggerated degree such as strength, forcefulness or vigor. | [adjective] (of a male) Possessing high sexual drive and capacity for sexual intercourse. | [adjective] (grammar) Pertaining to a grammatical gender used in plurals of some Slavic languages, corresponding to the personal masculine animate nouns. VIRION (9) [noun] A single individual particle of a virus (the viral equivalent of a cell). VIROID (10) [noun] A short section of RNA but without the protein coat typical of viruses, that are plant pathogens | [noun] Certain defective viruses, such as hepatitis D, a human pathogen. VIRTUE (9) [noun] Accordance with moral principles; conformity of behaviour or thought with the strictures of morality; good moral conduct. | [noun] A particular manifestation of moral excellence in a person; an admirable quality. | [noun] Specifically, each of several qualities held to be particularly important, including the four cardinal virtues, the three theological virtues, or the seven virtues opposed to the seven deadly sins. VIRTUS (9) VISAED (10) VISAGE (10) [noun] Countenance; appearance; one's face. VISARD (10) VISCID (12) [adjective] Viscous; having a high viscosity. | [adjective] Sticky, slimy, or glutinous. | [adjective] Covered with a viscid layer. VISCUS (11) [noun] One of the organs, as the brain, heart, or stomach, in the great cavities of the body of an animal; especially used in the plural, and applied to the organs contained in the abdomen. | [noun] Specifically, the intestines. VISEED (10) VISING (10) VISION (9) [noun] The sense or ability of sight. | [noun] Something seen; an object perceived visually. | [noun] Something imaginary one thinks one sees. VISITS (9) [noun] A single act of visiting. | [noun] A meeting with a doctor at their surgery or the doctor's at one's home. | [verb] To habitually go to (someone in distress, sickness etc.) to comfort them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.) VISIVE (12) VISORS (9) [noun] A part of a helmet, arranged so as to lift or open, and so show the face. The openings for seeing and breathing are generally in it. | [noun] A mask for the face. | [noun] The fore piece of a cap, projecting over, and protecting the eyes. VISTAS (9) [noun] A distant view or prospect, especially one seen through some opening, avenue or passage. | [noun] A site offering such a view. | [noun] A vision; a view presented to the mind in prospect or in retrospect by the imagination. VISUAL (9) [noun] Any element of something that depends on sight. | [noun] An image; a picture; a graphic. | [noun] (in the plural) All the visual elements of a multimedia presentation or entertainment, usually in contrast with normal text or audio. VITALS (9) [noun] Those organs of the body that are essential for life. | [noun] Those parts of a system without which it cannot function. | [noun] Vital signs. VITRIC (11) VITTAE (9) [noun] A fillet, or garland for the head. | [noun] A longitudinal stripe. | [noun] An oil tube in the fruit of some plants. VITTLE (9) [noun] Food. | [noun] (in the plural) Food; edible provisions. | [verb] To provide or obtain edible provisions. VIVACE (14) VIVARY (15) VIVERS (12) [noun] Provisions; victuals VIVIFY (18) [verb] To bring to life; to enliven. | [verb] To impart vitality. VIXENS (16) [noun] A female fox. | [noun] A malicious, quarrelsome or temperamental woman. | [noun] A racy or salacious woman. VIZARD (19) [noun] A mask (cover for the face, used for disguise, protection, etc.) | [noun] A visor (part of a helmet covering the face). | [noun] Outward appearance; pretense. VIZIER (18) [noun] A high-ranking official or minister in an Islamic government, especially in the Ottoman Empire. | [noun] Vicegerent, viceroy | [noun] A fairy chess piece that can only be moved one space up, down, left or right. VIZIRS (18) VIZORS (18) [noun] A part of a helmet, arranged so as to lift or open, and so show the face. The openings for seeing and breathing are generally in it. | [noun] A mask for the face. | [noun] The fore piece of a cap, projecting over, and protecting the eyes. VIZSLA (18) [noun] A dog breed originating in Hungary. VOCALS (11) [noun] A vocal sound; specifically, a purely vocal element of speech, unmodified except by resonance; a vowel or a diphthong; a tonic element; a tonic; distinguished from a subvocal, and a nonvocal | [noun] (Roman Catholic Church) A man who has a right to vote in certain elections. | [noun] The words of a song together with other sounds sung by a vocalist VODKAS (14) [noun] A clear distilled alcoholic liquor made from grain mash. | [noun] A serving of the above beverage. | [noun] Neutral spirits distilled (or treated after distillation) so as to have no distinctive character, aroma, taste or color. VODOUN (10) VODUNS (10) VOGUED (11) [verb] To dance in the vogue dance style. | [verb] To light a cigarette. VOGUER (10) VOGUES (10) [noun] The prevailing fashion or style. | [noun] Popularity or a current craze. | [noun] A highly stylized modern dance that evolved out of the Harlem ballroom scene in the 1960s. VOICED (12) [verb] To give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish; to announce | [verb] To utter audibly, with tone and not just breath. | [verb] To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of VOICER (11) [noun] One who voices something. | [noun] One who fits or regulates the pipes of an organ so as to produce the desired quality of sound. | [noun] A spoken report to be broadcast. VOICES (11) [noun] Sound uttered by the mouth, especially by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character | [noun] Sound made through vibration of the vocal cords; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; — distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in whispering and voiceless consonants. | [noun] The tone or sound emitted by an object VOIDED (11) [verb] To make invalid or worthless. | [verb] To empty. | [verb] To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge. VOIDER (10) VOILES (9) [noun] A light, translucent cotton fabric used for making curtains and dresses. VOLANT (9) [adjective] Having extended wings as if flying. | [adjective] Represented as unsupported in the air. | [adjective] Flying, or able to fly. VOLERY (12) VOLING (10) VOLLEY (12) [noun] The simultaneous firing of a number of missiles or bullets; the projectiles so fired | [noun] A burst or emission of many things at once. | [noun] The flight of a ball just before it bounces VOLOST (9) VOLTES (9) [noun] A turning; a time (chiefly used in phrases signifying that the part is to be repeated). | [noun] A volte | [noun] A turning point or point of change in a poem, most commonly a sonnet. VOLUME (11) [noun] A three-dimensional measure of space that comprises a length, a width and a height. It is measured in units of cubic centimeters in metric, cubic inches or cubic feet in English measurement. | [noun] Strength of sound; loudness. | [noun] The issues of a periodical over a period of one year. VOLUTE (9) [noun] The characteristic spiral curve on an Ionic capital, widely copied in other styles and in neoclassical architecture. | [noun] The spirals or whorls on a gastropod's shell. | [noun] Any marine gastropod of the family Volutidae. VOLVAS (12) [noun] A cup-shaped mass at the base of various fungi. | [noun] In Old Norse society, a female practitioner of magic divination and prophecy. | [noun] (by extension) Any prophetess, sooth-sayer, or witch. VOLVOX (19) [noun] Any of the genus Volvox of chlorophytes. VOMERS (11) [noun] The vomer bone; the small thin bone that forms part of the septum between the nostrils. VOMICA (13) VOMITO (11) VOMITS (11) [verb] To regurgitate or eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; puke. | [verb] To regurgitate and discharge (something swallowed); to spew. | [verb] To eject from any hollow place; to belch forth; to emit. VOODOO (10) [noun] Any of a group of related religious practices found chiefly in and around the Caribbean, particularly in Haiti and Louisiana. | [noun] The spiritual beliefs of the Ewe/Fon of West Africa, practiced chiefly in Benin and in the south of Togo. | [noun] Any sort of magical or irrational approach to a problem. VORTEX (16) [noun] A whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column. | [noun] Anything that involves constant violent or chaotic activity around some centre. | [noun] Anything that inevitably draws surrounding things into its current. VOTARY (12) [noun] A person, such as a monk or nun, who lives a religious life according to vows they have made | [noun] A devotee of a particular religion or cult | [noun] A devout or zealous worshipper VOTERS (9) [noun] Someone who votes. VOTING (10) [verb] To cast a vote; to assert a formalized choice in an election | [verb] To choose or grant by means of a vote, or by general consent | [noun] Action of the verb to vote VOTIVE (12) [noun] A hymn or chant dedicated to a particular saint, or to the Virgin Mary | [adjective] Dedicated or given in fulfillment of a vow or pledge | [adjective] Of, expressing or symbolizing a vow. Often used to describe thick cylindrical candles found in many churches, lit when making a private vow or asking a private intention. VOWELS (12) [noun] A sound produced by the vocal cords with relatively little restriction of the oral cavity, forming the prominent sound of a syllable. | [noun] A letter representing the sound of vowel; in English, the vowels are a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y. VOWERS (12) VOWING (13) [verb] To make a vow; to promise. | [verb] To make a vow regarding (something). | [verb] To declare publicly that one has made a vow, usually to show one's determination or to announce an act of retaliation. VOYAGE (13) [noun] A long journey, especially by ship. | [noun] The act or practice of travelling. | [verb] To go on a long journey. VOYEUR (12) [noun] A person who derives sexual pleasure from secretly observing other people, especially when such people are engaged in some sexual activity. | [noun] An obsessive observer of sensational or sordid subjects. VROOMS (11) [noun] The sound of an engine revving up. | [verb] To move with great speed; to zoom. VROUWS (12) [noun] A Dutchwoman. VULGAR (10) [noun] (classicism) A common, ordinary person. | [noun] (collective) The common people. | [noun] The vernacular tongue or common language of a country. VULGUS (10) VULVAE (12) VULVAL (12) VULVAR (12) VULVAS (12) [noun] The external female sexual organs, collectively. WAIVED (13) [verb] To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forego. | [verb] To put aside, avoid. | [verb] To outlaw (someone). WAIVER (12) [noun] The act of waiving, or not insisting on, some right, claim, or privilege. | [noun] A legal document removing some requirement, such as waiving a right (giving it up) or a waiver of liability (agreeing to hold someone blameless). | [noun] Something that releases a person from a requirement. WAIVES (12) [verb] To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forego. | [verb] To put aside, avoid. | [verb] To outlaw (someone). WAVERS (12) [noun] An act of wavering, vacillating, etc. | [noun] Someone who waves, enjoys waving, etc. | [noun] Someone who specializes in waving (hair treatment). WAVERY (15) [adjective] Tending to waver; uncertain or hesitant. WAVEYS (15) WAVIER (12) [adjective] Rising or swelling in waves. | [adjective] Full of waves. | [adjective] Moving to and fro; undulating. WAVIES (12) WAVILY (15) WAVING (13) [verb] To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forego. | [verb] To put aside, avoid. | [verb] To outlaw (someone). WEAVED (13) [verb] To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another. | [verb] To spin a cocoon or a web. | [verb] To unite by close connection or intermixture. WEAVER (12) [noun] One who weaves. | [noun] A strand of material used in weaving. | [noun] A weaverbird. WEAVES (12) [noun] A type or way of weaving. | [noun] Human or artificial hair worn to alter one's appearance, either to supplement or to cover the natural hair. | [verb] To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another. WEEVER (12) [noun] Any of the usually brown fish in family Trachinidae, which catch prey by burying themselves in the sand and snatching them as they go past. WEEVIL (12) [noun] Any of several small herbivorous beetles in the superfamily Curculionoidea, many having a distinctive snout. | [noun] Any of several small herbivorous beetles in the family Curculionidae belonging to the superfamily Curculionoidea. | [noun] Any of several similar but more distantly related beetles such as the biscuit weevil (Stegobium paniceum). WHARVE (15) WHERVE (15) WIVERN (12) [noun] A draconian creature possessing wings, only two legs and usually a barbed tail. WIVERS (12) WIVING (13) [verb] To marry (a woman). | [verb] To provide (someone) with a wife. WOLVER (12) WOLVES (12) [noun] The gray wolf, specifically all subspecies of the gray wolf (Canis lupus) that are not dingoes or dogs. | [noun] A man who makes amorous advances to many women. | [noun] A wolf tone or wolf note. WOVENS (12) WYVERN (15) [noun] A draconian creature possessing wings, only two legs and usually a barbed tail. ZOUAVE (18)

ABSOLVE (12) [verb] To set free, release or discharge (from obligations, debts, responsibility etc.). | [verb] To resolve; to explain; to solve. | [verb] To pronounce free from or give absolution for a penalty, blame, or guilt. ABUSIVE (12) [adjective] Prone to treat someone badly by coarse, insulting words or other maltreatment; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous. | [adjective] Tending to deceive; fraudulent. | [adjective] Tending to misuse; practising or containing abuse. ABVOLTS (12) [noun] Units of electrical potential difference in the centimeter-gram-second system of units, equal to one hundred-millionth of a volt. ACHIEVE (15) [verb] To succeed in something, now especially in academic performance. | [verb] To carry out successfully; to accomplish. | [verb] To conclude, finish, especially successfully. ACTIVES (12) [noun] A person or thing that is acting or capable of acting. | [noun] Any component that is not passive. See Passivity (engineering). ADVANCE (13) [noun] A forward move; improvement or progression. | [noun] An amount of money or credit, especially given as a loan, or paid before it is due; an advancement. | [noun] An addition to the price; rise in price or value. ADVECTS (13) [verb] To transport (something) by advection. ADVENTS (11) [noun] Arrival; onset; a time when something first comes or appears ADVERBS (13) [noun] (grammar) A word that modifies a verb, adjective, other adverbs, or various other types of words, phrases, or clauses. | [verb] To make into or become an adverb. ADVERSE (11) [adjective] Unfavorable; antagonistic in purpose or effect; hostile; actively opposing one's interests or wishes; contrary to one's welfare; acting against; working in an opposing direction. | [adjective] Opposed; contrary; opposing one's interests or desire. | [adjective] Opposite; confronting. ADVERTS (11) [noun] An advertisement, an ad. | [verb] To take notice, to pay attention (to). | [verb] To turn attention to, to take notice of (something). ADVICES (13) [noun] An opinion offered in an effort to be helpful. | [noun] Deliberate consideration; knowledge. | [noun] (commonly in plural) Information or news given; intelligence ADVISED (12) [verb] To give advice to; to offer an opinion to, as worthy or expedient to be followed. | [verb] To recommend; to offer as advice. | [verb] To give information or notice to; to inform or counsel; — with of before the thing communicated. ADVISEE (11) [noun] A person who receives advice from an adviser or advisor. ADVISER (11) [noun] One who advises ADVISES (11) [verb] To give advice to; to offer an opinion to, as worthy or expedient to be followed. | [verb] To recommend; to offer as advice. | [verb] To give information or notice to; to inform or counsel; — with of before the thing communicated. ADVISOR (11) [noun] One who offers advice. AGRAVIC (13) AIRWAVE (13) AKVAVIT (17) [noun] A Scandinavian liquor that is about 40% alcohol by volume; distilled from potato or grain mash and flavored with caraway seeds, anise, fennel, dill and other spices and herbs, depending on variety. ALCOVED (13) ALCOVES (12) [noun] A small recessed area set off from a larger room. | [noun] A shady retreat. ALEVINS (10) [noun] Newly hatched fish, especially salmon. ALLOVER (10) [adjective] Over the whole area or extent ALLUVIA (10) ALVEOLI (10) [noun] A small cavity or pit. | [noun] An anatomical structure that has the form of a hollow cavity, as: AMATIVE (12) AMUSIVE (12) [adjective] Amusing or entertaining in a mildly playful way. ANCHOVY (18) [noun] Any small saltwater fish of the Engraulidae family, consisting of 160 species in 16 genera, of which the genus Engraulis is widely sold as food. ANVILED (11) APPROVE (14) [verb] To sanction officially; to ratify; to confirm; to set as satisfactory. | [verb] To regard as good; to commend; to be pleased with; to think well of. | [verb] To make proof of; to demonstrate; to prove or show practically. | [verb] (English law) To make profit of; to convert to one's own profit — said especially of waste or common land appropriated by the lord of the manor. AQUAVIT (19) [noun] A Scandinavian liquor that is about 40% alcohol by volume; distilled from potato or grain mash and flavored with caraway seeds, anise, fennel, dill and other spices and herbs, depending on variety. AQUIVER (19) [adjective] In a state of excitement, trepidation or agitation; quivering. ARCHIVE (15) [noun] A place for storing earlier, and often historical, material. An archive usually contains documents (letters, records, newspapers, etc.) or other types of media kept for historical interest. | [noun] The material so kept, considered as a whole (compare archives). | [noun] Natural deposits of material, regarded as a record of environmental changes over time. ARRIVAL (10) [noun] The act of arriving or something that has arrived. | [noun] The attainment of an objective, especially as a result of effort. | [noun] A person who has arrived. ARRIVED (11) [verb] To reach; to get to a certain place. | [verb] To obtain a level of success or fame; to succeed. | [verb] To come; said of time. ARRIVER (10) [noun] One who arrives. | [noun] A newcomer or newly arrived person. ARRIVES (10) [verb] To reach; to get to a certain place. | [verb] To obtain a level of success or fame; to succeed. | [verb] To come; said of time. ATAVISM (12) [noun] The reappearance of an ancestral characteristic in an organism after several generations of absence. | [noun] The recurrence or reversion to a past behaviour, method, characteristic or style after a long period of absence. | [noun] Reversion to past primitive behavior, especially violence. ATAVIST (10) [noun] A person who exhibits atavism, showing characteristics or behaviors of remote ancestors. | [noun] An organism that displays atavistic traits or ancestral features. AVAILED (11) [verb] To turn to the advantage of. | [verb] To be of service to. | [verb] To promote; to assist. AVARICE (12) [noun] Excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greed for wealth | [noun] Inordinate desire for some supposed good. AVATARS (10) [noun] The incarnation of a deity, particularly Vishnu. | [noun] The physical embodiment of an idea or concept; a personification. | [noun] A digital representation of a person or being; often, it can take on any of various forms, as a participant chooses. e.g. 3D, animated, photo, sketch of a person or a person's alter ego, sometimes used in a virtual world or virtual chat room. AVELLAN (10) AVENGED (12) [verb] To take vengeance (for); to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer. | [verb] To take vengeance. | [verb] To treat revengefully; to wreak vengeance on. AVENGER (11) [noun] One who avenges or vindicates | [noun] One who takes vengeance. AVENGES (11) [noun] An act of vengeance; a revenge. AVENSES (10) AVENUES (10) [noun] A broad street, especially one bordered by trees. | [noun] A way or opening for entrance into a place; a passage by which a place may be reached; a way of approach or of exit. | [noun] The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered. AVERAGE (11) [noun] The arithmetic mean. | [noun] Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode. | [noun] (marine) Financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss. | [noun] The service that a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the animals of the tenant, such as the transportation of wheat, turf, etc. AVERRED (11) [verb] To assert the truth of, to affirm with confidence; to declare in a positive manner. | [verb] To prove or justify a plea. | [verb] To avouch, prove, or verify; to offer to verify. AVERTED (11) [verb] To turn aside or away. | [verb] To ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of. | [verb] To turn away. AVGASES (11) AVIATED (11) [verb] To operate an aircraft. AVIATES (10) [verb] To operate an aircraft. AVIATOR (10) [noun] An aircraft pilot. The use of the word may imply claims of superior airmanship, as in navy aviator vs. air force pilot. | [noun] An experimenter in aviation. | [noun] A flying machine. AVIDINS (11) [noun] Proteins found in egg white that bind tightly to biotin, used in biochemical research and diagnostic assays. AVIDITY (14) [noun] Greediness; strong appetite. | [noun] Eagerness; intenseness of desire. | [noun] The measure of the synergism of the strength of individual interactions between proteins. AVIONIC (12) [adjective] Of or relating to aviation electronics and systems used in aircraft. AVOCADO (13) [noun] The large, usually yellowish-green or black, pulpy fruit of the avocado tree. | [noun] The avocado tree, Persea americana, of the laurel family. | [noun] A dark chartreuse colour, like the colour of the skin of an avocado. AVOCETS (12) [noun] Any of four species of wading birds in the genus Recurvirostra, of the family Recurvirostridae, with long, slender recurved bills, long legs, and webbed feet. AVODIRE (11) [noun] A tropical West African timber tree with pale yellowish wood, used for furniture and veneer. AVOIDED (12) [verb] To try not to meet or communicate with (a person); to shun | [verb] To keep away from; to keep clear of; to stay away from | [verb] To try not to do something or to have something happen AVOIDER (11) [noun] A person who avoids something or someone. AVOSETS (10) [noun] Plural of avoset, a wading bird with a long, slender, upturned bill. AVOWALS (13) [noun] Plural of avowal; explicit declarations or assertions of something, typically made earnestly or solemnly. AVOWERS (13) [noun] Plural of avower; people who avow or openly declare something. | [verb] Third person singular present of avow; declares or asserts openly. AVOWING (14) [verb] To declare openly and boldly, as something believed to be right; to own, acknowledge or confess frankly. | [verb] To bind or devote by a vow. | [verb] To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See avowry. AVULSED (11) [verb] To tear off forcibly. | [adjective] (of a piece of flesh or body part) Having been torn off, as in an avulsion. | [adjective] (of a wound) Having been caused by a piece of flesh or body part being torn off, as in an avulsion. AVULSES (10) [verb] To tear off forcibly. BAKLAVA (16) [noun] A popular sweet pastry found in many cuisines of the Middle East and the Balkans, made of chopped nuts layered with phyllo pastry. BEAVERS (12) [noun] A semiaquatic rodent of the genus Castor, having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet. | [noun] A hat, of various shapes, made from a felted beaver fur (or later of silk), fashionable in Europe between 1550 and 1850. | [noun] The pubic hair and/or vulva of a woman. BEDEVIL (13) [verb] To harass or cause trouble for; to plague. | [verb] To perplex or bewilder. BEEHIVE (15) [noun] A 12- to 13-year-old participant in the Young Women organization of the LDS Church. | [noun] An enclosed structure in which some species of honey bees (genus Apis) live and raise their young. | [noun] A man-made structure in which bees are kept for their honey. BEHAVED (16) [verb] To conduct (oneself) well, or in a given way. | [verb] To act, conduct oneself in a specific manner; used with an adverbial of manner. | [verb] To conduct, manage, regulate (something). BEHAVER (15) [noun] One who behaves; a person whose conduct or deportment is of a specified kind. BEHAVES (15) [verb] To conduct (oneself) well, or in a given way. | [verb] To act, conduct oneself in a specific manner; used with an adverbial of manner. | [verb] To conduct, manage, regulate (something). BEHOOVE (15) [verb] To befit, to suit. | [verb] To be necessary for (someone). | [verb] To be in the best interest of; to benefit. BEHOVED (16) [verb] To befit, to suit. | [verb] To be necessary for (someone). | [verb] To be in the best interest of; to benefit. BEHOVES (15) [verb] To befit, to suit. | [verb] To be necessary for (someone). | [verb] To be in the best interest of; to benefit. BELIEVE (12) [verb] To accept as true, particularly without absolute certainty (i.e., as opposed to knowing) | [verb] To accept that someone is telling the truth. | [verb] To have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth. BELOVED (13) [verb] To please. | [verb] To be pleased with; like. | [verb] To love. BEREAVE (12) [verb] To deprive by or as if by violence; to rob; to strip; to benim. | [verb] To take away by destroying, impairing, or spoiling; take away by violence. | [verb] To deprive of power; prevent. BEVELED (13) [verb] To give a canted edge to a surface; to chamfer. | [adjective] Having a bevel, especially at an edge BEVELER (12) [noun] A tool or person that cuts or shapes beveled edges. | [noun] A device used to measure or mark angles. BEVOMIT (14) BIVALVE (15) [noun] Any mollusc belonging to the taxonomic class Bivalvia, characterized by a shell consisting of two hinged sections, such as a scallop, clam, mussel or oyster. | [noun] A pericarp in which the seed case opens or splits into two parts or valves. BIVINYL (15) BIVOUAC (14) [noun] An encampment for the night, usually without tents or covering. | [noun] Any temporary encampment. | [noun] A temporary shelter constructed generally for a few nights. BOLIVAR (12) [noun] The currency of Venezuela, divided into 100 céntimos. BOLIVIA (12) BOUVIER (12) [noun] A large dog breed of Belgian origin, used historically for herding cattle. BOVINES (12) [noun] An animal of the family, subfamily, tribe, or genera including cattle, buffaloes and bison. BRAVADO (13) [noun] A swaggering show of defiance or courage. | [noun] A false show of courage. | [noun] A swaggerer; a braggart. BRAVELY (15) [adverb] In a brave manner. BRAVERS (12) [verb] Third person singular of brave; to face or endure something difficult or dangerous with courage. | [noun] Plural of braver; people who act with courage. BRAVERY (15) [noun] (usually uncountable) Being brave, courageousness. | [noun] A brave act. | [noun] Splendor, magnificence BRAVEST (12) [adjective] Strong in the face of fear; courageous. | [adjective] Having any sort of superiority or excellence. | [adjective] Making a fine show or display. BRAVING (13) [verb] To encounter with courage and fortitude, to defy, to provoke. | [verb] To adorn; to make fine or showy. | [noun] A bravado; a boast. BRAVOED (13) [verb] Past tense of "bravo," meaning to applaud or cheer someone with the exclamation "bravo." BRAVOES (12) [noun] A hired soldier; an assassin; a desperado. | [noun] A shout of "bravo!" | [noun] The letter B in the ICAO spelling alphabet. BRAVURA (12) [noun] A highly technical or difficult piece, usually written for effect. | [noun] A display of daring. | [adjective] Overly showy; ostentatious. BRAVURE (12) [noun] A brilliant display of skill or daring, especially in music or performance. | [noun] A passage in a musical composition requiring great technical skill from the performer. BREVETS (12) [noun] A military document entitling a commissioned officer to hold a higher rank temporarily, but without an increase in pay. | [noun] A warrant from the government, granting a privilege, title, or dignity, as in France. | [noun] An organized, long-distance bicycle ride — not a race, but a test of endurance — which follows a designated but unmarked route passing through check points. BREVIER (12) [noun] A size of type in printing, smaller than bourgeois and larger than minion. | [noun] A book of prayers or devotions in the Christian church. BREVITY (15) [noun] The quality of being brief in duration. | [noun] Succinctness; conciseness. | [noun] A short piece of writing. CADAVER (13) [noun] A dead body; especially the corpse of a human to be dissected. CALVARY (15) [noun] A representation of the Crucifixion of Jesus, often depicted as a sculptured or painted scene. | [noun] The place where Jesus was crucified, located outside Jerusalem. CALVING (13) [verb] To give birth to a calf | [verb] To assist in a cow's giving birth to a calf | [verb] To give birth to (a calf) CANVASS (12) [verb] To conduct a survey or poll of people to gather opinions or information. | [verb] To examine or discuss thoroughly. | [noun] A coarse fabric made from cotton or hemp, used for painting or sails. CAPTIVE (14) [noun] One who has been captured or is otherwise confined. | [noun] One held prisoner. | [noun] One charmed or subdued by beauty, excellence, or affection; one who is captivated. CARAVAN (12) [noun] A convoy or procession of travelers, their vehicles and cargo, and any pack animals, especially camels crossing a desert. | [noun] A furnished vehicle towed behind a car, etc., and used as a dwelling when stationary. | [verb] To travel in a caravan (procession). CARAVEL (12) [noun] A light, usually lateen-rigged sailing ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish for about 300 years from the 15th century, first for trade and later for voyages of exploration. CARVELS (12) [noun] A light, usually lateen-rigged sailing ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish for about 300 years from the 15th century, first for trade and later for voyages of exploration. | [noun] The sea blubber (Cyanea capillata); A jellyfish (Medusozoa). CARVERS (12) [noun] Someone who carves. | [noun] A carving knife. | [noun] A butcher. CARVING (13) [verb] To cut. | [verb] To cut meat in order to serve it. | [verb] To shape to sculptural effect; to produce (a work) by cutting, or to cut (a material) into a finished work. CASAVAS (12) CASSAVA (12) [noun] Manioc (Manihot esculenta), a tropical plant which is the source of tapioca. | [noun] Tapioca, a starchy pulp made with manioc roots. CAVALLA (12) [noun] A large game fish of the jack family found in tropical and subtropical Atlantic waters, also known as a kingfish. CAVALLY (15) [noun] A large marine fish of the jack family, found in tropical Atlantic waters, also called a crevalle jack. CAVALRY (15) [noun] The military arm of service that fights while riding horses. | [noun] An individual unit of the cavalry arm of service. | [noun] The branch of the military transported by fast light vehicles, also known as mechanized cavalry. CAVEATS (12) [noun] A warning. | [noun] A qualification or exemption. | [noun] A formal objection. CAVEMAN (14) [noun] An early human or closely related species, popularly held to reside in caves. | [noun] A brutish or savage person. | [noun] A man with old-fashioned or backward opinions, particularly with regard to women. CAVEMEN (14) [noun] An early human or closely related species, popularly held to reside in caves. | [noun] A brutish or savage person. | [noun] A man with old-fashioned or backward opinions, particularly with regard to women. CAVERNS (12) [noun] A large cave. | [noun] An underground chamber. CAVETTI (12) [noun] Plural of cavetto, a concave molding used in architecture, typically a quarter-circle in profile. CAVETTO (12) [noun] A concave molding with a quarter-circle profile, commonly used in classical architecture. CAVIARE (12) [noun] Roe of the sturgeon or other large fish, considered a delicacy. | [noun] Something whose flavour is too fine for the vulgar taste. CAVIARS (12) [noun] Roe of the sturgeon or other large fish, considered a delicacy. | [noun] Something whose flavour is too fine for the vulgar taste. CAVILED (13) [verb] To criticise for petty or frivolous reasons. CAVILER (12) [noun] One who cavils; a person who makes petty or unnecessary objections. CAVINGS (13) [noun] Plural of caving; the sport or activity of exploring caves. | [noun] Plural of caving; the collapse of a surface into a cavity beneath it. CAVORTS (12) [verb] (originally intransitive) To prance, said of mounts | [verb] To move about carelessly, playfully or boisterously. CENTAVO (12) [noun] Currency unit (hundredth of a peso) in Mexico | [noun] A similar subdenomination of various other currencies. CERVINE (12) [adjective] Pertaining to a deer; deer-like. CEVICHE (17) [noun] Raw seafood cured by marination in an acidic medium such as citrus, vinegar, or other souring agent, found primarily in Latin America. CHERVIL (15) [noun] A leafy herb, Anthriscus cerefolium, resembling parsley. | [noun] Leaves from the plant, used as an herb in cooking, which have a mild flavor of anise. CHEVIED (16) [verb] To chase or hunt. | [verb] To vex or harass with petty attacks. | [verb] To maneuver or secure gradually. CHEVIES (15) [noun] A hunt or pursuit; a chase. | [noun] A cry used in hunting. | [noun] The game of prisoners' bars. CHEVIOT (15) [noun] A coarse woolen fabric made from the wool of Cheviot sheep. CHEVRES (15) [noun] Plural of chèvre, a soft cheese made from goat's milk. CHEVRON (15) [noun] A V-shaped pattern; used in architecture, and as an insignia of military or police rank, on the sleeve | [noun] A wide inverted V placed on a shield. | [noun] One of the V-shaped markings on the surface of roads used to indicate minimum distances between vehicles. CHIVARI (15) [noun] A noisy mock serenade performed outside the residence of a newly married couple, typically involving banging on pots and pans and other disruptive sounds. | [noun] A cacophony or discordant noise. CHIVIED (16) [verb] To chase or hunt. | [verb] To vex or harass with petty attacks. | [verb] To maneuver or secure gradually. CHIVIES (15) [noun] A hunt or pursuit; a chase. | [noun] A cry used in hunting. | [noun] The game of prisoners' bars. CIVILLY (15) [adverb] In a polite, courteous, or respectful manner. | [adverb] In accordance with civil law or civil procedure. CIVISMS (14) CIVVIES (15) [noun] Civilian clothes | [noun] A civilian; someone who is not in the military. CLAVATE (12) [adjective] Resembling a club, becoming increasingly wide from the base to the distal end. CLAVERS (12) [noun] Gossip or idle talk; chatter. | [noun] Plural of claver, one who clavs or gossips. CLAVIER (12) [noun] The keyboard of an organ, pianoforte, or harmonium. CLEAVED (13) [adjective] Cleft or cloven. CLEAVER (12) [noun] A squarish, heavy knife used by butchers for hacking through bones, etc. | [noun] (Bahamas) A type of clave, or rhythm stick, a concussive musical instrument used in traditional Bahamian music. | [noun] (metaphoric) The act of eliminating someone or something, especially when done by someone with a history of other eliminations; a dismissal, rejection, or removal. CLEAVES (12) [verb] To split or sever something with, or as if with, a sharp instrument. | [verb] To break a single crystal (such as a gemstone or semiconductor wafer) along one of its more symmetrical crystallographic planes (often by impact), forming facets on the resulting pieces. | [verb] To make or accomplish by or as if by cutting. CLIVERS (12) [noun] Plural of cliver, a climbing or clinging plant, particularly cleavers (a sticky plant with hooked hairs). CLIVIAS (12) [noun] Any plant of the genus Clivia, native to southern Africa. CLOVERS (12) [noun] A plant of the genus Trifolium with leaves usually divided into three (rarely four) leaflets and with white or red flowers. | [noun] The second Lenormand card, representing hope, optimism and short-term luck. COAEVAL (12) [adjective] Existing or occurring at the same time; contemporary. | [noun] A person or thing that is coeval with another. CODRIVE (13) [verb] To drive a vehicle jointly with another person, typically taking turns at the wheel. CODROVE (13) COEVALS (12) [noun] Something of the same era. | [noun] Somebody of the same age. COMMOVE (16) [verb] To disturb or agitate emotionally; to move or stir up. CONCAVE (14) [noun] A concave surface or curve. | [noun] The vault of the sky. | [noun] One of the celestial spheres of the Ptolemaic or geocentric model of the world. CONNIVE (12) [verb] Often followed by with: to secretly cooperate with another person or persons in order to commit a crime or other wrongdoing; to collude, to conspire. | [verb] Of parts of a plant: to be converging or in close contact; to be connivent. | [verb] Often followed by at: to pretend to be ignorant of something in order to escape blame; to ignore or overlook a fault deliberately. CONVECT (14) [verb] To carry or convey; to move (a warm fluid) upward through a cooler fluid, to transfer heat or a fluid by convection. CONVENE (12) [verb] To come together; to meet; to unite. | [verb] To come together, as in one body or for a public purpose; to meet; to assemble. | [verb] To cause to assemble; to call together; to convoke. CONVENT (12) [noun] A religious community whose members (especially nuns) live under strict observation of religious rules and self-imposed vows. | [noun] The buildings and pertaining surroundings in which such a community lives. | [noun] A Christian school. CONVERT (12) [noun] A person who has converted to a religion. | [noun] A person who is now in favour of something that he or she previously opposed or disliked. | [noun] The equivalent of a conversion in rugby CONVEYS (15) [verb] To move (something) from one place to another. | [verb] To take or carry (someone) from one place to another. | [verb] To communicate; to make known; to portray. CONVICT (14) [noun] A person convicted of a crime by a judicial body. | [noun] A person deported to a penal colony. | [noun] The convict cichlid (Amatitlania nigrofasciata), also known as the zebra cichlid, a popular aquarium fish, with stripes that resemble a prison uniform. CONVOKE (16) [verb] To convene, to cause to assemble for a meeting. | [verb] To call together. CONVOYS (15) [noun] One or more merchant ships sailing in company to the same general destination under the protection of naval vessels. | [noun] A group of vehicles travelling together for safety, especially one with an escort. | [noun] The act of convoying; protection. CORVEES (12) [noun] Unpaid labor required by a feudal lord. | [noun] Labor, especially for roads or dams, in lieu of taxes. CORVETS (12) [noun] Plural of corvet, a horse's movement in which it leaps with all four feet off the ground simultaneously, or a ship's movement; a prancing leap or bound. CORVINA (12) [noun] Any of various fish, including Cilus gilberti, Larimichthys polyactis, and members of the genera Cynoscion and Isopisthus. | [noun] A red Italian grape variety, used in wines from Valpolicella and the wider region around the city of Verona. CORVINE (12) [adjective] Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of crows or ravens. COSTIVE (12) [adjective] Constipated | [adjective] Miserly, parsimonious COUVADE (13) [noun] A practice among some peoples, such as the Basques, of the husband of a woman in the last stages of pregnancy taking to bed, avoiding certain foods, or imitating other behaviours of a pregnant woman. | [noun] Sympathetic pregnancy: the involuntary sympathetic experience of the husband of symptoms of his wife's pregnancy, such as weight gain or morning sickness. COVERED (13) [verb] To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect. | [verb] To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect. | [verb] To be upon all of, so as to completely conceal. COVERER (12) [noun] One who covers; something that covers. | [noun] In insurance, an entity that provides coverage. COVERTS (12) [noun] A covering. | [noun] A disguise. | [noun] A hiding place. COVERUP (14) [noun] An attempt to conceal or disguise something, especially a wrongdoing or a mistake. | [noun] An item of clothing to be worn over a swimsuit while not in the water. COVETED (13) [verb] To wish for with eagerness; to desire possession of, often enviously. | [verb] To long for inordinately or unlawfully; to hanker after (something forbidden). | [verb] To yearn; to have or indulge an inordinate desire, especially for another's possession. COVETER (12) [noun] One who covets; a person who desires something that belongs to another. | [verb] Present participle of covet; desiring or wishing for something, especially something that belongs to another. COVINGS (13) [noun] A concave surface forming a junction between a ceiling and a wall. | [noun] The vertical sides connecting the jambs with the breast of a fireplace. CRAVATS (12) [noun] A wide fabric band worn as a necktie by men having long ends hanging in front. | [noun] A decorative fabric band or scarf worn around the neck by women. | [noun] A bandage resembling a cravat, particularly a triangular bandage folded into a strip. CRAVENS (12) [noun] A coward. | [verb] To make craven. CRAVERS (12) [noun] Plural of craver; people who have an intense desire or yearning for something. | [verb] Third person singular present tense of crave; desires intensely or longingly. CRAVING (13) [noun] A strong desire; yearning. | [verb] To desire strongly, so as to satisfy an appetite; to long or yearn for. | [verb] To ask for earnestly; to beg; to claim. CREVICE (14) [noun] A narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall. | [verb] To crack; to flaw. CULVERS (12) [noun] Plural of culver, an archaic or dialectal term for a dove or pigeon. CULVERT (12) [noun] A transverse channel under a road or railway for the draining of water. | [verb] To channel (a stream of water) through a culvert. CURSIVE (12) [noun] A cursive character, letter or font. | [noun] A manuscript written in cursive characters. | [noun] Joined-up handwriting. CURVETS (12) [verb] Of a horse or, by extension, another animal: to leap about, to frolic. | [verb] To cause to leap about, dart or jump. | [verb] (of a bird) To fly or swim with darting movements. CURVIER (12) [adjective] Having curves. | [adjective] Buxom or curvaceous. CURVING (13) [verb] To bend; to crook. | [verb] To cause to swerve from a straight course. | [verb] To bend or turn gradually from a given direction. CUTOVER (12) [noun] An area of cutover land. | [noun] The discontinuity that occurs when switching from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar. | [noun] The process of quickly replacing a telephone switchboard, in which the connections are duplicated to the new machine and the original connections are then suddenly disconnected. CUVETTE (12) [noun] A pot, bucket, or basin, in which molten plate glass is carried from the melting pot to the casting table | [noun] A cunette | [noun] A small vessel with at least two flat and transparent sides, used to hold a liquid sample to be analysed in the light path of a spectrometer DATIVAL (11) DATIVES (11) [noun] (grammar) The dative case. DAVENED (12) [verb] To recite the Jewish liturgy; to pray DEAVING (12) DECEIVE (13) [verb] To trick or mislead. DECURVE (13) DELEAVE (11) DELIVER (11) [verb] To set free from restraint or danger. | [verb] (process) To do with birth. | [verb] To free from or disburden of anything. DELVERS (11) DELVING (12) [verb] To dig the ground, especially with a shovel. | [verb] To search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate, fathom, trace out | [verb] To dig, to excavate. DEPRAVE (13) [verb] To speak ill of; to depreciate; to malign; to revile | [verb] To make bad or worse; to vitiate; to corrupt DEPRIVE (13) [verb] To take something away from (someone) and keep it away; to deny someone something. | [verb] To degrade (a clergyman) from office. | [verb] To bereave. DERIVED (12) [verb] To obtain or receive (something) from something else. | [verb] To deduce (a conclusion) by reasoning. | [verb] To find the derivation of (a word or phrase). DERIVER (11) DERIVES (11) [verb] To obtain or receive (something) from something else. | [verb] To deduce (a conclusion) by reasoning. | [verb] To find the derivation of (a word or phrase). DERVISH (14) [noun] A member of the Dervish fraternity of Sufism, known for spinning. | [noun] A citizen or inhabitant of Darawiish (circa 1895–1920 C.E.), the Dhulbahante anti-colonial polity geographically corresponding with Khaatumo. | [noun] One of the fanatical followers of the Mahdi, in the Sudan, in the 1880s. DESERVE (11) [verb] To be entitled to, as a result of past actions; to be worthy to have. | [verb] To earn, win. | [verb] To reward, to give in return for service. DEVALUE (11) [verb] To lower or remove the value of something. | [verb] To lose value; to depreciate. DEVEINS (11) [verb] To remove the vein-like colon from (shrimp). DEVELED (12) DEVELOP (13) [verb] To change with a specific direction, progress. | [verb] To progress through a sequence of stages. | [verb] To advance; to further; to promote the growth of. DEVESTS (11) DEVIANT (11) [noun] A person who deviates, especially from norms of social behavior. | [noun] A thing, phenomenon, or trend that deviates from an expectation or pattern. | [adjective] Characterized by deviation from an expectation or a social standard. DEVIATE (11) [noun] A person with deviant behaviour; a deviant, degenerate or pervert. | [noun] A value equal to the difference between a measured variable factor and a fixed or algorithmic reference value. | [verb] To go off course from; to change course; to change plans. DEVICES (13) [noun] Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one. | [noun] A peripheral device; an item of hardware. | [noun] A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice. DEVILED (12) [verb] To make like a devil; to invest with the character of a devil. | [verb] To annoy or bother. | [verb] To work as a ‘devil’; to work for a lawyer or writer without fee or recognition. DEVILRY (14) [noun] Mischief. | [noun] Wickedness; cruelty. | [noun] An action performed with the help of a devil; witchcraft. DEVIOUS (11) [adjective] Cunning or deceiving, not straightforward or honest, not frank | [adjective] Roundabout, circuitous, deviating from the direct or ordinary route DEVISAL (11) DEVISED (12) [verb] To use one's intellect to plan or design (something). | [verb] To leave (property) in a will. | [verb] To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider. DEVISEE (11) [noun] The person or entity to whom property is devised in a will. DEVISER (11) DEVISES (11) [noun] The act of leaving real property in a will. | [noun] Such a will, or a clause in such a will. | [noun] The real property left in such a will. DEVISOR (11) DEVOICE (13) [verb] To pronounce a word with little movement of the vocal cords | [verb] To remove the voice flag from a user on IRC, preventing them from sending messages to the channel. DEVOIRS (11) [noun] (often in plural) Duty, business; something that one must do. DEVOLVE (14) [verb] To roll (something) down; to unroll. | [verb] To be inherited by someone else; to pass down upon the next person in a succession, especially through failure or loss of an earlier holder. | [verb] To delegate (a responsibility, duty, etc.) on or upon someone. DEVOTED (12) [verb] To give one's time, focus one's efforts, commit oneself, etc. entirely for, on, or to a certain matter | [verb] To consign over; to doom | [verb] To execrate; to curse DEVOTEE (11) [noun] An ardent enthusiast or admirer. | [noun] A fanatical or zealous believer in a particular religion or god. | [noun] Someone with an amputee fetish. DEVOTES (11) [verb] To give one's time, focus one's efforts, commit oneself, etc. entirely for, on, or to a certain matter | [verb] To consign over; to doom | [verb] To execrate; to curse DEVOURS (11) [verb] To eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously. | [verb] To rapidly destroy, engulf, or lay waste. | [verb] To take in avidly with the intellect or with one's gaze. DILUVIA (11) DISAVOW (14) [verb] To strongly and solemnly refuse to own or acknowledge; to deny responsibility for, approbation of, and the like. | [verb] To deny; to show the contrary of; to deny legitimacy or achievement of any kind. DISSAVE (11) DIVERGE (12) [verb] (of lines or paths) To run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions. | [verb] (of interests, opinions, or anything else) To become different; to run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions. | [verb] (of a line or path) To separate, to tend into a different direction (from another line or path). DIVERSE (11) [adjective] Consisting of many different elements; various. | [adjective] Different; dissimilar; distinct; not the same | [adjective] Capable of various forms; multiform. DIVERTS (11) [verb] To turn aside from a course. | [verb] To distract. | [verb] To entertain or amuse (by diverting the attention) DIVESTS (11) [verb] To strip, deprive, or dispossess (someone) of something (such as a right, passion, privilege, or prejudice). | [verb] To sell off or be rid of through sale, especially of a subsidiary. | [verb] To undress. DIVIDED (13) [verb] To split or separate (something) into two or more parts. | [verb] To share (something) by dividing it. | [verb] (with by) To calculate the number (the quotient) by which you must multiply one given number (the divisor) to produce a second given number (the dividend). DIVIDER (12) [noun] An object that separates. | [noun] A device resembling a drawing compass and used to transfer measurements of length. | [noun] The median or central reservation of a highway or other road where traffic in opposite directions are kept separated. DIVIDES (12) [noun] A thing that divides. | [noun] An act of dividing. | [noun] A distancing between two people or things. DIVINED (12) [verb] To foretell (something), especially by the use of divination. | [verb] To guess or discover (something) through intuition or insight. | [verb] To search for (underground objects or water) using a divining rod. DIVINER (11) [noun] One who foretells the future. | [noun] One who divines or conjectures. | [noun] One who searches for underground objects or water using a divining rod. DIVINES (11) [noun] One skilled in divinity; a theologian. | [noun] A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman. | [noun] (often capitalized, with 'the') God or a god, particularly in its aspect as a transcendental concept. DIVISOR (11) [noun] A number or expression that another is to be divided by. | [noun] An integer that divides another integer an integral number of times. DIVORCE (13) [noun] The legal dissolution of a marriage. | [noun] A separation of connected things. | [noun] That which separates. DIVULGE (12) [verb] To make public or known; to communicate to the public; to tell (information, especially a secret) so that it may become generally known | [verb] To indicate publicly; to proclaim. DIVVIED (15) [verb] To divide into portions. DIVVIES (14) [noun] A dividend. | [noun] A stupid person; someone of low intelligence. | [noun] A dividend; a share or portion. DOGVANE (12) DOVECOT (13) [noun] A dovecote. DOVEKEY (18) DOVEKIE (15) [noun] A small black and white seabird, of the genus Alle, of the north Atlantic; the little auk. DOVENED (12) DRIVELS (11) [noun] Senseless talk; nonsense | [noun] Saliva, drool | [noun] A fool; an idiot. DRIVERS (11) [noun] One who drives something, in any sense of the verb to drive. | [noun] Something that drives something, in any sense of the verb to drive. | [noun] A person who drives a motorized vehicle such as a car or a bus. DRIVING (12) [verb] To provide an impetus for motion or other physical change, to move an object by means of the provision of force thereto. | [verb] To provide an impetus for a non-physical change, especially a change in one's state of mind. | [verb] To displace either physically or non-physically, through the application of force. | [noun] The action of the verb to drive in any sense. DROVERS (11) DROVING (12) [verb] To herd cattle; particularly over a long distance. | [verb] To finish (stone) with a drove chisel. DUUMVIR (13) [noun] One of two persons jointly exercising the same office in Republican Rome. DUVETYN (14) DWARVES (14) [noun] Any member of a race of beings from (especially Scandinavian and other Germanic) folklore, usually depicted as having some sort of supernatural powers and being skilled in crafting and metalworking, often as short with long beards, and sometimes as clashing with elves. | [noun] A person of short stature, often one whose limbs are disproportionately small in relation to the body as compared with normal adults, usually as the result of a genetic condition. | [noun] An animal, plant or other thing much smaller than the usual of its sort. DYVOURS (14) EIGHTVO (14) ELATIVE (10) ELEVATE (10) [verb] To raise (something) to a higher position. | [verb] To promote (someone) to a higher rank. | [verb] To confer honor or nobility on (someone). ELEVENS (10) [noun] A cricket team of eleven players. Hence first eleven - the team of best cricket players (at a school), second eleven - the "B" team, etc. | [noun] A football team of eleven players; the starting lineup. | [noun] Used instead of ! to amplify an exclamation, imitating someone who forgets to press the shift key while typing exclamation points. ELEVONS (10) [noun] A moveable surface at the trailing edge of a tailless airplane (such as the space shuttle) that provides pitch and roll control. ELUSIVE (10) [adjective] Evading capture, comprehension or remembrance. | [adjective] Difficult to make precise. | [adjective] Rarely seen. ELUVIAL (10) ELUVIUM (12) EMOTIVE (12) [noun] (grammar) A word or construct that expresses an emotion. | [adjective] Of or relating to emotion. | [adjective] Appealing to the emotions. ENCLAVE (12) [noun] A political, cultural or social entity or part thereof that is completely surrounded by another. | [noun] A group that is set off from a larger population by its characteristic or behavior. | [noun] An isolated portion of an application's address space, such that data in an enclave can only be accessed by code in the same enclave. ENDIVES (11) [noun] A leafy salad vegetable, Cichorium endivia, which is often confused with common chicory (Cichorium intybus). ENFEVER (13) ENGRAVE (11) [verb] To carve text or symbols into (something), usually for the purposes of identification or art. | [verb] To carve (something) into a material. | [verb] To put in a grave, to bury. ENLIVEN (10) [verb] To give life or spirit to; to revive or animate. | [verb] To make more lively, cheerful or interesting. ENSLAVE (10) [verb] To make subservient; to strip one of freedom; enthrall. ENVELOP (12) [verb] To surround or enclose. ENVENOM (12) [verb] To poison, to put or inject venom onto or into. | [verb] To acerbate. ENVIERS (10) ENVIOUS (10) [adjective] Feeling or exhibiting envy; jealously desiring the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging | [adjective] Excessively careful; cautious. | [adjective] Malignant; mischievous; spiteful. ENVIRON (10) [noun] (especially in plural) A surrounding area | [verb] To surround; to encircle. ENVYING (14) [verb] To feel displeasure or hatred towards (someone) for their good fortune or possessions. | [verb] To have envious feelings (at). | [verb] To give (something) to (someone) grudgingly or reluctantly; to begrudge. EROSIVE (10) ESTIVAL (10) [adjective] Of or relating to summer. | [adjective] Coming forth in the summer. EVACUEE (12) [noun] A person who has been evacuated, especially a civilian evacuated from a dangerous place in time of war EVADERS (11) EVADING (12) [verb] To get away from by cunning; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to cleverly escape from | [verb] To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from. | [verb] To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding. EVANGEL (11) [noun] The Christian gospel. | [noun] A salutary principle relating to morals, politics, etc. | [noun] An evangelist. EVANISH (13) [verb] To vanish. EVASION (10) [noun] The act of eluding or evading or avoiding, particularly the pressure of an argument, accusation, charge, or interrogation; artful means of eluding. EVASIVE (13) [adjective] Tending to avoid speaking openly or making revelations about oneself. | [adjective] Directed towards avoidance or escape; evasive action. EVENERS (10) EVENEST (10) [verb] To make flat and level. | [verb] To equal. | [verb] To be equal. EVENING (11) [noun] The time of the day between dusk and night, when it gets dark. | [noun] The time of the day between the approximate time of midwinter dusk and midnight (compare afternoon); the period after the end of regular office working hours. | [noun] A concluding time period; a point in time near the end of something; the beginning of the end of something. | [verb] To make flat and level. | [verb] To occur; to happen; to come to pass. EVERTED (11) [verb] To turn inside out (like a pocket being emptied) or outwards. | [verb] To move (someone or something) out of the way. | [verb] To turn upside down; to overturn. EVERTOR (10) EVICTED (13) [verb] To expel (one or more people) from their property; to force (one or more people) to move out. EVICTEE (12) EVICTOR (12) EVIDENT (11) [adjective] Obviously true by simple observation. EVILEST (10) EVILLER (10) EVINCED (13) [verb] To show or demonstrate clearly; to manifest. EVINCES (12) [verb] To show or demonstrate clearly; to manifest. EVITING (11) [verb] To avoid. EVOKERS (14) EVOKING (15) [verb] To call out; to draw out or bring forth. | [verb] To cause the manifestation of something (emotion, picture, etc.) in someone's mind or imagination. | [verb] To elicit a response. EVOLUTE (10) [noun] A curve comprising the centres of curvature of another curve. | [adjective] Having or being a (mollusc) spiral shell in which the whorls touch along a surface. EVOLVED (14) [verb] To move in regular procession through a system. | [verb] To change; transform. | [verb] To come into being; develop. EVOLVER (13) EVOLVES (13) [verb] To move in regular procession through a system. | [verb] To change; transform. | [verb] To come into being; develop. EVZONES (19) [noun] A member of the Greek presidential guard. | [noun] An infantryman of a select corps of the Greek army. EXCLAVE (19) [noun] A portion of a country's territory not connected to the main part | [noun] A detached part of an organ, as of the pancreas, thyroid, or other gland. EXUVIAE (17) [noun] The remains of the exoskeleton after any member of the Arthropoda, such as an insect, crustacean or arachnid has sloughed, discarding its old integument and developing the new one. | [noun] The coverings of an animal that have been shed or cast off, particularly the molted exoskeletons of arthropods. | [noun] (history) Among the Ancient Romans, weaponry and equipment stripped from the person of a foe; booty. EXUVIAL (17) EXUVIUM (19) FAUVISM (15) [noun] An artistic movement of the last part of the 19th century which emphasized spontaneity and the use of extremely bright colors. FAUVIST (13) FAVELAS (13) [noun] A slum or shantytown, especially in Brazil FAVELLA (13) FAVISMS (15) FAVORED (14) [verb] To look upon fondly; to prefer. | [verb] To encourage, conduce to | [verb] To do a favor [noun sense 1] for; to show beneficence toward. FAVORER (13) FAVOURS (13) [noun] A kind or helpful deed; an instance of voluntarily assisting (someone). | [noun] Goodwill; benevolent regard. | [noun] A small gift; a party favor. FAVUSES (13) FERVENT (13) [adjective] Exhibiting particular enthusiasm, zeal, conviction, persistence, or belief. | [adjective] Having or showing emotional warmth, fervor, or passion. | [adjective] Glowing, burning, very hot. FERVORS (13) [noun] An intense, heated emotion; passion, ardor. | [noun] A passionate enthusiasm for some cause. | [noun] Heat. FERVOUR (13) [noun] An intense, heated emotion; passion, ardour. | [noun] A passionate enthusiasm for some cause. | [noun] Heat. FESTIVE (13) [adjective] Having the atmosphere, decoration, or attitude of a festival, holiday, or celebration. | [adjective] In the mood to celebrate. FEVERED (14) [verb] To put into a fever; to affect with fever. | [verb] To become fevered. | [adjective] Affected by a fever; feverish. FICTIVE (15) [adjective] Having the characteristics of fiction: fictional. | [adjective] Resulting from imaginative creation: fanciful or invented. | [adjective] Being feigned, ingenuine or unreal. FLAVINE (13) FLAVINS (13) [noun] Any of a class of tricyclic heterocyclic compounds derived from riboflavin; found especially as the adenine dinucleotide (FAD) FLAVONE (13) [noun] Any of a class of tricyclic aromatic heterocyclic ketones, especially the naturally occurring flavonoids FLAVORS (13) [verb] To add flavoring to something. FLAVORY (16) FLAVOUR (13) [noun] The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect. | [noun] A substance used to produce a taste. Flavoring. | [noun] A variety (of taste) attributed to an object. FLIVVER (16) [noun] An automobile, particularly one which is old and inexpensive. FLUVIAL (13) [adjective] Of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream FLYOVER (16) [noun] A low-level flight, especially of military aircraft, of a ceremonial nature; a flypast (British). | [noun] A road or railway that passes over another, allowing routes to cross without interruption. | [noun] A high-level overpass built above main overpass lanes. FOREVER (13) [noun] An extremely long time. | [noun] A mythical time in the infinite future that will never come. | [adjective] Permanent, lasting FORGAVE (14) [verb] To pardon; to waive any negative feeling or desire for punishment, retribution, or compensation. | [verb] To accord forgiveness. FORGIVE (14) [verb] To pardon; to waive any negative feeling or desire for punishment, retribution, or compensation. | [verb] To accord forgiveness. FOVEATE (13) FOVEOLA (13) FOVEOLE (13) FRIVOLS (13) [noun] An unserious person; a shallow person. | [noun] An idle diversion or pastime; a frivolity. FULVOUS (13) [adjective] Tawny-coloured. FURTIVE (13) [adjective] Stealthy. | [adjective] Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy. GARVEYS (14) GAVAGES (12) GAVELED (12) [verb] To divide or distribute according to the gavel system. | [verb] To use a gavel. GAVIALS (11) [noun] The crocodilian Gavialis gangeticus; any species of the family Gavialidae. GAVOTTE (11) [noun] A French dance, in either 4/4 or 2/2 time. | [verb] To perform this dance. GENEVAS (11) GINGIVA (12) [noun] The gum, consisting of the tissue surrounding the roots of the teeth and covering the jawbone. GLAIVED (12) GLAIVES (11) [noun] A light lance with a long, sharp-pointed head. | [noun] A weapon consisting of a pole with a large blade fixed on the end, the edge of which is on the outside curve. | [noun] A sword, particularly a broadsword. GLOVERS (11) [noun] A person who makes or sells gloves. GLOVING (12) [verb] To catch the ball in a baseball mitt. | [verb] To put a glove or gloves on. | [verb] To touch a delivery with one's glove while the gloved hand is on the bat. Under the rules of cricket, the batsman is deemed to have hit the ball. GOVERNS (11) [verb] To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority in. | [verb] To control the actions or behavior of; to keep under control; to restrain. | [verb] To exercise a deciding or determining influence on. GRAVELS (11) [verb] To apply a layer of gravel to the surface of a road, etc. | [verb] To puzzle or annoy | [verb] To run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run aground; to cause to stick fast in gravel or sand. GRAVELY (14) [adverb] In a grave or serious manner. | [adjective] Characterised by gravel, pebbles, or small stones. GRAVERS (11) [noun] A burin | [noun] A carver, sculptor, or engraver GRAVEST (11) [verb] To dig. | [verb] To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave. | [verb] To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture. GRAVIDA (12) GRAVIES (11) [noun] A thick sauce made from the fat or juices that come out from meat or vegetables as they are being cooked. | [noun] A type of gravy. | [noun] (Italian-American) Sauce used for pasta. GRAVING (12) [verb] To dig. | [verb] To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave. | [verb] To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture. GRAVITY (14) [noun] The state or condition of having weight; weight; heaviness. | [noun] The state or condition of being grave; seriousness. | [noun] The lowness of a note. GRAVLAX (18) [noun] Salmon dry-cured in salt, seasoned with dill and sugar, and served usually thinly sliced as an appetizer. GRAVURE (11) [noun] A type of intaglio printing process, in which an image is engraved onto a rotating copper cylinder. | [noun] A style of Japanese softcore; glamour photography. GREAVED (12) GREAVES (11) [noun] The unmeltable residue left after animal fat has been rendered. | [noun] A bush; a tree; a grove. | [noun] A bough; a branch. GRIEVED (12) [verb] To cause sorrow or distress to. | [verb] To feel very sad about; to mourn; to sorrow for. | [verb] To experience grief. GRIEVER (11) GRIEVES (11) [verb] To cause sorrow or distress to. | [verb] To feel very sad about; to mourn; to sorrow for. | [verb] To experience grief. GRIVETS (11) [noun] An Old World monkey, Chlorocebus aethiops, with long white tufts of hair along the sides of the face. GROOVED (12) [verb] To cut a groove or channel in; to form into channels or grooves; to furrow. | [verb] To perform, dance to, or enjoy rhythmic music. | [adjective] Having grooves GROOVER (11) GROOVES (11) [noun] A long, narrow channel or depression; e.g., such a slot cut into a hard material to provide a location for an engineering component, a tyre groove, or a geological channel or depression. | [noun] A fixed routine. | [noun] The middle of the strike zone in baseball where a pitch is most easily hit. GROVELS (11) [verb] To be prone on the ground. | [verb] To crawl. | [verb] To abase oneself before another person. HALAVAH (16) HALVAHS (16) HALVERS (13) HALVING (14) [verb] To reduce to half the original amount. | [verb] To divide into two halves. | [verb] To make up half of. HARVEST (13) [noun] The third season of the year; autumn; fall. | [noun] The season of gathering ripened crops; specifically, the time of reaping and gathering grain. | [noun] The process of gathering the ripened crop; harvesting. HAVARTI (13) HAVENED (14) HAVERED (14) [verb] To hem and haw | [verb] To talk foolishly; to chatter. HAVEREL (13) HAVIORS (13) HAVIOUR (13) HEAVENS (13) [noun] The sky, specifically: | [noun] The abode of God or the gods, traditionally conceived as beyond the sky; especially: | [noun] The afterlife of the blessed dead, traditionally conceived as opposed to an afterlife of the wicked and unjust (compare hell); specifically: HEAVERS (13) HEAVIER (13) [adjective] (of a physical object) Having great weight. | [adjective] (of a topic) Serious, somber. | [adjective] Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive. HEAVIES (13) [noun] A villain or bad guy; the one responsible for evil or aggressive acts. | [noun] A doorman, bouncer or bodyguard. | [noun] A large multi-engined aircraft. (The term heavy normally follows the call-sign when used by air traffic controllers.) HEAVILY (16) [adverb] In a heavy manner. | [adverb] With a great weight. | [adverb] To a considerable degree, to a great extent. HEAVING (14) [verb] To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing). | [verb] To throw, cast. | [verb] To rise and fall. HELLUVA (13) [adjective] (A) hell of a; extreme. HELVING (14) HOVELED (14) HOVERED (14) [verb] To float in the air. | [verb] To linger or hang in one place, especially in an uncertain manner. | [verb] To waver, or be uncertain. HOVERER (13) HOWEVER (16) [adverb] Nevertheless; yet, still; in spite of (that). | [adverb] (degree) To whatever degree or extent | [adverb] (manner) In whatever way or manner. HUMVEES (15) [noun] A diesel-powered, four-wheel drive tactical military vehicle that can carry a wide variety of military hardware ILLUVIA (10) IMPAVID (15) IMPROVE (14) [verb] To make (something) better; to increase the value or productivity (of something). | [verb] To become better. | [verb] To disprove or make void; to refute. IMPROVS (14) [noun] Improvisation. | [noun] A form of live entertainment characterized by improvisation and interaction with the audience. | [verb] To perform improv. INCIVIL (12) INCURVE (12) [verb] To cause something to curve inwards. | [verb] To curve inwards. INNERVE (10) INVADED (12) [verb] To move into. | [verb] To enter by force in order to conquer. | [verb] To infest or overrun. INVADER (11) [noun] One who invades a region | [noun] An intruder (especially on someone's privacy) INVADES (11) [verb] To move into. | [verb] To enter by force in order to conquer. | [verb] To infest or overrun. INVALID (11) [adjective] Not valid; not true, correct, acceptable or appropriate. | [noun] (sometimes offensive) Any person with a disability or illness. | [noun] (sometimes offensive) A person who is confined to home or bed because of illness, disability or injury; one who is too sick or weak to care for themselves. INVEIGH (14) [verb] (with against or occasionally about, formerly also with on, at, upon) To complain loudly, to give voice to one's censure or criticism | [verb] To draw in or away; to entice, inveigle. INVENTS (10) [verb] To design a new process or mechanism. | [verb] To create something fictional for a particular purpose. | [verb] To come upon; to find; to discover. INVERSE (10) [noun] An inverted state: a state in which something has been turned (properly) upside down or inside out or backwards. | [noun] The result of an inversion, particularly: | [noun] A second element which negates a first; in a binary operation, the element for which the binary operation—when applied to both it and an initially given element—yields the operation's identity element, specifically: INVERTS (10) [noun] A homosexual. | [noun] An inverted arch (as in a sewer). * | [noun] The base of a tunnel on which the road or railway may be laid and used when construction is through unstable ground. It may be flat or form a continuous curve with the tunnel arch. INVESTS (10) [verb] To spend money, time, or energy on something, especially for some benefit or purpose; used with in. | [verb] To clothe or wrap (with garments). | [verb] To put on (clothing). | [noun] An unnamed tropical weather pattern "to investigate" for development into a significant (named) system. INVITAL (10) INVITED (11) [verb] To ask for the presence or participation of someone or something. | [verb] To request formally. | [verb] To encourage. INVITEE (10) [noun] A person who is invited into or onto someone else's premises INVITER (10) INVITES (10) [verb] To ask for the presence or participation of someone or something. | [verb] To request formally. | [verb] To encourage. INVOICE (12) [noun] A bill; a commercial document issued by a seller to a buyer indicating the products, quantities and agreed prices for products or services that the seller has already provided the buyer with. An invoice indicates that, unless paid in advance, payment is due by the buyer to the seller, according to the agreed terms. | [noun] The lot or set of goods as shipped or received. | [noun] (generally of a vehicle) The price which a seller or dealer pays the manufacturer for goods to be sold. INVOKED (15) [verb] To call upon (a person, a god) for help, assistance or guidance. | [verb] To solicit, petition for, appeal to a favorable attitude. | [verb] To call to mind (something) for some purpose. INVOKER (14) INVOKES (14) [verb] To call upon (a person, a god) for help, assistance or guidance. | [verb] To solicit, petition for, appeal to a favorable attitude. | [verb] To call to mind (something) for some purpose. INVOLVE (13) [verb] To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine. | [verb] To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide. | [verb] To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure. INWEAVE (13) INWOVEN (13) ISOGRIV (11) IVORIES (10) [noun] The keys of a piano. | [noun] The teeth. | [noun] The hard white form of dentin which forms the tusks of elephants, walruses and other animals. IVYLIKE (17) JARVEYS (20) JAVELIN (17) [noun] A light spear thrown with the hand and used as a weapon. | [noun] A metal-tipped spear thrown for distance in an athletic field event. | [verb] To pierce with a javelin. JAYVEES (20) JIVEASS (17) JIVIEST (17) JUSSIVE (17) [noun] (grammar) The jussive mood, a verb inflection used to indicate a command, permission or agreement with a request; an instance of a verb so inflected. | [noun] (Arabic grammar) A verbal mood of vague or miscellaneous senses, occurring after some particles and in conditional clauses. | [adjective] (grammar) Of or in the jussive mood (see below) JUVENAL (17) KELVINS (14) [noun] In the International System of Units, the base unit of thermodynamic temperature; 1/273.16 of the thermodynamic temperature of the triple point of water. Shown as "K". | [noun] A unit interval on the Kelvin scale. | [noun] (usually as postpositioned adjective) A unit for a specific temperature on the Kelvin scale. KHEDIVE (18) [noun] The title of the hereditary monarch of Egypt from 1805-1914, nominally ruling as a viceroy of the Sultan of Turkey. KIDVIDS (16) KLAVERN (14) KNAVERY (17) KNAVISH (17) [adjective] Having the characteristics of a knave; mischievous, roguish, waggish, rascally or impertinent KVASSES (14) KVETCHY (22) LAVABOS (12) [noun] A ritual involving the washing of one's hands at a church's offertory before handling the Eucharist. | [noun] The small towel used to dry the priest's hands following the ritual. | [noun] A washbasin, particularly the one in a church used in the ritual. LAVAGES (11) [noun] A washing. | [noun] A washing of a hollow organ. LAVEERS (10) LAVROCK (16) LAYOVER (13) [noun] A break between stages of a journey. LEAVENS (10) [noun] Any agent used to make dough rise or to have a similar effect on baked goods. | [noun] Anything that makes a general assimilating change in the mass. | [verb] To add a leavening agent. LEAVERS (10) [noun] (UK politics) Someone who supports Brexit, the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union. | [noun] One who leaves. LEAVIER (10) LEAVING (11) [verb] To have a consequence or remnant. | [verb] To depart; to separate from. | [verb] To transfer something. LEKVARS (14) LEVANTS (10) [noun] A disappearing or absconding after losing a bet. | [verb] To abscond or run away, especially to avoid paying money or debts. LEVATOR (10) [noun] Lifting muscle | [noun] (specifically) The levator palpebrae superioris muscle. LEVELED (11) [verb] To adjust so as to make as flat or perpendicular to the ground as possible. | [verb] To destroy by reducing to ground level; to raze. | [verb] To progress to the next level. LEVELER (10) [adjective] The same height at all places; parallel to a flat ground. | [adjective] At the same height as some reference; constructed as level with. | [adjective] Unvaried in frequency. LEVELLY (13) LEVERED (11) [verb] To move with a lever. | [verb] To use, operate or move (something) like a lever (physically). | [verb] To use (something) like a lever (in an abstract sense). LEVERET (10) [noun] A young hare. LEVIERS (10) LEVULIN (10) LEVYING (14) [verb] To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property. | [verb] To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority. | [verb] To draft someone into military service. LIEVEST (10) LIVABLE (12) [adjective] Endurable, survivable, suitable for living in, inhabitable. LIVENED (11) [verb] To cause to be more lively, or to become more lively. LIVENER (10) [noun] One who, or that which, livens. | [noun] An alcoholic drink. LIVIDLY (14) LIVIERS (10) LIVINGS (11) [noun] The state of being alive. | [noun] (plural, with "the", a demonstrative, or a possessive) Those who are alive. | [noun] Financial means; a means of maintaining life; livelihood LIVYERS (13) LIXIVIA (17) LOUVERS (10) [noun] A type of turret on the roof of certain medieval buildings designed to allow ventilation or the admission of light. | [noun] (chiefly in plural) A series of sloping overlapping slats or boards which admit air and light but exclude rain etc. | [noun] Any of a system of slits, as in the hood of an automobile, for ventilation. LOUVRED (11) LOUVRES (10) [noun] A type of turret on the roof of certain medieval buildings designed to allow ventilation or the admission of light. | [noun] (chiefly in plural) A series of sloping overlapping slats or boards which admit air and light but exclude rain etc. | [noun] Any of a system of slits, as in the hood of an automobile, for ventilation. LOVABLE (12) [adjective] Inspiring or deserving love or affection. LOVABLY (15) LOVAGES (11) [noun] A perennial Mediterranean herb, Levisticum officinale, with odor and flavor resembling celery. | [noun] A liquor made from this herb. | [noun] Various species in the genus Ligusticum (generally with an adjective to differentiate them from Levisticum) LOVEBUG (13) LOVERLY (13) MAGLEVS (13) [noun] A train propelled by magnetic levitation. MARVELS (12) [noun] That which causes wonder; a prodigy; a miracle. | [noun] Wonder, astonishment. | [verb] To become filled with wonderment or admiration; to be amazed at something. MASSIVE (12) [noun] A homogeneous mass of rock, not layered and without an obvious crystal structure. | [noun] A group of people from a locality, or sharing a collective aim, interest, etc. | [adjective] Very large in size or extent MAVISES (12) [noun] Song thrush. MAYVINS (15) MEDEVAC (15) [noun] The emergency transportation, usually by air, of patients to a medical facility. | [noun] A vehicle, typically aircraft, used for emergency transportation of patients to a medical facility. | [noun] Trained personnel who care for patients during emergency transportation to a medical facility. MIKVAHS (19) [noun] A ritual bath in which various Jewish purifications are performed. MIKVEHS (19) [noun] A ritual bath in which various Jewish purifications are performed. MIKVOTH (19) MINIVAN (12) [noun] A small van. MINIVER (12) [noun] A light gray or white fur used to trim the robes of judges or state executives, also used in medieval times. MISAVER (12) MISGAVE (13) [verb] (of the mind, heart, etc.) To give fear or doubt to; to make irresolute. | [verb] To suspect; to dread. | [verb] To give wrongly; to give or grant amiss. MISGIVE (13) [verb] (of the mind, heart, etc.) To give fear or doubt to; to make irresolute. | [verb] To suspect; to dread. | [verb] To give wrongly; to give or grant amiss. MISLIVE (12) MISMOVE (14) MISSIVE (12) [noun] A written message; a letter, note or memo. | [noun] (in the plural) Letters sent between two parties in which one makes an offer and the other accepts it. | [noun] One who is sent; a messenger. MITSVAH (15) MITZVAH (24) [noun] Any of the 613 commandments of Jewish law | [noun] An act of kindness, a good deed. MOTIVED (13) MOTIVES (12) [noun] An idea or communication that makes one want to act, especially from spiritual sources; a divine prompting. | [noun] An incentive to act in a particular way; a reason or emotion that makes one want to do something; anything that prompts a choice of action. | [noun] A limb or other bodily organ that can move. MOTIVIC (14) [adjective] Used as, or relating to, a motif. MOVABLE (14) [noun] Something which is movable; an article of wares or goods; a commodity; a piece of property not fixed, or not a part of real estate; generally, in the plural, goods; wares; furniture. | [adjective] Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; not fixed or stationary | [adjective] Changing from one time to another MOVABLY (17) MOVIOLA (12) NAEVOID (11) NAIVELY (13) [adverb] In a naive manner. NAIVEST (10) NAIVETE (10) [noun] Lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity. NAIVETY (13) [noun] Lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity. NATIVES (10) [noun] An aboriginal inhabitant of a region colonized by English-speaking people; in particular: | [noun] A person who is native to a place; a person who was born in a place. | [noun] A native speaker. NAVAIDS (11) [noun] Any form of aid to navigation, particularly applying to shipping and aviation. Examples: lighthouse, or ILS (instrument landing system) NAVALLY (13) NAVETTE (10) NAVVIES (13) [noun] A laborer on a civil engineering project such as a canal or railroad. | [verb] To carry out physical labor on a civil engineering project. NERVATE (10) NERVIER (10) [adjective] Having nerve; bold; brazen. | [adjective] Feeling nervous, anxious or agitated. | [adjective] Strong; sinewy. NERVILY (13) NERVINE (10) [noun] A drug or substance that acts upon the nerves. | [adjective] Having the quality of acting upon or affecting the nerves; quieting nervous excitement. NERVING (11) [verb] To give courage. | [verb] To give strength; to supply energy or vigour. | [noun] An arrangement of nerves or veins in a plant. NERVOUS (10) [adjective] Of sinews and tendons. | [adjective] Of nerves. NERVULE (10) NERVURE (10) [noun] A vein in the wing of an insect. | [noun] Any of the veins that form the branching framework of conducting and supporting tissues in a leaf or other plant organ. | [noun] One of the ribs in a groined vault; a projecting moulding. NIRVANA (10) [noun] Complete cessation of suffering; a blissful state attained through realization of sunyata; enlightened experience. | [noun] (non-Buddhist) State of paradise; heightened or great pleasure. NIVEOUS (10) [adjective] Snowy; resembling snow. NOUVEAU (10) [adjective] New, fashionable. NOVELLA (10) [noun] A work of prose fiction, longer than a novella. | [noun] A fable; a short tale, especially one of many making up a larger work. | [noun] A novelty; something new. NOVELLE (10) NOVELLY (13) NOVELTY (13) [noun] The state of being new or novel; newness. | [noun] A new product; an innovation. | [noun] A small mass-produced trinket. NOVENAE (10) NOVENAS (10) [noun] A recitation of prayers and devotions for nine consecutive days, especially one to a saint to ask for their intercession. NOVICES (12) [noun] A beginner; one who is not very familiar or experienced in a particular subject. | [noun] A new member of a religious order accepted on a conditional basis, prior to confirmation. OBOVATE (12) [adjective] Shaped like an egg, with the broad extremity located away from the base. OBOVOID (13) OBSERVE (12) [verb] To notice or view, especially carefully or with attention to detail. | [verb] To follow or obey the custom, practice, or rules (especially of a religion). | [verb] To take note of and celebrate (a holiday or similar occurrence). OBVERSE (12) [noun] The heads side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that has the principal design. | [noun] A proposition obtained by obversion, e.g. All men are mortal => No man is immortal. | [adjective] Turned or facing toward the observer. OBVERTS (12) [verb] To turn so as to show another side. | [verb] To turn towards the front. OBVIATE (12) [verb] To anticipate and prevent or bypass (something which would otherwise have been necessary or required). | [verb] To avoid (a future problem or difficult situation). OBVIOUS (12) [adjective] Easily discovered, seen, or understood; self-explanatory. OCTAVAL (12) OCTAVES (12) [noun] An interval of twelve semitones spanning eight degrees of the diatonic scale, representing a doubling or halving in pitch frequency. | [noun] The pitch an octave higher than a given pitch. | [noun] A coupler on an organ which allows the organist to sound the note an octave above the note of the key pressed (cf sub-octave) OCTAVOS (12) [noun] A sheet of paper 7 to 10 inches (= 17.78 to 25.4 cm) high and 4.5 to 6 inches (= 11.43 to 15.24 cm) wide, the size varying with the large original sheet used to create it. It is made by folding the original sheet three times to produce eight leaves. | [noun] A book of octavo pages. OEUVRES (10) [noun] A work of art. | [noun] The complete body of an artist's work. OLIVARY (13) [adjective] Shaped like an olive OLIVINE (10) [noun] Any of a group of olive green magnesium-iron silicate minerals that crystallize in the orthorhombic system. OTTAVAS (10) OUTGAVE (11) OUTGIVE (11) OUTLIVE (10) [verb] To live longer than; continue to live after the death of; overlive; survive. | [verb] To live through or past (a given time). | [verb] To surpass in duration; outlast. OUTLOVE (10) OUTMOVE (12) OUTRAVE (10) OUTVIED (11) [verb] To outdo a competitor or rival. OUTVIES (10) [verb] To outdo a competitor or rival. OUTVOTE (10) [verb] To cast more votes than another | [verb] To defeat another by obtaining more votes OVALITY (13) OVARIAL (10) OVARIAN (10) [adjective] Relating to the ovaries. OVARIES (10) [noun] A female reproductive organ, often paired, that produces ova and in mammals secretes the hormones estrogen and progesterone. | [noun] The lower part of a pistil or carpel that bears ovules and ripens into fruit. OVATELY (13) OVATION (10) [noun] A victory ceremony of less importance than a triumph. | [noun] (by extension) A (ceremony for the) recognition of some achievement. | [noun] (by extension) Prolonged enthusiastic applause. | [noun] The act of laying eggs. OVERACT (12) [verb] To act in an exaggerated manner. | [verb] To act upon, or influence, unduly. OVERAGE (11) [verb] To have too long an aging process. | [adjective] Having an age that is greater than a stipulated minimum. | [adjective] Too old to be of use in a particular situation. | [noun] A surplus of inventory or capacity or of cash that is greater than the amount in the record of an account. OVERALL (10) [noun] A garment worn over other clothing to protect it; a coverall or boiler suit. A garment, for manual labor or for casual wear, often made of a single piece of fabric, with long legs and a bib upper, supported from the shoulders with straps, and having several large pockets and loops for carrying tools. | [noun] (in the plural) A garment, worn for manual labor, with an integral covering extending to the chest, supported by straps. | [adjective] All-encompassing, all around. OVERAPT (12) OVERARM (12) [noun] A style of swimming of extending the arms alternatively - now usually termed freestyle. | [verb] To provide with more weaponry than necessary. | [adjective] Throwing while having the hand above the elbow OVERATE (10) [verb] To eat too much. | [verb] To surfeit with eating. OVERAWE (13) [verb] To restrain, subdue, or control by awe; to cow. OVERBED (13) OVERBET (12) OVERBID (13) [verb] To outlive; survive. OVERBIG (13) OVERBUY (15) [verb] To buy excessively, especially to buy more than one needs or can afford | [verb] To buy at an inflated price OVERCOY (15) OVERCUT (12) OVERDID (12) [verb] To do too much; to exceed what is proper or true in doing; to carry too far. | [verb] To cook for too long. | [verb] To give (someone or something) too much work; to require too much effort or strength of (someone); to use up too much of (something). OVERDOG (12) [noun] Someone who is dominant or has a significant advantage in their field OVERDRY (14) [verb] To dry too much. OVERDUB (13) [noun] (sound engineering) An overdubbed part. | [verb] (sound engineering) To record a part along with an already recorded part or parts. OVERDUE (11) [adjective] Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need. OVERDYE (14) [verb] To dye (something already coloured) with another colour. OVEREAT (10) [verb] To eat too much. | [verb] To surfeit with eating. OVERFAR (13) OVERFAT (13) OVERFED (14) [adjective] Excessively fed; given too much to eat. | [verb] To feed a person or animal too much. | [verb] To eat more than is necessary. OVERFLY (16) [verb] To fly over something. | [verb] To fly too far past something. OVERHOT (13) OVERING (11) OVERJOY (20) OVERLAP (12) [noun] Something that overlaps or is overlapped | [noun] A situation in the game where an attacking line has more players in it than the defensive line coming to meet it. The attacking side may exploit the overlap by using their superior numbers to break the opposition's defensive line. If attackers outnumber defenders by more than one player this is often termed a two man overlap or three man overlap, etc. If the attacking side fails to break through usually due to poor execution, they are said to waste an overlap. | [noun] The payment of a spouse's or other dependant's annuity benefits concurrently with the member's benefits, on death of the member during the guarantee period. OVERLAX (17) OVERLAY (13) [noun] A piece of paper pasted upon the tympan sheet to improve the impression by making it stronger at a particular place. | [noun] (betting) Odds which are set higher than expected or warranted. Favorable odds. | [noun] A horse going off at higher odds than it appears to warrant, based on its past performances. | [verb] To lie over or upon OVERLET (10) OVERLIE (10) [verb] To lie over or upon | [verb] To suffocate by lying upon OVERLIT (10) OVERMAN (12) [noun] A person who supervises others; a supervisor, especially in a mine. | [noun] A person with great powers; a superman. | [verb] To provide with too many personnel; overstaff. OVERMEN (12) [noun] A person who supervises others; a supervisor, especially in a mine. | [noun] A person with great powers; a superman. OVERMIX (19) OVERNEW (13) OVERPAY (15) [verb] To pay too much. | [verb] To be more than an ample reward for. OVERPLY (15) OVERRAN (10) [verb] To defeat an enemy and invade in great numbers, seizing the enemy positions conclusively. | [verb] To infest, swarm over, flow over. | [verb] To run past; to run beyond. OVERRUN (10) [noun] An instance of overrunning | [noun] The amount by which something overruns | [noun] Air that is whipped into a frozen dessert to make it easier to serve and eat. OVERSAD (11) OVERSAW (13) [verb] To survey, look at something in a wide angle. | [verb] To supervise, guide, review or direct the actions of a person or group. | [verb] To inspect, examine OVERSEA (10) [adjective] Abroad. | [adjective] (used with ethnicities, nationalities, or religious affiliations) Living (being resident) in a foreign country. | [adjective] Across a sea; to or in an area across a sea. OVERSEE (10) [verb] To survey, look at something in a wide angle. | [verb] To supervise, guide, review or direct the actions of a person or group. | [verb] To inspect, examine OVERSET (10) [verb] To set over (something); to cover. | [verb] To turn, or to be turned, over; to be upset; to capsize. | [verb] To knock over, capsize, overturn. OVERSEW (13) [verb] To sew together the edges of two pieces of fabric, with every stitch passing over the join. OVERSUP (12) OVERTAX (17) [verb] To tax to an excessive degree | [verb] To overburden OVERTIP (12) [verb] To leave a tip that is too large. OVERTLY (13) [adverb] In an overt manner; publicly; openly. OVERTOP (12) [verb] To be higher than; to rise over the top of. | [verb] To place too many toppings on. | [adverb] Over the top. OVERUSE (10) [noun] Excessive use | [verb] To use too much of. OVERWET (13) OVICIDE (13) OVIDUCT (13) [noun] A duct through which an ovum passes from an ovary to the uterus or to the exterior. OVIFORM (15) [adjective] Egg-shaped OVIPARA (12) OVISACS (12) OVOIDAL (11) OVONICS (12) OVULARY (13) OVULATE (10) [verb] To produce eggs or ova | [adjective] Containing, or bearing, an ovule. PAHLAVI (15) [noun] The principal gold coin of the Pahlavi dynasty (1925-1979). PALAVER (12) [noun] A village council meeting. | [noun] Talk, especially unnecessary talk; chatter. | [noun] Talk intended to deceive. PARVENU (12) [noun] A person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class, especially through acquisition of wealth, rights, or political authority but has not gained social acceptance by those within that new class. | [adjective] Being a parvenu; also, like, having the characteristics of, or associated with a parvenu. PARVISE (12) [noun] An enclosed courtyard in front of a building, especially a cathedral. | [noun] A portico surrounding such a space. | [noun] The porch of a church, or the room over it. PASSIVE (12) [noun] (grammar) The passive voice of verbs. | [noun] (grammar) A form of a verb that is in the passive voice. | [noun] A customer who is satisfied with a product or service, but not keen enough to promote it by word of mouth. PAVANES (12) [noun] A musical style characteristic of the 16th and 17th centuries. | [noun] A moderately slow, courtly processional dance in duple time/meter. PAVINGS (13) PAVIORS (12) [noun] A person who lays paving slabs. | [noun] A machine that is used to tamp down paving slabs. | [noun] A brick or slab used for paving. PAVIOUR (12) [noun] A person who lays paving slabs. | [noun] A machine that is used to tamp down paving slabs. | [noun] A brick or slab used for paving. PAVISER (12) PAVISES (12) PAVLOVA (15) [noun] (foods) A meringue dessert usually topped with fruit and cream. PEAVEYS (15) [noun] A tool used to manipulate logs, having a thick wooden handle, a steel point, and a curved hooked arm. Similar to a cant-hook, but shorter and stouter, and with a pointed end. PEAVIES (12) [noun] A tool used to manipulate logs, having a thick wooden handle, a steel point, and a curved hooked arm. Similar to a cant-hook, but shorter and stouter, and with a pointed end. PECCAVI (16) [noun] An act of saying ‘peccavi’; an admission of guilt or responsibility. | [interjection] An expression of guilt or culpability. PEEVING (13) [verb] To annoy; vex. PEEVISH (15) [adjective] Characterized by or exhibiting petty bad temper, bad-tempered, moody, cross. | [adjective] Constantly complaining, whining; childishly fretful. | [adjective] Easily annoyed, especially by things that are not important; irritable, querulous. PELVICS (14) PENSIVE (12) [adjective] Having the appearance of deep, often melancholic, thinking. | [adjective] Looking thoughtful, especially from sadness. PERVADE (13) [verb] To be in every part of; to spread through. PERVERT (12) [noun] One who has been perverted; one who has turned to error; one who has turned to a twisted sense of values or morals. | [noun] A person whose sexual habits are not considered acceptable. | [verb] To turn another way; to divert. PIASAVA (12) PIVOTAL (12) [adjective] Of, relating to, or being a pivot. | [adjective] Being of crucial importance; central, key. PIVOTED (13) [verb] To turn on an exact spot. | [verb] To make a sudden or swift change in strategy, policy, etc. | [adjective] Fitted with a pivot or pivots. PLOSIVE (12) [noun] Sound produced from opening a previously closed oral passage. | [adjective] Produced from opening a previously closed oral passage. PLOVERS (12) [noun] Any of various wading birds of the family Charadriidae. PLUVIAL (12) [noun] A rainy period | [adjective] Of, pertaining to, or produced by rain | [adjective] Occurring through the action of rain PLUVIAN (12) POPOVER (14) [noun] A light hollow muffin, resembling an individual Yorkshire pudding. | [noun] A pop-up element that is rendered over the current web page rather than opening a new tab or window. | [noun] A kind of versatile wraparound dress. POVERTY (15) [noun] The quality or state of being poor; lack of money | [noun] Any deficiency of elements or resources that are needed or desired, or that constitute richness PREAVER (12) PRECAVA (14) PREDIVE (13) PREVAIL (12) [verb] To be superior in strength, dominance, influence or frequency; to have or gain the advantage over others; to have the upper hand; to outnumber others. | [verb] To be current, widespread or predominant; to have currency or prevalence. | [verb] To succeed in persuading or inducing. PREVENT (12) [verb] To stop (an outcome); to keep from (doing something). | [verb] To take preventative measures. | [verb] To come before; to precede. PREVIEW (15) [noun] An experience of something in advance. | [noun] An advance showing of a film, exhibition etc. | [noun] Something seen in advance. PREVISE (12) [verb] To foresee. | [verb] To forewarn. PREVUED (13) PREVUES (12) PRIVACY (17) [noun] The state of being secluded from the presence, sight, or knowledge of others. | [noun] Freedom from unwanted or undue disturbance of one private life. | [noun] Freedom from damaging publicity, public scrutiny, surveillance, and disclosure of personal information, usually by a government or a private organization. PRIVATE (12) [noun] A soldier of the lowest rank in the army. | [noun] A doctor working in privately rather than publicly funded health care. | [noun] (in the plural) The genitals. PRIVETS (12) [noun] Any of various shrubs and small trees in the genus Ligustrum. PRIVIER (12) PRIVIES (12) [noun] An outdoor facility for urination and defecation, whether open (latrine) or enclosed (outhouse). | [noun] A lavatory: a room with a toilet. | [noun] A toilet: a fixture used for urination and defecation. PRIVILY (15) PRIVITY (15) [noun] A divine mystery; something known only to God, or revealed only in holy scriptures. | [noun] Privacy, secrecy. | [noun] A private matter, a secret. PROVERB (14) [noun] A phrase expressing a basic truth which may be applied to common situations. | [noun] A striking or paradoxical assertion; an obscure saying; an enigma; a parable. | [noun] A familiar illustration; a subject of contemptuous reference. PROVERS (12) PROVIDE (13) [verb] To make a living; earn money for necessities. | [verb] To act to prepare for something. | [verb] To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate. PROVING (13) [verb] To proofread. | [verb] To make resistant, especially to water. | [verb] To allow yeast-containing dough to rise. | [noun] Experimentation to determine which substances cause which effects when ingested. PROVISO (12) [noun] A conditional provision to an agreement. PROVOKE (16) [verb] To cause someone to become annoyed or angry. | [verb] To bring about a reaction. | [verb] To appeal. PROVOST (12) [noun] One placed in charge: a head, a chief, particularly: | [noun] A senior deputy, a superintendent, particularly: | [noun] A provost cell: a military cell or prison. PULVINI (12) [noun] A joint on a plant leaf or petiole that may swell and cause movement of the leaf or leaflet. PURVEYS (15) [verb] To prepare in advance (for or to do something); to plan, make provision. | [verb] To furnish or provide. | [verb] To procure; to get. PURVIEW (15) [noun] The enacting part of a statute. | [noun] The scope of a statute. | [noun] Scope or range of interest or control. QIVIUTS (19) QUAVERS (19) [noun] A trembling shake. | [noun] A trembling of the voice, as in speaking or singing. | [noun] An eighth note, drawn as a crotchet (quarter note) with a tail. QUAVERY (22) [adjective] Apt to quaver; shaky, trembling. QUIVERS (19) [noun] A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun. | [noun] A ready storage location for figurative tools or weapons. | [noun] The collective noun for cobras. QUIVERY (22) [adjective] Quivering; aquiver RAVAGED (12) [verb] To devastate or destroy something. | [verb] To pillage or sack something, to lay waste to something. | [verb] To wreak destruction. RAVAGER (11) RAVAGES (11) [noun] Grievous damage or havoc. | [noun] Depredation or devastation | [verb] To devastate or destroy something. RAVELED (11) [verb] To tangle; entangle; entwine confusedly, become snarled; thus to involve; perplex; confuse. | [verb] To undo the intricacies of; to disentangle or clarify. | [verb] To pull apart (especially cloth or a seam); unravel. RAVELER (10) RAVELIN (10) [noun] An outwork. A fortification outside a castle used to split an attacking force; composed of two faces, forming a salient angle whose gorge resembles a half-moon RAVELLY (13) RAVENED (11) [verb] To obtain or seize by violence. | [verb] To devour with great eagerness. | [verb] To prey on with rapacity. RAVENER (10) RAVINED (11) RAVINES (10) [noun] Rapine; rapacity. | [noun] Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence. | [noun] A deep narrow valley or gorge in the earth's surface worn by running water. RAVINGS (11) [noun] (usually in the plural) Wild, incoherent, or irrational talk. RAVIOLI (10) [noun] Small square parcels of pasta filled with meat, cheese, spinach etc. | [noun] A dish made with ravioli. | [noun] By analogy, similar dishes/pastas from non-Italian cuisines. REAVAIL (10) REAVERS (10) REAVING (11) [verb] To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove. | [verb] To deprive (a person) of something through theft or violence. | [verb] To split, tear, break apart. REAVOWS (13) RECEIVE (12) [noun] An operation in which data is received. | [verb] To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, etc.; to accept; to be given something. | [verb] To take goods knowing them to be stolen. RECOVER (12) [noun] Recovery. | [noun] A position of holding a firearm during exercises, whereby the lock is at shoulder height and the sling facing out. | [noun] The forward movement in rowing, after one stroke to take another (recovery) | [verb] To cover again. RECURVE (12) [verb] To curve again, to rebend. | [verb] To curve back on itself. | [verb] (of a storm) To change direction. REDRIVE (11) REDROVE (11) REEVING (11) [verb] To pass (a rope) through a hole or opening, especially so as to fasten it. REEVOKE (14) REGIVEN (11) REGIVES (11) REIVERS (10) REIVING (11) [verb] To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove. | [verb] To deprive (a person) of something through theft or violence. | [verb] To split, tear, break apart. RELEVES (10) RELIEVE (10) [verb] To ease (a person, person's thoughts etc.) from mental distress; to stop (someone) feeling anxious or worried, to alleviate the distress of. | [verb] To ease (someone, a part of the body etc.) or give relief from physical pain or discomfort. | [verb] To alleviate (pain, distress, mental discomfort etc.). RELIEVO (10) [noun] Relief (surface carving) RELIVED (11) [verb] To experience (something) again; to live over again. | [verb] To bring back to life; to revive, resuscitate. | [verb] To come back to life. RELIVES (10) [verb] To experience (something) again; to live over again. | [verb] To bring back to life; to revive, resuscitate. | [verb] To come back to life. REMOVAL (12) [noun] The process of moving, or the fact of being removed. | [noun] The relocation of a business etc. | [noun] The dismissal of someone from office. REMOVED (13) [verb] To move something from one place to another, especially to take away. | [verb] To murder. | [verb] To dismiss a batsman. REMOVER (12) REMOVES (12) [noun] The act of removing something. | [noun] (archaic) Removing a dish at a meal in order to replace it with the next course, a dish thus replaced, or the replacement. | [noun] (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last RENVOIS (10) REPAVED (13) REPAVES (12) REPLEVY (15) [noun] Replevin | [verb] To return goods to their rightful owner by replevin; to recover goods. | [verb] To bail. REPROVE (12) [verb] To express disapproval. | [verb] To criticise, rebuke or reprimand (someone), usually in a gentle and kind tone. | [verb] To deny or reject (a feeling, behaviour, action etc.). | [verb] To prove again. RESERVE (10) [noun] (behaviour) Restriction. | [noun] That which is reserved or kept back, as for future use. | [noun] (social) Something initially kept back for later use in a recreation. RESHAVE (13) RESOLVE (10) [noun] Determination; will power. | [noun] A determination to do something; a fixed decision. | [noun] An act of resolving something; resolution. | [verb] To solve again. RESTIVE (10) [adjective] Impatient under delay, duress, or control. | [adjective] Resistant to control; stubborn. | [adjective] Refusing to move, especially in a forward direction. REVALUE (10) [verb] To value again, give a new value to. | [verb] To apply revaluation to a pension benefit. REVAMPS (14) [verb] To renovate, revise, improve or renew. REVEALS (10) [noun] The outer side of a window or door frame; the jamb. | [noun] A revelation; an uncovering of what was hidden. | [noun] (obsolete in the US) The side of an opening for a window, doorway, or the like, between the door frame or window frame and the outer surface of the wall; or, where the opening is not filled with a door, etc., the whole thickness of the wall; the jamb. REVELED (11) [verb] To make merry; to have a happy, lively time. | [verb] To take delight (in something). REVELER (10) [noun] One who attends revels; a partygoer. REVELRY (13) [noun] Joyful or riotous merry-making. REVENGE (11) [noun] Any form of personal retaliatory action against an individual, institution, or group for some alleged or perceived harm or injustice. | [noun] A win by a previous loser. | [verb] To take revenge for (a particular harmful action) or on behalf of (its victim); to avenge. REVENUE (10) [noun] The income returned by an investment. | [noun] The total income received from a given source. | [noun] All income generated for some political entity's treasury by taxation and other means. REVERBS (12) [verb] To echo. | [verb] To apply a reverb (electronic echo effect) to. REVERED (11) [verb] To regard someone or something with great awe or devotion. | [verb] To honour in a form lesser than worship, e.g. a saint, or an idol | [adjective] Respected or given reverence REVERER (10) REVERES (10) [verb] To regard someone or something with great awe or devotion. | [verb] To honour in a form lesser than worship, e.g. a saint, or an idol REVERIE (10) [noun] A state of dreaming while awake; a loose or irregular train of thought; musing or meditation; daydream. | [noun] An extravagant conceit of the imagination; a vision. | [noun] A caper, a frolic; merriment. REVERSE (10) [noun] The opposite of something. | [noun] The act of going backwards; a reversal. | [noun] A piece of misfortune; a setback. REVERSO (10) REVERTS (10) [noun] One who, or that which, reverts. | [noun] One who reverts to that religion which he had adhered to before having converted to another | [noun] (due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) A convert to Islam. REVESTS (10) REVIEWS (13) [noun] A second or subsequent reading of a text or artifact in an attempt to gain new insights. | [noun] An account intended as a critical evaluation of a text or a piece of work. | [noun] A judicial reassessment of a case or an event. REVILED (11) [verb] To attack (someone) with abusive language. REVILER (10) REVILES (10) [verb] To attack (someone) with abusive language. REVISAL (10) REVISED (11) [verb] To look at again, to reflect on. | [verb] To review, alter and amend, especially of written material. | [verb] To look over again (something previously written or learned), especially in preparation for an examination. REVISER (10) REVISES (10) [noun] A review or a revision. | [noun] A second proof sheet; a proof sheet taken after the first or a subsequent correction. | [verb] To look at again, to reflect on. REVISIT (10) [noun] An act of revisiting; a second or subsequent visit. | [verb] To visit again. | [verb] To reconsider or re-experience something. REVISOR (10) REVIVAL (13) [noun] The act of reviving, or the state of being revived | [noun] Renewed attention to something, as to letters or literature. | [noun] Renewed performance of, or interest in, something, such as drama or literature. REVIVED (14) [verb] To return to life; to become reanimated or reinvigorated. | [verb] To return to life; to cause to recover life or strength; to cause to live anew. | [verb] To recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression. REVIVER (13) REVIVES (13) [verb] To return to life; to become reanimated or reinvigorated. | [verb] To return to life; to cause to recover life or strength; to cause to live anew. | [verb] To recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression. REVOICE (12) REVOKED (15) [verb] To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing. | [verb] To fail to follow suit in a game of cards when holding a card in that suit. | [verb] To call or bring back. REVOKER (14) REVOKES (14) [noun] The act of revoking in a game of cards. | [noun] A renege; a violation of important rules regarding the play of tricks in trick-taking card games serious enough to render the round invalid. | [noun] A violation ranked in seriousness somewhat below overt cheating, with the status of a more minor offense only because, when it happens, it is usually accidental. REVOLTS (10) [noun] An act of revolt. | [verb] To rebel, particularly against authority. | [verb] To repel greatly. REVOLVE (13) [noun] The rotation of part of the scenery within a theatrical production. | [noun] The rotating section itself. | [noun] A radical change; revolution. REVOTED (11) REVOTES (10) [noun] An act of voting again REVUIST (10) REVVING (14) [verb] To increase the speed of a motor, or to operate at a higher speed. | [noun] The act by which an engine is revved. | [noun] A technique for reducing web page loading times by assigning far-future expiration dates to the resources on the page (so that the browser caches them indefinitely) and, if changes are needed, using different filenames for those resources. REWEAVE (13) REWOVEN (13) RIEVERS (10) RILIEVI (10) RILIEVO (10) [noun] A relief. RIVAGES (11) RIVALED (11) [verb] To oppose or compete with. | [verb] To be equal to, or match, or to surpass another. | [verb] To strive to equal or excel; to emulate. RIVALRY (13) [noun] An ongoing relationship between (usually two) rivals who compete for superiority. | [noun] The characteristic of being a rivalrous good, such that it can be consumed or used by only one person at a time. | [noun] Any competition between two or more things or factors. RIVETED (11) [verb] To attach or fasten parts by using rivets. | [verb] To install rivets. | [verb] To command the attention of. RIVETER (10) RIVIERA (10) [noun] Any coastal area popular with tourists. RIVIERE (10) RIVULET (10) [noun] A small brook or stream; a streamlet. | [noun] Perizoma affinitatum, a geometrid moth. ROVINGS (11) [noun] A long and narrow bundle of fibre, usually used to spin woollen yarn. | [noun] The process of giving the first twist to yarn. RUNOVER (10) SALIVAS (10) SALVAGE (11) [noun] The rescue of a ship, its crew or its cargo from a hazardous situation. | [noun] The ship, crew or cargo so rescued. | [noun] The compensation paid to the rescuers. | [noun] An uncivilized or feral human; a barbarian. | [noun] (Philippine English) summary execution, extrajudicial killing SALVERS (10) [noun] One who salves or cures. | [noun] One who pretends to cure; a quacksalver. | [noun] One who salves or saves goods, etc. from destruction or loss. SALVIAS (10) [noun] A plant in the genus Salvia, such as sage. SALVING (11) [verb] To calm or assuage. | [verb] To heal by applications or medicaments; to apply salve to; to anoint. | [verb] To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good. SALVOED (11) SALVOES (10) [noun] An exception; a reservation; an excuse. | [noun] A concentrated fire from pieces of artillery, as in endeavoring to make a break in a fortification; a volley. | [noun] A salute paid by a simultaneous, or nearly simultaneous, firing of a number of cannon. SALVORS (10) [noun] One who salvages; especially, one who voluntarily assists in saving a distressed ship or its goods at sea. SAMOVAR (12) [noun] A metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea. Traditionally, the water is heated by hot coals or charcoal in a chimney-like tube which runs through the center of the urn. Today, it is more likely that the water is heated by an electric coil. SAVABLE (12) SAVAGED (12) [verb] To attack or assault someone or something ferociously or without restraint. | [verb] To criticise vehemently. | [verb] (of an animal) To attack with the teeth. SAVAGER (11) SAVAGES (11) [noun] An uncivilized or feral human; a barbarian. | [noun] A defiant person. | [verb] To attack or assault someone or something ferociously or without restraint. SAVANNA (10) [noun] A tropical grassland with scattered trees SAVANTS (10) [noun] A person of learning, especially one who is versed in literature or science. | [noun] A person who is considered eminent because of their achievements. | [noun] A person with significant mental disabilities who is very gifted in one area of activity, such as playing the piano or mental arithmetic. SAVARIN (10) [noun] A type of leavened cake often drizzled with liquor SAVATES (10) SAVELOY (13) [noun] A seasoned and smoked pork sausage, normally purchased ready-cooked. SAVINES (10) [noun] The evergreen shrub Juniperus sabina, endemic to Europe, which yields a medicinal oil. | [noun] The poisonous dried tips of this plant, with anthelmintic properties, used as a drug. | [noun] The eastern red cedar, Juniperus virginiana, of eastern North America. SAVINGS (11) [noun] A reduction in cost or expenditure. | [noun] (usually in the plural) Something (usually money) that is saved, particularly money that has been set aside for the future. | [noun] The action of the verb to save. SAVIORS (10) [noun] A person who saves someone, rescues another from harm. | [noun] A child who is born to provide an organ or cell transplant to a sibling who has an otherwise fatal disease (used in combination, with "sibling", "baby", "child", "brother", "sister", etc.) SAVIOUR (10) [noun] A person who saves someone, rescues another from harm. | [noun] A child who is born to provide an organ or cell transplant to a sibling who has an otherwise fatal disease (used in combination, with "sibling", "baby", "child", "brother", "sister", etc.) SAVORED (11) [verb] To possess a particular taste or smell, or a distinctive quality. | [verb] To appreciate, enjoy or relish something. | [verb] To season. SAVORER (10) SAVOURS (10) [noun] The specific taste or smell of something. | [noun] A distinctive sensation. | [noun] Sense of smell; power to scent, or trace by scent. SAVOURY (13) [noun] A savory snack. | [adjective] Tasty, attractive to the palate. | [adjective] Salty and/or spicy, but not sweet. SAVVIED (14) [verb] To understand. SAVVIER (13) [adjective] Shrewd, well-informed and perceptive. SAVVIES (13) [verb] To understand. SCARVES (12) [noun] A long, often knitted, garment worn around the neck. | [noun] A headscarf. | [noun] A neckcloth or cravat. SCRIEVE (12) SCRIVED (13) SCRIVES (12) SELVAGE (11) [noun] The edge of a woven fabric, where the weft (side-to-side) threads run around the warp (top to bottom) threads, creating a finished edge. | [noun] Any edge of fabric finished so as to prevent raveling. | [noun] The excess area of any printed or perforated sheet, such as the border on a sheet of postage stamps or the wide margins of an engraving. SERVALS (10) [noun] A medium-sized African wild cat, Leptailurus serval, formerly Felis serval. SERVANT (10) [noun] One who is hired to perform regular household or other duties, and receives compensation. As opposed to a slave. | [noun] One who serves another, providing help in some manner. | [noun] A person who dedicates themselves to God. SERVERS (10) [noun] A program that provides services to other programs or devices, either in the same computer or over a computer network. | [noun] A computer dedicated to running such programs. | [noun] One who serves. SERVICE (12) [noun] An act of being of assistance to someone. | [noun] The practice of providing such a service as economic activity. | [noun] A department in a company, an organization, a government department, etc. | [noun] Service tree SERVILE (10) [noun] (grammar) An element which forms no part of the original root. | [noun] A slave; a menial. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to a slave. SERVING (11) [verb] (personal) To provide a service (or, by extension, a product, especially food or drink). | [verb] To treat (someone) in a given manner. | [verb] To be suitor to; to be the lover of. SEVENTH (13) [noun] The person or thing in the seventh position. | [noun] One of seven equal parts of a whole. | [noun] A tone of the seventh degree from a given tone, the interval between two such tones, or the two tones sounding in unison. SEVENTY (13) [numeral] The cardinal number occurring after sixty-nine and before seventy-one, represented in Roman numerals as LXX and in Arabic numerals as 70. SEVERAL (10) [noun] An area of land in private ownership (as opposed to common land). | [noun] Each particular taken singly; an item; a detail; an individual. | [noun] An enclosed or separate place; enclosure. SEVERED (11) [verb] To cut free. | [verb] To suffer disjunction; to be parted or separated. | [verb] To make a separation or distinction; to distinguish. SEVERER (10) [adjective] Very bad or intense. | [adjective] Strict or harsh. | [adjective] Sober, plain in appearance, austere. SEVICHE (15) [noun] Raw seafood cured by marination in an acidic medium such as citrus, vinegar, or other souring agent, found primarily in Latin America. SEVRUGA (11) [noun] A type of sturgeon, Acipenser stellatus. | [noun] An expensive caviar made from its eggs. SHAVERS (13) [noun] One who shaves. | [noun] A barber, one whose occupation is to shave. | [noun] A tool or machine for shaving; an electric razor. SHAVIES (13) SHAVING (14) [verb] To make bald or shorter by using a tool such as a razor or pair of electric clippers to cut the hair close to the skin. | [verb] To cut anything in this fashion. | [verb] To remove hair from one's face by this means. SHEAVED (14) [verb] To gather and bind into a sheaf. | [adjective] (of straw) Made into a sheaf SHEAVES (13) [noun] A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw. | [noun] Any collection of things bound together; a bundle. | [noun] A bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer. SHEEVES (13) SHELVED (14) [verb] To place on a shelf. | [verb] To set aside; to quit or postpone. | [verb] To furnish with shelves. SHELVER (13) SHELVES (13) [noun] A flat, rigid structure, fixed at right angles to a wall or forming a part of a cabinet, desk etc., and used to support, store or display objects. | [noun] The capacity of such an object | [noun] A projecting ledge that resembles such an object. SHIVAHS (16) SHIVERS (13) [noun] The act of shivering. | [noun] A bodily response to early hypothermia.Wp | [verb] To tremble or shake, especially when cold or frightened. SHIVERY (16) [adjective] Given to shivering; tending to shiver. | [adjective] Easily broken; brittle. SHOVELS (13) [noun] A hand tool with a handle, used for moving portions of material such as earth, snow, and grain from one place to another, with some forms also used for digging. Not to be confused with a spade, which is designed solely for small-scale digging and incidental tasks such as chopping of small roots. | [noun] A spade. SHOVERS (13) SHOVING (14) [verb] To push, especially roughly or with force. | [verb] To move off or along by an act of pushing, as with an oar or pole used in a boat; sometimes with off. | [verb] (by ellipsis) To make an all-in bet. SHRIEVE (13) SHRIVED (14) SHRIVEL (13) [verb] To collapse inward; to crumble. | [verb] To become wrinkled. | [verb] To draw into wrinkles. SHRIVEN (13) [verb] To question. | [verb] To hear or receive a confession (of sins etc.) | [verb] To prescribe penance or absolution. SHRIVER (13) SHRIVES (13) [verb] To hear or receive a confession (of sins etc.) | [verb] To prescribe penance or absolution. | [verb] To confess, and receive absolution. SIEVING (11) [verb] To strain, sift or sort using a sieve. | [verb] To concede; let in | [noun] The act of passing something through a sieve. SILVANS (10) SILVERN (10) [adjective] Made of silver; or resembling or characteristic of silver; silvery. SILVERS (10) [noun] A lustrous, white, metallic element, atomic number 47, atomic weight 107.87, symbol Ag. | [noun] (collectively) Coins made from silver or any similar white metal. | [noun] (collectively) Cutlery and other eating utensils, whether silver or made from some other white metal. SILVERY (13) [adjective] Resembling silver in color, shiny white. | [adjective] Sprinkled or covered with silver. | [adjective] Having the clear, musical tone of silver; soft and clear in sound. SILVICS (12) SKIVERS (14) SKIVING (15) [verb] To avoid one's lessons or work (chiefly at school or university); shirk. | [verb] To pare or shave off the rough or thick parts of. | [noun] A piece made in skiving (the paring or splitting of leather), especially the part from the inner, or flesh, side. SKYDIVE (18) [noun] An instance of skydiving. | [verb] To be in freefall after jumping from an aircraft and landing safely by deploying a parachute. SKYDOVE (18) SLAVERS (10) [verb] To drool saliva from the mouth; to slobber. | [verb] To fawn. | [verb] To smear with saliva issuing from the mouth. SLAVERY (13) [noun] An institution or social practice of owning human beings as property, especially for use as forced laborers. | [noun] A condition of servitude endured by a slave. | [noun] A condition in which one is captivated or subjugated, as by greed or drugs. | [adjective] Covered in slaver; slobbery. SLAVEYS (13) [noun] A male servant. | [noun] A maid, maidservant. SLAVING (11) [verb] To work as a slaver, to enslave people. | [verb] To work hard. | [verb] To place a device under the control of another. SLAVISH (13) [adjective] In the manner of a slave; abject. | [adjective] (Of a copy) utterly faithful; totally lacking originality or creativity. SLEAVED (11) SLEAVES (10) SLEEVED (11) SLEEVES (10) [noun] The part of a garment that covers the arm. | [noun] A (usually tubular) covering or lining to protect a piece of machinery etc. | [noun] A protective jacket or case, especially for a record, containing art and information about the contents; also the analogous leaflet found in a packaged CD. SLIVERS (10) [noun] A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter. | [noun] A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which precedes spinning. | [noun] Bait made of pieces of small fish. Compare kibblings. SLOVENS (10) [noun] A habitually dirty or untidy man or boy; the male equivalent of slattern, or slut. | [noun] A low, base, lewd person. | [noun] An immoral woman. SNIVELS (10) [verb] To breathe heavily through the nose while it is congested with nasal mucus. | [verb] To cry while sniffling; to whine or complain while crying. | [verb] To say (something) while sniffling or crying. SOLVATE (10) [noun] A complex formed by the attachment of solvent molecules to that of a solute | [verb] To form such a complex upon solution SOLVENT (10) [noun] A liquid that dissolves a solid, liquid, or gaseous solute, resulting in a solution. | [noun] That which resolves. | [adjective] Able to pay all debts as they become due, and having no more liabilities than assets. SOLVERS (10) SOLVING (11) [verb] To find an answer or solution to a problem or question; to work out. | [verb] To find the values of variables that satisfy a system of equations and/or inequalities. | [verb] To algebraically manipulate an equation or inequality into a form that isolates a chosen variable on one side, so that the other side consists of an expression that may be used to generate solutions. SONOVOX (17) SOVIETS (10) [noun] A workers' council, an institution first formed during the 1905 Russian Revolution and then instituted as the main form of communist government at all levels in the Soviet Union; by extension, a similar organization in early Chinese communism and elsewhere. SOVKHOZ (26) [noun] A large, state-owned farm in the Soviet Union. SOVRANS (10) SPAVIES (12) SPAVIET (12) SPAVINS (12) [noun] A disease of horses characterized by a bony swelling developed on the hock as the result of inflammation of the bones. STARVED (11) [verb] To die; in later use especially to die slowly, waste away. | [verb] To die because of lack of food or of not eating. | [verb] To be very hungry. STARVER (10) STARVES (10) [verb] To die; in later use especially to die slowly, waste away. | [verb] To die because of lack of food or of not eating. | [verb] To be very hungry. STATIVE (10) [noun] (grammar) A construct asserting that a subject has a particular property. | [adjective] (grammar) Asserting that a subject has a particular property. | [adjective] Of or relating to a fixed camp, or military posts or quarters. STAVING (11) [verb] To fit or furnish with staves or rundles. | [verb] (usually with 'in') To break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst. | [verb] (with 'off') To push, or keep off, as with a staff. STEEVED (11) [verb] To project upward, or make an angle with the horizon or with the line of a vessel's keel; said of the bowsprit, etc. | [verb] To stow, as bales in a vessel's hold, by means of a steeve. STEEVES (10) [verb] To project upward, or make an angle with the horizon or with the line of a vessel's keel; said of the bowsprit, etc. | [verb] To stow, as bales in a vessel's hold, by means of a steeve. STIVERS (10) [noun] (money) A small Dutch coin worth one twentieth of a guilder. | [noun] Anything of small value. STOVERS (10) STRIVED (11) STRIVEN (10) STRIVER (10) STRIVES (10) [noun] Striving; earnest endeavor; hard work. | [noun] Exertion or contention for superiority, either by physical or intellectual means. | [noun] Bitter conflict, sometimes violent. STUIVER (10) SUASIVE (10) [adjective] Having power to persuade; persuasive. SUAVELY (13) SUAVEST (10) [adjective] Charming, confident and elegant. SUAVITY (13) [noun] The quality of being sweet or pleasing to the mind; agreeableness; pleasantness | [noun] Sweetness to the taste. SUBOVAL (12) SUBVENE (12) SUBVERT (12) [verb] To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly. | [verb] To pervert, as the mind, and turn it from the truth; to corrupt; to confound. | [verb] To upturn convention from the foundation by undermining it (literally, to turn from beneath). | [noun] An advertisement created by subvertising. SURVEIL (10) [verb] To keep someone or something under surveillance. SURVEYS (13) [noun] The act of surveying; a general view. | [noun] A particular view; an examination, especially an official examination, of a particular group of items, in order to ascertain the condition, quantity, or quality. | [noun] The operation of finding the contour, dimensions, position, or other particulars of any part of the Earth's surface. SURVIVE (13) [verb] Of a person, to continue to live; to remain alive. | [verb] Of an object or concept, to continue to exist. | [verb] To live longer than; to outlive. SVELTER (10) [adjective] Attractively thin; gracefully slender. | [adjective] Refined, delicate. SWERVED (14) [verb] To stray; to wander; to rove. | [verb] To go out of a straight line; to deflect. | [verb] To wander from any line prescribed, or from a rule or duty; to depart from what is established by law, duty, custom, or the like; to deviate. SWERVER (13) SWERVES (13) [noun] A sudden movement out of a straight line, for example to avoid a collision. | [noun] A deviation from duty or custom. | [verb] To stray; to wander; to rove. SWEVENS (13) SWIVELS (13) [noun] A piece, as a ring or hook, attached to another piece by a pin, in such a manner as to permit rotation about the pin as an axis. | [noun] A small piece of ordnance, turning on a point or swivel; called also swivel gun. | [noun] Strength of mind or character that enables one to overcome adversity; confidence; force of will. SWIVETS (13) [noun] A state or condition of haste, flutter; extreme discomposure or distress; irritation, exasperation, annoyance. SWIVING (14) [verb] To copulate with (a woman). | [verb] To cut a crop in a sweeping or rambling manner, hence to reap; cut for harvest. | [noun] The act or process of copulating; copulation. SYLVANS (13) SYLVINE (13) [noun] A saline evaporite, consisting of potassium chloride KCl, also found in fumaroles. SYLVINS (13) SYLVITE (13) [noun] A saline evaporite, consisting of potassium chloride KCl, also found in fumaroles. SYNOVIA (13) TANTIVY (13) [noun] A rapid gallop | [noun] The sound of a hunting horn in imitation of a galloping horse | [verb] To hurry off. TAVERNA (10) [noun] A small Greek restaurant. TAVERNS (10) [noun] A building containing a bar licensed to sell alcoholic drinks, and usually offering accommodation; an inn. TENSIVE (10) [adjective] Of or pertaining to tension THIEVED (14) [verb] To commit theft. THIEVES (13) [noun] One who carries out a theft. | [noun] One who steals another person's property, especially by stealth and without using force or violence. | [noun] A waster in the snuff of a candle. THRAVES (13) THRIVED (14) [verb] To grow or increase stature; to grow vigorously or luxuriantly, to flourish. | [verb] To increase in wealth or success; to prosper, be profitable. THRIVEN (13) [verb] To grow or increase stature; to grow vigorously or luxuriantly, to flourish. | [verb] To increase in wealth or success; to prosper, be profitable. THRIVER (13) THRIVES (13) [verb] To grow or increase stature; to grow vigorously or luxuriantly, to flourish. | [verb] To increase in wealth or success; to prosper, be profitable. TRAVAIL (10) [noun] Arduous or painful exertion; excessive labor, suffering, hardship. | [noun] Specifically, the labor of childbirth. | [noun] An act of working; labor (US), labour (British). | [verb] To toil. TRAVELS (10) [noun] The act of traveling; passage from place to place. | [noun] (in the plural) A series of journeys. | [noun] (in the plural) An account of one's travels. TRAVOIS (10) [noun] A traditional North American Indian sled-like vehicle, pulled by person, dog, or horse. TREVETS (10) TRIVETS (10) [noun] A stand with three short legs, especially for cooking over a fire. | [noun] A stand, sometimes with short, stumpy feet, used to support hot dishes and protect a table; a hot coaster | [noun] A weaver's knife. See trevat. TRIVIAL (10) [noun] Any of the three liberal arts forming the trivium. | [adjective] Ignorable; of little significance or value. | [adjective] Commonplace, ordinary. TRIVIUM (12) [noun] (in medieval universities) The lower division of the liberal arts; grammar, logic and rhetoric. | [noun] The three anterior ambulacra of echinoderms, collectively. TROVERS (10) TUSSIVE (10) [adjective] Related to, caused by, or accompanied by a cough TWELVES (13) [noun] A group of twelve items. | [noun] A twelve-bore gun. | [noun] A jury (normally composed of twelve persons). UNCIVIL (12) [adjective] Not civilized | [adjective] Not civil; discourteous; impolite UNCOVER (12) [verb] To remove a cover from. | [verb] To reveal the identity of. | [verb] To show openly; to disclose; to reveal. UNGLOVE (11) UNITIVE (10) UNLEVEL (10) UNLIVED (11) [adjective] That has not been lived. | [adjective] Bereft or deprived of life. UNLIVES (10) UNLOVED (11) [verb] To lose one's love (for someone or something). | [adjective] Not loved. UNMOVED (13) [adjective] Not physically moved. | [adjective] Not affected emotionally, or not showing emotion. | [adjective] Not sympathetic; uncaring. UNNERVE (10) [verb] To deprive of nerve, force, or strength; to weaken; to enfeeble. | [verb] To make somebody nervous, upset, alarm, shake the resolve of. UNPAVED (13) [adjective] (of a road or path) Not having a hard, impervious surface; not paved UNRAVEL (10) [verb] To separate the threads (of); disentangle. | [verb] (of threads, etc.) To become separated; (of something woven, knitted, etc.) to come apart. | [verb] To clear from complication or difficulty; to unfold; to solve. UNREEVE (10) [verb] To withdraw or take out, as for example a rope from a block. UNROVEN (10) UNSAVED (11) [verb] To undo an act of saving; to erase. | [adjective] Not saved; unredeemed. | [adjective] Not saved (stored in a file). UNVEILS (10) [verb] To remove a veil from; to uncover; to reveal something hidden. | [verb] To remove a veil; to reveal oneself. UNVEXED (18) UNVOCAL (12) UNVOICE (12) UNWEAVE (13) UNWOVEN (13) [verb] To undo something woven. | [adjective] Not woven. UPCURVE (14) UPDIVED (14) UPDIVES (13) UPHEAVE (15) [verb] To heave or lift up; raise up or aloft. | [verb] To lift or thrust something upward forcefully, or be similarly lifted or thrust upward. | [verb] To be lifted up; rise. UPRIVER (12) [adjective] Towards the source of a river. | [adverb] Towards the source of a river. | [adverb] Against the current. UVEITIC (12) UVEITIS (10) [noun] Inflammation of the uvea UVULARS (10) [noun] A sound articulated with the uvula. VACANCY (17) [noun] An unoccupied position or job. | [noun] An available room in a hotel; guest house, etc. | [noun] Empty space. VACATED (13) [verb] To move out of a dwelling, either by choice or by eviction. | [verb] To leave an office or position. | [verb] To have a court judgement set aside; to annul. VACATES (12) [verb] To move out of a dwelling, either by choice or by eviction. | [verb] To leave an office or position. | [verb] To have a court judgement set aside; to annul. VACCINA (14) VACCINE (14) [noun] A substance given to stimulate the body's production of antibodies and provide immunity against a disease without causing the disease itself in the treatment, prepared from the agent that causes the disease (or a related, also effective, but safer disease), or a synthetic substitute. VACUITY (15) [noun] Emptiness. | [noun] Physical emptiness, an absence of matter; vacuum. | [noun] Idleness; listlessness. VACUOLE (12) [noun] A large membrane-bound vesicle in a cell's cytoplasm. VACUOUS (12) [adjective] Empty; void; lacking meaningful content. | [adjective] Showing a lack of thought or intelligence; vacant VACUUMS (14) [noun] A region of space that contains no matter. | [noun] (plural only "vacuums") A vacuum cleaner. | [noun] The condition of rarefaction, or reduction of pressure below that of the atmosphere, in a vessel, such as the condenser of a steam engine, which is nearly exhausted of air or steam, etc. VAGALLY (14) VAGINAE (11) [noun] The passage leading from the opening of the vulva to the cervix of the uterus for copulation and childbirth in female mammals. | [noun] A similar part in some invertebrates. | [noun] A sheath-like structure, such as the leaf of a grass that surrounds a stem. VAGINAL (11) [adjective] Of, relating to, or affecting the vagina. VAGINAS (11) [noun] The passage leading from the opening of the vulva to the cervix of the uterus for copulation and childbirth in female mammals. | [noun] A similar part in some invertebrates. | [noun] A sheath-like structure, such as the leaf of a grass that surrounds a stem. VAGRANT (11) [noun] A person who wanders from place to place; a nomad, a wanderer. | [noun] (specifically) A person without settled employment or habitation who supports himself or herself by begging or some dishonest means; a tramp, a vagabond. | [noun] Vagrans egista, a widely distributed Asian butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. | [adjective] Wandering from place to place, particularly when without any settled employment or habitation. VAGUELY (14) [adverb] In a vague manner. | [adverb] Loosely; more or less; somewhat. VAGUEST (11) [adjective] Not clearly expressed; stated in indefinite terms. | [adjective] Not having a precise meaning. | [adjective] Not clearly defined, grasped, or understood; indistinct; slight. VAHINES (13) VAILING (11) [verb] To pay homage, bow, submit, defer (to someone or something); to yield, give way (to something). | [verb] To remove as a sign of deference, as a hat. | [verb] To lower, let fall; to allow or cause to sink. VAINEST (10) [adjective] Overly proud of oneself, especially concerning appearance; having a high opinion of one's own accomplishments with slight reason. | [adjective] Having no real substance, value, or importance; empty; void; worthless; unsatisfying. | [adjective] Effecting no purpose; pointless, futile. VAKEELS (14) [noun] A native attorney, lawyer or agent. | [noun] An ambassador. VALANCE (12) [noun] A short curtain that usually hangs along the top edge of a window. | [noun] A decorative framework used to conceal the curtain mechanism and so on at the top of a window. | [noun] (bedding) A short, decorative edging of cloth that hangs from the mattress to the floor. VALENCE (12) [noun] An extract; a preparation, now especially one effective against a certain number of strains of a pathogen. | [noun] The combining capacity of an atom, radical or functional group determined by the number of electrons that it will lose, gain, or share when it combines with other atoms etc. | [noun] The number of binding sites of a molecule, such as an antibody or antigen. | [noun] A short curtain that usually hangs along the top edge of a window. VALENCY (15) [noun] The number of edges connected to a vertex in a graph. | [noun] Valence. | [noun] The capacity of a verb to take a specific number of arguments. VALERIC (12) VALETED (11) [verb] To serve (someone) as a valet. | [verb] To clean and service (a car), as a valet does. | [verb] To leave (a car) with a valet to park it. VALGOID (12) VALIANT (10) [noun] A person who acts with valor, showing hero-like characteristics in the midst of danger. | [adjective] Showing courage or determination; brave, heroic. VALIDLY (14) [adverb] In a valid manner. VALINES (10) VALISES (10) [noun] A piece of hand luggage such as a suitcase or travelling bag. VALKYRS (17) VALLATE (10) VALLEYS (13) [noun] An elongated depression between hills or mountains, often with a river flowing through it. | [noun] The area which drains into a river. | [noun] Any structure resembling one, e.g., the meeting point of two pitched roofs. VALONIA (10) [noun] The European evergreen oak, Quercus macrolepis, now Quercus ithaburensis subsp. macrolepis, or Quercus aegilops. | [noun] The dried acorn cups of this tree, which are used to make a black dye, used in tanning. VALOURS (10) VALUATE (10) [verb] To estimate the value of something; to appraise or to make a valuation. VALUERS (10) [noun] A person who valuates; an assessor or appraiser. | [noun] A person who appreciates something and sets a value on it. VALUING (11) [verb] To estimate the value of; judge the worth of something. | [verb] To fix or determine the value of; assign a value to, as of jewelry or art work. | [verb] To regard highly; think much of; place importance upon. VALUTAS (10) VALVATE (13) [adjective] Having or resembling valves (that open and close). | [adjective] Meeting at the edges without overlapping. VALVING (14) VALVULA (13) VALVULE (13) VAMOOSE (12) [verb] To run away (from); to flee. | [verb] To hurry. | [verb] To be expelled. VAMOSED (13) VAMOSES (12) VAMPERS (14) VAMPING (15) [verb] To patch, repair, or refurbish. | [verb] Often as vamp up: to fabricate or put together (something) from existing material, or by adding new material to something existing. | [verb] To cobble together, to extemporize, to improvise. VAMPIRE (14) [noun] A mythological undead creature said to feed on the blood of the living. | [noun] A person with the medical condition systemic lupus erythematosus, colloquially known as vampirism, with effects such as photosensitivity and brownish-red stained teeth. | [noun] A blood-sucking bat; vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) VAMPISH (17) [adjective] Like a vamp (flirtatious woman). VANADIC (13) VANDALS (11) [noun] A person who needlessly destroys, defaces, or damages other people's property. VANDYKE (18) [noun] An edge with ornamental triangular points. | [noun] A style of facial hair which has both a mustache and goatee but with all cheek hair shaven. | [noun] A style of dress or collar similar to those in Anthony van Dyck's portrait paintings; a small round cape, the border ornamented with points and indentations. VANILLA (10) [noun] Any tropical, climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla (especially Vanilla planifolia), bearing podlike fruit yielding an extract used in flavoring food or in perfumes. | [noun] The fruit or bean of the vanilla plant. | [noun] The extract of the fruit of the vanilla plant. VANNERS (10) VANNING (11) VANPOOL (12) VANTAGE (11) [noun] Any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end. | [noun] Superiority; mastery; — used with of to specify its nature or with over to specify the other party. | [noun] Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit VANWARD (14) VAPIDLY (16) VAPORED (13) [verb] To become vapor; to be emitted or circulated as vapor. | [verb] To turn into vapor. | [verb] To emit vapor or fumes. VAPORER (12) [noun] Any of several tussock moths (family Erebidae, subfamily Lymantriinae), especially of the genus Orgyia. | [noun] One who vapours; a braggart. VAPOURS (12) [noun] Cloudy diffused matter such as mist, steam or fumes suspended in the air. | [noun] The gaseous state of a substance that is normally a solid or liquid. | [noun] Something insubstantial, fleeting, or transitory; unreal fancy; vain imagination; idle talk; boasting. VAPOURY (15) [adjective] Resembling or characteristic of vapour. | [adjective] Affected with the vapours; peevish. VAQUERO (19) [noun] A cowboy; a herdsman. VARIANT (10) [noun] Something that is slightly different from a type or norm. | [noun] A different sequence of a gene (locus). | [noun] A variable that can hold any of various unrelated data types. VARIATE (10) [noun] A measurable quantity capable of taking on a number of values. | [noun] A variable, often the set of x values plotted on a graph. | [noun] The measured magnitude of a variable. VARICES (12) [noun] A varicose, i.e. swollen and knotted, vein | [noun] In mollusks, a particular ridge on the shell, corresponding to a former position of the aperture. VARIERS (10) VARIETY (13) [noun] The quality of being varied; diversity. | [noun] A specific variation of something. | [noun] A number of different things. VARIOLA (10) [noun] Smallpox VARIOLE (10) VARIOUS (10) [adjective] Having a broad range (of different elements). | [adjective] That varies or differs from others; variant; different. VARLETS (10) [noun] A servant or attendant. | [noun] Specifically, a youth acting as a knight's attendant at the beginning of his training for knighthood. | [noun] A rogue or scoundrel. VARMENT (12) VARMINT (12) [noun] A pestering animal such as one that kills or harasses a farmer's livestock or crops. | [noun] (by extension) An obnoxious person or troublemaker. VARNISH (13) [noun] A type of paint with a solvent that evaporates to leave a hard, transparent, glossy film. | [noun] Anything resembling such a paint; glossy appearance. | [noun] (by extension) A deceptively showy appearance. VAROOMS (12) VARSITY (13) [noun] University | [noun] The principal sports team representing an institution (usually a high school, college, or university.) VARUSES (10) VARYING (14) [verb] To change with time or a similar parameter. | [verb] To institute a change in, from a current state; to modify. | [verb] Not to remain constant: to change with time or a similar parameter. VASCULA (12) [noun] A container used by botanists to keep samples viable by maintaining a cool, humid environment. VASSALS (10) [noun] The grantee of a fief, feud, or fee; one who keeps land of a superior, and who vows fidelity and homage to him, normally a lord of a manor; a feudatory; a feudal tenant. | [noun] A subordinate VASTEST (10) [adjective] Very large or wide (literally or figuratively). | [adjective] Very great in size, amount, degree, intensity, or especially extent. | [adjective] Waste; desert; desolate; lonely. VASTIER (10) VASTITY (13) VATFULS (13) VATICAL (12) VATTING (11) [verb] To put into a vat. | [verb] To blend (wines or spirits) in a vat; figuratively, to mix or blend elements as if with wines or spirits. VAULTED (11) [verb] To build as, or cover with a vault. | [verb] To jump or leap over. | [adjective] Of a ceiling supported by arches, introduced in the Gothic style. VAULTER (10) VAUNTED (11) [verb] To speak boastfully. | [verb] To speak boastfully about. | [verb] To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation. VAUNTER (10) VAUNTIE (10) VAVASOR (13) VAWARDS (14) VAWNTIE (13) VEALERS (10) [noun] A calf intended for use as veal. VEALIER (10) VEALING (11) VECTORS (12) [noun] A directed quantity, one with both magnitude and direction; the signed difference between two points. | [noun] An ordered tuple representing a directed quantity or the signed difference between two points. | [noun] Any member of a (generalized) vector space. VEDALIA (11) VEDETTE (11) [noun] A sentinel, usually on horseback, stationed on the outpost of an army, to watch an enemy and give notice of danger. VEEJAYS (20) [noun] Someone who presents a television programme of videos; a video jockey. | [noun] Vagina, vulva. VEEPEES (12) VEERIES (10) [noun] An American thrush (Catharus fuscescens) common in the Northern United States and Canada. VEERING (11) [verb] To let out (a sail-line), to allow (a sheet) to run out. | [verb] To change direction or course suddenly; to swerve. | [verb] (of the wind) To shift in a clockwise direction (if in the Northern Hemisphere, or in a counterclockwise direction if in the Southern Hemisphere). VEGETAL (11) [noun] Any vegetable organism. | [adjective] Capable of growth and reproduction, but not feeling or reason (often opposed to sensible and rational). | [adjective] Pertaining to vegetables or plants. VEGGIES (12) [noun] A vegetable. | [noun] A vegetarian. VEHICLE (15) [noun] A conveyance; a device for carrying or transporting substances, objects or individuals. | [noun] A medium for expression of talent or views. | [noun] A liquid content (e.g. oil) which acts as a binding and drying agent in paint. (FM 55-501). VEILERS (10) VEILING (11) [verb] To dress in, or decorate with, a veil. | [verb] To conceal as with a veil. | [noun] The act of covering with a veil. VEINERS (10) VEINIER (10) VEINING (11) [verb] To mark with veins or a vein-like pattern. | [noun] An arrangement of veins or veinlike markings. VEINLET (10) VEINULE (10) VELAMEN (12) [noun] A covering membrane or velum | [noun] A spongy, usually pale, multiseriate epidermis (i.e. consisting of multiple layers of cells) covering the roots of some kinds of plants, especially plant species with an epiphytic or semi-epiphytic habit. Examples include various orchid and Clivia species VELARIA (10) [noun] The marginal membrane of certain medusae belonging to the Discophora | [noun] An awning that stretched over the seating area of the Colosseum in Ancient Rome VELIGER (11) [noun] The planktonic larva of many kinds of marine and freshwater gastropod molluscs, as well as most bivalve molluscs. VELITES (10) VELLUMS (12) [noun] A type of parchment paper made from the skin of a lamb, baby goat, or calf. | [noun] A writing paper of very high quality. VELOURS (10) [noun] A knit fabric similar to velvet, but usually somewhat coarser. VELOUTE (10) VELURED (11) VELURES (10) VELVETS (13) VELVETY (16) [adjective] Like velvet; soft, smooth, soothing. VENALLY (13) VENATIC (12) VENDACE (13) [noun] Either of two types of whitefish, Coregonus albula and Coregonus vandesius. VENDEES (11) [noun] The person to whom something is sold; a purchaser. VENDERS (11) [noun] A person or a company that vends or sells. | [noun] A vending machine. VENDING (12) [verb] To hawk or to peddle merchandise. | [verb] To sell wares through a vending machine. VENDORS (11) [noun] A person or a company that vends or sells. | [noun] A vending machine. VENDUES (11) [noun] A public auction. VENEERS (10) [noun] A thin decorative covering of fine material (usually wood) applied to coarser wood or other material. | [noun] An attractive appearance that covers or disguises true nature or feelings. | [verb] To apply veneer to. VENGING (12) VENINES (10) VENIRES (10) VENISON (10) [noun] The meat of a deer. | [noun] The meat of an antelope. | [noun] The meat of any wild animal that has been hunted rather than raised domestically. VENOMED (13) VENOMER (12) VENTAGE (11) VENTAIL (10) VENTERS (10) [noun] A vendor. | [noun] A woman with offspring | [noun] A protuberant, usually hollow structure, notably: VENTING (11) [verb] To allow gases to escape. | [verb] To allow to escape through a vent. | [verb] To express a strong emotion. VENTRAL (10) [noun] Any of the enlarged and transversely elongated scales that extend down the underside of a snake's body from the neck to the anal scale. | [adjective] Related to the abdomen or stomach. | [adjective] On the front side of the human body, or the corresponding surface of an animal, usually the lower surface. VENTURE (10) [noun] A risky or daring undertaking or journey. | [noun] An event that is not, or cannot be, foreseen. | [noun] The thing risked; especially, something sent to sea in trade. VENTURI (10) [noun] A venturi tube. | [noun] The throat of a carburetor. | [noun] A constriction in the flow of air to lungs. VENULAR (10) VENULES (10) [noun] A small vein, especially one that connects capillaries to a larger vein. VERANDA (11) [noun] A gallery, platform, or balcony, usually roofed and often partly enclosed, extending along the outside of a building. VERBALS (12) [noun] (grammar) A verb form which does not function as a predicate, or a word derived from a verb. In English, infinitives, participles and gerunds are verbals. | [noun] A confession given to police. | [verb] To induce into fabricating a confession. VERBENA (12) [noun] Verbena, a genus of herbaceous plants of which several species are extensively cultivated for the great beauty of their flowers; vervain. VERBIDS (13) VERBIFY (18) VERBILE (12) VERBOSE (12) [adjective] Abounding in words, containing more words than necessary; long-winded. | [adjective] Producing unusually detailed output for diagnostic purposes. VERDANT (11) [adjective] Green in colour. | [adjective] Abundant in verdure; lush with vegetation. | [adjective] Fresh. VERDICT (13) [noun] A decision on an issue of fact in a civil or criminal case or an inquest. | [noun] An opinion or judgement. VERDINS (11) [noun] A small, yellow-headed passerine bird, Auriparus flaviceps, endemic to desert areas of the southwestern United States, that is the only species of family Remizidae found in the New World. VERDURE (11) [noun] The greenness of lush or growing vegetation; also: the vegetation itself. | [noun] (hence) A condition of health and vigour. | [verb] To cover with verdure. VERGERS (11) [noun] One who carries a verge, or emblem of office. | [noun] A lay person who takes care of the interior of a church and acts as an attendant during services, where he or she carries the verge (or virge). In the United States, the office is generally combined with that of sexton. | [noun] An usher; also, in major ecclesiastical landmarks, a tour guide. VERGING (12) [verb] To be or come very close; to border; to approach. | [verb] To bend or incline; to tend downward; to slope. | [noun] A neusis. VERGLAS (11) VERIDIC (13) VERIEST (10) [adjective] True, real, actual. | [adjective] The same; identical. | [adjective] With limiting effect: mere. VERISMO (12) [noun] An artistic movement, from 19th-century Italian literature and opera, in which rural and everyday people and themes were treated in an often melodramatic manner VERISMS (12) VERISTS (10) VERITAS (10) VERITES (10) VERMEIL (12) [noun] Vermilion; bright red. | [noun] Silver gilt or gilt bronze. | [noun] A liquid composition applied to a gilded surface to give luster to the gold. VERMIAN (12) [adjective] Of or relating to worms. | [adjective] Of or relating to the vermis. VERMUTH (15) VERNIER (10) [noun] A secondary scale with finer graduations than the primary scale of a measuring device; the vernier measures between graduations of the larger scale. | [noun] A secondary control input with finer control than the primary, or coarse, input; for example the vernier frequency tuning knob on a radio. | [noun] A secondary system of force application for the attitude control of a spacecraft; for example a vernier thruster. VERRUCA (12) [noun] A wart, especially one that grows on the foot, caused by a human papilloma virus. | [noun] A rounded projection or wart. | [noun] A sexine element similar to a wart. VERSANT (10) [noun] A slope of a mountain or mountain ridge | [noun] The overall slope of a region | [adjective] Experienced, practiced VERSERS (10) VERSETS (10) [noun] A very short organ interlude or prelude. | [noun] A verse. VERSIFY (16) [verb] To make or compose verses | [verb] To tell in verse; deal with in verse form | [verb] To turn (prose) into poetry; rewrite in verse form VERSINE (10) [noun] The versed sine. VERSING (11) [verb] To compose verses. | [verb] To tell in verse, or poetry. | [verb] To educate about, to teach about. VERSION (10) [noun] A specific form or variation of something. | [noun] A translation from one language to another. | [noun] A school exercise, generally of composition in a foreign language. VERSTES (10) VERTIGO (11) [noun] A sensation of whirling and loss of balance, caused by looking down from a great height or by disease affecting the inner ear. | [noun] A disordered or imbalanced state of mind or things analogous to physical vertigo; mental giddiness or dizziness. | [noun] The act of whirling round and round; rapid rotation. VERVAIN (13) [noun] A herbaceous plant, Verbena officinalis, common in Europe and formerly held to have medicinal properties. VERVETS (13) [noun] A small African monkey, Cercopithecus aethiops or Chlorocebus pygerythrus, having a long tail, a black face with white cheek tufts and a greenish-brown coat VESICAE (12) VESICAL (12) [adjective] Pertaining to the urinary bladder. VESICLE (12) [noun] A membrane-bound compartment found in a cell. | [noun] A small bladder-like cell or cavity; a vesicula. | [noun] A small sac or cyst or vacuole, especially one containing fluid. A blister formed in or beneath the skin, containing serum. A bleb. VESPERS (12) [noun] The bell that summons worshipers to vespers; the vesper-bell | [noun] The evening. | [noun] A vesper martini. VESPIDS (13) VESPINE (12) [adjective] Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of wasps. VESSELS (10) [noun] Any craft designed for transportation on water, such as a ship or boat. | [noun] A craft designed for transportation through air or space. | [noun] Dishes and cutlery collectively, especially if made of precious metals. VESTALS (10) [noun] A virgin consecrated to Vesta, and to the service of watching the sacred fire, which was to be perpetually kept burning upon her altar; a vestal virgin. | [noun] A female virgin; a woman who has never had sexual relations. | [noun] A nun. VESTEES (10) [noun] A dickey, notably made to resemble a vest and be worn under a coat | [noun] A small woman's vest. VESTIGE (11) [noun] The mark of the foot left on the earth. | [noun] (by extension) A faint mark or visible sign left by something which is lost, or has perished, or is no longer present. | [noun] A vestigial organ; a non-functional organ or body part that was once functional in an evolutionary ancestor. VESTING (11) [verb] To clothe with, or as with, a vestment, or garment; to dress; to robe; to cover, surround, or encompass closely. | [verb] To clothe with authority, power, etc.; to put in possession; to invest; to furnish; to endow; followed by with and the thing conferred. | [verb] To place or give into the possession or discretion of some person or authority; to commit to another; with in before the possessor. VESTRAL (10) VESTURE (10) [noun] A covering of, or like, clothing. | [verb] To clothe. VETCHES (15) [noun] Any of several leguminous plants, of the genus Vicia, often grown as green manure and for their edible seeds | [noun] Any of several similar plants within the subfamily Faboideae VETERAN (10) [noun] A person with long experience of a particular activity. | [noun] A group, animal, etc. with long experience of a particular activity. | [noun] A person who has served in the armed forces, especially an old soldier who has seen long service; also called a war veteran to distinguish from veterans that weren't in armed conflict. VETIVER (13) [noun] The grass Chrysopogon zizanioides ( <= Vetiveria zizanioides), which is native to India, but planted throughout the tropics for its fragrant roots and for erosion control. | [noun] The aromatic root of the grass. | [noun] An essential oil derived from the root; the fragrance of the oil. VETOERS (10) VETOING (11) [verb] To use a veto against. 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VIBRATE (12) [noun] The setting, on a portable electronic device, that causes it to vibrate rather than sound any (or most) needed alarms. | [verb] To shake with small, rapid movements to and fro. | [verb] To resonate. VIBRATO (12) [noun] The musical effect or technique where the pitch or frequency of a note or sound is quickly and repeatedly raised and lowered over a small distance for the duration of that note or sound. VIBRION (12) VIBRIOS (12) [noun] Any of several bacteria, of the genus Vibrio, shaped like a curved rod. VICARLY (15) VICEROY (15) [noun] One who governs a country, province, or colony as the representative of a monarch. | [noun] A zongdu. | [noun] An orange and black North American butterfly (Limenitis archippus), so named because it is similar to, but smaller than, the monarch butterfly. VICHIES (15) VICINAL (12) [adjective] Of or pertaining to a neighborhood; neighboring. | [adjective] Describing identical atoms or groups attached to nearby (especially adjacent) atoms in a molecule. | [adjective] Describing subordinate planes on a crystal, which are very near to the fundamental planes in angles, and sometimes take their place. VICIOUS (12) [adjective] Violent, destructive and cruel. | [adjective] Savage and aggressive. | [adjective] Pertaining to vice; characterised by immorality or depravity. VICOMTE (14) [noun] A French viscount. VICTIMS (14) [noun] One that is harmed—killed, injured, subjected to oppression, deceived, or otherwise adversely affected—by someone or something, especially another person or event, force, or condition; in particular: | [noun] A living being which is slain and offered as a sacrifice, usually in a religious rite. VICTORS (12) [noun] The winner in a fight or contest. | [noun] The letter V in the ICAO spelling alphabet. VICTORY (15) [noun] An instance of having won a competition or battle or succeeded in an effort. | [noun] The condition of having succeeded in a conflict or other effort. | [noun] A winged figure representing victory, common in Roman official iconography. See Winged victory. VICTUAL (12) [noun] Food fit for human consumption. | [noun] (in the plural) Food supplies; provisions. | [noun] Grain of any kind. VICUGNA (13) VICUNAS (12) [noun] A South American mammal, Vicugna vicugna, closely related to the alpaca, llama, and guanaco. VIDETTE (11) VIDICON (13) [noun] A device in a television camera that forms an image composed of varying charges on a photoconductive surface VIDUITY (14) VIEWERS (13) [noun] Someone who views a spectacle; an onlooker or spectator. | [noun] Someone who watches television. | [noun] Any optical device used to view photographic slides. VIEWIER (13) VIEWING (14) [verb] To look at. | [verb] To regard in a stated way. | [noun] An instance of viewing something. VIGOURS (11) VIKINGS (15) [noun] One of the Scandinavian or other Northern European seafaring warriors that raided (and then settled) the British Isles and other parts of Europe in the 8th to the 11th centuries and, according to many historians, were the first Europeans to reach North America. | [noun] (by extension) A stock character common in the fantasy genre, namely a barbarian, generally equipped with an axe or sword and a helmet adorned with horns. | [noun] A Norseman (mediaeval Scandinavian). VILAYET (13) [noun] One of the chief administrative divisions or provinces of the Ottoman Empire. VILLAGE (11) [noun] A rural habitation of size between a hamlet and a town. | [noun] A rural habitation that has a church, but no market. | [noun] A planned community such as a retirement community or shopping district. VILLAIN (10) [noun] A vile, wicked person. | [noun] In fiction, a character who has the role of being bad, especially antagonizing the hero. | [noun] Any opponent player, especially a hypothetical player for example and didactic purposes. Compare: hero. VILLEIN (10) [noun] A feudal tenant. VILLOSE (10) VILLOUS (10) [adjective] Hairy, covered with soft long hair. | [adjective] Covered with villi. VIMINAL (12) VINASSE (10) VINCULA (12) [noun] A bond or link signifying union. | [noun] Any symbol used to group some of the terms in an expression, indicating that that part of the calculation should be done before other parts. | [noun] A horizontal line over the top of some of the terms in an expression, indicating that that part of the calculation is to be done before other parts. VINEGAR (11) [noun] A sour liquid formed by the fermentation of alcohol used as a condiment or preservative; a dilute solution of acetic acid. | [noun] Any variety of vinegar. | [verb] To season or otherwise treat with vinegar. VINIEST (10) VINTAGE (11) [noun] The yield of grapes or wine from a vineyard or district during one season. | [noun] Wine, especially high-quality, identified as to year and vineyard or district of origin. | [noun] The harvesting of a grape crop and the initial pressing of juice for winemaking. VINTNER (10) [noun] A seller of wine. | [noun] A manufacturer of wine. VINYLIC (15) VIOLATE (10) [verb] To break or disregard (a rule or convention). | [verb] To rape. | [verb] To cite (a person) for a parole violation. VIOLENT (10) [noun] An assailant. | [verb] To urge with violence. | [adjective] Involving extreme force or motion. VIOLETS (10) [noun] A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice. | [noun] The bulb of such a plant. | [noun] The genus as a whole. VIOLINS (10) [noun] A musical four-string instrument, generally played with a bow or by plucking the string, with the pitch set by pressing the strings at the appropriate place with the fingers; also any instrument of the violin family. | [noun] A violinist. VIOLIST (10) [noun] A person who plays the viol. | [noun] A person who plays the viola. VIOLONE (10) [noun] An early stringed instrument similar to a double bass; a double bass viol VIRAGOS (11) [noun] A woman given to undue belligerence or ill manner at the slightest provocation. | [noun] A woman who is scolding, domineering, or highly opinionated. | [noun] A woman who is rough, loud, and aggressive. VIRALLY (13) VIRELAI (10) [noun] A medieval poetic form consisting of two or more three line units in each stanza, in the form aabaab... and continuing on in that pattern. VIRELAY (13) [noun] A medieval poetic form consisting of two or more three line units in each stanza, in the form aabaab... and continuing on in that pattern. VIREMIA (12) [noun] The condition or disease of having a virus in the bloodstream. VIREMIC (14) VIRGATE (11) [noun] The yardland: an obsolete English land measure usually comprising 1/4 of a hide and notionally equal to 30 acres. | [adjective] Rod-shaped: straight, long, and thin, (particularly botany) the habitus of plants with straight, erect branches. | [adjective] Finely striped, often with dark fibers. VIRGINS (11) [noun] A person who has never had sexual intercourse, or sometimes, one who has never engaged in any sexual activity at all. | [noun] (early Christian Church) a woman noted for religious piety who has never been married. | [noun] One who has never used or experienced a specified thing. VIRGULE (11) [noun] A medieval punctuation mark similar to the slash ⟨/⟩ or pipe ⟨|⟩ and used as a scratch comma and caesura mark. | [noun] A slash, ⟨/⟩ or ⟨／⟩, particularly in its use to mark line breaks within quotes. | [noun] A pipe, ⟨|⟩, particularly in its use to mark metrical feet. VIRIONS (10) [noun] A single individual particle of a virus (the viral equivalent of a cell). VIROIDS (11) [noun] A short section of RNA but without the protein coat typical of viruses, that are plant pathogens | [noun] Certain defective viruses, such as hepatitis D, a human pathogen. VIROSES (10) VIROSIS (10) VIRTUAL (10) [noun] A virtual member function of a class. | [adjective] In effect or essence, if not in fact or reality; imitated, simulated. | [adjective] Having the power of acting or of invisible efficacy without the agency of the material or measurable part; potential. VIRTUES (10) [noun] Accordance with moral principles; conformity of behaviour or thought with the strictures of morality; good moral conduct. | [noun] A particular manifestation of moral excellence in a person; an admirable quality. | [noun] Specifically, each of several qualities held to be particularly important, including the four cardinal virtues, the three theological virtues, or the seven virtues opposed to the seven deadly sins. VIRUSES (10) [noun] A submicroscopic, non-cellular structure consisting of a core of DNA or RNA surrounded by a protein coat, that requires a living host cell to replicate, and often causes disease in the host organism. | [noun] A disease caused by these organisms. | [noun] Venom, as produced by a poisonous animal etc. VISAGED (12) VISAGES (11) [noun] Countenance; appearance; one's face. VISAING (11) VISARDS (11) VISCERA (12) [noun] Collectively, the internal organs of the body, especially those contained within the abdominal and thoracic cavities, such as the liver, heart, or stomach. | [noun] The intestines. | [noun] One of the organs, as the brain, heart, or stomach, in the great cavities of the body of an animal; especially used in the plural, and applied to the organs contained in the abdomen. VISCOID (13) VISCOSE (12) [noun] A viscous orange-brown liquid obtained by chemical treatment of cellulose and used as the basis of manufacturing rayon and cellulose film. | [noun] A fabric made from this material. VISCOUS (12) [adjective] Having a thick, sticky consistency between solid and liquid. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to viscosity. VISEING (11) VISIBLE (12) [adjective] Able to be seen. VISIBLY (15) [adverb] In a visible manner; openly. VISIONS (10) [noun] The sense or ability of sight. | [noun] Something seen; an object perceived visually. | [noun] Something imaginary one thinks one sees. VISITED (11) [verb] To habitually go to (someone in distress, sickness etc.) to comfort them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.) | [verb] To go and meet (a person) as an act of friendliness or sociability. | [verb] Of God: to appear to (someone) to comfort, bless, or chastise or punish them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.) VISITER (10) VISITOR (10) [noun] Someone who visits someone else; someone staying as a guest. | [noun] Someone who pays a visit to a specific place or event; a sightseer or tourist. | [noun] (usually in the plural) Someone, or a team, that is playing away from home. VISORED (11) VISTAED (11) VISUALS (10) [noun] Any element of something that depends on sight. | [noun] An image; a picture; a graphic. | [noun] (in the plural) All the visual elements of a multimedia presentation or entertainment, usually in contrast with normal text or audio. VITALLY (13) [adverb] In a manner that imparts vitality | [adverb] To an extent that is vital; indispensably VITAMER (12) VITAMIN (12) [noun] Any of a specific group of organic compounds essential in small quantities for healthy human growth, metabolism, development, and body function; found in minute amounts in plant and animal foods or sometimes produced synthetically; deficiencies of specific vitamins produce specific disorders. VITESSE (10) VITIATE (10) [verb] To spoil, make faulty; to reduce the value, quality, or effectiveness of something | [verb] To debase or morally corrupt | [verb] To violate, to rape VITRAIN (10) VITRICS (12) VITRIFY (16) [verb] To convert into, or cause to resemble, glass or a glassy substance, by heat and fusion. | [verb] To be converted into glass, especially through heat. VITRINE (10) [noun] A glass-paneled cabinet or case, especially for displaying articles such as china, objets d'art, or fine merchandise. VITRIOL (10) [noun] Sulphuric acid and various metal sulphates. | [noun] (by extension) Bitterly abusive language. | [verb] To subject to bitter verbal abuse. VITTATE (10) VITTLED (11) VITTLES (10) [noun] Food. | [noun] (in the plural) Food; edible provisions. | [verb] To provide or obtain edible provisions. VIVACES (15) VIVARIA (13) [noun] A place artificially arranged for keeping or raising living animals. VIVIDER (14) [adjective] (of perception) Clear, detailed or powerful. | [adjective] (of an image) Bright, intense or colourful. | [adjective] Full of life, strikingly alive. VIVIDLY (17) [adverb] In a vivid manner. VIVIFIC (18) VIXENLY (20) VIZARDS (20) [noun] A mask (cover for the face, used for disguise, protection, etc.) | [noun] A visor (part of a helmet covering the face). | [noun] Outward appearance; pretense. VIZIERS (19) [noun] A high-ranking official or minister in an Islamic government, especially in the Ottoman Empire. | [noun] Vicegerent, viceroy | [noun] A fairy chess piece that can only be moved one space up, down, left or right. VIZORED (20) VIZSLAS (19) [noun] A dog breed originating in Hungary. VOCABLE (14) [noun] A word or utterance, especially with reference to its form rather than its meaning. | [noun] A syllable or sound without specific meaning, used together with or in place of actual words in a song. | [adjective] Able to be uttered. 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VOICING (13) [verb] To give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish; to announce | [verb] To utter audibly, with tone and not just breath. | [verb] To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of | [noun] The final regulation of the pitch and tone of any sound-producing entity, especially of an organ or similar musical instrument. VOIDERS (11) VOIDING (12) [verb] To make invalid or worthless. | [verb] To empty. | [verb] To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge. VOLANTE (10) VOLCANO (12) [noun] A vent or fissure on the surface of a planet (usually in a mountainous form) with a magma chamber attached to the mantle of a planet or moon, periodically erupting forth lava and volcanic gases onto the surface. | [noun] A form of firework. VOLLEYS (13) [noun] The simultaneous firing of a number of missiles or bullets; the projectiles so fired | [noun] A burst or emission of many things at once. | [noun] The flight of a ball just before it bounces VOLOSTS (10) VOLTAGE (11) [noun] The difference in electrostatic potential between two points in space, especially between live and neutral conductors or the earth. VOLTAIC (12) [adjective] Of or relating to electricity. | [adjective] Producing electricity by chemical action. VOLUBLE (12) [adjective] (of a person or a manner of speaking) Fluent or having a ready flow of speech; garrulous or loquacious; tonguey. | [adjective] (of thoughts, feelings, or something that is expressed) Expressed readily or at length and in a fluent manner. | [adjective] Easily rolling or turning; having a fluid, undulating motion. VOLUBLY (15) VOLUMED (13) VOLUMES (12) [noun] A three-dimensional measure of space that comprises a length, a width and a height. 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VOODOOS (11) [verb] To bewitch someone or something using voodoo VORLAGE (11) VOTABLE (12) VOTRESS (10) VOUCHED (16) [verb] To take responsibility for; to express confidence in; to witness; to obtest. | [verb] To warrant; to maintain by affirmations | [verb] To back; to support; to confirm. VOUCHEE (15) VOUCHER (15) [noun] A piece of paper that entitles the holder to a discount, or that can be exchanged for goods and services. | [noun] A receipt. | [noun] One who or that which vouches. VOUCHES (15) [noun] Warrant; attestation. | [verb] To take responsibility for; to express confidence in; to witness; to obtest. | [verb] To warrant; to maintain by affirmations VOUVRAY (16) VOWLESS (13) VOYAGED (15) [verb] To go on a long journey. VOYAGER (14) VOYAGES (14) [noun] A long journey, especially by ship. | [noun] The act or practice of travelling. | [verb] To go on a long journey. VOYEURS (13) [noun] A person who derives sexual pleasure from secretly observing other people, especially when such people are engaged in some sexual activity. | [noun] An obsessive observer of sensational or sordid subjects. VROOMED (13) [verb] To move with great speed; to zoom. VUGGIER (12) VULGARS (11) VULGATE (11) [noun] The vernacular language of a people. | [noun] (of a text, especially the Bible) A common version or edition. | [verb] To publish, spread, promulgate to the people. VULPINE (12) [noun] Any of certain canids called foxes (including the true foxes, the arctic fox and the grey fox); distinguished from the canines, which are regarded as similar to the dog and wolf. | [noun] A person considered vulpine (cunning); a fox. | [adjective] Pertaining to a fox. VULTURE (10) [noun] Any of several carrion-eating birds of the families Accipitridae and Cathartidae. | [noun] A person who profits from the suffering of others. | [verb] To circle around one's target as if one were a vulture. VULVATE (13) VYINGLY (17) WAIVERS (13) [noun] The act of waiving, or not insisting on, some right, claim, or privilege. | [noun] A legal document removing some requirement, such as waiving a right (giving it up) or a waiver of liability (agreeing to hold someone blameless). | [noun] Something that releases a person from a requirement. WAIVING (14) [verb] To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forego. | [verb] To put aside, avoid. | [verb] To outlaw (someone). WAVELET (13) [noun] A small wave; a ripple. | [noun] A fast-decaying oscillation. WAVEOFF (19) WAVERED (14) [verb] To sway back and forth; to totter or reel. | [verb] To flicker, glimmer, quiver, as a weak light. | [verb] To fluctuate or vary, as commodity prices or a poorly sustained musical pitch. WAVERER (13) WAVIEST (13) [adjective] Rising or swelling in waves. | [adjective] Full of waves. | [adjective] Moving to and fro; undulating. WEAVERS (13) [noun] One who weaves. | [noun] A strand of material used in weaving. | [noun] A weaverbird. WEAVING (14) [verb] To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another. | [verb] To spin a cocoon or a web. | [verb] To unite by close connection or intermixture. WEEVERS (13) [noun] Any of the usually brown fish in family Trachinidae, which catch prey by burying themselves in the sand and snatching them as they go past. WEEVILS (13) [noun] Any of several small herbivorous beetles in the superfamily Curculionoidea, many having a distinctive snout. | [noun] Any of several small herbivorous beetles in the family Curculionidae belonging to the superfamily Curculionoidea. | [noun] Any of several similar but more distantly related beetles such as the biscuit weevil (Stegobium paniceum). WEEVILY (16) WHARVES (16) [noun] A man-made landing place for ships on a shore or river bank. | [noun] The bank of a river, or the shore of the sea. WHERVES (16) WHOEVER (16) [pronoun] (interrogative) Who ever: an emphatic form of who. | [pronoun] (fused relative) Any person or persons that. | [pronoun] (fused relative) The person that (no matter who). WIVERNS (13) [noun] A draconian creature possessing wings, only two legs and usually a barbed tail. WOLVERS (13) WYVERNS (16) [noun] A draconian creature possessing wings, only two legs and usually a barbed tail. 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