Phrase Hound found 9 phrases and 22 compound words that contain vents. The most common are listed below. Open vents in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 9
- air ventsplural of air vent: An opening, possibly covered by a grate or grill, possibly ducted, that allows air to circulate.
- fissure ventsplural of fissure vent: A volcanic vent from which lava flows, with minimal explosive activity; characteristic of shield volcanoes.
- hydrothermal ventsplural of hydrothermal vent: a hot spring, on the floor of the ocean, mostly along the central axes of the mid-ocean ridges, where heated fluids emerge from fissures in the Earth's crust.
- vol-au-ventsplural of vol-au-vent: A small circular piece of puff pastry with a hole for various fillings, such as mushrooms, prawns, fruit, cheese, etc.
- pie ventsplural of pie vent: A hollow ceramic device shaped like an upstretched bird with open beak, used for supporting or venting a pie.
- ridge ventsplural of ridge vent: A vent located at the ridge of the roof that allows the escape of warm and/or moist air from the attic area or rafter cavity; it is usually a simple shielded gap but may be a ventilator (device).
- air admittance ventsplural of air admittance vent: a mechanical sewer vent that allows air to enter into the sewage system but does not allow exhaust of sewer gases, to aid the flow of sewage by providing air behind water, where a standard vent stack to …
- abat-ventsplural of abat-vent: Louvres or strips of wood or metal used as windbreaks that allow light and air in, often seen in belfries.
- Moulin-à-Ventsplural of Moulin-à-Vent: A variety of Beaujolais wine.
Compound words 22
- preventsthird-person singular simple present indicative of prevent: To stop (an outcome); to keep from (doing something).
- solventsplural of solvent: A fluid that dissolves a solid, liquid, or gaseous solute, resulting in a solution.
- VentspilsA city in Latvia.
- conventsplural of convent: A religious community whose members live under strict observation of religious rules and self-imposed vows.
- reinventsthird-person singular simple present indicative of reinvent: To invent again something that has already been invented.
- circumventsthird-person singular simple present indicative of circumvent: to avoid or get around something; to bypass
- bladeventsplural of bladevent: A thin, wedged endosteal implant inserted into a surgically prepared groove in a maxilla or mandible
- coeventsplural of coevent: A particular form of truth function associated with quantum mechanics.
- coinventsthird-person singular simple present indicative of coinvent: To invent jointly.
- fluventsplural of fluvent: A kind of alluvial soil where development is prevented by repeated deposition of sediment in periodic floods.