6-letter words containing s, e, v, r
- server — a person who serves.
- serves — to act as a servant.
- servia — former name of Serbia.
- severe — harsh; unnecessarily extreme: severe criticism; severe laws.
- severn — a river in Great Britain, flowing from central Wales through W England into the Bristol Channel. 210 miles (338 km) long.
- severy — (in a vaulted structure) one bay between two principal transverse arches.
- sevier — John, 1745–1815, U.S. Revolutionary War soldier and politician: first governor of Tennessee.
- sevres — a suburb of Paris in N France.
- shaver — a person or thing that shaves.
- shiver — to shake or tremble with cold, fear, excitement, etc.
- shover — to move along by force from behind; push.
- shrive — to impose penance on (a sinner).
- shrove — a simple past tense of shrive.
- silver — consisting of, made of, or plated with silver.
- skiver — a person or thing that skives.
- slaver — saliva coming from the mouth.
- sliver — a small, slender, often sharp piece, as of wood or glass, split, broken, or cut off, usually lengthwise or with the grain; splinter.
- soever — at all; in any case; of any kind; in any way (used with generalizing force after who, what, when, where, how, any, all, etc., sometimes separated by intervening words): Choose what thing soever you please.
- solver — to find the answer or explanation for; clear up; explain: to solve the mystery of the missing books.
- starve — to die or perish from lack of food or nourishment.
- stiver — Also, stuiver. a former nickel coin of the Netherlands, equal to five Dutch cents.
- stover — coarse roughage used as feed for livestock.
- strive — to exert oneself vigorously; try hard: He strove to make himself understood.
- strove — simple past tense of strive.
- struve — Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von [free-drikh gey-awrk vil-helm fuh n] /ˈfri drɪx geɪˈɔrk ˈvɪl hɛlm fən/ (Show IPA), 1793–1864, Russian astronomer, born in Germany.
- suaver — (of persons or their manner, speech, etc.) smoothly agreeable or polite; agreeably or blandly urbane.
- survey — to take a general or comprehensive view of or appraise, as a situation, area of study, etc.
- swerve — to turn aside abruptly in movement or direction; deviate suddenly from the straight or direct course.
- treves — a city in W Germany, on the Moselle River: extensive Roman ruins; cathedral.
- turves — plural of turf.
- varese — Edgard [ed-gar] /ɛdˈgar/ (Show IPA), 1885–1965, U.S. composer, born in France.
- varies — to change or alter, as in form, appearance, character, or substance: to vary one's methods.
- vaster — of very great area or extent; immense: the vast reaches of outer space.
- verbis — with just so many words; in these words.
- verism — the theory that rigid representation of truth and reality is essential to art and literature, and therefore the ugly and vulgar must be included.
- verist — the theory that rigid representation of truth and reality is essential to art and literature, and therefore the ugly and vulgar must be included.
- vermis — the median lobe or division of the cerebellum.
- versal — universal or whole.
- versed — of, relating to, or written in verse: a verse play.
- verser — a versifier; rhymer
- verses — (not in technical use) a stanza.
- verset — Prosody. a brief verse, especially from Scripture.
- versus — against (used especially to indicate an action brought by one party against another in a court of law, or to denote competing teams or players in a sports contest): Smith versus Jones; Army versus Navy.
- vertus — excellence or merit in objects of art, curios, and the like.
- vesper — (initial capital letter) the evening star, especially Venus; Hesperus.
- vestry — a room in or a building attached to a church, in which the vestments, and sometimes liturgical objects, are kept; sacristy.
- virose — poisonous; foul-smelling
- vivres — provisions
- wavers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of waver.