6-letter words containing ve
- seveso — an industrial town in N Italy, near Milan: 1976 dioxin release.
- shaved — to remove a growth of beard with a razor.
- shaven — a past participle of shave.
- shaver — a person or thing that shaves.
- sheave — to gather, collect, or bind into a sheaf or sheaves.
- shelve — to place (something) on a shelf or shelves.
- shiver — to shake or tremble with cold, fear, excitement, etc.
- shovel — an implement consisting of a broad blade or scoop attached to a long handle, used for taking up, removing, or throwing loose matter, as earth, snow, or coal.
- shover — to move along by force from behind; push.
- shrive — to impose penance on (a sinner).
- shrove — a simple past tense of shrive.
- sieved — an instrument with a meshed or perforated bottom, used for separating coarse from fine parts of loose matter, for straining liquids, etc., especially one with a circular frame and fine meshes or perforations.
- silver — consisting of, made of, or plated with silver.
- silvex — a herbicide that eradicates weeds and woody plants
- skeeve — Also, skeever. an immoral or repulsive person.
- skiver — a person or thing that skives.
- slaver — saliva coming from the mouth.
- slavey — a female servant, especially a maid of all work in a boardinghouse.
- sleave — to divide or separate into filaments, as silk.
- sleeve — the part of a garment that covers the arm, varying in form and length but commonly tubular.
- slieve — a mountain.
- sliven — a city in E central Bulgaria.
- sliver — a small, slender, often sharp piece, as of wood or glass, split, broken, or cut off, usually lengthwise or with the grain; splinter.
- sloven — a person who is habitually negligent of neatness or cleanliness in dress, appearance, etc.
- snivel — to weep or cry with sniffling.
- soever — at all; in any case; of any kind; in any way (used with generalizing force after who, what, when, where, how, any, all, etc., sometimes separated by intervening words): Choose what thing soever you please.
- solive — a nonessential joist
- solver — to find the answer or explanation for; clear up; explain: to solve the mystery of the missing books.
- starve — to die or perish from lack of food or nourishment.
- staves — a composition of plaster and fibrous material used for a temporary finish and in ornamental work, as on exposition buildings.
- steeve — to set (a spar) at an upward inclination.
- steven — a male given name.
- stiver — Also, stuiver. a former nickel coin of the Netherlands, equal to five Dutch cents.
- stover — coarse roughage used as feed for livestock.
- strive — to exert oneself vigorously; try hard: He strove to make himself understood.
- strove — simple past tense of strive.
- struve — Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von [free-drikh gey-awrk vil-helm fuh n] /ˈfri drɪx geɪˈɔrk ˈvɪl hɛlm fən/ (Show IPA), 1793–1864, Russian astronomer, born in Germany.
- suaver — (of persons or their manner, speech, etc.) smoothly agreeable or polite; agreeably or blandly urbane.
- suivez — a musical direction meaning 'follow'
- survey — to take a general or comprehensive view of or appraise, as a situation, area of study, etc.
- svelte — slender, especially gracefully slender in figure; lithe.
- swerve — to turn aside abruptly in movement or direction; deviate suddenly from the straight or direct course.
- sweven — a vision; dream.
- swivel — a fastening device that allows the thing fastened to turn around freely upon it, especially to turn in a full circle.
- swivet — a state of nervous excitement, haste, or anxiety; flutter: I was in such a swivet that I could hardly speak.
- tavern — a place where liquors are sold to be consumed on the premises.
- tavert — bewildered or confused
- teevee — television.
- tevere — a river in central Italy, flowing through Rome into the Mediterranean. 244 miles (395 km) long.
- theave — a young ewe in her first or second year that has not yet given birth to a lamb