5-letter words containing v
- never — not ever; at no time: Such an idea never occurred to me.
- neves — granular snow accumulated on high mountains and subsequently compacted into glacial ice.
- nevil — a male given name, form of Neville.
- nevin — Ethelbert Woodbridge, 1862–1901, U.S. composer.
- nevis — one of the Leeward Islands, in the E West Indies: part of St. Kitts-Nevis; formerly a British colony. 50 sq. mi. (130 sq. km). Compare St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla.
- nevus — any congenital anomaly of the skin, including moles and various types of birthmarks.
- nieve — Archaic Northern British and Scot. Dialect. a clenched or closed hand; fist.
- nival — of or growing in snow: nival flora.
- niven — David. 1909–83, British film actor and author. His films include The Prisoner of Zenda (1937), Around the World in 80 Days (1956), Casino Royale (1967), and Paper Tiger (1975). He wrote the autobiographical The Moon's a Balloon (1972) and Bring on the Empty Horses (1975)
- nivkh — an indigenous people of the Soviet Far East, now living mainly in scattered communities on the lower Amur River and Sakhalin Island.
- novae — a star that suddenly becomes thousands of times brighter and then gradually fades to its original intensity.
- novas — Plural form of nova.
- novel — Roman Law. an imperial enactment subsequent and supplementary to an imperial compilation and codification of authoritative legal materials. Usually, Novels. imperial enactments subsequent to the promulgation of Justinian's Code and supplementary to it: one of the four divisions of the Corpus Juris Civilis.
- novia — a fiancée or bride.
- novio — a fiancé or bridegroom.
- novum — A new feature.
- nuevo — New or novel, usually in reference to Latin American culture.
- nvcjd — new-variant Creutzfeld-Jakob disease
- nvram — Non-Volatile Random Access Memory
- ogive — Architecture. a diagonal vaulting rib. a pointed arch.
- olive — a female given name.
- orlov — Count Grigori Grigorievich. 1734–83, Russian soldier and a lover of Catherine II. He led (with his brother, Count Aleksey Grigorievich Orlov, 1737–1808) the coup that brought Catherine to power
- orval — (botany) Salvia horminum, a kind of sage.
- oslav — Old (Church) Slavonic
- ouvre — Misspelling of oeuvre.
- ovals — Plural form of oval.
- ovary — Anatomy, Zoology. the female gonad or reproductive gland, in which the ova and the hormones that regulate female secondary sex characteristics develop.
- ovate — egg-shaped.
- ovens — Plural form of oven.
- over- — You can add over- to an adjective or verb to indicate that a quality exists or an action is done to too great an extent. For example, if you say that someone is being over-cautious, you mean that they are being too cautious.
- overt — open to view or knowledge; not concealed or secret: overt hostility.
- oveta — a female given name.
- ovett — Steve. born 1955, British middle-distance runner: winner of the 800 metres in the 1980 Olympic Games
- ovine — pertaining to, of the nature of, or like sheep.
- ovist — (formerly) a person who believes that the ovum contains all material required for development of the embryo
- ovoid — egg-shaped; having the solid form of an egg.
- ovolo — a convex molding forming or approximating in section a quarter of a circle or ellipse.
- ovule — Botany. a rudimentary seed. the plant part that contains the embryo sac and hence the female germ cell, which after fertilization develops into a seed.
- parev — containing neither meat nor milk products and so fit for use with either meat or milk dishes
- parve — pareve.
- parvo — parvovirus.
- pavan — a stately dance dating from the 16th century.
- paved — (of a road, path, etc) covered with a firm surface suitable for travel, as with paving stones or concrete
- paver — a person or thing that paves.
- pavia — a city in N Italy, S of Milan: Charles V captured Francis I here.
- pavid — timid; afraid; fearful; frightened.
- pavin — pavane.
- pavis — 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.
- peavy — peavey.
- peeve — to render peevish; annoy.