6-letter words containing a, v, c
- cleave — To cleave something means to split or divide it into two separate parts, often violently.
- clivia — a plant belonging to the family Amaryllidaceae
- coeval — of or belonging to the same age or generation
- covary — to vary in correlation with another related variant
- covina — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- cravat — A cravat is a piece of folded cloth which a man wears wrapped around his neck.
- craved — Simple past tense and past participle of crave.
- craven — Someone who is craven is very cowardly.
- craver — Someone who craves something.
- craves — to long for; want greatly; desire eagerly: to crave sweets; to crave affection.
- cuevas — José Luis [hoh-zey lwees;; Spanish haw-se lwees] /hoʊˈzeɪ lwis;; Spanish hɔˈsɛ lwis/ (Show IPA), born 1934, Mexican painter, graphic artist, and illustrator.
- excave — (obsolete) To excavate.
- havocs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of havoc.
- incave — to hide or enclose in a cave or as if in a cave
- incavo — the incised or hollowed out part of an intaglio carving
- octave — Music. a tone on the eighth degree from a given tone. the interval encompassed by such tones. the harmonic combination of such tones. a series of tones, or of keys of an instrument, extending through this interval.
- octavo — a book size of about 6 × 9 inches (16 × 23 cm), determined by printing on sheets folded to form 8 leaves or 16 pages. Symbol: 8vo, 8°.
- ovisac — a sac or capsule containing an ovum or ova.
- sclave — a slave
- slavic — a branch of the Indo-European family of languages, usually divided into East Slavic (Russian, Ukrainian, Byelorussian), West Slavic (Polish, Czech, Slovak, Sorbian), and South Slavic (Old Church Slavonic, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovene).
- univac — (processor, company) A brand of computer. There is a historical placard in the United States Census Bureau that has the following, "The Bureau of the Census dedicated the world's first electronic general purpose data processing computer, UNIVAC I, on June 14, 1951. Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation". The Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation designed and built Univac. Over the years, rights to the Univac name changed hands several times. Circa 1987, Sperry Univac merged with the Burroughs Corporation to form Unisys Corporation.
- vacant — having no contents; empty; void: a vacant niche.
- vacate — to give up possession or occupancy of: to vacate an apartment.
- vachel — a male given name: from a Latin word meaning “little cow.”.
- vacuum — a space entirely devoid of matter.
- vaunce — to advance
- vesica — Anatomy. a bladder.
- viatic — of or having to do with travel
- vicary — the office or position of a vicar
- vicuna — a wild South American ruminant, Vicugna vicugna, of the Andes, related to the guanaco but smaller, and yielding a soft, delicate wool: an endangered species, now increasing in numbers.
- vivace — music: lively
- vocals — of, relating to, or uttered with the voice: the vocal mechanism; vocal criticism.
- vomica — a cavity, usually in the lungs, containing pus.
- vulcan — the ancient Roman god of fire and metalworking, identified with the Greek Hephaestus.