6-letter words containing ev
- rt rev — Right Reverend
- sevens — Also, fan tan. Also called parliament, sevens. Cards. a game in which the players play their sevens and other cards forming sequences in the same suits as their sevens, the winner being the player who first runs out of cards.
- severe — harsh; unnecessarily extreme: severe criticism; severe laws.
- severn — a river in Great Britain, flowing from central Wales through W England into the Bristol Channel. 210 miles (338 km) long.
- severy — (in a vaulted structure) one bay between two principal transverse arches.
- seveso — an industrial town in N Italy, near Milan: 1976 dioxin release.
- sevier — John, 1745–1815, U.S. Revolutionary War soldier and politician: first governor of Tennessee.
- sevres — a suburb of Paris in N France.
- shevat — the fifth month of the Jewish calendar.
- sieved — an instrument with a meshed or perforated bottom, used for separating coarse from fine parts of loose matter, for straining liquids, etc., especially one with a circular frame and fine meshes or perforations.
- skeeve — Also, skeever. an immoral or repulsive person.
- skeevy — not respectable; immoral.
- sleeve — the part of a garment that covers the arm, varying in form and length but commonly tubular.
- slieve — a mountain.
- soever — at all; in any case; of any kind; in any way (used with generalizing force after who, what, when, where, how, any, all, etc., sometimes separated by intervening words): Choose what thing soever you please.
- steeve — to set (a spar) at an upward inclination.
- steven — a male given name.
- stevia — a South American perennial shrub, Stevia rebaudiana, having small, white flowers and sweet-tasting leaves.
- stevin — Simon [see-mawn] /ˈsi mɔn/ (Show IPA), 1548–1620, Dutch mathematician and physicist.
- sweven — a vision; dream.
- teevee — television.
- tevere — a river in central Italy, flowing through Rome into the Mediterranean. 244 miles (395 km) long.
- thieve — to take by theft; steal.
- treves — a city in W Germany, on the Moselle River: extensive Roman ruins; cathedral.
- trevor — William (William Trevor Cox) born 1928, Irish short-story writer and novelist.
- uneven — not level or flat; rough; rugged: The wheels bumped and jolted over the uneven surface.
- weever — either of two small, European, marine fishes of the genus Trachinus, T. draco (greater weever) or T. vipera (lesser weever) having highly poisonous dorsal spines.
- weevil — Also called snout beetle. any of numerous beetles of the family Curculionidae, which have the head prolonged into a snout and which are destructive to nuts, grain, fruit, etc.