5-letter words containing v
- bevvy — If you have a few bevvies, you have a few alcoholic drinks.
- bhave — Vinoba [vee-noh-buh] /viˈnoʊ bə/ (Show IPA), 1895–1982, Indian religious leader and mystic.
- bivvy — a small tent or shelter
- bleve — A BLEVE is an explosion caused by a liquid which is boiling and continuing to produce a flammable vapor.
- bovet — Daniel. 1907–92, Italian pharmacologist, born in Switzerland, noted for his pioneering work on antihistamine drugs. Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1957
- bovid — of, relating to, or belonging to the Bovidae, a family of ruminant artiodactyl hollow-horned mammals including sheep, goats, cattle, antelopes, and buffalo
- brava — a shout of appreciation to a female performer
- brave — Someone who is brave is willing to do things which are dangerous, and does not show fear in difficult or dangerous situations.
- bravo — Some people say 'bravo' to express appreciation when someone has done something well.
- breve — an accent, (˘), placed over a vowel to indicate that it is of short duration or is pronounced in a specified way
- ca va — all right; fine.
- calva — The calvaria; the dome or roof of the skull.
- calve — When a cow calves, it gives birth to a calf.
- carve — If you carve an object, you make it by cutting it out of a substance such as wood or stone. If you carve something such as wood or stone into an object, you make the object by cutting it out.
- carvy — a caraway seed, esp one that is covered in sugar
- cavan — a county of N Republic of Ireland: hilly, with many small lakes and bogs. County town: Cavan. Pop: 56 546 (2002). Area: 1890 sq km (730 sq miles)
- caved — Past participle of cave.
- cavel — a drawing of lots among miners for an easy and profitable place at the coalface
- caver — A caver is someone who goes into underground caves as a sport.
- caves — Plural form of cave.
- cavie — a hen coop
- cavil — If you say that someone cavils at something, you mean that they make criticisms of it that you think are unimportant or unnecessary.
- cavin — (military) A hollow route, adapted to cover troops and facilitate their approach to a place.
- cavum — (anatomy) A cavity.
- cavus — (geology) In planetary geology, it is used to refer to irregular steep-sided depressions that do not seem to be impact craters.
- cezve — a small metal pot, usually of copper, with a long metal handle, used for preparing Turkish, Arabic, or Greek style coffee
- chave — I have
- chavs — Plural form of chav.
- chevy — chivy
- chive — a small Eurasian purple-flowered alliaceous plant, Allium schoenoprasum, whose long slender hollow leaves are used in cooking to flavour soups, stews, etc
- chivy — to harass or nag
- civet — any catlike viverrine mammal of the genus Viverra and related genera, of Africa and S Asia, typically having blotched or spotted fur and secreting a powerfully smelling fluid from anal glands
- civic — You use civic to describe people or things that have an official status in a town or city.
- civil — You use civil to describe events that happen within a country and that involve the different groups of people in it.
- civvy — a civilian
- clava — the two or more enlarged distal segments that form the bulbous end of a clavate antenna.
- clave — one of a pair of hardwood sticks struck together to make a hollow sound, esp to mark the beat of Latin-American dance music
- clavi — Psychiatry. an intense headache in which the pain is likened to one that would be produced by a sharp object driven into the skull.
- cleve — Per Teodor [par tey-aw-dawr] /pær ˈteɪ ɔˌdɔr/ (Show IPA), 1840–1905, Swedish chemist.
- clive — Robert, Baron Clive of Plassey. 1725–74, British general and statesman, whose victory at Plassey (1757) strengthened British control in India
- clove — Cloves are small dried flower buds used as a spice.
- convo — a conversation
- corve — Alternative form of corf.
- corvo — a dry red or white wine of Sicily.
- coved — a small indentation or recess in the shoreline of a sea, lake, or river.
- coven — A coven is a group of witches.
- cover — If you cover something, you place something else over it in order to protect it, hide it, or close it.
- coves — Plural form of cove.
- covet — If you covet something, you strongly want to have it for yourself.
- covey — A covey of grouse or partridges is a small group of them.