6-letter words containing v, a
- gravol — an antihistamine used in the prevention of nausea, esp in travel sickness; dimenhydrinate
- greave — a piece of plate armor for the leg between the knee and the ankle, usually composed of front and back pieces.
- guavas — Plural form of guava.
- gustav — (Gustaf Adolf) 1882–1973, king of Sweden 1950–73 (son of Gustavus V).
- halevi — Judah, Judah ha-Levi.
- halevy — Fromental [fraw-mahn-tal] /frɔ mɑ̃ˈtal/ (Show IPA), (Jacques François Fromental Élie Lévy) 1790–1862, French composer, especially of operas.
- halvah — a sweet, candylike confection of Turkish origin, consisting chiefly of ground sesame seeds and honey.
- halved — Simple past tense and past participle of halve.
- halver — A fisherman who places a net to catch fish in the retreating tide.
- halves — plural of half.
- harvey — William, 1578–1657, English physician: discoverer of the circulation of the blood.
- havana — a republic in the Caribbean, S of Florida: largest island in the West Indies. 44,218 sq. mi. (114,525 sq. km). Capital: Havana.
- havant — a market town in S England, in SE Hampshire. Pop: 45 435 (2001)
- haveli — A mansion.
- havens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of haven.
- havent — (informal, nonstandard) Alternative form of haven't.
- havers — to equivocate; vacillate.
- havest — Archaic second-person singular form of have.
- havier — A castrated deer.
- having — Usually, haves. an individual or group that has wealth, social position, or other material benefits (contrasted with have-not).
- havior — (obsolete) behaviour; demeanor.
- havocs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of havoc.
- heaved — to raise or lift with effort or force; hoist: to heave a heavy ax.
- heaven — the abode of God, the angels, and the spirits of the righteous after death; the place or state of existence of the blessed after the mortal life.
- heaver — to raise or lift with effort or force; hoist: to heave a heavy ax.
- heaves — to raise or lift with effort or force; hoist: to heave a heavy ax.
- hryvna — The basic monetary unit of Ukraine, equal to 100 kopiykas.
- huelva — a seaport in SW Spain, near the Gulf of Cádiz.
- impave — (archaic, poetic) To pave.
- incave — to hide or enclose in a cave or as if in a cave
- incavo — the incised or hollowed out part of an intaglio carving
- invade — to enter forcefully as an enemy; go into with hostile intent: Germany invaded Poland in 1939.
- ivanov — Vsevolod Vyacheslavovich [fsye-vuh-luh t vyi-chyi-slah-vuh-vyich] /ˈfsyɛ və lət vyɪ tʃyɪˈslɑ və vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1895–1963, Russian playwright.
- ivtran — Parallel Fortran for the Illiac IV. 1966.
- jahveh — Yahweh.
- jarvey — a hackney coachman.
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- javari — a river in E South America, flowing NE from Peru to the upper Amazon, forming part of the boundary between Peru and Brazil. 650 miles (1045 km) long.
- javits — Jacob K(oppel) [koh-pel] /koʊˈpɛl/ (Show IPA), 1904–86, U.S. politician: senator 1957–81.
- jayvee — a player on a junior varsity team.
- jivaro — a member of a group of American Indian peoples of eastern Ecuador and northern Peru, formerly renowned for their custom of preserving the hair and shrunken skin from the severed heads of enemies.
- jovial — endowed with or characterized by a hearty, joyous humor or a spirit of good-fellowship: a wonderfully jovial host.
- jovian — (Flavius Claudius Jovianus) a.d. 331?–364, Roman emperor 363–364.
- kaleva — a hero and progenitor of heroes in Finnish and Estonian folk epics.
- karpov — Anatoly [an-uh-toh-lee;; Russian uh-nuh-taw-lyee] /ˌæn əˈtoʊ li;; Russian ʌ nʌˈtɔ lyi/ (Show IPA), born 1951, Russian chess player.
- kavass — an armed constable
- kaveri — a river in S India, flowing SE from the Western Ghats in Karnatka state through Tamil Nadu state to the Bay of Bengal: sacred to the Hindus. 475 miles (765 km) long.
- kaviar — Archaic form of caviar.
- kazvin — a city in NW Iran, NW of Teheran: capital of Persia in the 16th century.
- keavie — an archaic Scottish dialect word for a species of crab