6-letter words containing s, a, v
- savery — Thomas. ?1650–1715, English engineer, who built (1698) the first practical steam engine, used to pump water from mines
- savine — a juniper, Juniperus sabina, of Europe and Asia.
- saving — tending or serving to save; rescuing; preserving.
- savior — a person who saves, rescues, or delivers: the savior of the country.
- savoie — a department in E France. 2389 sq. mi. (6185 sq. km). Capital: Chambéry.
- savona — a city in N Italy on the Mediterranean.
- savors — the quality in a substance that affects the sense of taste or of smell.
- savory — pleasant or agreeable in taste or smell: a savory aroma.
- savour — the quality in a substance that affects the sense of taste or of smell.
- sclave — a slave
- seaver — (George) Thomas ("Tom"; "Tom Terrific") born 1944, U.S. baseball pitcher.
- selvas — a tropical rain forest, as that in the Amazon basin of South America.
- serval — a long-limbed, nocturnal African cat, Felis serval, about the size of a bobcat, having a tawny coat spotted with black: now rare in many former habitats.
- servia — former name of Serbia.
- shaiva — a Bhakti sect devoted to Shiva.
- shaved — to remove a growth of beard with a razor.
- shaven — a past participle of shave.
- shaver — a person or thing that shaves.
- shavie — a trick or prank.
- sheave — to gather, collect, or bind into a sheaf or sheaves.
- shevat — the fifth month of the Jewish calendar.
- shivah — the mourning period, following the funeral and lasting traditionally for seven days, observed by Jews for a deceased parent, sibling, child, or spouse.
- silvan — of, relating to, or inhabiting the woods.
- silvia — a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “forest.”.
- sivaji — 1627–80, Indian king (1674–80), who led an uprising of Hindus against Muslim rule and founded the Masatha kingdom
- slaver — saliva coming from the mouth.
- slavey — a female servant, especially a maid of all work in a boardinghouse.
- 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).
- slavo- — Slav
- sleave — to divide or separate into filaments, as silk.
- slovak — one of a Slavic people dwelling in Slovakia.
- solvay — Ernest [ur-nist;; French er-nest] /ˈɜr nɪst;; French ɛrˈnɛst/ (Show IPA), 1838–1922, Belgian chemist.
- spavin — a disease of the hock joint of horses in which enlargement occurs because of collected fluids (bog spavin) bony growth (bone spavin) or distention of the veins (blood spavin)
- starve — to die or perish from lack of food or nourishment.
- staves — a composition of plaster and fibrous material used for a temporary finish and in ornamental work, as on exposition buildings.
- stevia — a South American perennial shrub, Stevia rebaudiana, having small, white flowers and sweet-tasting leaves.
- suaver — (of persons or their manner, speech, etc.) smoothly agreeable or polite; agreeably or blandly urbane.
- sylvan — of, relating to, or inhabiting the woods.
- sylvia — a female given name.
- travis — William Barret, 1809–36, U.S. soldier: commander during the battle of the Alamo.
- v.fast — V.34
- vadose — found or located above the water table: vadose water; vadose zone.
- vaisya — a member of the Hindu mercantile and professional class, above the Shudras and below the Kshatriyas. Compare Brahman1 (def 1).
- vakass — a priest's cloak with a metal breastplate, inscribed on which are the names of the twelve apostles
- valais — a canton in SW Switzerland. 2021 sq. mi. (5235 sq. km). Capital: Sion.
- valens — Flavius [fley-vee-uh s] /ˈfleɪ vi əs/ (Show IPA), a.d. c328–378, emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire 364–378.
- valgus — an abnormally turned position of a part of the bone structure of a human being, especially of the leg.
- valise — a small piece of luggage that can be carried by hand, used to hold clothing, toilet articles, etc.; suitcase; traveling bag.
- valois — Dame Ninette [ni-net] /nɪˈnɛt/ (Show IPA), (Edris Stannus) 1898–2001, British ballet dancer, choreographer, teacher, and director: founder of the Royal Ballet (originally the Sadler's Wells Ballet).
- values — relative worth, merit, or importance: the value of a college education; the value of a queen in chess.