Phrase Hound found 7 phrases and 9 compound words that contain vases. The most common are listed below. Open vases in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 7
- name vasesplural of name vase: An ancient vase that a painter is named after, since the painter's actual identity is not known but can be recognised by the characteristic style or artistic content.
- spill vasesplural of spill vase: A small vase for containing splints, spills, and tapers for transferring fire.
- celery vasesplural of celery vase: A tall glass vase of the Victorian era, ostensibly to store and serve celery stalks.
- dirty trick vasesplural of dirty trick vase: A type of ancient vase having a concealed hole, so that the contents would spill on a person, as a practical joke.
- stirrup vasesplural of stirrup vase: A pottery vessel, sometimes decorated, intended to hold oil or wine.
- lacrimal vasesplural of lacrimal vase: A phial holding the tears of mourners at a funeral.
- lachrymal vasesplural of lachrymal vase: A phial holding the tears of mourners at a funeral.
Compound words 9
- canvasesplural of canvas: A type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp (traditionally) or from cotton and polyesters, useful for making sails, tents, and overcoats or as a surface for paintings.
- activasesplural of activase: Any enzyme that activates a gene
- cleavasesplural of cleavase: A form of endonuclease that cleaves at the junctions between single- and double-stranded DNA
- Cuevasesplural of Cuevas: A surname from Spanish.
- Leyvasesplural of Leyvas: A surname from Spanish.
- Olivasesplural of Olivas: A surname from Spanish.
- Salvasesplural of Salvas: A surname.
- Silvasesplural of Silvas: The forest trees of a particular area
- extravasesthird-person singular simple present indicative of extravase: Outside of a vessel.