5-letter words containing a, v
- peavy — peavey.
- piave — a river in NE Italy, flowing S and SE into the Adriatic. 137 miles (220 km) long.
- quave — (intransitive, obsolete) To quiver or tremble.
- rafvr — Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
- ravel — to disentangle or unravel the threads or fibers of (a woven or knitted fabric, rope, etc.).
- raven — a lyric poem (1845) by Edgar Allan Poe.
- raver — to talk wildly, as in delirium.
- ravin — a violent preying or plundering; rapine
- reave — to take away by or as by force; plunder; rob.
- reval — former German name of Tallinn.
- rival — a person who is competing for the same object or goal as another, or who tries to equal or outdo another; competitor.
- saiva — Shaiva.
- salve — a medicinal ointment for healing or relieving wounds and sores.
- salvo — a simultaneous or successive discharge of artillery, bombs, etc.
- saved — to rescue from danger or possible harm, injury, or loss: to save someone from drowning.
- saver — to rescue from danger or possible harm, injury, or loss: to save someone from drowning.
- savin — a juniper, Juniperus sabina, of Europe and Asia.
- savor — the quality in a substance that affects the sense of taste or of smell.
- savoy — a member of the royal house of Italy that ruled from 1861 to 1946.
- savvy — experienced, knowledgable, and well-informed; shrewd (often used in combination): consumers who are savvy about prices; a tech-savvy entrepreneur.
- schav — a cold soup of sorrel to which chopped egg, sour cream, lemon juice, and chopped scallions are sometimes added.
- selva — a tropical rain forest, as that in the Amazon basin of South America.
- shave — to remove a growth of beard with a razor.
- sheva — a mark placed under a consonant in Hebrew writing to denote an absent vowel sound
- shiva — “the Destroyer,” the third member of the Trimurti, along with Brahma the Creator and Vishnu the Preserver.
- silva — the forest trees of a particular area.
- sivan — the ninth month of the Jewish calendar.
- sivas — Shiva.
- slave — a person who is the property of and wholly subject to another; a bond servant.
- smatv — (originally) small master antenna television; now more commonly, satellite master antenna television: a system for relaying broadcast television signals, embodying a master receiving antenna with distribution by cable to a small group of dwellings, such as a block of flats
- soave — a dry, white wine from Verona, Italy.
- stave — one of the thin, narrow, shaped pieces of wood that form the sides of a cask, tub, or similar vessel.
- suave — (of persons or their manner, speech, etc.) smoothly agreeable or polite; agreeably or blandly urbane.
- swave — a transverse earthquake wave that travels through the interior of the earth and is usually the second conspicuous wave to reach a seismograph.
- sylva — the forest trees of a particular area.
- tavel — a dry rosé wine from the Rhone region of France.
- taver — to wander, to digress
- trave — a device to inhibit a wild or untrained horse or one being shod.
- uvula — the small, fleshy, conical body projecting downward from the middle of the soft palate.
- v-day — a day of final military victory.
- vaasa — a seaport in W Finland, on the Gulf of Bothnia.
- vacay — a vacation.
- vacua — a plural of vacuum.
- vadso — a seaport in NE Norway.
- vaduz — a small principality in central Europe between Austria and Switzerland: economically linked with Switzerland. 65 sq. mi. (168 sq. km). Capital: Vaduz.
- vafio — an archaeological site in S Greece, in Peloponnesus.
- vagal — of or relating to a vagus nerve.
- vago- — vagus nerve
- vague — not clearly or explicitly stated or expressed: vague promises.
- vagus — vagus nerve.