| absolve | (verb) let off the hook | Synonyms: free |
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| (verb) grant remission of a sin to | Synonyms: shrive |
| bivalve | (adjective) used of mollusks having two shells (as clams etc.) | Synonyms: bivalved |
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| (noun) marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together | Synonyms: lamellibranch, pelecypod |
| calve | (verb) give birth to (a calf) | Synonyms: have young |
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| (verb) release ice | Synonyms: break up |
| circumvolve | (verb) cause to turn on an axis or center | Synonyms: rotate |
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| convolve | (verb) curl, wind, or twist together | Synonyms: convolute |
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| delve | (verb) turn up, loosen, or remove earth | Synonyms: cut into, dig, turn over |
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| devolve | (verb) grow progressively worse | Synonyms: degenerate, deteriorate, drop |
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| (verb) be inherited by | Synonyms: fall, pass, return |
| (verb) pass on or delegate to another | - |
| disinvolve | (verb) free from involvement or entanglement | Synonyms: disembroil, disentangle |
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| dissolve | (noun) (film) a gradual transition from one scene to the next; the next scene is gradually superimposed as the former scene fades out | - |
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| (verb) pass into a solution | - |
| (verb) cause to go into a solution | Synonyms: break up, resolve |
| (verb) come to an end | Synonyms: break up |
| (verb) grow less and less substantial until it disappears | Synonyms: fade away, fade out |
| (verb) become or cause to become soft or liquid | Synonyms: dethaw, melt, thaw, unfreeze, unthaw |
| (verb) bring the association of to an end or cause to break up | Synonyms: break up |
| (verb) declare void | Synonyms: dismiss |
| (verb) cause to fade away | - |
| (verb) lose control emotionally | - |
| (verb) cause to lose control emotionally | - |
| (verb) stop functioning or cohering as a unit | Synonyms: disband |
| evolve | (verb) undergo development or evolution | - |
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| (verb) gain through experience | Synonyms: acquire, develop |
| (verb) work out | Synonyms: develop, germinate |
| halve | (verb) divide by two; divide into halves | - |
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| helve | (noun) the handle of a weapon or tool | Synonyms: haft |
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| involve | (verb) make complex or intricate or complicated | - |
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| (verb) occupy or engage the interest of | - |
| (verb) have as a necessary feature | Synonyms: imply |
| (verb) connect closely and often incriminatingly | Synonyms: affect, regard |
| (verb) contain as a part | - |
| (verb) engage as a participant | - |
| (verb) require as useful, just, or proper | Synonyms: ask, call for, demand, necessitate, need, postulate, require, take |
| resolve | (noun) the trait of being resolute | Synonyms: firmness, firmness of purpose, resoluteness, resolution |
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| (noun) a formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote | Synonyms: declaration, resolution |
| (verb) cause to go into a solution | Synonyms: break up, dissolve |
| (verb) bring to an end; settle conclusively | Synonyms: adjudicate, decide, settle |
| (verb) reach a decision | Synonyms: purpose |
| (verb) find the solution | Synonyms: solve |
| (verb) understand the meaning of | Synonyms: answer |
| (verb) reach a conclusion after a discussion or deliberation | Synonyms: conclude |
| (verb) make clearly visible | - |
| revolve | (verb) turn on or around an axis or a center | Synonyms: go around, rotate |
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| (verb) move in an orbit | Synonyms: orb, orbit |
| (verb) cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis | Synonyms: roll |
| salve | (noun) anything that remedies or heals or soothes | - |
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| (noun) semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation | Synonyms: balm, ointment, unction, unguent |
| (verb) apply a salve to, usually for the purpose of healing | - |
| (verb) save from ruin, destruction, or harm | Synonyms: relieve, salvage, save |
| shelve | (verb) place on a shelf | - |
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| (verb) hold back to a later time | Synonyms: defer, hold over, postpone, prorogue, put off, put over, remit, set back, table |
| solve | (verb) find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of | Synonyms: figure out, lick, puzzle out, work, work out |
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| (verb) find the solution | Synonyms: resolve |
| (verb) settle, as of a debt | Synonyms: clear |
| twelve | (adjective) denoting a quantity consisting of 12 items or units | Synonyms: 12, dozen, xii |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one | Synonyms: 12, dozen, XII |
| univalve | (adjective) used of mollusks, especially gastropods, as snails etc. | - |
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| (noun) a class of mollusks typically having a one-piece coiled shell and flattened muscular foot with a head bearing stalked eyes | Synonyms: gastropod |
| valve | (noun) one of the paired hinged shells of certain molluscs and of brachiopods | - |
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| (noun) the entire one-piece shell of a snail and certain other molluscs | - |
| (noun) control consisting of a mechanical device for controlling the flow of a fluid | - |
| (noun) device in a brass wind instrument for varying the length of the air column to alter the pitch of a tone | - |
| (noun) a structure in a hollow organ (like the heart) with a flap to insure one-way flow of fluid through it | - |