6-letter words containing v
- indiv. — individual
- inuvik — a town in the Northwest Territories, Canada, on the Mackenzie River at the Beaufort Sea.
- invade — to enter forcefully as an enemy; go into with hostile intent: Germany invaded Poland in 1939.
- invect — (obsolete) To inveigh.
- inveil — (transitive) To cover with a veil.
- invent — to originate or create as a product of one's own ingenuity, experimentation, or contrivance: to invent the telegraph.
- invert — to turn upside down.
- invest — to put (money) to use, by purchase or expenditure, in something offering potential profitable returns, as interest, income, or appreciation in value.
- invile — (obsolete, transitive) To render vile.
- invite — to request the presence or participation of in a kindly, courteous, or complimentary way, especially to request to come or go to some place, gathering, entertainment, etc., or to do something: to invite friends to dinner.
- invoke — to call for with earnest desire; make supplication or pray for: to invoke God's mercy.
- inwove — Simple past form of inweave.
- irvine — a city in SW California.
- irving — Sir Henry (John Henry Brodribb) 1838–1905, English actor.
- ivanov — Vsevolod Vyacheslavovich [fsye-vuh-luh t vyi-chyi-slah-vuh-vyich] /ˈfsyɛ və lət vyɪ tʃyɪˈslɑ və vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1895–1963, Russian playwright.
- ivtran — Parallel Fortran for the Illiac IV. 1966.
- jahveh — Yahweh.
- jarvey — a hackney coachman.
- java 2 — Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition
- javari — a river in E South America, flowing NE from Peru to the upper Amazon, forming part of the boundary between Peru and Brazil. 650 miles (1045 km) long.
- javits — Jacob K(oppel) [koh-pel] /koʊˈpɛl/ (Show IPA), 1904–86, U.S. politician: senator 1957–81.
- jayvee — a player on a junior varsity team.
- jervis — John, Earl St. Vincent (1735-1823), British admiral. In 1797, as commander of the British fleet, he defeated a Spanish fleet off the coast of Portugal.
- jevons — William Stanley, 1835–82, English economist and logician.
- jivaro — a member of a group of American Indian peoples of eastern Ecuador and northern Peru, formerly renowned for their custom of preserving the hair and shrunken skin from the severed heads of enemies.
- jivers — Plural form of jiver.
- jivier — jivey.
- jiving — swing music or early jazz.
- john v — died a.d. 686, pope 685–686.
- jovial — endowed with or characterized by a hearty, joyous humor or a spirit of good-fellowship: a wonderfully jovial host.
- jovian — (Flavius Claudius Jovianus) a.d. 331?–364, Roman emperor 363–364.
- kaleva — a hero and progenitor of heroes in Finnish and Estonian folk epics.
- karpov — Anatoly [an-uh-toh-lee;; Russian uh-nuh-taw-lyee] /ˌæn əˈtoʊ li;; Russian ʌ nʌˈtɔ lyi/ (Show IPA), born 1951, Russian chess player.
- kavass — an armed constable
- kaveri — a river in S India, flowing SE from the Western Ghats in Karnatka state through Tamil Nadu state to the Bay of Bengal: sacred to the Hindus. 475 miles (765 km) long.
- kaviar — Archaic form of caviar.
- kazvin — a city in NW Iran, NW of Teheran: capital of Persia in the 16th century.
- keavie — an archaic Scottish dialect word for a species of crab
- keeved — Simple past tense and past participle of keeve.
- kelvin — William Thomson, 1st Baron, 1824–1907, English physicist and mathematician.
- kevlar — Alternative capitalization of Kevlar.
- kgbvax — kremvax
- kidvid — television programs, television programming, or videotapes for children.
- kievan — of or relating to Kiev.
- kislev — the third month of the Jewish calendar.
- knaves — an unprincipled, untrustworthy, or dishonest person.
- knives — plural of knife.
- kosovo — independent region
- kovrov — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, ENE of Moscow.
- kozlov — Frol R(omanovich) [frawl ruh-mah-nuh-vyich] /frɔl rʌˈmɑ nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1908–65, Russian government official.