6-letter words containing v, a
- carved — to cut (a solid material) so as to form something: to carve a piece of pine.
- carvel — caravel
- carven — carve
- carver — A carver is a person who carves wood or stone, as a job or as a hobby.
- carves — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of carve.
- cavafy — Constantine. Greek name Kavafis.1863–1933, Greek poet of Alexandria in Egypt
- cavass — a Turkish armed police officer
- cavate — hollowed out, as a space excavated from rock: cavate cliff dwellings.
- caveat — A caveat is a warning of a specific limitation of something such as information or an agreement.
- cavein — a hollow in the earth, especially one opening more or less horizontally into a hill, mountain, etc.
- cavell — Edith Louisa. 1865–1915, English nurse: executed by the Germans in World War I for helping Allied prisoners to escape
- cavern — A cavern is a large deep cave.
- cavers — Plural form of caver.
- caviar — Caviar is the salted eggs of a fish called a sturgeon.
- cavies — Plural form of cavy.
- cavill — Frederick, 1839–1927, Australian swimmer and coach, born in England: developed the Australian crawl.
- cavils — to raise irritating and trivial objections; find fault with unnecessarily (usually followed by at or about): He finds something to cavil at in everything I say.
- caving — the sport of climbing in and exploring caves
- cavite — a port in the N Philippines, in S Luzon on Manila Bay: a former US naval base. Pop: 109 000 (2005 est)
- cavity — A cavity is a space or hole in something such as a solid object or a person's body.
- cavort — When people cavort, they leap about in a noisy and excited way.
- cavour — Conte Camillo Benso di (kaˈmillo ˈbɛnzo di).1810–61, Italian statesman and premier of Piedmont-Sardinia (1852–59; 1860–61): a leader of the movement for the unification of Italy
- charva — (Geordie, pejorative) Unruly youth; disobedient child or teenager.
- chavel — (obsolete) The jaw, especially, the jaw of a beast.
- chavez — Hugo (ˈuɡo). 1954–2013, Venezuelan socialist politician; president of Venezuela (1999–2013)
- chavin — of, relating to, or characteristic of a Peruvian culture flourishing from the 1st to the 6th century a.d.
- chavvy — relating to or like a chav
- cheval — (obsolete) A horse; hence, a support or frame.
- claver — to talk idly; gossip
- claves — one of a pair of wooden sticks or blocks that are held one in each hand and are struck together to accompany music and dancing.
- clavie — a tar-barrel traditionally set alight in Moray on Hogmanay
- clavis — a key
- clavus — a corn on the toe
- cleave — To cleave something means to split or divide it into two separate parts, often violently.
- clivia — a plant belonging to the family Amaryllidaceae
- coeval — of or belonging to the same age or generation
- covary — to vary in correlation with another related variant
- covina — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- cravat — A cravat is a piece of folded cloth which a man wears wrapped around his neck.
- craved — Simple past tense and past participle of crave.
- craven — Someone who is craven is very cowardly.
- craver — Someone who craves something.
- craves — to long for; want greatly; desire eagerly: to crave sweets; to crave affection.
- cuevas — José Luis [hoh-zey lwees;; Spanish haw-se lwees] /hoʊˈzeɪ lwis;; Spanish hɔˈsɛ lwis/ (Show IPA), born 1934, Mexican painter, graphic artist, and illustrator.
- danava — one of the Vedic demons.
- darvon — propoxyphene hydrochloride
- dative — In the grammar of some languages, for example Latin, the dative, or the dative case, is the case used for a noun when it is the indirect object of a verb, or when it comes after some prepositions.
- davies — Sir John. 1569–1626, English poet, author of Orchestra or a Poem of Dancing (1596) and the philosophical poem Nosce Teipsum (1599)
- davits — Plural form of davit.
- davout — Louis Nicolas [lwee nee-kaw-lah] /lwi ni kɔˈlɑ/ (Show IPA), Duke of Auerstadt [ou-er-stat] /ˈaʊ ərˌstæt/ (Show IPA), Prince of Eckmühl [ek-myool] /ˈɛk myul/ (Show IPA), 1770–1823, marshal of France: one of Napoleon's leading generals.