The AnswerMug Challenge Series, Word Game Edition: how many English-language words can you form using the letters below?

I, am, an, vent, tame, vine, vein, vane, naive, mint, mine, native, mate, mane, mean, mien, maven, ten, tin, tan, tam (tam o'shanter)... 

And there are bound to be lots more but I ran out of patience.

Huge heroin addiction back home?
Nah... didn't think you'd allow it ...

There was a huge increase in H addiction amongst whites with returning service men during and after the war

Name, man, vein, vat, van, time, ante, meat, mean, tame, mite, team, emit, eat, ate, mine, I, an, me, am, at, neat, tea, mine, vet, ma , vine, vane, mat, vim, met, aim, main, a, men, net......

P.S. I realize I didn't answer ypur question because you didn't ask us to list the words, but I couldn't resist seeing how many I could come up with. So the answer to your question is, I haven't a clue. But at least more than 36 (unless I duplicated). 

V-i-e-t-n-a-m
5 vet, name, tame, aim, van
10 eat, meat, neat, tea, team
15 tie, mite, nite, mint, mean
20 meant, vent, tin, tan, ten
25 vin, vine, mine, man, men
30 Vane, mane, ant, ante, inmate
35 mate, ate, an, am, I, In
40 me, at, ma, it, time

I can name 40 words. This post was edited by my2cents at February 15, 2017 3:10 AM MST

I got bored after 28.

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                                                         V-i-e-t-n-a-m
Van  Tame   Maven
Man  Naive   Time
Main  Nave   Vie
Mate  Vent   Vita
Vain  Meant
Vane  Mean
Vein  Native
Tan   Name
Nat  Tie
Tam  Via