5-letter words containing e, a, v
- salve — a medicinal ointment for healing or relieving wounds and sores.
- 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.
- 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
- slave — a person who is the property of and wholly subject to another; a bond servant.
- 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.
- 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.
- vague — not clearly or explicitly stated or expressed: vague promises.
- vaire — of Russian squirrel fur
- vales — a valley.
- valet — a male servant who attends to the personal needs of his male employer, as by taking care of clothing or the like; manservant.
- valse — waltz.
- value — relative worth, merit, or importance: the value of a college education; the value of a queen in chess.
- valve — any device for halting or controlling the flow of a liquid, gas, or other material through a passage, pipe, inlet, outlet, etc.
- vance — a male given name.
- vaned — weather vane.
- vaner — a lake in SW Sweden. 2141 sq. mi. (5545 sq. km).
- varec — the ash obtained from kelp
- varve — (in lake sediments) an annual deposit usually consisting of two layers, one of fine materials and the other of coarse.
- vaxen — /vak'sn/ (From "oxen", perhaps influenced by "vixen") The plural canonically used among hackers for the DEC VAX computers. "Our installation has four PDP-10s and twenty vaxen." See boxen.
- vealy — resembling veal.
- vedda — a Sri Lankan aborigine.
- veena — vina.
- vegan — a vegetarian who omits all animal products from the diet.
- vegas — a city in SE Nevada.
- velar — of or relating to a velum, especially the soft palate.
- velma — a female given name, form of Wilhelmina.
- venae — a vein.
- venal — willing to sell one's influence, especially in return for a bribe; open to bribery; mercenary: a venal judge.
- venda — a self-governing Bantu territory of South Africa in the NE part: granted independence in 1979 by South Africa, but not recognized by any other country as an independent state. 2510 sq. mi. (6500 sq. km). Capital: Thohoyandou.
- veras — a female given name: from a Russian word meaning “faith.”.
- verna — a female given name.
- vespa — Very Efficient Speculative Parallel Architecture
- vesta — the ancient Roman goddess of the hearth, worshiped in a temple containing an altar on which a sacred fire was kept burning by the vestal virgins: identified with the Greek Hestia.
- vitae — curriculum vitae (def 1).
- voema — vigour or energy
- waive — to refrain from claiming or insisting on; give up; forgo: to waive one's right; to waive one's rank; to waive honors.
- waved — having a form, outline, or appearance resembling waves; undulating.
- waver — to sway to and fro; flutter: Foliage wavers in the breeze.
- waves — a member of the Waves.
- wavey — a wild North American goose of the genus Chen, as the snow goose (white wavey) or blue goose (blue wavey)
- weave — to interlace (threads, yarns, strips, fibrous material, etc.) so as to form a fabric or material.