5-letter words containing v, e, s
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- syver — a street drain or the grating over it
- vales — a valley.
- valse — waltz.
- 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.
- vires — strength; force; power.
- vised — 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.
- viseu — a city in N central Portugal: 12th-century cathedral. Pop: 93 502 (2001)
- visne — a neighbourhood, or a jury selected from the neighbourhood, in which a disputed action or crime occurred
- vives — inflammation and swelling of the submaxillary gland in horses.
- vries — Hugo [hyoo-goh;; Dutch hy-goh] /ˈhyu goʊ;; Dutch ˈhü goʊ/ (Show IPA), 1848–1935, Dutch botanist and student of organic heredity: developed the concept of mutation as a factor in the process of evolution.
- waves — a member of the Waves.
- wives — plural of wife.