5-letter words containing v, r
- haver — to equivocate; vacillate.
- havre — a seaport in N France, at the mouth of the Seine.
- hiver — One who collects bees into a hive.
- hover — to hang fluttering or suspended in the air: The helicopter hovered over the building.
- invar — An alloy of iron containing 35.5% nickel, and having a very low coefficient of expansion.
- ivory — the hard white substance, a variety of dentin, composing the main part of the tusks of the elephant, walrus, etc.
- jarvy — Alternative form of jarvey.
- jiver — swing music or early jazz.
- kirov — a city in the E Russian Federation in Europe, N of Kazan.
- kiruv — Hebrew. the act or practice of bringing secularized Jews closer to Judaism, especially Orthodox Judaism, as through seminars, meetings, and religious rituals.
- kiver — (archaic, dialect) to cover.
- kovar — an alloy that consists mostly of iron, nickel, and cobalt, and has the same heat expansion properties as heat-resistant glass: it is usually fused to glass to form a gas seal
- larva — Entomology. the immature, wingless, feeding stage of an insect that undergoes complete metamorphosis.
- larve — Dated form of larva.
- laver — Rod(ney George) born 1938, Australian tennis player.
- lever — tool for lifting
- liver — a person who lives in a manner specified: an extravagant liver.
- livor — (pathology) Skin discoloration, as from a bruise, or occurring after death.
- livre — a former money of account and group of coins of France, issued in coin form first in gold, then in silver, finally in copper, and discontinued in 1794.
- lover — Samuel, 1797–1868, Irish novelist, painter, and songwriter.
- lurve — (informal) Love, fondness.
- marvy — marvelous; delightful.
- mover — a person or thing that moves.
- mrcvs — Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons
- murva — one of two varieties of sansevieria (Sansevieria roxburghiana or Sansevieria zeylanica) cultivated in parts of Asia for the strong fibre found in their leaves
- narva — a city in NE Estonia: Swedish defeat of Russians 1700.
- navar — a system of air navigation in which a ground radar station relays signals to each aircraft indicating the relative positions of neighbouring aircraft
- nerva — Marcus Cocceius [kok-see-yuh s] /kɒkˈsi yəs/ (Show IPA), a.d. 32?–98, emperor of Rome 96–98.
- nerve — one or more bundles of fibers forming part of a system that conveys impulses of sensation, motion, etc., between the brain or spinal cord and other parts of the body.
- nervi — Pier Luigi [pyer loo-ee-jee] /pyɛr luˈi dʒi/ (Show IPA), 1891–1979, Italian engineer and architect.
- nervy — brashly presumptuous or insolent; pushy: a nervy thing to say; a nervy trick to pull.
- never — not ever; at no time: Such an idea never occurred to me.
- nvram — Non-Volatile Random Access Memory
- orlov — Count Grigori Grigorievich. 1734–83, Russian soldier and a lover of Catherine II. He led (with his brother, Count Aleksey Grigorievich Orlov, 1737–1808) the coup that brought Catherine to power
- orval — (botany) Salvia horminum, a kind of sage.
- ouvre — Misspelling of oeuvre.
- ovary — Anatomy, Zoology. the female gonad or reproductive gland, in which the ova and the hormones that regulate female secondary sex characteristics develop.
- over- — You can add over- to an adjective or verb to indicate that a quality exists or an action is done to too great an extent. For example, if you say that someone is being over-cautious, you mean that they are being too cautious.
- overt — open to view or knowledge; not concealed or secret: overt hostility.
- parev — containing neither meat nor milk products and so fit for use with either meat or milk dishes
- parve — pareve.
- parvo — parvovirus.
- paver — a person or thing that paves.
- pervy — sexually perverted
- prev. — previous
- priv. — private
- privy — participating in the knowledge of something private or secret (usually followed by to): Many persons were privy to the plot.
- prov. — province
- prove — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
- provo — a Dutch or German political agitator, especially in the 1960s and 1970s.