ven-, vent-, veni-, ventu-

An appeal based on the hardship or inconvenience involved.

Relating to both the atria and the ventricles of the heart, especially to the ordinary, orthograde transmission of conduction or blood flow.

The ratio of the breadth of the skull between the auricular points of the ear to its greatest breadth.

1. Prone to incur risk, venturesome, rashly daring, rash.
2. Given to, or having many adventures, enterprising, daring (without the idea of rashness).

1. A way of access or approach; a passage or path of entrance or exit.
2. The chief approach to a country-house, usually bordered by trees; hence, any broad roadway bordered or marked by trees or other objects at regular intervals.

Sometimes it refers to the trees alone, with tacit disregard for the road they overshadow.

3. A fine wide street; used especially, in the U.S.

The use of a chemical substance to forestall the contraction of a disease or to stop the progress of a disease.

1. To find a way of avoiding restrictions imposed by a rule or law without actually breaking it.
2. To anticipate and to counter someone’s plans.
3. To encompass; literally, to enclose.
4. Any effort to get around a restriction or obstacle.

The action of circumventing; over reaching, outwitting, or getting the better of any one by craft or artifice.

1. Brought close together; arched inward so that the points meet; converging; in close contact but not fused; as, the connivent petals of a flower, wings of an insect, or folds of membrane in the human system, etc. 2. Forbearing to see or to prevent oneself from doing or saying something; designedly inattentive; as, connivent justice.
3. In anatomy, the connivent valves are those wrinkles, cellules and vascules, which are found on the inside of the two intestines, ilium and jejunum.
4. Shutting the eyes; trying not to see.

1. To go counter to; to transgress, infringe (a law, provision, etc.); to act in defiance or disregard of.
2. To run counter to, be contrary to, come in conflict with.
3. To go counter to or oppose in argument; to contradict, dispute, deny (a proposition, etc.).

1. Suitability; expediency; propriety.
2. The social proprieties or conventionalities.
3. That which is suitable, agreeable, or convenient.

1. To come or bring together; to come together; to assemble, or meet, especially for a common purpose.
2. To assemble for united action; to meet in a convention.
3. To come together in harmony; to harmonize, fit each other.

1. The quality of being easy, useful, or of increasing comfort.
2. Personal comfort, or circumstances that promote someone’s personal comfort.
3. Something that makes life easier or more comfortable, especially a labor-saving device.
4. In the U.K., a lavatory, a euphemism for a public toilet.