6-letter words containing ve
- peavey — a cant hook with a sharply pointed end, used in handling logs.
- peeved — annoyed; irritated; vexed.
- pleven — a city in N Bulgaria: siege of 143 days 1877.
- plover — any of various shorebirds of the family Charadriidae. Compare dotterel (def 1), killdeer, lapwing.
- 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.
- proved — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
- proven — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
- prover — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
- pulver — powder
- purvey — to provide, furnish, or supply (especially food or provisions) usually as a business or service.
- quaver — to shake tremulously; quiver or tremble: He stood there quavering with fear.
- quiver — a case for holding or carrying arrows.
- reeved — to pass (a rope or the like) through a hole, ring, or the like.
- regive — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
- releve — a rising up onto full point or half point from the flat of the feet.
- relive — to experience again, as an emotion.
- remove — to move from a place or position; take away or off: to remove the napkins from the table.
- repave — to pave again
- reveal — to make known; disclose; divulge: to reveal a secret.
- revels — former Russian name of Tallinn.
- revend — to sell as one's business or occupation, especially by peddling: to vend flowers at a sidewalk stand.
- reverb — Reverb is a shaking or echoing effect that is added to a sound, often by an electronic device.
- revere — to regard with respect tinged with awe; venerate: The child revered her mother.
- revers — a part of a garment turned back to show the lining or facing, as a lapel.
- revert — to return to a former habit, practice, belief, condition, etc.: They reverted to the ways of their forefathers.
- revery — reverie.
- revest — to vest (a person) again, as with ownership or office; reinvest; reinstate.
- reveur — a daydreamer
- revive — to activate, set in motion, or take up again; renew: to revive old feuds.
- revved — a revolution (in an engine or the like).
- riever — a robber or thief
- 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.
- s wave — a transverse earthquake wave that travels through the interior of the earth and is usually the second conspicuous wave to reach a seismograph.
- salver — a tray, especially one used for serving food or beverages.
- sative — cultivated or sown as opposed to wild
- savery — Thomas. ?1650–1715, English engineer, who built (1698) the first practical steam engine, used to pump water from mines
- sclave — a slave
- scurve — a curve shaped like an S .
- seaver — (George) Thomas ("Tom"; "Tom Terrific") born 1944, U.S. baseball pitcher.
- selves — plural of self.
- served — to act as a servant.
- server — a person who serves.
- serves — to act as a servant.
- 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.