5-letter words containing v
- govt. — government
- grave — the grave accent.
- gravy — the fat and juices that drip from cooking meat, often thickened, seasoned, flavored, etc., and used as a sauce for meat, potatoes, rice, etc.
- grove — Sir George, 1820–1900, English musicologist.
- grovy — Pertaining to or characterised by groves; situated in a grove.
- guava — any of numerous tropical and subtropical American trees or shrubs belonging to the genus Psidium, of the myrtle family, especially P. guajava, bearing large, yellow, round to pear-shaped fruit, and P. littorale, bearing smaller, yellowish to deep-red, oval fruit.
- gyved — Usually, gyves. a shackle, especially for the leg; fetter.
- gyves — Usually, gyves. a shackle, especially for the leg; fetter.
- halva — A confection usually made from crushed sesame seeds and honey. It is a traditional dessert in India, the Mediterranean, the Balkans, and the Middle East.
- halve — to divide into two equal parts.
- harve — a male given name, form of Harvey.
- havan — A ritual burning of offerings such as grains and ghee, which is held to mark births, marriages, and other special occasions.
- havel — Václav [vahts-lahf] /ˈvɑts lɑf/ (Show IPA), 1936–2011, Czech writer and political leader: president of Czechoslovakia 1989–92; president of the Czech Republic 1993–2003.
- haven — a harbor or port.
- haver — to equivocate; vacillate.
- haves — The wealthy or privileged, contrasted to those who are poor or deprived: the have nots.
- havoc — great destruction or devastation; ruinous damage.
- havre — a seaport in N France, at the mouth of the Seine.
- heave — to raise or lift with effort or force; hoist: to heave a heavy ax.
- heavy — of great weight; hard to lift or carry: a heavy load.
- helve — the handle of an ax, hatchet, hammer, or the like.
- hepvm — A collaboration among various HEP institutes to implement "compatible" versions of IBM's VM-CMS operating system at their sites.
- hevea — Pará rubber.
- hived — a shelter constructed for housing a colony of honeybees; beehive.
- hiver — One who collects bees into a hive.
- hives — a shelter constructed for housing a colony of honeybees; beehive.
- hoove — A disease in cattle consisting of inflammation of the stomach by gas, usually caused by eating too much green food.
- hovea — any of various plants of the Australian genus Hovea, having clusters of small purple flowers
- hoved — (nonstandard) misconstruction of hove.
- hovel — a small, very humble dwelling house; a wretched hut.
- hoven — affected with bloat.
- hover — to hang fluttering or suspended in the air: The helicopter hovered over the building.
- hoves — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hove.
- hovey — Richard, 1864–1900, U.S. poet.
- hsv-1 — either of two herpes diseases caused by a herpesvirus that infects humans and some other animals and produces small, transient blisters on the skin or mucous membranes, one type of virus (herpes simplex virus type 1, or HSV-1) usually associated with oral herpes but also causing genital herpes and the other (herpes simplex virus type 2, or HSV-2) usually causing genital herpes.
- hsv-2 — either of two herpes diseases caused by a herpesvirus that infects humans and some other animals and produces small, transient blisters on the skin or mucous membranes, one type of virus (herpes simplex virus type 1, or HSV-1) usually associated with oral herpes but also causing genital herpes and the other (herpes simplex virus type 2, or HSV-2) usually causing genital herpes.
- ilves — Toomas Hendrik. born 1953, Estonian politician, president of Estonia (2006–16)
- invar — An alloy of iron containing 35.5% nickel, and having a very low coefficient of expansion.
- itive — Lb grammar synonym of andative.
- ivied — covered or overgrown with ivy: ivied walls.
- ivies — Plural form of ivy.
- iviza — Ibiza.
- ivory — the hard white substance, a variety of dentin, composing the main part of the tusks of the elephant, walrus, etc.
- jahve — a name of God, transliterated by scholars from the Tetragrammaton and commonly rendered Jehovah.
- jarvy — Alternative form of jarvey.
- javac — (computing) Java compiler.
- javan — of or relating to Java or its inhabitants
- javel — (obsolete) A vagabond.
- jived — swing music or early jazz.
- jiver — swing music or early jazz.