6-letter words containing ive
- oliver — one of the 12 paladins of Charlemagne. Compare Roland.
- olives — a female given name.
- olivet — a large floodlight having a single bulb.
- privet — any of various deciduous or evergreen shrubs of the genus Ligustrum, especially L. vulgare, having clusters of small white flowers and commonly grown as a hedge.
- quiver — a case for holding or carrying arrows.
- regive — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
- relive — to experience again, as an emotion.
- revive — to activate, set in motion, or take up again; renew: to revive old feuds.
- rivera — Diego [dye-gaw] /ˈdyɛ gɔ/ (Show IPA), 1886–1957, Mexican painter.
- rivers — a person who rives.
- rivery — riverlike or having rivers
- rivets — a metal pin for passing through holes in two or more plates or pieces to hold them together, usually made with a head at one end, the other end being hammered into a head after insertion.
- sative — cultivated or sown as opposed to wild
- shiver — to shake or tremble with cold, fear, excitement, etc.
- shrive — to impose penance on (a sinner).
- skiver — a person or thing that skives.
- sliven — a city in E central Bulgaria.
- sliver — a small, slender, often sharp piece, as of wood or glass, split, broken, or cut off, usually lengthwise or with the grain; splinter.
- snivel — to weep or cry with sniffling.
- solive — a nonessential joist
- stiver — Also, stuiver. a former nickel coin of the Netherlands, equal to five Dutch cents.
- strive — to exert oneself vigorously; try hard: He strove to make himself understood.
- suivez — a musical direction meaning 'follow'
- swivel — a fastening device that allows the thing fastened to turn around freely upon it, especially to turn in a full circle.
- swivet — a state of nervous excitement, haste, or anxiety; flutter: I was in such a swivet that I could hardly speak.
- thrive — to prosper; be fortunate or successful.
- trivet — a special knife for cutting pile loops, as of velvet or carpets.
- unhive — to force out of a hive
- unlive — to undo or reverse (past life, experiences, etc.): to unlive his crimes by making retribution.
- unwive — to deprive or remove of a wife
- updive — to leap or spring upwards
- vively — in a quick or lively manner
- votive — offered, given, dedicated, etc., in accordance with a vow: a votive offering.
- waived — to refrain from claiming or insisting on; give up; forgo: to waive one's right; to waive one's rank; to waive honors.
- waiver — an intentional relinquishment of some right, interest, or the like.
- waives — Plural form of waive.
- weived — Simple past tense and past participle of weive.
- wivern — a two-legged winged dragon having the hinder part of a serpent with a barbed tail.