5-letter words containing v
- eaved — having eaves
- eaves — Usually, eaves. the overhanging lower edge of a roof.
- eeven — evening
- elvan — Pertaining to elves; elvish; elven.
- elven — (obsolete) A female elf, a fairy, nymph.
- elver — A young eel, especially when undergoing mass migration upriver from the sea.
- elves — A supernatural creature of folk tales, typically represented as a small, elusive figure in human form with pointed ears, magical powers, and a capricious nature.
- elvis — (tool) A vi lookalike which supports nearly all of the vi/ex commands, in both visual mode and colon mode. Like vi/ex, elvis stores most of the text in a temporary file instead of RAM. This allows it to edit files that are too large to fit in a single process' data space. Elvis runs under BSD UNIX, AT&T SysV UNIX, MINIX, MS-DOS, Atari TOS, Coherent, OS9/68000, VMS, Windows 95 and Windows NT. Elvis is just as awful to use as vi, so someone will like it. Version 1.8pl14 (1995-09-04). E-mail: Steve Kirkendall <[email protected]>.
- emove — to cause to feel emotion
- envie — (obsolete) To vie; to emulate; to strive.
- envoi — A short stanza concluding a ballade.
- envoy — A messenger or representative, especially one on a diplomatic mission.
- ervil — a type of vetch, Vicia ervilia
- evade — Escape or avoid, esp. by cleverness or trickery.
- evans — Sir Arthur (John). 1851–1941, British archaeologist, whose excavations of the palace of Knossos in Crete provided evidence for the existence of the Minoan civilization
- evatt — Herbert Vere. 1894–1965, Australian jurist and Labor political leader, president of the General Assembly of the United Nations 1948–49
- evens — Plural form of even.
- event — A thing that happens, esp. one of importance.
- ever- — You use ever in adjectives such as ever-increasing and ever-present, to show that something exists or continues all the time.
- evere — Obsolete spelling of ever.
- evert — Turn (a structure or organ) outward or inside out.
- every — (preceding a singular noun) used to refer to all the individual members of a set without exception.
- evict — Expel (someone) from a property, especially with the support of the law.
- evill — Obsolete spelling of evil.
- evils — Plural form of evil.
- evite — (dated, transitive) To avoid.
- evoke — Bring or recall to the conscious mind.
- Évora — a city in S central Portugal: ancient Roman settlement; occupied by the Moors from 712 to 1166; residence of the Portuguese court in 15th and 16th centuries. Pop: 56 525 (2001)
- fauve — (sometimes lowercase) any of a group of French artists of the early 20th century whose works are characterized chiefly by the use of vivid colors in immediate juxtaposition and contours usually in marked contrast to the color of the area defined.
- favel — a fallow-coloured horse
- faves — Plural form of fave.
- favor — something done or granted out of goodwill, rather than from justice or for remuneration; a kind act: to ask a favor.
- favus — Pathology. a skin disease, especially of the scalp, characterized by dry yellow encrustations that have an unpleasant odor, usually caused by the fungus Trichophyton schoenleinii.
- fever — an abnormal condition of the body, characterized by undue rise in temperature, quickening of the pulse, and disturbance of various body functions.
- fiver — a cardinal number, four plus one.
- fives — a cardinal number, four plus one.
- flava — a distinctive individual style
- fovea — a small pit or depression in a bone or other structure.
- frcvs — Fellow of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons
- gavel — feudal rent or tribute.
- gavin — a male given name.
- gavle — a seaport in E Sweden.
- gavot — an old French dance in moderately quick quadruple meter.
- gived — (nonstandard) Simple past tense and past participle of give.
- given — past participle of give.
- giver — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
- gives — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
- givey — (especially of soil) moist, soft, or spongy.
- glave — glaive.
- glove — a covering for the hand made with a separate sheath for each finger and for the thumb.