5-letter words containing s, v
- stivy — stuffy, stifling
- stove — one of the thin, narrow, shaped pieces of wood that form the sides of a cask, tub, or similar vessel.
- suave — (of persons or their manner, speech, etc.) smoothly agreeable or polite; agreeably or blandly urbane.
- surv. — surveying
- sv 40 — simian virus 40; a virus of the Papovaviridae family, originally isolated from kidney cells of healthy monkeys, and important in recombinant DNA and cancer research.
- svevo — Italo (iˈtalo), original name Ettore Schnitz. 1861–1928, Italian novelist and short-story writer, best known for the novel Confessions of Zeno (1923)
- swave — a transverse earthquake wave that travels through the interior of the earth and is usually the second conspicuous wave to reach a seismograph.
- swive — to copulate with.
- sylva — the forest trees of a particular area.
- syver — a street drain or the grating over it
- v-six — a six-cylinder V-engine.
- vaasa — a seaport in W Finland, on the Gulf of Bothnia.
- vadso — a seaport in NE Norway.
- vagus — vagus nerve.
- vakas — an outer garment worn by priests in the Armenian church
- vales — a valley.
- valse — waltz.
- varas — a unit of length in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries, varying from about 32 inches (81 cm) to about 43 inches (109 cm).
- varus — abnormal angulation of a bone or joint, with the angle pointing away from the midline.
- vasal — of or relating to a body vessel
- vaso- — indicating a blood vessel
- vassa — Gustavus (Olaudah Equiano) c1745–1801? African slave, sold in the West Indies, and, after gaining freedom, abolitionist and writer in England.
- vasty — vast; immense.
- vatus — a nickel-brass coin and monetary unit of Vanuatu.
- vegas — a city in SE Nevada.
- veges — a vegetable.
- veins — one of the system of branching vessels or tubes conveying blood from various parts of the body to the heart.
- venus — an ancient Italian goddess of gardens and spring, identified by the Romans with Aphrodite as the goddess of love and beauty.
- 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.
- verse — (not in technical use) a stanza.
- verso — a left-hand page of an open book or manuscript (opposed to recto).
- verst — a Russian measure of distance equivalent to 3500 feet or 0.6629 mile or 1.067 kilometers.
- vesey — Denmark, 1767–1822, black freedman, born probably on St. Thomas, Danish West Indies: hanged as alleged leader of a slave insurrection, in Charleston, S.C.
- vespa — Very Efficient Speculative Parallel Architecture
- vesta — the ancient Roman goddess of the hearth, worshiped in a temple containing an altar on which a sacred fire was kept burning by the vestal virgins: identified with the Greek Hestia.
- vexes — to irritate; annoy; provoke: His noisy neighbors often vexed him.
- vibes — Informal. vibration (def 4).
- vices — any of various devices, usually having two jaws that may be brought together or separated by means of a screw, lever, or the like, used to hold an object firmly while work is being done on it.
- vides — see (used especially to refer a reader to parts of a text).
- viers — to strive in competition or rivalry with another; contend for superiority: Swimmers from many nations were vying for the title.
- views — A Smalltalk extension for computer algebra. "An Object Oriented Approach to Algebra System Design", K. Abdali et al, in Symp Symb Alg Manip, ACM 1986, pp.24-30.
- vines — any plant having a long, slender stem that trails or creeps on the ground or climbs by winding itself about a support or holding fast with tendrils or claspers.
- vinys — a female given name.
- vires — strength; force; power.
- virls — ferrule (def 1).
- virus — an ultramicroscopic (20 to 300 nm in diameter), metabolically inert, infectious agent that replicates only within the cells of living hosts, mainly bacteria, plants, and animals: composed of an RNA or DNA core, a protein coat, and, in more complex types, a surrounding envelope.
- visas — an endorsement issued by an authorized representative of a country and marked in a passport, permitting the passport holder to enter, travel through, or reside in that country for a specified amount of time, for the purpose of tourism, education, employment, etc.
- visby — an island in the Baltic, forming a province of Sweden. 1212 sq. mi. (3140 sq. km). Capital: Visby.
- visc. — Viscount or Viscountess