4-letter words containing v
- devo — /dee'voh/ (In-house jargon at Symbolics) A person in a development group. See also doco and mango.
- devs — Plural form of dev.
- diva — a distinguished female singer; prima donna.
- dive — to plunge into water, especially headfirst.
- divi — (British, informal, dated) The dividend paid out by the Co-op.
- divo — a highly distinguished male singer
- divs — Plural form of div.
- djvu — (application, compression, file format, graphics, web) (pronounced like "deja vu") An image compression algorithm and program developed by Yann LeCun's research group at AT&T Labs. DjVu provides high resolution digital images for distribution over the Internet. DjVu is five to 20 times more efficient than JPEG or GIF. A free web browser plug-in allows users to display DjVu images.
- dove — an act or instance of diving.
- druv — (dialectal) Simple past tense and past participle of drive.
- dsvd — Digital Simultaneous Voice and Data
- duve — Christian René de [krees-tyahn ruh-ney duh] /krisˈtyɑ̃ rəˈneɪ də/ (Show IPA), 1917–2013, Belgian biologist, born in England: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1974.
- dvla — Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency
- eave — Usually, eaves. the overhanging lower edge of a roof.
- eevn — evening
- elev — elevation
- elve — (astronomy, meteorology) an upper atmospheric optical phenomena associated with thunderstorms, rapidly expanding disk-shaped regions of luminosity, lasting less than a thousandth of a second, which occur high above energetic cloud-to-ground lightning of positive or negative polarity.
- envy — A feeling of discontented or resentful longing aroused by someone else's possessions, qualities, or luck.
- erev — the day before; the eve of
- eruv — An urban area enclosed by a wire boundary that symbolically extends the private domain of Jewish households into public areas, permitting activities within it that are normally forbidden in public on the Sabbath.
- evac — Evacuation.
- eval — Evaluation.
- evan — a masculine name
- even — Flat and smooth.
- ever — At any time.
- eves — Plural form of eve.
- evet — The common newt or eft.
- evga — eXtended Video Graphics Array
- evil — Profoundly immoral and malevolent.
- evoe — an exclamation of Bacchic frenzy
- evoo — extra virgin olive oil
- fava — A fava bean; a bean (seed or seed pod) of the plant Vicia faba or the plant itself.
- fave — (informal) Favorite (US) or favourite (UK).
- five — a cardinal number, four plus one.
- gave — simple past tense of give.
- gcvo — (Knight or Dame) Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order
- give — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
- gnvq — In Britain, GNVQs are qualifications in practical subjects such as business, design, and information technology. GNVQ is an abbreviation for 'general national vocational qualification'.
- gov. — Gov. is a written abbreviation for governor.
- gove — (obsolete) A mow; a rick for hay.
- govt — Government.
- grav — a unit of acceleration equal to the standard acceleration of free fall. 1 grav is equivalent to 9.806 65 metres per second per second
- gsvq — General Scottish Vocational Qualification
- guvs — term of address used to a man, especially by a younger man, boy, employee, or social inferior.
- gyve — Usually, gyves. a shackle, especially for the leg; fetter.
- have — Usually, haves. an individual or group that has wealth, social position, or other material benefits (contrasted with have-not).
- hdtv — high-definition television
- hive — a shelter constructed for housing a colony of honeybees; beehive.
- hove — simple past tense and past participle of heave.
- hsv2 — 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.