5-letter words containing v
- covin — a conspiracy between two or more persons to act to the detriment or injury of another
- crave — If you crave something, you want to have it very much.
- curve — A curve is a smooth, gradually bending line, for example part of the edge of a circle.
- curvy — If someone describes a woman as curvy, they think she is attractive because of the curves of her body.
- cuvee — individual batch or blend of wine
- davao — a port in the S Philippines, in SE Mindanao. Pop: 1 326 000 (2005 est)
- daven — to pray
- david — the second king of the Hebrews (about 1000–962 bc), who united Israel as a kingdom with Jerusalem as its capital
- davie — a town in SE Florida.
- davil — Eye dialect devil.
- davis — Sir Andrew (Frank). born 1944, British conductor; chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra (1989–2000) and of the Chicago Lyric Opera from 2000
- davit — a cranelike device, usually one of a pair, fitted with a tackle for suspending or lowering equipment, esp a lifeboat
- davos — a mountain resort in Switzerland: winter sports, site of the Parsenn ski run. Pop: 11 417 (2000). Height: about 1560 m (5118 ft)
- davys — John, Davis, John.
- deave — to deafen
- deeve — to cause deafness in (a person) with loud noise
- delve — If you delve into something, you try to discover new information about it.
- deriv — derivation
- devan — (transitive) To unload (goods) from a container.
- devas — Plural form of deva.
- devel — (Scotland) alternative spelling of devvel.
- devil — In Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, the Devil is the most powerful evil spirit.
- devon — a county of SW England, between the Bristol Channel and the English Channel, including the island of Lundy: the geographic and ceremonial county includes Plymouth and Torbay, which became independent unitary authorities in 1998; hilly, rising to the uplands of Exmoor and Dartmoor, with wooded river valleys and a rugged coastline. Administrative centre: Exeter. Pop (excluding unitary authorities): 714 900 (2003 est). Area (excluding unitary authorities): 6569 sq km (2536 sq miles)
- devow — (obsolete) To give up; to devote.
- devoy — Dame Susan (Elizabeth Anne). born 1964, New Zealand squash player; winner of the World Open Championship 1985, 1987, 1990, and 1992
- divan — a sofa or couch, usually without arms or back, often usable as a bed.
- divas — Plural form of diva.
- dived — to plunge into water, especially headfirst.
- diver — a person or thing that dives.
- dives — an act or instance of diving.
- divet — Alternative form of divot.
- divey — Having the character of a dive, a disreputable bar or nightclub.
- divis — Plural form of divi.
- divna — do not
- divot — Golf. a piece of turf gouged out with a club in making a stroke.
- divvy — a distribution or sharing.
- dovap — Electronics. a system for plotting the trajectory of a missile or other rapidly moving long-range object by means of the Doppler effect exhibited by radio waves bounced off the object.
- doven — daven
- dover — a seaport in E Kent, in SE England: point nearest the coast of France.
- doves — Plural form of dove.
- drava — a river in S central Europe, flowing E and SE from the Alps in S Austria, through NE Slovenia, along a part of the border between Hungary and Croatia into the Danube in Croatia. 450 miles (725 km) long.
- drave — a simple past tense of drive.
- drive — to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation.
- drove — simple past tense of drive.
- dunav — the Danube
- duvet — a usually down-filled quilt, often with a removable cover; comforter.
- dvd-a — DVD-Audio
- dvd-r — Digital Versatile Disc
- dvija — a person who is twice-born: a distinction made between the first three classes of society and the lowest class, the Shudra. Only the dvijas may study the Vedas.
- dvina — Also called Western Dvina. Latvian Daugava. a river rising in the Valdai Hills in the W Russian Federation, flowing W through Byelorussia (Belarus) and Latvia to the Baltic Sea at Riga. About 640 miles (1030) long.