6-letter words containing v, e, t
- invite — to request the presence or participation of in a kindly, courteous, or complimentary way, especially to request to come or go to some place, gathering, entertainment, etc., or to do something: to invite friends to dinner.
- kvetch — to complain, especially chronically.
- lative — (grammar) A case of verbs, found in the Uralic and Northern Caucasian languages, used to indicate motion to a location; in the Northern Caucasian languages, the lative also takes up functions of the dative case.
- levant — to leave secretly or hurriedly to avoid paying debts.
- levite — a member of the tribe of Levi.
- levity — lightness of mind, character, or behavior; lack of appropriate seriousness or earnestness.
- livest — being alive; living; alive: live animals.
- liveth — Archaic third-person singular form of live.
- lovest — (archaic) second-person singular present form of love.
- loveth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of love.
- mcvert — (tool) A Unix program for reading and writing Apple Computer Macintosh binary files. It was written by Doug Moore, now at Rice University (Jan 1990). See BinHex, HQX, MacBinary.
- motive — something that causes a person to act in a certain way, do a certain thing, etc.; incentive.
- movent — (obsolete) Moving; that moves; that is being moved.
- moveth — Archaic third-person singular form of move.
- native — being the place or environment in which a person was born or a thing came into being: one's native land.
- novate — To replace something with something new.
- obvert — to turn (something) so as to show a different surface.
- octave — Music. a tone on the eighth degree from a given tone. the interval encompassed by such tones. the harmonic combination of such tones. a series of tones, or of keys of an instrument, extending through this interval.
- olivet — a large floodlight having a single bulb.
- outvie — to strive in competition or rivalry with another; contend for superiority: Swimmers from many nations were vying for the title.
- ouvert — (ballet) A position in which the feet are apart, or a movement which brings them apart.
- ovated — Ovate.
- privet — any of various deciduous or evergreen shrubs of the genus Ligustrum, especially L. vulgare, having clusters of small white flowers and commonly grown as a hedge.
- revert — to return to a former habit, practice, belief, condition, etc.: They reverted to the ways of their forefathers.
- revest — to vest (a person) again, as with ownership or office; reinvest; reinstate.
- revolt — to break away from or rise against constituted authority, as by open rebellion; cast off allegiance or subjection to those in authority; rebel; mutiny: to revolt against the present government.
- revote — a formal expression of opinion or choice, either positive or negative, made by an individual or body of individuals.
- rivets — a metal pin for passing through holes in two or more plates or pieces to hold them together, usually made with a head at one end, the other end being hammered into a head after insertion.
- rt rev — Right Reverend
- sative — cultivated or sown as opposed to wild
- savate — a sport resembling boxing but permitting blows to be delivered with the feet as well as the hands.
- shevat — the fifth month of the Jewish calendar.
- soviet — (before the revolution) any governmental council. (after the revolution) a local council, originally elected only by manual workers, with certain powers of local administration. (after the revolution) a higher council elected by a local council, being part of a hierarchy of soviets culminating in the Supreme Soviet.
- 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.
- steeve — to set (a spar) at an upward inclination.
- steven — a male given name.
- stevia — a South American perennial shrub, Stevia rebaudiana, having small, white flowers and sweet-tasting leaves.
- stevin — Simon [see-mawn] /ˈsi mɔn/ (Show IPA), 1548–1620, Dutch mathematician and physicist.
- 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.
- svelte — slender, especially gracefully slender in figure; lithe.
- swivet — a state of nervous excitement, haste, or anxiety; flutter: I was in such a swivet that I could hardly speak.
- tavern — a place where liquors are sold to be consumed on the premises.
- tavert — bewildered or confused
- teevee — television.
- tevere — a river in central Italy, flowing through Rome into the Mediterranean. 244 miles (395 km) long.