6-letter words containing i, n, v
- invent — to originate or create as a product of one's own ingenuity, experimentation, or contrivance: to invent the telegraph.
- invert — to turn upside down.
- invest — to put (money) to use, by purchase or expenditure, in something offering potential profitable returns, as interest, income, or appreciation in value.
- invile — (obsolete, transitive) To render vile.
- invite — to request the presence or participation of in a kindly, courteous, or complimentary way, especially to request to come or go to some place, gathering, entertainment, etc., or to do something: to invite friends to dinner.
- invoke — to call for with earnest desire; make supplication or pray for: to invoke God's mercy.
- inwove — Simple past form of inweave.
- irvine — a city in SW California.
- irving — Sir Henry (John Henry Brodribb) 1838–1905, English actor.
- ivanov — Vsevolod Vyacheslavovich [fsye-vuh-luh t vyi-chyi-slah-vuh-vyich] /ˈfsyɛ və lət vyɪ tʃyɪˈslɑ və vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1895–1963, Russian playwright.
- ivtran — Parallel Fortran for the Illiac IV. 1966.
- jiving — swing music or early jazz.
- jovian — (Flavius Claudius Jovianus) a.d. 331?–364, Roman emperor 363–364.
- kazvin — a city in NW Iran, NW of Teheran: capital of Persia in the 16th century.
- kelvin — William Thomson, 1st Baron, 1824–1907, English physicist and mathematician.
- kievan — of or relating to Kiev.
- knives — plural of knife.
- laving — to wash; bathe.
- levine — Jack, 1915–2010, U.S. painter.
- levins — Plural form of levin.
- livens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of liven.
- living — having life; being alive; not dead: living persons.
- lovein — a usually organized public gathering of people, held as a demonstration of mutual love or in protest against inhumane policies.
- loving — feeling or showing love; warmly affectionate; fond: loving glances.
- lyngvi — a rival of Sigmund for Hjordis who kills Sigmund and is killed by Sigurd.
- malvin — (biochemistry) An anthocyanin, a diglucoside of malvidin, found in very many foods.
- marvin — a male given name.
- mavins — an expert or connoisseur.
- melvin — a male given name.
- mervin — a male given name.
- moving — capable of or having movement: a moving object.
- naiver — Comparative form of naive.
- narvik — a seaport in N Norway.
- native — being the place or environment in which a person was born or a thing came into being: one's native land.
- navaid — an electronic aid to navigation.
- navies — the whole body of warships and auxiliaries belonging to a country or ruler.
- navig. — navigation
- neviim — the Prophets, being the second of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament.
- nevins — Allan, 1890–1971, U.S. historian.
- nevoid — any congenital anomaly of the skin, including moles and various types of birthmarks.
- nevski — Alexander, Alexander Nevski.
- niever — a frequent misspelling of naive.
- nieves — Plural form of nieve.
- nievre — a department in central France. 2659 sq. mi. (6885 sq. km). Capital: Nevers.
- nivose — (in the French Revolutionary calendar) the fourth month of the year, extending from December 21 to January 19.
- novice — a person who is new to the circumstances, work, etc., in which he or she is placed; beginner; tyro: a novice in politics.
- novity — (countable, now rare) An innovation; a novelty.
- ovonic — pertaining to ovonics.
- paving — Southern Louisiana. a paved road.
- previn — André (ˈɒndreɪ). born 1929, US orchestral conductor, born in Germany; living in Britain; awarded an honorary knighthood (1996)