Anagrams of: VELLICATIVE

• a small valve

• touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements

• irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear

• a silky densely piled fabric with a plain back

• smooth and soft to sight or hearing or touch or taste

• resembling velvet in having a smooth soft surface

• tending to become more severe or wider in scope

• disposed to take action or effectuate change

• characterized by energetic activity

• exerting influence or producing a change or effect

• full of activity or engaged in continuous activity

• (of the sun) characterized by an increased occurrence of sunspots and flares and radio emissions

• expressing that the subject of the sentence has the semantic function of actor:

• (used of verbs (e.g. `to run') and participial adjectives (e.g. `running' in `running water')) expressing action rather than a state of being

• (of e.g. volcanoes) capable of erupting

• (of e.g. volcanoes) erupting or liable to erupt

• engaged in full-time work

• chemical agent capable of activity

• the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is performing the action or causing the happening denoted by the verb

• a person who is a participating member of an organization

• engaged in or ready for military or naval operations

• taking part in an activity

• in operation

• a structure in a hollow organ (like the heart) with a flap to insure one-way flow of fluid through it

• device in a brass wind instrument for varying the length of the air column to alter the pitch of a tone

• control consisting of a mechanical device for controlling the flow of a fluid

• the entire one-piece shell of a snail and certain other molluscs

• one of the paired hinged shells of certain molluscs and of brachiopods

• separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument

• make by cutting into

• come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation

• relating to or having the nature of illation or inference

• resembling or dependent on or arrived at by inference

• expressing or preceding an inference

• Any plant of the genus Clivia, native to southern Africa.