Words Containing: V,E,S,S

• (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.

• (Arabic grammar) A verbal mood of vague or miscellaneous senses, occurring after some particles and in conditional clauses.

• (grammar) Of or in the jussive mood (see below)

• fermented beverage resembling beer but made from rye or barley

• hold back to a later time

• place on a shelf

• A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.

• Any collection of things bound together; a bundle.

• A bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer.

• A quantity of arrows, usually twenty-four.

• A sheave.

• An abstract construct in topology that associates data to the open sets of a topological space, together with well-defined restrictions from larger to smaller open sets, subject to the condition that compatible data on overlapping open sets corresponds, via the restrictions, to a unique datum on the union of the open sets.

• 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.

• A sliding scutcheon for covering a keyhole.

• a hand tool for lifting loose material; consists of a curved container or scoop and a handle

• the quantity a shovel can hold

• a fire iron consisting of a small shovel used to scoop coals or ashes in a fireplace

• a machine for excavating

• dig with or as if with a shovel

• a detailed critical inspection

• short descriptive summary (of events)

• the act of looking or seeing or observing

• consider in a comprehensive way

• look over carefully or inspect

• keep under surveillance

• hold a review (of troops)

• make a survey of; for statistical purposes

• plot a map of (land)

• the act of turning aside suddenly

• an erratic deflection from an intended course

• turn sharply; change direction abruptly

• mostly social nest-building wasps