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Words Containing VES
5-Letter Words
(29 found)
6-Letter Words
(80 found)
- aboves
- agaves
- beeves
- braves
- breves
- calves
- carves
- chives
- claves
- cloves
- corves
- craves
- curves
- deaves
- delves
- devest
- divest
- drives
- droves
- fauves
- gloves
- graves
- groves
- halves
- heaves
- helves
- hooves
- invest
- jivest
- keeves
- knaves
- knives
- leaves
- livest
- loaves
- mauves
- naives
- nerves
- nieves
- ogives
- olives
- peeves
- pelves
- proves
- reaves
- reeves
- reives
- revest
- salves
- selves
- serves
- shaves
- shives
- shoves
- sieves
- skives
- slaves
- soaves
- solves
- staves
- stoves
- swives
- traves
- troves
- turves
- valves
- varves
- verves
- vesica
- vesper
- vespid
- vessel
- vestal
- vestas
- vested
75 of 80 words shown
7-Letter Words
(71 found)
- actives
- alcoves
- arrives
- behaves
- behoves
- bravest
- cleaves
- datives
- derives
- devests
- divests
- dwarves
- endives
- evolves
- glaives
- gravest
- greaves
- grieves
- grooves
- harvest
- invests
- lievest
- motives
- naivest
- natives
- octaves
- regives
- releves
- relives
- removes
- repaves
- revests
- revives
- scarves
- scrives
- sheaves
- sheeves
- shelves
- shrives
- sleaves
- sleeves
- slieves
- slurves
- starves
- steeves
- strives
- suavest
- swerves
- thieves
- thraves
- thrives
- twelves
- unlives
- updives
- vesicae
- vesical
- vesicle
- vespers
- vespids
- vespine
- vessels
- vestals
- vestees
- vestige
- vesting
- vestral
- vesture
- votives
- wharves
- wherves
- zouaves
8-Letter Words
(114 found)
- absolves
- achieves
- airwaves
- alewives
- approves
- archives
- beehives
- behalves
- behooves
- believes
- bereaves
- bivalves
- captives
- codrives
- coinvest
- commoves
- concaves
- connives
- cursives
- deceives
- decurves
- deleaves
- depraves
- deprives
- deserves
- devested
- devolves
- dissaves
- distaves
- divested
- elatives
- enclaves
- engraves
- enslaves
- exclaves
- forgives
- harvests
- huswives
- improves
- incurves
- innerves
- invested
- investor
- involves
- inweaves
- jussives
- khedives
- loveseat
- lovesick
- lovesome
- lowlives
- midlives
- midwives
- misgives
- mislives
- mismoves
- missives
- nonlives
- observes
- oldwives
- outgives
- outlives
- outloves
- outmoves
- outraves
- passives
- plosives
- prelives
- prepaves
- receives
- recurves
- redrives
- reinvest
- relieves
- reproves
75 of 114 words shown
9-Letter Words
(109 found)
- ablatives
- abrasives
- additives
- adhesives
- agentives
- aggrieves
- auditives
- autosaves
- aversives
- burgraves
- coderives
- coevolves
- coinvests
- conceives
- conclaves
- conserves
- contrives
- convolves
- creatives
- curatives
- devesting
- disinvest
- disproves
- disserves
- dissolves
- divesting
- donatives
- duratives
- eavesdrop
- ejectives
- electives
- endleaves
- ergatives
- eruptives
- farmwives
- fishwives
- fixatives
- flyleaves
- folklives
- foxgloves
- fugitives
- genitives
- goodwives
- graveside
- halflives
- harvested
- harvester
- illatives
- investing
- investors
- kalewives
- ladyloves
- laxatives
- lenitives
- livestock
- locatives
- loveseats
- mangroves
- margraves
- misdrives
- negatives
- nonselves
- nosedives
- optatives
- ourselves
- outbraves
- outcurves
- outdrives
- outserves
- overlives
- overloves
- oversaves
- penknives
- perceives
- picowaves
75 of 109 words shown
10-Letter Words
(101 found)
- aardwolves
- adjectives
- adventives
- afterlives
- autoclaves
- calmatives
- causatives
- champleves
- coinvested
- coinvestor
- cookstoves
- corrosives
- defensives
- detectives
- detersives
- digestives
- directives
- disinvests
- divestment
- drawknives
- drawshaves
- driveshaft
- eavesdrops
- effectives
- effervesce
- exclusives
- executives
- expletives
- explosives
- forehooves
- formatives
- fricatives
- gerundives
- gravesides
- gravestone
- harvesters
- harvesting
- harvestman
- harvestmen
- housewives
- implosives
- incentives
- inceptives
- intensives
- intrusives
- invectives
- investable
- investment
- jackknives
- kerchieves
- livestocks
- longleaves
- meatloaves
- microwaves
- misbehaves
- mooncalves
- narratives
- nightlives
- nonnatives
- objectives
- obsessives
- offensives
- operatives
- overdrives
- palsgraves
- pikestaves
- positivest
- preharvest
- privatives
- purgatives
- quotatives
- reapproves
- recessives
- reengraves
- reflexives
75 of 101 words shown
11-Letter Words
(64 found)
- aftershaves
- apperceives
- appositives
- architraves
- bookshelves
- coinvesting
- coinvestors
- collectives
- constatives
- correctives
- definitives
- derivatives
- diminutives
- disapproves
- disbelieves
- disinvested
- divestiture
- divestments
- driveshafts
- effervesced
- effervesces
- gravestones
- harvestable
- harvesttime
- hyperdrives
- inchoatives
- indicatives
- infinitives
- initiatives
- interfluves
- interleaves
- interweaves
- investigate
- investiture
- investments
- locomotives
- misbelieves
- nominatives
- outachieves
- overharvest
- palliatives
- pejoratives
- pendentives
- possessives
- postharvest
- preapproves
- preventives
- recitatives
- reconceives
- redissolves
- reinvesting
- semidwarves
- spokeshaves
- subversives
- sugarloaves
- theirselves
- travestying
- turtledoves
- unharvested
- vesiculated
- vesiculates
- vestigially
- vesuvianite
- waterleaves
12-Letter Words
(55 found)
- affirmatives
- affricatives
- alternatives
- antitussives
- attributives
- carminatives
- cloverleaves
- comparatives
- conjunctives
- consumptives
- cooperatives
- correlatives
- countermoves
- deverbatives
- diapositives
- disinvesting
- divestitures
- eavesdropped
- eavesdropper
- effervescent
- effervescing
- harvesttimes
- hypotensives
- investigated
- investigates
- investigator
- investitures
- lovesickness
- microgrooves
- misconceives
- misperceives
- nonrelatives
- overachieves
- overharvests
- perspectives
- pocketknives
- preconceives
- preparatives
- prerogatives
- progressives
- provocatives
- reinvestment
- restoratives
- restrictives
- shirtsleeves
- subjunctives
- substantives
- superlatives
- transvestism
- transvestite
- vesicularity
- vesiculating
- vesiculation
- vespertilian
- vesuvianites
13-Letter Words
(30 found)
- cryopreserves
- defervescence
- denominatives
- disincentives
- disinvestment
- ditransitives
- eavesdroppers
- eavesdropping
- effervescence
- investigating
- investigation
- investigative
- investigators
- investigatory
- manipulatives
- mantelshelves
- neckerchieves
- nonexecutives
- normotensives
- overharvested
- performatives
- photoengraves
- preservatives
- preventatives
- quarterstaves
- reinvestigate
- reinvestments
- reproductives
- transvestites
- underachieves
14-Letter Words
(22 found)
- coinvestigator
- collaboratives
- commemoratives
- contraceptives
- defervescences
- demonstratives
- disinvestments
- effervescences
- effervescently
- frequentatives
- handkerchieves
- interrogatives
- investigations
- lovesicknesses
- nonderivatives
- overharvesting
- overinvestment
- reinvestigated
- reinvestigates
- retrospectives
- transvestitism
- vesicularities
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