5-letter words containing s, v
- mavis — a female given name.
- moves — to pass from one place or position to another.
- mrcvs — Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons
- naves — Plural form of nave.
- neves — granular snow accumulated on high mountains and subsequently compacted into glacial ice.
- nevis — one of the Leeward Islands, in the E West Indies: part of St. Kitts-Nevis; formerly a British colony. 50 sq. mi. (130 sq. km). Compare St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla.
- nevus — any congenital anomaly of the skin, including moles and various types of birthmarks.
- novas — Plural form of nova.
- oslav — Old (Church) Slavonic
- ovals — Plural form of oval.
- ovens — Plural form of oven.
- ovist — (formerly) a person who believes that the ovum contains all material required for development of the embryo
- pavis — a large oblong shield of the late 14th through the early 16th centuries, often covering the entire body and used especially by archers and soldiers of the infantry.
- pskov — a lake in N Europe, between Estonia and the W Russian Federation, forming the S part of Lake Peipus.
- saiva — Shaiva.
- salve — a medicinal ointment for healing or relieving wounds and sores.
- salvo — a simultaneous or successive discharge of artillery, bombs, etc.
- 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.
- savin — a juniper, Juniperus sabina, of Europe and Asia.
- savor — the quality in a substance that affects the sense of taste or of smell.
- savoy — a member of the royal house of Italy that ruled from 1861 to 1946.
- savvy — experienced, knowledgable, and well-informed; shrewd (often used in combination): consumers who are savvy about prices; a tech-savvy entrepreneur.
- schav — a cold soup of sorrel to which chopped egg, sour cream, lemon juice, and chopped scallions are sometimes added.
- selva — a tropical rain forest, as that in the Amazon basin of South America.
- senvy — mustard (the plant or seed)
- 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.
- seven — a cardinal number, 6 plus 1.
- sever — to separate (a part) from the whole, as by cutting or the like.
- sevin — an insecticide, C12H11NO2, derived from a carbamate, that is highly toxic when first applied but that breaks down quickly and becomes harmless
- 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
- shiva — “the Destroyer,” the third member of the Trimurti, along with Brahma the Creator and Vishnu the Preserver.
- shive — a splinter or fragment of the husk of flax, hemp, etc.
- shove — to move along by force from behind; push.
- sieve — an instrument with a meshed or perforated bottom, used for separating coarse from fine parts of loose matter, for straining liquids, etc., especially one with a circular frame and fine meshes or perforations.
- silva — the forest trees of a particular area.
- sivan — the ninth month of the Jewish calendar.
- sivas — Shiva.
- skive — to split or cut, as leather, into layers or slices.
- slave — a person who is the property of and wholly subject to another; a bond servant.
- slive — to cut or slice
- smatv — (originally) small master antenna television; now more commonly, satellite master antenna television: a system for relaying broadcast television signals, embodying a master receiving antenna with distribution by cable to a small group of dwellings, such as a block of flats
- soave — a dry, white wine from Verona, Italy.
- solve — to find the answer or explanation for; clear up; explain: to solve the mystery of the missing books.
- stave — one of the thin, narrow, shaped pieces of wood that form the sides of a cask, tub, or similar vessel.
- steve — Stephen Norman ("Steve"; "Lefty") born 1944, U.S. baseball player.
- stive — an airborne flour dust caused by the milling or grinding process