6-letter words containing a, v, e
- lavage — a washing.
- laveer — to sail windward
- lavern — Also, Laverna [luh-vur-nuh] /ləˈvɜr nə/ (Show IPA). a female given name, form of Verna.
- lavers — Plural form of laver.
- le vau — Louis [lwee] /lwi/ (Show IPA), 1612–70, French architect.
- leaved — having leaves; leafed.
- leaven — a substance, as yeast or baking powder, that causes fermentation and expansion of dough or batter.
- leaver — to go out of or away from, as a place: to leave the house.
- leaves — permission to do something: to beg leave to go elsewhere.
- leavis — F(rank) R(aymond) 1895–1978, English critic and teacher.
- lekvar — a soft, jamlike spread made of sweetened prunes or apricots.
- levade — a movement in which the horse first lowers its body on increasingly bent hocks, then sits on its hind hooves while keeping its forelegs raised and drawn in.
- levant — to leave secretly or hurriedly to avoid paying debts.
- levkas — an island in the Ionian group, off the W coast of Greece. 114 sq. mi. (295 sq. km).
- loaves — plural of loaf1 .
- lovage — a European plant, Levisticum officinale, of the parsley family, having coarsely toothed compound leaves, cultivated in gardens.
- lvalue — (programming) A reference to a location, an expression which can appear as the destination of an assignment operator indicating where a value should be stored. For example, a variable or an array element are lvalues but the constant 42 and the expression i+1 are not. A constant string may or may not be an lvalue (it usually is in C).
- maglev — magnetic levitation.
- marvel — something that causes wonder, admiration, or astonishment; a wonderful thing; a wonder or prodigy: The new bridge is an engineering marvel.
- marver — a hard, flat surface of stone, wood, or metal, on which a mass of molten glass is rolled and shaped in glassmaking.
- mauver — a pale bluish purple.
- mauves — Plural form of mauve.
- mavens — An expert or connoisseur.
- may've — May've is a spoken form of 'may have', especially when 'have' is an auxiliary verb.
- mohave — a member of a North American Indian tribe belonging to the Yuman linguistic family, formerly located in the Colorado River valley of Arizona and California.
- mojave — a member of a North American Indian tribe belonging to the Yuman linguistic family, formerly located in the Colorado River valley of Arizona and California.
- naevus — (anatomy) A pigmented, raised or otherwise abnormal area on the skin. Naevi may be congenital or acquired. This term is reserved for benign skin lesions.
- naiver — Comparative form of naive.
- native — being the place or environment in which a person was born or a thing came into being: one's native land.
- navels — Plural form of navel.
- navies — the whole body of warships and auxiliaries belonging to a country or ruler.
- nerval — neural.
- nevada — a state in the W United States. 110,540 sq. mi. (286,300 sq. km). Capital: Carson City. Abbreviation: NV (for use with zip code), Nev.
- novate — To replace something with something new.
- novena — a devotion consisting of nine separate days of prayers or services.
- octave — Music. a tone on the eighth degree from a given tone. the interval encompassed by such tones. the harmonic combination of such tones. a series of tones, or of keys of an instrument, extending through this interval.
- ovalle — a city in central Chile.
- ovated — Ovate.
- p wave — a longitudinal wave that advances by alternate compression and expansion in a solid or fluid medium, like a sound wave
- p-wave — a longitudinal earthquake wave that travels through the interior of the earth and is usually the first conspicuous wave to be recorded by a seismograph.
- pareve — having no meat or milk in any form as an ingredient and being permissible for use with both meat and dairy meals as stated in the dietary laws: a pareve bread; pareve soup.
- pavage — a tax towards paving streets, or the right to levy such a tax
- pavane — a stately dance dating from the 16th century.
- paveed — a pavement.
- pavese — Cesare (ˈtʃeːzare). 1908–50, Italian writer and translator. His works include collections of poems, such as Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi (1953), short stories, such as the collection Notte di festa (1953), and the novel La Luna e i falò (1950)
- pavise — a large oblong shield of the late 14th through the early 16th centuries, often covering the entire body and used especially by archers and soldiers of the infantry.
- pavone — a peacock
- peavey — a cant hook with a sharply pointed end, used in handling logs.
- preval — René García [ruh-ney gahr-see-uh] /rəˈneɪ gɑrˈsi ə/ (Show IPA), born 1943, Haitian politician: prime minister 1991–95, president 1996–2001, 2006–11.
- quaver — to shake tremulously; quiver or tremble: He stood there quavering with fear.