6-letter words containing v
- cheven — A river fish, the chub.
- chevet — a semicircular or polygonal east end of a church, esp a French Gothic church, often with a number of attached apses
- chevon — the flesh of goats, used as food.
- chevre — a cheese made from goats' milk
- chives — Chives are the long thin hollow green leaves of a herb with purple flowers. Chives are cut into small pieces and added to food to give it a flavour similar to onions.
- chivvy — If you chivvy someone, you keep telling them to do something that they do not want to do.
- civets — Plural form of civet.
- civics — Civics is the study of the rights and duties of the citizens of a society.
- civies — a variant spelling of civvies
- civill — Archaic spelling of civil.
- civils — (esp in names of companies) civil engineering
- civism — good citizenship
- civvie — Civilian, someone not in the military.
- claver — to talk idly; gossip
- claves — one of a pair of wooden sticks or blocks that are held one in each hand and are struck together to accompany music and dancing.
- clavie — a tar-barrel traditionally set alight in Moray on Hogmanay
- clavis — a key
- clavus — a corn on the toe
- cleave — To cleave something means to split or divide it into two separate parts, often violently.
- cleeve — a cliff
- clever — Someone who is clever is intelligent and able to understand things easily or plan things well.
- cleves — Per Teodor [par tey-aw-dawr] /pær ˈteɪ ɔˌdɔr/ (Show IPA), 1840–1905, Swedish chemist.
- clevis — the U-shaped component of a shackle for attaching a drawbar to a plough or similar implement
- cliver — (obsolete, or, dialectal) clever.
- clivia — a plant belonging to the family Amaryllidaceae
- cloven — split; cleft; divided
- clover — Clover is a small plant with pink or white ball-shaped flowers.
- cloves — Plural form of clove.
- clovis — of or relating to a Paleo-Indian cultural tradition of North America, especially the American Southwest, dated 10,000–9000 b.c. and characterized by a usually bifacial, fluted stone projectile point (Clovis point) used in big-game hunting.
- coeval — of or belonging to the same age or generation
- convex — Convex is used to describe something that curves outwards in the middle.
- convey — To convey information or feelings means to cause them to be known or understood by someone.
- convoy — A convoy is a group of vehicles or ships travelling together.
- coover — Robert (Lowell) born 1932, U.S. novelist and playwright.
- corvee — day's unpaid labour owed by a feudal vassal to his lord
- corves — corf
- corvet — (nautical) archaic form of corvette.
- corvid — a member of the passerine bird family Corvidae, which includes the crows, magpies, and jays, and the raven, rook, and jackdaw
- corvus — a small quadrilateral-shaped constellation in the S hemisphere, lying between Virgo and Hydra
- covary — to vary in correlation with another related variant
- covens — Plural form of coven.
- covent — (obsolete) convent.
- coverb — (grammar) Any of a class of words in various languages including Chinese and Hungarian whose function is analogous to the cases, prepositions and postpositions of other languages.
- covers — coversed sine
- covert — Covert activities or situations are secret or hidden.
- covery — (rare) a dispelling of false or misleading notions.
- covets — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of covet.
- coveys — Plural form of covey.
- covina — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- coving — a concave curved surface between the wall and ceiling of a room