6-letter words containing av
- savaii — an island in Western Samoa: largest of the Samoa group. 703 sq. mi. (1821 sq. km).
- savant — a person of profound or extensive learning; learned scholar.
- savate — a sport resembling boxing but permitting blows to be delivered with the feet as well as the hands.
- savery — Thomas. ?1650–1715, English engineer, who built (1698) the first practical steam engine, used to pump water from mines
- savine — a juniper, Juniperus sabina, of Europe and Asia.
- saving — tending or serving to save; rescuing; preserving.
- savior — a person who saves, rescues, or delivers: the savior of the country.
- savoie — a department in E France. 2389 sq. mi. (6185 sq. km). Capital: Chambéry.
- savona — a city in N Italy on the Mediterranean.
- savors — the quality in a substance that affects the sense of taste or of smell.
- savory — pleasant or agreeable in taste or smell: a savory aroma.
- savour — the quality in a substance that affects the sense of taste or of smell.
- sclave — a slave
- seaver — (George) Thomas ("Tom"; "Tom Terrific") born 1944, U.S. baseball pitcher.
- shaved — to remove a growth of beard with a razor.
- shaven — a past participle of shave.
- shaver — a person or thing that shaves.
- shavie — a trick or prank.
- sheave — to gather, collect, or bind into a sheaf or sheaves.
- slaver — saliva coming from the mouth.
- slavey — a female servant, especially a maid of all work in a boardinghouse.
- slavic — a branch of the Indo-European family of languages, usually divided into East Slavic (Russian, Ukrainian, Byelorussian), West Slavic (Polish, Czech, Slovak, Sorbian), and South Slavic (Old Church Slavonic, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovene).
- slavo- — Slav
- sleave — to divide or separate into filaments, as silk.
- spavin — a disease of the hock joint of horses in which enlargement occurs because of collected fluids (bog spavin) bony growth (bone spavin) or distention of the veins (blood spavin)
- staves — a composition of plaster and fibrous material used for a temporary finish and in ornamental work, as on exposition buildings.
- suaver — (of persons or their manner, speech, etc.) smoothly agreeable or polite; agreeably or blandly urbane.
- tavern — a place where liquors are sold to be consumed on the premises.
- tavert — bewildered or confused
- theave — a young ewe in her first or second year that has not yet given birth to a lamb
- thrave — twenty-four sheaves of corn
- travel — to go from one place to another, as by car, train, plane, or ship; take a trip; journey: to travel for pleasure.
- traven — B (Berick Traven Torsvan) 1890–1969, U.S.-born novelist in Mexico.
- travis — William Barret, 1809–36, U.S. soldier: commander during the battle of the Alamo.
- ungava — a region in NE Canada, comprising the larger part of the peninsula of Labrador: incorporated into Quebec province 1912.
- vltava — a river in the W Czech Republic, flowing N to the Elbe. 270 miles (435 km) long.
- wavell — Archibald Percival, 1st Earl, 1883–1950, British field marshal and author: viceroy of India 1943–47.
- wavers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of waver.
- wavery — Tending to waver; uncertain or hesitant.
- wavier — curving alternately in opposite directions; undulating: a wavy course; wavy hair.
- wavies — wavey.
- wavily — Crookedly, twistingly, in a curved and winding manner.
- waving — a disturbance on the surface of a liquid body, as the sea or a lake, in the form of a moving ridge or swell.
- weaved — Simple past tense and past participle of weave (
- weaver — James Baird, 1833–1912, U.S. politician: congressman 1879–81, 1885–89.
- weaves — Plural form of weave.
- x-wave — extraordinary wave.
- xavier — Saint Francis (Francisco Javier"the Apostle of the Indies") 1506–52, Spanish Jesuit missionary, especially in India and Japan.
- yavari — Spanish name of Javari.
- zouave — (sometimes lowercase) one of a former body of infantry in the French army, composed originally of Algerians, distinguished for their dash, hardiness, and picturesque uniform.