5-letter words containing v, e
- coven — A coven is a group of witches.
- cover — If you cover something, you place something else over it in order to protect it, hide it, or close it.
- coves — Plural form of cove.
- covet — If you covet something, you strongly want to have it for yourself.
- covey — A covey of grouse or partridges is a small group of them.
- crave — If you crave something, you want to have it very much.
- curve — A curve is a smooth, gradually bending line, for example part of the edge of a circle.
- cuvee — individual batch or blend of wine
- daven — to pray
- davie — a town in SE Florida.
- deave — to deafen
- deeve — to cause deafness in (a person) with loud noise
- delve — If you delve into something, you try to discover new information about it.
- deriv — derivation
- devan — (transitive) To unload (goods) from a container.
- devas — Plural form of deva.
- devel — (Scotland) alternative spelling of devvel.
- devil — In Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, the Devil is the most powerful evil spirit.
- devon — a county of SW England, between the Bristol Channel and the English Channel, including the island of Lundy: the geographic and ceremonial county includes Plymouth and Torbay, which became independent unitary authorities in 1998; hilly, rising to the uplands of Exmoor and Dartmoor, with wooded river valleys and a rugged coastline. Administrative centre: Exeter. Pop (excluding unitary authorities): 714 900 (2003 est). Area (excluding unitary authorities): 6569 sq km (2536 sq miles)
- devow — (obsolete) To give up; to devote.
- devoy — Dame Susan (Elizabeth Anne). born 1964, New Zealand squash player; winner of the World Open Championship 1985, 1987, 1990, and 1992
- dived — to plunge into water, especially headfirst.
- diver — a person or thing that dives.
- dives — an act or instance of diving.
- divet — Alternative form of divot.
- divey — Having the character of a dive, a disreputable bar or nightclub.
- doven — daven
- dover — a seaport in E Kent, in SE England: point nearest the coast of France.
- doves — Plural form of dove.
- drave — a simple past tense of drive.
- drive — to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation.
- drove — simple past tense of drive.
- duvet — a usually down-filled quilt, often with a removable cover; comforter.
- eaved — having eaves
- eaves — Usually, eaves. the overhanging lower edge of a roof.
- eeven — evening
- elvan — Pertaining to elves; elvish; elven.
- elven — (obsolete) A female elf, a fairy, nymph.
- elver — A young eel, especially when undergoing mass migration upriver from the sea.
- elves — A supernatural creature of folk tales, typically represented as a small, elusive figure in human form with pointed ears, magical powers, and a capricious nature.
- elvis — (tool) A vi lookalike which supports nearly all of the vi/ex commands, in both visual mode and colon mode. Like vi/ex, elvis stores most of the text in a temporary file instead of RAM. This allows it to edit files that are too large to fit in a single process' data space. Elvis runs under BSD UNIX, AT&T SysV UNIX, MINIX, MS-DOS, Atari TOS, Coherent, OS9/68000, VMS, Windows 95 and Windows NT. Elvis is just as awful to use as vi, so someone will like it. Version 1.8pl14 (1995-09-04). E-mail: Steve Kirkendall <[email protected]>.
- emove — to cause to feel emotion
- envie — (obsolete) To vie; to emulate; to strive.
- envoi — A short stanza concluding a ballade.
- envoy — A messenger or representative, especially one on a diplomatic mission.
- ervil — a type of vetch, Vicia ervilia
- evade — Escape or avoid, esp. by cleverness or trickery.
- evans — Sir Arthur (John). 1851–1941, British archaeologist, whose excavations of the palace of Knossos in Crete provided evidence for the existence of the Minoan civilization
- evatt — Herbert Vere. 1894–1965, Australian jurist and Labor political leader, president of the General Assembly of the United Nations 1948–49
- evens — Plural form of even.