List of Words Ending in V

Here is a list of words that end in ‘V.’ There is a total of 266 ‘V’ ending words with their definition in this list. Many English words are no longer used in literary works. So, those are not included here.

ABV

  • alcohol by volume

ACV

  • Actual cash value
  • Air-cushion vehicle
  • Armored combat vehicle; armored command vehicle
  • Actual cash value

AFV

  • Armored fighting vehicle
  • Alternative fuel vehicle

ARV

  • American revised version
  • Antiretroviral

ASV

  • American standard version

ATV

  • All-terrain vehicle
  • All-terrain vehicle
  • All-terrain vehicle

AUV

  • Autonomous underwater vehicle

AV

  • Avenue
  • Average
  • Avoirdupois
  • Ad valorem
  • Arteriovenous

Abashev

  • Belonging to a bronze age culture of the chuvash republic in the east central soviet union

Abrikosov

  • Alexei (alexeevich) 1928–2017 russian-american physicist

Abv

  • alcohol by volume

Adv

  • Adverb
  • Against
  • Advertisement; advertising
  • Advisory
  • Adverb

Alferov

  • Zhores ivanovich 1930–2019 russian (belarusian-born) physicist

Andreyev

  • Leonid nikolayevich 1871–1919 russian author

Andropov

  • Yuri vladimirovich 1914–1984 russian politician; president u.s.s.r. (1982–84); 1st secretary of communist party (1982–84)

Asimov

  • Isaac 1920–1992 american (russian-born) writer

Av

  • Avenue
  • Average
  • Avoirdupois
  • Ad valorem
  • Arteriovenous

BEV

  • Billion electron volts
  • Black english vernacular

BMV

  • Blessed mary the virgin

BPPV

  • Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo
  • Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo

BPV

  • Benign positional vertigo
  • Benign positional vertigo

Baranov

  • Aleksandr andreyevich 1747–1819 russian fur trader; 1st governor of russian america

Baryshnikov

  • Mikhail (nikolaevitch) 1948–     american (latvian-born) ballet dancer

Bav

  • Bavaria; bavarian

Berav

  • To spatter with dirt or filth
  • To defile with excrement

Berdyayev

  • Nikolay aleksandrovich 1874–1948 russian philosopher

Bev

  • Billion electron volts
  • Black english vernacular

Brasov

  • City in central romania in the foothills of the transylvanian alps population 284,596

Brev

  • Brevet
  • Brevier

Brezhnev

  • Leonid ilyich 1906–1982 russian politician; president of u.s.s.r. (1960–64; 1977–82); 1st secretary of communist party (1964–82)

CATV

  • Cable television
  • Community antenna television

CCTV

  • Closed-circuit television

CMV

  • Cytomegalovirus
  • Cytomegalovirus

CUV

  • An automotive vehicle that is similar to a sport utility vehicle but built on a car chassis

CV

  • Convertible
  • Cultivar
  • Cardiovascular
  • Coronavirus
  • Curriculum vitae

Cav

  • Cavalry
  • Cavity
  • Cavity

Chav

  • A young person in britain of a type stereotypically known for engaging in aggressively loutish behavior especially when in groups and for wearing flashy jewelry and athletic casual clothing (such as tracksuits and baseball caps)

Chekhov

  • Anton pavlovich 1860–1904 russian dramatist and writer

Chekov

  • Anton pavlovich 1860–1904 russian dramatist and writer

Chenstokhov

  • City in southern poland on the warta river population 236,000

Cherenkov

  • Pavel alekseyevich 1904–1990 russian physicist

Chernigov

  • City on the desna river in northern ukraine population 306,000

Chernihiv

  • City on the desna river in northern ukraine population 306,000

Chev

  • Chevalier
  • Chevron

Chislev

  • Variant spelling of KISLEV

Chiv

  • Face

Chkalov

  • City on the ural river in southeastern russia in europe population 547,500

Civ

  • Civil; civilian; civilization

Cliv

  • Scottish variant of CLOOF

Conv

  • Convention; conventional
  • Convertible
  • Convocation
  • Convalescent

Cov

  • Coronavirus — see also mers-cov, ncov, sars-cov, sars-cov-2
  • Coronavirus — see mers-cov, ncov, sars-cov, sars-cov-2

Cv

  • Convertible
  • Cultivar
  • Cardiovascular
  • Coronavirus
  • Curriculum vitae

DAV

  • Disabled american veterans

DMV

  • Department of motor vehicles

DV

  • God willing
  • Douay version
  • Daily value
  • Dilute volume

Deriv

  • Derivation; derivative

Dev

  • Deviation

Diaghilev

  • Sergey pavlovich 1872–1929 russian ballet producer and art critic

Div

  • Divided
  • Dividend
  • Division
  • Divorced
  • Divide; division

Druv

  • Dialectal past tense of DRIVE

EBV

  • Epstein-barr virus
  • Epstein-barr virus

EHV

  • Extra high voltage

ETV

  • Educational television

EV

  • Electron volt
  • Electric vehicle

Ekaterinoslav

  • City on the dnieper river in eastern ukraine population 996,500

Elev

  • Elevation

Env

  • Envelope

Equiv

  • Equivalency; equivalent

Erev

  • Variant spelling of EREB

Eruv

  • Variant spelling of ERUB

Ev

  • Electron volt
  • Electric vehicle

FFV

  • First families of virginia

FV

  • On the back of the page

Fav

  • Favorite
  • Favorite sense 1

GMV

  • Gram-molecular volume

Gev

  • Giga-electron-volt

Glazunov

  • Aleksandr konstantinovich 1865–1936 russian composer

Godunov

  • Boris fyodorovich circa 1551–1605 czar of russia (1598–1605)

Gorbachev

  • Mikhail sergeyevich 1931–     soviet politician; 1st secretary of communist party (1985–91); president of u.s.s.r. (1990–91)

Gorchakov

  • Prince aleksandr mikhaylovich 1798–1883 russian statesman and diplomat

Gov

  • Government; governor
  • Governmental institution
  • Governor, government

Gustav

  • Name of 6 kings of sweden, the first 4 of the vasa dynastyi (gustav eriksson) 1496?–1560 (reigned 1523–60); ii (gustav adolph) 1594–1632 (reigned 1611–32); iii 1746–1792 (reigned 1771–92); iv (gustav adolph) 1778–1837 (reigned 1792–1809); v 1858–1950 (reigned 1907–50); vi (gustav adolph) 1882–1973 (reigned 1950–73)

Guv

  • Dialectal past tense of GIVE

HDTV

  • High-definition television

HDV

  • Hepatitis d virus; hepatitis delta virus
  • Hepatitis d virus; hepatitis delta virus

HIV

  • Either of two retroviruses that infect and destroy helper t cells of the immune system causing the marked reduction in their numbers that is diagnostic of aids
  • A virus that causes aids
  • A virus that causes aids by destroying large numbers of cells that help the human body fight infection
  • Any of several retroviruses and especially hiv-1 that infect and destroy helper t cells of the immune system causing the marked reduction in their numbers that is diagnostic of aids

HMMWV

  • High mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicle

HMPV

  • Human metapneumovirus
  • Human metapneumovirus

HOV

  • High-occupancy vehicle

HPV

  • Human papillomavirus
  • Human-powered vehicle
  • Human papillomavirus

HTLV

  • Any of several retroviruses
  • Any of several retroviruses that formerly included the original strain of the aids virus before it was grouped with other strains, renamed hiv-1, and made the type species (human immunodeficiency virus 1) of the genus lentivirus

HV

  • Have
  • High velocity
  • High voltage

Halierov

  • A former monetary unit equal to ¹/₁₀₀ slovakian koruna

Havirov

  • City in the eastern part of the czech republic population 85,855

Hmpv

  • Human metapneumovirus
  • Human metapneumovirus

Hv

  • Have
  • High velocity
  • High voltage

ISV

  • International scientific vocabulary

ITV

  • Instructional television

IV

  • An apparatus used to administer a fluid (as of medication, blood, or nutrients) intravenously
  • A fluid administered by iv
  • Intravenous; intravenously
  • A device that is used to allow a fluid (such as blood or a liquid medication) to flow directly into a patient’s veins
  • An apparatus used to administer a fluid (as of medication, blood, or nutrients) intravenously

Improv

  • Of, relating to, or being improvisation and especially an improvised comedy routine

Impv

  • Imperative

Indiv

  • Individual

Inv

  • Inventor
  • Invoice
  • Invenit

Isogriv

  • A line on a map or chart connecting points of equal grivation

JV

  • Junior varsity

Jav

  • Javanese

Juv

  • Juvenile

KJV

  • King james version

Kalashnikov

  • A soviet-designed assault rifle
  • Ak-47

Kamenev

  • Lev borisovich 1883–1936 russian communist leader

Karbovantsiv

  • The basic monetary unit of ukraine during its brief period of independence beginning in 1917 readopted as a transitional monetary unit from 1991 until introduction of the hryvnia in 1996
  • A currency note representing one karbovanets

Kethiv

  • A reading in the consonantal text of the jewish scriptures for which in traditional jewish practice there is substituted a different reading whose consonants are usually given in the margin — compare kere

Kev

  • Kilo-electron-volt

Kharkiv

  • City in northeastern ukraine on the edge of donets basin population 1,446,000

Kharkov

  • City in northeastern ukraine on the edge of donets basin population 1,446,000

Kheraskov

  • Mikhail matveyevich 1733–1807 russian poet

Khrushchev

  • sergeyevich 1894–1971 soviet politician; premier of soviet union (1958–64)

Kiev

  • City on the dnieper river in ukraine population 2,800,000

Kirov

  • Sergey mironovich 1886–1934 soviet politician
  • City on the vyatka river in east central russia in europe population 473,700

Kishinev

  • City in central moldova population 664,700

Kislev

  • The third month of the civil year or the ninth month of the ecclesiastical year in the jewish calendar — see months of the principal calendars table

Kolmogorov

  • Andrey nikolayevich 1903–1987 soviet mathematician

Koltsov

  • Aleksey vasilyevich 1808–1842 russian poet

Konev

  • Ivan stepanovich 1897–1973 soviet general

Kornilov

  • Lavr georgiyevich 1870–1918 russian general and counterrevolutionary

Kutuzov

  • Mikhail illarionovich 1745–1813 prince of smolensk russian field marshal

Kuybyshev

  • A dry indehiscent usually one-seeded winged fruit (as of an ash or elm tree)
  • City of eastern russia in europe in the valley of the volga river population 1,165,000

Kv

  • Kilovolt

Kyiv

  • City on the dnieper river in ukraine population 2,800,000

Kyyiv

  • City on the dnieper river in ukraine population 2,800,000

LISTSERV

  • Used for software for managing email transmissions to and from a list of subscribers

LRV

  • Light-rail vehicle

LWV

  • League of women voters

Lav

  • Lavatory
  • Hiv-1

Leitmotiv

  • An associated melodic phrase or figure that accompanies the reappearance of an idea, person, or situation especially in a wagnerian music drama
  • A dominant recurring theme

Lermontov

  • Mikhail yuryevich 1814–1841 russian poet and novelist

Lev

  • The basic monetary unit of bulgaria — see money table
  • Leviticus
  • Levorotatory
  • To the left

Litvinov

  • Maksim maksimovich 1876–1951 soviet diplomat

Lulav

  • The traditional festive palm branch that is carried and waved during the festival of sukkoth — compare ethrog

Lulov

  • The traditional festive palm branch that is carried and waved during the festival of sukkoth — compare ethrog

Luv

  • Nonstandard spelling of LOVE

Lv

  • Leave
  • livermorium
  • Left ventricle

MARV

  • Maneuverable reentry vehicle

MATV

  • Master antenna television

MIRV

  • A missile with two or more warheads designed to strike separate enemy targets
  • Any of the warheads of such a missile
  • To equip with mirv warheads
  • To arm one’s forces with mirvs

MOV

  • Manuscript on vellum

MPV

  • Multipurpose vehicle

MV

  • Millivolt
  • Main verb
  • Mean variation
  • Motor vessel
  • Millivolt

Maariv

  • The daily jewish evening liturgy — compare minhah, shaharith

Maglev

  • The use of the physical properties of magnetic fields generated by superconducting magnets to cause an object (such as a vehicle) to float above a solid surface
  • A train utilizing maglev technology

Malenkov

  • Georgy maksimilianovich 1902–1988 soviet politician

Markov

  • Of, relating to, or resembling a markov process or markov chain especially by having probabilities defined in terms of transition from the possible existing states to other states

Mdiv

  • Master of divinity

Medvedev

  • Dmitry (anatolyevich) 1965–     president of russia (2008–12); prime minister (2012–2020)

Mendeleyev

  • Dmitry ivanovich 1834–1907 russian chemist

Mev

  • Million electron volts

Milyukov

  • Pavel nikolayevich 1859–1943 russian politician and historian

Mogilev

  • City on the dnieper river in eastern belarus population 358,279

Mogilyov

  • City on the dnieper river in eastern belarus population 358,279

Molotov

  • Vyacheslav mikhaylovich 1890–1986 originally surname skryabin soviet statesman

Moshav

  • A cooperative settlement of small individual farms in israel — compare kibbutz

Mv

  • Millivolt
  • Main verb
  • Mean variation
  • Motor vessel
  • Millivolt

Mykolayiv

  • City and port at a confluence of rivers in southern ukraine population 496,000

NCV

  • No commercial value

NPV

  • No par value

NV

  • Nevada
  • Nonvoting
  • Nevada

Nabokov

  • Vladimir vladimirovich 1899–1977 american (russian-born) novelist and poet

Narev

  • River in northeastern poland flowing west and southwest into the bug river

Nav

  • Naval
  • Navigable; navigation

Ncov

  • Novel coronavirus
  • Novel coronavirus

Negev

  • Region of southern israel; a triangular wedge of desert touching the gulf of aqaba in the south

Nemerov

  • Howard 1920–1991 american writer; poet laureate (1988–90)

Nev

  • Nevada
  • Nevada

Nikolayev

  • City and port at a confluence of rivers in southern ukraine population 496,000

Nov

  • November
  • November

Novoselov

  • Sir konstantin (sergeevich) 1974–     russian-british physicist

Nureyev

  • Rudolf hametovich 1938–1993 russian-born ballet dancer

OHV

  • Overhead valve

ORV

  • Off-road vehicle

Obv

  • Obverse

Ollav

  • A learned man in ancient ireland

POV

  • Point of view

POWV

  • Powassan virus
  • powassan virus

PPV

  • Pay-per-view

PTV

  • Public television

PV

  • Photovoltaic
  • Polyvinyl

Pavlov

  • Ivan petrovich 1849–1936 russian physiologist

Perv

  • Pervert entry 2
  • Pervert

Plekhanov

  • Georgy valentinovich 1857–1918 russian marxist philosopher

Plovdiv

  • City in southern bulgaria on the maritsa river north of the rhodope mountains population 379,083

Pres̆ov

  • City in central eastern slovakia population 161,782

Prev

  • Previous; previously

Pristav

  • A former russian supervisory official (as of a police force)

Priv

  • Private; privately

Prokofiev

  • Sergey sergeyevich 1891–1953 russian composer

Prov

  • Province; provincial
  • Provisional
  • Proverbs

Pshav

  • A member of a mountain people of the caucasus

Pskov

  • City in western russia in europe near
  • population 209,000

Pulv

  • Powder
  • Powder

Qv

  • Which see
  • As much as you will

RPV

  • An uncrewed aircraft flown by remote control and used especially for reconnaissance

RSV

  • Respiratory syncytial virus
  • Revised standard version
  • Respiratory syncytial virus
  • Rous sarcoma virus

RV

  • Recreational vehicle
  • Revised version
  • Recreational vehicle

Rdv

  • Rendezvous

Rev

  • A revolution of a motor
  • Revolution per minute
  • To step up the number of revolutions per minute of
  • Increase
  • To drive or operate especially at high speed

Riv

  • River

Romanov

  • Michael 1596–1645 1st czar (1613–45) of russian romanov dynasty (1613–1917)

SHV

  • Under this word

SIV

  • A lentivirus (species simian immunodeficiency virus) that causes a disease in monkeys similar to aids and that is closely related to hiv-2
  • A retrovirus of the genus lentivirus (species simian immunodeficiency virus) that causes a disease in monkeys similar to aids and that is closely related to hiv-2 of humans

SMV

  • Slow-moving vehicle

SOV

  • Sovereign, pound
  • Sovereign
  • Soviet
  • Shut-off valve

STV

  • Subscription television

SUV

  • A rugged automotive vehicle similar to a station wagon but built on a light-truck chassis sport utility vehicle
  • A large vehicle that is designed to be used on rough surfaces but that is often used on city roads or highways
  • Sport-utility vehicle

Sakharov

  • Andrey dmitriyevich 1921–1989 russian physicist

Salv

  • Salvage
  • Savior

Saratov

  • City of south central russia in europe on a reservoir of the volga river population 838,000

Satnav

  • A satellite-based navigation system for ships

Sav

  • Savings

Sclav

  • Archaic variant of SLAV

Semenov

  • Nikolay nikolayevich 1896–1986 soviet chemist

Serv

  • Service

Sev

  • Several

Shcherbakov

  • City of west central russia in europe on the volga river population 201,000

Shiv

  • A small usually improvised pointed or bladed weapon
  • To stab or cut (someone) with a shiv (see shiv entry 1)

Sholokhov

  • Mikhail aleksandrovich 1905–1984 soviet (russian-born) novelist

Slav

  • A person whose native tongue is a slavic language
  • A person from eastern europe who speaks a slavic language
  • A native speaker of a slavic language

Slavkov

  • Town in southeastern czech republic east-southeast of brno

Slv

  • Sleeve
  • Solvent

Solv

  • Dissolve

Sov

  • Sovereign, pound
  • Sovereign
  • Soviet
  • Shut-off valve

Spiv

  • A man who lives by his wits without regular employment
  • Slacker sense 1
  • A man who makes money dishonestly

Stakhanov

  • City in eastern ukraine population 77,500

Stanislav

  • City in southwestern ukraine population 226,000

Stev

  • Stevedore

Stotinov

  • A former monetary unit equal to ¹/₁₀₀ slovenian tolar

Subjv

  • Subjunctive

Superv

  • Supervision

Supv

  • Supervise

Surv

  • Survey

Suvorov

  • Aleksandr vasilyevich 1729–1800 russian field marshal

Sv

  • Saves
  • Under the word
  • Sievert

TGV

  • High-speed train

TV

  • Television
  • Transvestite
  • Television
  • Television

Tambov

  • City of south central russia in europe southeast of moscow population 280,000

Tev

  • Tera-electron-volt; trillion electron-volts

Tiv

  • A prominent peasant people of central nigeria noted for brass casting, wood carving, and music
  • A member of the tiv people
  • The language of the tiv people, belonging to the central branch of the niger-congo language family

Tolarjev

  • The basic monetary unit of slovenia from 1992 to 2007

Transv

  • Transverse

Trav

  • Travel

Trv

  • Traverse

Turgenev

  • Ivan sergeyevich 1818–1883 russian novelist

UAV

  • Rpv

UV

  • Ultraviolet
  • Ultraviolet

Univ

  • University

Ustinov

  • City of eastern russia in europe population 628,000

V

  • The 22nd letter of the english alphabet
  • A graphic representation of this letter
  • A speech counterpart of orthographic v
  • Five — see table of numbers
  • A graphic device for reproducing the letter v

Vav

  • The 6th letter of the hebrew alphabet — see alphabet table

Viv

  • Vivace

Voroshilov

  • Kliment yefremovich 1881–1969 soviet marshal; chairman of the presidium (1953–60)

Vv

  • Verses
  • Volume per volume

WAV

  • A usually uncompressed lossless computer file format used for the storage of digital audio data

WV

  • West virginia
  • West virginia
  • Weight in volume

Yugoslav

  • Former country in southern europe on the balkan peninsula consisting of serbia, montenegro, slovenia, croatia, bosnia and herzegovina, and macedonia

Zhdanov

  • Andrey aleksandrovich 1896–1948 soviet politician

Zhukov

  • Georgy konstantinovich 1896–1974 soviet marshal

Zinoviev

  • Grigory yevseyevich 1883–1936 originally ovsel gershon aronov radomyslsky soviet revolutionary

Zinovyev

  • Grigory yevseyevich 1883–1936 originally ovsel gershon aronov radomyslsky soviet revolutionary