5-letter words containing av
- mavin — an expert or connoisseur.
- mavis — a female given name.
- mavun — Obsolete. a man’s vest.
- naval — of or relating to warships: a naval battle; naval strength.
- navar — a system of air navigation in which a ground radar station relays signals to each aircraft indicating the relative positions of neighbouring aircraft
- navel — umbilicus (def 1).
- naves — Plural form of nave.
- navie — Archaic spelling of navy.
- navvy — an unskilled manual laborer.
- oslav — Old (Church) Slavonic
- 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.
- piave — a river in NE Italy, flowing S and SE into the Adriatic. 137 miles (220 km) long.
- quave — (intransitive, obsolete) To quiver or tremble.
- ravel — to disentangle or unravel the threads or fibers of (a woven or knitted fabric, rope, etc.).
- raven — a lyric poem (1845) by Edgar Allan Poe.
- raver — to talk wildly, as in delirium.
- ravin — a violent preying or plundering; rapine
- reave — to take away by or as by force; plunder; rob.
- saved — to rescue from danger or possible harm, injury, or loss: to save someone from drowning.
- saver — to rescue from danger or possible harm, injury, or loss: to save someone from drowning.
- savin — a juniper, Juniperus sabina, of Europe and Asia.
- savor — the quality in a substance that affects the sense of taste or of smell.
- savoy — a member of the royal house of Italy that ruled from 1861 to 1946.
- savvy — experienced, knowledgable, and well-informed; shrewd (often used in combination): consumers who are savvy about prices; a tech-savvy entrepreneur.
- schav — a cold soup of sorrel to which chopped egg, sour cream, lemon juice, and chopped scallions are sometimes added.
- shave — to remove a growth of beard with a razor.
- slave — a person who is the property of and wholly subject to another; a bond servant.
- soave — a dry, white wine from Verona, Italy.
- stave — one of the thin, narrow, shaped pieces of wood that form the sides of a cask, tub, or similar vessel.
- suave — (of persons or their manner, speech, etc.) smoothly agreeable or polite; agreeably or blandly urbane.
- swave — a transverse earthquake wave that travels through the interior of the earth and is usually the second conspicuous wave to reach a seismograph.
- tavel — a dry rosé wine from the Rhone region of France.
- taver — to wander, to digress
- trave — a device to inhibit a wild or untrained horse or one being shod.
- waved — having a form, outline, or appearance resembling waves; undulating.
- waver — to sway to and fro; flutter: Foliage wavers in the breeze.
- waves — a member of the Waves.
- wavey — a wild North American goose of the genus Chen, as the snow goose (white wavey) or blue goose (blue wavey)
- weave — to interlace (threads, yarns, strips, fibrous material, etc.) so as to form a fabric or material.