5 Letter Words Ending in VE

drive

Noun : Planned, usually long-lasting, effort to achieve something; ability coupled with ambition, determination, and motivation.

Noun : Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.

Noun : An act of driving (prompting) game animals forward, to be captured or hunted.

leave

Verb : To have a consequence or remnant.

Verb : (transitive) To cause or allow (something) to remain as available; to refrain from taking (something) away; to stop short of consuming or otherwise depleting (something) entirely.

Verb : (transitive or intransitive, copulative) To cause, to result in.

naive

Adjective : Lacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgement; unsophisticated.

Adjective : Not having been exposed to something.

Adjective : (of art) Produced in a simple, childlike style, deliberately rejecting sophisticated techniques.

nerve

Noun : A bundle of neurons with their connective tissue sheaths, blood vessels and lymphatics.

Noun : (nonstandard, colloquial) A neuron.

Noun : (botany) A vein in a leaf; a grain in wood.

curve

Adjective : (obsolete) Bent without angles; crooked; curved.

Noun : A gentle bend, such as in a road.

Noun : A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.

weave

Verb : To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another.

Verb : To spin a cocoon or a web.

Verb : To unite by close connection or intermixture.

valve

Noun : A device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid through a pipe.

Noun : A device that admits fuel and air into the cylinder of an internal combustion engine, or one that allows combustion gases to exit.

Noun : (anatomy) One or more membranous partitions, flaps, or folds, which permit the passage of the contents of a vessel or cavity in one direction, but stop or control the flow in the opposite direction

prove

Verb : (transitive) To demonstrate that something is true or viable; to give proof for.

Verb : (intransitive) To turn out; to manifest.

Verb : (copulative) To turn out to be.

above

Verb : Directly overhead; vertically on top of.

Verb : Higher in the same page; earlier in the order as far as writing products go.

Verb : Into or from heaven; in the sky.

serve

Noun : (sports) An act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play in various games.

Noun : (chiefly Australia) A portion of food or drink, a serving.

Noun : (gay slang and African-American Vernacular) An impressive presentation (especially of a person's appearance).

grave

Noun : An excavation in the earth as a place of burial.

Noun : Any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher.

Noun : (by extension) Death, destruction.

brave

Adjective : Strong in the face of fear; courageous.

Adjective : (obsolete) Having any sort of superiority or excellence.

Adjective : Making a fine show or display.

delve

Verb : (intransitive) To dig into the ground, especially with a shovel.

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate, fathom, trace out

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To dig; to excavate.

reeve

Noun : (historical) Any of several local officials, with varying responsibilities.

Noun : (Canada) The president of a township or municipal district council.

Noun : (military, historical) The holder of a proposed but unadopted commissioned rank of the Royal Air Force, equivalent to wing commander.

waive

Verb : (transitive, law) To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forgo.

Verb : (particularly) To relinquish claim on a payment or fee which would otherwise be due.

Verb : (now rare) To put aside, avoid.

alive

Adjective : Having life; living; not dead.

Adjective : In a state of action; in force or operation; existent.

Adjective : Busy with activity of many living beings; swarming; thronged; busy.

trove

Noun : A treasure trove; a collection of treasure.

Noun : A collection of things.

heave

Verb : (transitive) To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).

Verb : (transitive) To throw, cast.

Verb : (intransitive) To rise and fall.

stave

Noun : One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; especially, one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, barrel, pail, etc.

Noun : One of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel

Noun : (poetry) A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.

sieve

Noun : A device with a mesh bottom to separate, in a granular material, larger particles from smaller ones, or to separate solid objects from a liquid.

Noun : A process, physical or abstract, that arrives at a final result by filtering out unwanted pieces of input from a larger starting set of input.

Noun : (obsolete) A kind of coarse basket.

crave

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To desire strongly, so as to satisfy an appetite; to long or yearn for.

Verb : (transitive) To ask for earnestly; to beg; to claim.

Verb : (transitive, obsolete) To call for; to require as a course of action.

grove

Noun : A small forest.

Noun : An orchard of fruit trees.

Noun : (Druidism, Wicca) A place of worship.

suave

Adjective : Charming, confident and elegant.

Noun : Sweet talk.

agave

Noun : Any plant in the large, variable genus Agave: succulent plants, commonly armed with formidable prickles; they flower at maturity after several years, and generally die thereafter; large species, such as the maguey or century plant, (Agave americana), produce gigantic inflorescences. Several are of economic importance as sources of fibre such as sisal, and alcoholic beverages such as tequila.

olive

Noun : A tree, Olea europaea, cultivated since ancient times in the Mediterranean for its fruit and the oil obtained from it.

Noun : The small oval fruit of this tree, eaten ripe (usually black) or unripe (usually green).

Noun : The wood of the olive tree.

shove

Verb : (transitive) To push, especially roughly or with force.

Verb : (intransitive) To move off or along by an act of pushing, as with an oar or pole used in a boat; sometimes with off.

Verb : (poker, by ellipsis) To make an all-in bet.

verve

Noun : Enthusiasm, rapture, spirit, or vigour, especially of imagination such as that which animates an artist, musician, or writer, in composing or performing.

Noun : (obsolete) A particular skill in writing.

shave

Verb : (transitive) To make (the head, skin etc.) bald or (the hair) shorter by using a tool such as a razor or electric clippers to cut the hair close to the skin.

Verb : (transitive) To cut anything in this fashion.

Verb : (intransitive) To remove hair from one's face by this means.

knave

Noun : (archaic) A boy; especially, a boy servant.

Noun : (archaic) Any male servant; a menial.

Noun : A tricky, deceitful fellow; a dishonest person.

stove

Noun : A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.

Noun : A device for heating food, (UK) a cooker.

Noun : A stovetop, with hotplates.

salve

Noun : An ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects.

Noun : Any remedy or action that soothes or heals.

Verb : (transitive) To calm or assuage.

glove

Noun : An item of clothing, covering all or part of the hand and fingers, but usually allowing independent movement of the fingers.

Noun : A baseball mitt.

Noun : (baseball, figuratively) The ability to catch a hit ball.

slave

Noun : A person who is held in servitude as the property of another person, and whose labor (and often also whose body and life) is subject to the owner's volition and control.

Noun : (figuratively) A drudge; one who labors or is obliged (e.g. by prior contract) to labor like a slave with limited rights, e.g. an indentured servant.

Noun : (figuratively) An abject person.

peeve

Noun : (colloquial) An annoyance or grievance.

Verb : (colloquial) To annoy; vex.

solve

Verb : To find an answer or solution to a problem or question; to work out.

Verb : to find out the perpetrator, the motive etc (of crime)

Verb : (mathematics) To find the values of variables that satisfy a system of equations and/or inequalities.

nieve

Noun : the fist or han

carve

Verb : (archaic) To cut.

Verb : To cut meat in order to serve it.

Verb : To shape to sculptural effect; to produce (a work) by cutting, or to cut (a material) into a finished work, especially with cuts that are curved rather than only straight slices.

mauve

Noun : (historical) A bright purple synthetic dye.

Noun : The colour of this dye; a pale purple or violet colour.

Adjective : Having a pale purple colour.

clove

Noun : (uncountable, countable) A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree.

Noun : (countable) A clove tree, of the species Syzygium aromaticum (syn. Caryophyllus aromaticus), native to the Moluccas (Indonesian islands), which produces the spice.

Noun : (countable) An old English measure of weight, containing 7 pounds (3.2 kg), i.e. half a stone.

ogive

Noun : (statistics) The curve of a cumulative distribution function.

Noun : (architecture) A Gothic pointed arch, or a rib of a Gothic vault.

Noun : (weaponry, ballistics) The pointed, curved nose of a bullet, missile, or rocket.

breve

Noun : (orthography, printing) A semicircular diacritical mark (˘) placed above a vowel, commonly used to mark its quantity as short.

Noun : (music) A double whole note; a note twice as long as a semibreve.

Noun : (law) Any writ or precept under seal, issued out of any court.

drove

Noun : A cattle drive or the herd being driven by it; thus, a number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.

Noun : (figuratively, by extension, usually in the plural) A large number of people on the move.

Noun : (collective) A group of hares.

chive

Noun : A perennial plant, Allium schoenoprasum, related to the onion.

Noun : (in the plural) The leaves of this plant used as a herb.

Noun : (obsolete) The style and stigma of a flower, especially saffron.

clave

Noun : (music) A characteristic pattern of beats, especially the 3-2 son clave.

aleve

Noun : a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trademarks aleve and anaprox and aflaxen

reave

Verb : (archaic) To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove.

Verb : (archaic) To deprive (a person) of something through theft or violence.

Verb : (archaic) To split, tear, break apart.

calve

Verb : (intransitive) to give birth to a calf

Verb : (intransitive) to assist in a cow's giving birth to a calf

Verb : (transitive) to give birth to (a calf)

swive

Verb : (archaic, transitive) To copulate with (a woman).

Verb : (archaic, transitive, dialectal) To cut a crop in a sweeping or rambling manner, hence to reap; cut for harvest.

skive

Verb : (Britain, informal) To avoid one's lessons or work (chiefly at school or university); shirk.

Noun : (Britain, informal) Something very easy, where one can slack off without penalty.

Noun : (Britain, informal) An act of avoiding lessons or work.

brive

drave

Noun : Alternative spelling of Drava [A tributary of the Danube, in southern Central Europe.]

halve

Verb : (transitive) To reduce to half the original amount.

Verb : (transitive) To divide into two halves.

Verb : (transitive) To make up half of.

helve

Noun : The handle or haft of a tool or weapon.

Noun : A forge hammer lifted by a cam acting on the helve between the fulcrum and the head.

Verb : (transitive) To furnish (an axe, etc.) with a helve.

seave

Noun : (UK, dialect) A rush (the plant).

Noun : (UK, dialect) A wick made from this plant.

steve

Noun : A diminutive of the male given name Steven and Stephen; also used as a formal male given name.

Noun : A diminutive of the female given name Stephanie.

Verb : To pack or stow, as cargo in a ship's hold.

blive

Verb : (obsolete) quickly; forthwith

Verb : (intransitive) Alternative form of belive ("to remain"). [(intransitive, obsolete outside dialects) To remain, stay.]

trave

Noun : (architecture) A crossbeam.

Noun : (architecture) A section formed by crossbeams.

Noun : A wooden frame to confine unruly horses while they are shod.

sauve

Noun : A surname.

selve

Noun : One individual's personality, character, demeanor, or disposition.

Noun : The subject of one's own experience of phenomena: perception, emotions, thoughts.

Noun : An individual person as the object of the person's own reflective consciousness (plural selves).

clive

Noun : A topographic surname from Old English - someone who lived near a cliff (Old English clif).

Noun : A male given name transferred from the surname. Popular in Britain in mid-twentieth century.

Noun : A village in Alberta.

shive

Noun : A slice, especially of bread.

Noun : (obsolete) A sheave.

Noun : A beam or plank of split wood.

soave

Noun : A commune of Veneto, Italy.

Noun : A dry white wine made in that region from grape varieties that include the Garganega.

Noun : A surname from Italian.

hoove

Noun : A disease in cattle consisting of inflammation of the stomach by gas, usually caused by eating too much green food.

Verb : Alternative form of hoof. [To trample with hooves.]

piave

lieve

Verb : gladl

poove

Noun : (slang, derogatory, rare) Synonym of poof (“male homosexual”)

stive

Noun : The floating dust in a flour mill caused by the operation of grinding.

Verb : (UK, dialect, transitive, intransitive) To stew; to be stifled or suffocated.

Verb : (transitive, sometimes with "up") To compress, to cram.

varve

Noun : (geology) An annual layer of sediment or sedimentary rock.

eleve

Noun : (obsolete) A pupil or student.

cleve

Noun : (now chiefly dialectal) A room; chamber.

Noun : (now chiefly dialectal) A cottage.

Noun : (obsolete) A cliff or hillside.

slive

Verb : (transitive, obsolete or dialectal) To cut; split; separate.

Verb : (transitive, obsolete or dialectal, chiefly Scotland) To cut or slice something off; separate by slicing.

Noun : (dialectal) A slice or sliver; slip, chip.

fauve

Noun : Synonym of fauvist

reive

Verb : Archaic spelling of reave. [(archaic) To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove.]

weive

Verb : Obsolete form of waive. [(transitive, law) To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forgo.]

keeve

Noun : (brewing) A vat or tub in which the mash is made; a mash tub.

Noun : (bleaching) A bleaching vat; a kier.

Noun : (mining) A large vat used in dressing ores.

thave

Noun : (UK, dialect) Alternative form of theave [(UK, dialect) A ewe lamb of a specific age; in some areas, applied to lambs in their the first or second year (before they have had lambs themselves), in others to lambs in their third year, before their second shearing.]

greve

neave

Noun : A surname.

Noun : An unincorporated community in Bracken County, Kentucky, United States.

parve

Adjective : Alternative spelling of pareve [(Jewish law) Of food: that has no meat or milk in any form as an ingredient.]

deave

Verb : to deafe

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grive

naïve

Adjective : Alternative spelling of naive [Lacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgement; unsophisticated.]

Noun : Alternative spelling of naive [A naive person; a greenhorn.]

weyve

Verb : Obsolete form of weave. [To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another.]

Verb : Obsolete form of waive. [(transitive, law) To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forgo.]

Noun : Obsolete form of waive (“female outlaw”). [(obsolete, law) A woman put out of the protection of the law; an outlawed woman.]

perve

Noun : Alternative form of perv [(slang) A pervert.]

Verb : Alternative form of perv [(slang) To stare at others in a perverted manner, especially whilst thinking sexual thoughts about them.]

larve

Noun : Dated form of larva. [An early stage of growth for some insects and amphibians, in which after hatching from their egg, insects are wingless and resemble a caterpillar or grub, and amphibians lack limbs and resemble fish.]

preve

Verb : (obsolete) Alternative form of prove [(transitive) To demonstrate that something is true or viable; to give proof for.]

naeve

Noun : (obsolete) Alternative spelling of naevus (“pigmented spot”). [(anatomy) A pigmented, raised or otherwise abnormal area on the skin, whether congenital or acquired.]

maeve

Noun : A female given name from Irish of mostly Irish usage.

quave

Verb : (intransitive, obsolete) To quiver or tremble.

Noun : A shaking; trembling.

Noun : A surname from Spanish.

dowve

amove

Verb : (obsolete) To set in motion; to stir up, excite.

Verb : To remove (a person or thing) from a position.

Verb : (law) To dismiss from an office or station.

harve

knive

Noun : the fourth studio album by American punk rock band Aiden.

herve

Noun : A Belgian cheese similar to Limburger.

lurve

Noun : (informal) Love, fondness.

Verb : (informal) To love; to like a lot.

kerve

Verb : Obsolete form of carve. [(archaic) To cut.]

beeve

Noun : A beef; a beef creature.

cheve

Verb : (intransitive, obsolete, dialect) To come to an issue; to turn out; to succeed.

howve

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