Words ending with ave

Agave means: A genus of plants (order Amaryllidaceae) of which the chief species is the maguey or century plant (A. Americana), wrongly called Aloe. It is from ten to seventy years, according to climate, in attaining maturity, when it produces a gigantic flower stem, sometimes forty feet in height, and perishes. The fermented juice is the pulque of the Mexicans; distilled, it yields mescal. A strong thread and a tough paper are made from the leaves, and the wood has many uses.

Architrave means: The lower division of an entablature, or that part which rests immediately on the column, esp. in classical architecture. See Column.

Architrave means: The group of moldings, or other architectural member, above and on both sides of a door or other opening, especially if square in form.

Autoclave means: A kind of French stewpan with a steam-tight lid.

Ave means: An ave Maria.

Ave means: A reverential salutation.

Beetrave means: The common beet (Beta vulgaris).

Begrave means: To bury; also, to engrave.

Behave means: To manage or govern in point of behavior; to discipline; to handle; to restrain.

Behave means: To carry; to conduct; to comport; to manage; to bear; -- used reflexively.

Zythum means: A kind of ancient malt beverage; a liquor made from malt and wheat.

Zythepsary means: A brewery.

Zythem means: See Zythum.

Zymotic means: Designating, or pertaining to, a certain class of diseases. See Zymotic disease, below.

Zymotic means: Of, pertaining to, or caused by, fermentation.

Zymosis means: A zymotic disease.

Zymosis means: A fermentation; hence, an analogous process by which an infectious disease is believed to be developed.

Zymose means: Invertin.

Zymophyte means: A bacteroid ferment.

Zymosimeter means: An instrument for ascertaining the degree of fermentation occasioned by the mixture of different liquids, and the degree of heat which they acquire in fermentation.