5-letter words containing r, e, v
- nerve — one or more bundles of fibers forming part of a system that conveys impulses of sensation, motion, etc., between the brain or spinal cord and other parts of the body.
- nervi — Pier Luigi [pyer loo-ee-jee] /pyɛr luˈi dʒi/ (Show IPA), 1891–1979, Italian engineer and architect.
- nervy — brashly presumptuous or insolent; pushy: a nervy thing to say; a nervy trick to pull.
- never — not ever; at no time: Such an idea never occurred to me.
- ouvre — Misspelling of oeuvre.
- over- — You can add over- to an adjective or verb to indicate that a quality exists or an action is done to too great an extent. For example, if you say that someone is being over-cautious, you mean that they are being too cautious.
- overt — open to view or knowledge; not concealed or secret: overt hostility.
- parev — containing neither meat nor milk products and so fit for use with either meat or milk dishes
- parve — pareve.
- paver — a person or thing that paves.
- pervy — sexually perverted
- prev. — previous
- prove — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
- 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.
- reave — to take away by or as by force; plunder; rob.
- reeve — to fasten by placing through or around something.
- reive — to go on a plundering raid
- reval — former German name of Tallinn.
- revel — to take great pleasure or delight (usually followed by in): to revel in luxury.
- revet — to face, as an embankment, with masonry or other material.
- revie — to challenge by placing a larger stake or bet than an opponent in a card game
- revue — a form of theatrical entertainment in which recent events, popular fads, etc., are parodied.
- rieve — to rob or thieve
- rivel — a very small dumpling made of a batter of butter, egg, flour, and seasoning, cooked in broth.
- riven — a past participle of rive.
- river — a person who rives.
- rivet — a metal pin for passing through holes in two or more plates or pieces to hold them together, usually made with a head at one end, the other end being hammered into a head after insertion.
- roven — to pass (a rope or the like) through a hole, ring, or the like.
- rover — a familiar name for a dog.
- saver — to rescue from danger or possible harm, injury, or loss: to save someone from drowning.
- serov — a city in the W Russian Federation in Asia, E of the Ural Mountains.
- serve — to act as a servant.
- servo — acting as part of a servomechanism: servo amplifier.
- sever — to separate (a part) from the whole, as by cutting or the like.
- syver — a street drain or the grating over it
- taver — to wander, to digress
- trave — a device to inhibit a wild or untrained horse or one being shod.
- trove — a collection of objects.
- vaire — of Russian squirrel fur
- 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.
- veery — a thrush, Catharus fuscescens, common in the eastern and northern U.S., noted for its song.
- velar — of or relating to a velum, especially the soft palate.
- vener — Vänern.
- veras — a female given name: from a Russian word meaning “faith.”.
- verbs — any member of a class of words that function as the main elements of predicates, that typically express action, state, or a relation between two things, and that may be inflected for tense, aspect, voice, mood, and to show agreement with their subject or object.
- verde — Cape, a cape in Senegal, near Dakar: the westernmost point of Africa.