Scrabble Words with V but no A
There are 7,439 valid Scrabble words that contain the letter V but not a single A, ranging up to 15 letters. They're grouped by length below, longest first. Every word is valid in the NWL (NASPA Word List), the official North American Scrabble tournament dictionary.
15-letter words
209 words- bouleversements22
- chemoprevention27
- chemopreventive30
- circumvolutions24
competitiveness24
an aggressive willingness to compete
comprehensively30
in an all-inclusive manner
- conducivenesses23
- consecutiveness22
- constructivisms24
- constructivists22
- convertibleness22
- corrosivenesses20
- counterevidence23
- countermovement24
- counterviolence22
- deceptivenesses23
- defensivenesses22
- descriptiveness23
- deservingnesses20
destructiveness21
the quality of causing destruction
- destructivities21
- diffusivenesses25
distinctiveness21
a distinguishing trait
- divertissements21
- effectivenesses26
electropositive22
having a positive charge
- excessivenesses27
- exclusivenesses27
- excursivenesses27
- expensivenesses27
- explosivenesses27
- extensivenesses25
- exteroceptivity32
- forgivingnesses23
- frivolousnesses21
- hyperinvolution26
- hyperproductive31
- hyperresponsive28
- hypervelocities28
- hypervirulences28
- immersivenesses22
- impoverishments27
- impulsivenesses22
- inclusivenesses20
- inconveniencies22
- inconveniencing23
ineffectiveness26
lacking the power to be effective
inexpensiveness27
the quality of being affordable
- inoffensiveness24
inquisitiveness27
a state of active curiosity
insensitiveness18
the inability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment
- insensitivities18
- instructiveness20
- intensivenesses18
- interconversion20
- interconverting21
- intersubjective29
- interuniversity21
- interventionism20
- interventionist18
+ 149 more 15-letter words
14-letter words
346 words- benevolentness19
- bioconversions21
- biodiversities20
- bouleversement21
chemoreceptive28
of or relating to chemoreceptors
- circumventions23
circumvolution23
the act of turning or winding or folding around a central axis
- coercivenesses21
- cohesivenesses22
- collectiveness21
- collectivising22
collectivistic23
subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively
- collectivities21
- collectivizing31
- comprehensives26
compulsiveness23
the trait of acting compulsively
- compulsivities23
conclusiveness21
the quality of being final or definitely settled
- conductivities22
conjunctivitis28
inflammation of the conjunctiva of the eye
- connectivities21
- constitutively22
constructively24
in a constructive manner
constructivism23
an abstractionist artistic movement in Russia after World War I; industrial materials were used to construct nonrepresentational objects
constructivist21
an artist of the school of constructivism
- contributively24
- controvertible21
- conventioneers19
convertibility24
the quality of being exchangeable (especially the ability to convert a currency into gold or other currencies without restriction)
convincingness22
the power of argument or evidence to cause belief
- convulsiveness22
- covetousnesses19
- cryopreserving25
- cryoprotective26
- decisivenesses20
- deconstructive22
- defervescences25
- definitiveness21
- delusivenesses18
- derisivenesses18
- descriptivisms24
- descriptivists22
- deservednesses19
- devilishnesses21
- devolutionisms20
- devolutionists18
- digressiveness19
diminutiveness20
the property of being very small in size
disbelievingly24
in an incredulous manner
discursiveness20
the quality of being discursive
- disinvestments20
- dismissiveness20
- dispersiveness20
- disruptiveness20
distributively23
as individuals or as separate units (not collectively)
- distributivity23
diverticulitis20
inflammation of a diverticulum in the digestive tract (especially the colon); characterized by painful abdominal cramping and fever and constipation
- diverticuloses20
diverticulosis20
presence of multiple diverticula in the walls of the colon
- divertissement20
+ 286 more 14-letter words
13-letter words
446 words- biconvexities27
- bioconversion20
- circumventing23
circumvention22
the act of evading by going around
- codiscoverers21
- codiscovering22
- coextensively28
collectivised21
characterized by the principle of ownership by the state or the people of the means of production
- collectivises20
- collectivisms22
- collectivists20
collectivized30
characterized by the principle of ownership by the state or the people of the means of production
- collectivizes29
competitively25
in competition
comprehensive25
an intensive examination testing a student's proficiency in some special field of knowledge
- compressively25
- conduciveness21
- conjunctively30
consecutively23
in a consecutive manner
- consumptively25
- controversies18
- controverters18
- controverting19
- conveniencies20
- conventiclers20
conventioneer18
someone who attends a convention
- convergencies21
- conveyorising22
- conveyorizing31
- convolvuluses21
- corresponsive20
- corrosiveness18
- costivenesses18
- countermoving21
- cryopreserved24
- cryopreserves23
- cursivenesses18
deceptiveness21
the quality of being deceptive
defensiveness20
excessive sensitivity to criticism
defervescence24
abatement of a fever as indicated by a reduction in body temperature
descriptively24
by giving a description
descriptivism23
(ethics) a doctrine holding that moral statements have a truth value
- descriptivist21
deservingness18
the quality of being deserving (e.g., deserving assistance)
destructively22
in a destructive manner
- destructivity22
- detectivelike23
- detritivorous17
- deviousnesses17
- devolutionism19
- devolutionist17
- devotednesses18
- diffusiveness23
- diffusivities23
- directivities19
- dishevelments22
- disincentives19
disinvestment19
the withdrawal of capital from a country or corporation
- disjunctively29
- disseverments19
+ 386 more 13-letter words
12-letter words
614 words- bedcoverings21
- bedevilingly22
- bedevilments20
- bedrivelling19
- benevolences19
benevolently20
in a benevolent manner
biodiversity21
the diversity of plant and animal life in a particular habitat (or in the world as a whole)
- bolshevizing30
- cervicitises19
- circumvented22
- clevernesses17
- codevelopers20
- codeveloping21
- codiscovered21
- codiscoverer20
- coerciveness19
- coercivities19
- coevolutions17
cohesiveness20
the property of being cohesive and sticky
collectively22
in conjunction with; combined
collectivise19
bring under collective control; of farms and industrial enterprises
collectivism21
Soviet communism
collectivist19
a person who belongs to the political left
- collectivity22
collectivize28
bring under collective control; of farms and industrial enterprises
compulsively24
in a compulsive manner
compulsivity24
the trait of acting compulsively
- concessively22
conclusively22
in a conclusive way
- conductively23
conductivity23
the transmission of heat or electricity or sound
- conjunctives26
- connectively22
connectivity22
the property of being connected or the degree to which something has connections
constitutive17
constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup)
constrictive19
(of circumstances) tending to constrict freedom
constructive19
constructing or tending to construct or improve or promote development
- consumptives21
contributive19
tending to bring about; being partly responsible for
- controverted18
- controverter17
conveniences19
things that make you comfortable and at ease
conveniently20
in a convenient manner
- conventicler19
- conventicles19
- convergences20
- convertibles19
- conveyorised21
- conveyorises20
- conveyorized30
- conveyorizes29
convincingly23
in a convincing manner
- convolutedly21
- convolutions17
convulsively23
with convulsions, in a convulsive way
- correctively22
- corruptively22
- countermoved20
- countermoves19
- counterviews20
+ 554 more 12-letter words
11-letter words
762 words- bedcovering20
- bedevilling18
bedevilment19
the act of harassing someone
- bedriveling18
- bedrivelled18
benevolence18
an act intending or showing kindness and good will
- beshivering20
- biconvexity28
- bidonvilles17
- biliverdins17
- bolshevisms21
- bolshevized29
- bolshevizes28
- bookshelves23
- circumvents20
- civilnesses16
- codeveloped20
- codeveloper19
- codiscovers19
- coevolution16
coextensive23
being of equal extent or scope or duration
cognitively20
with regard to cognition
- coinventing17
- coinventors16
- coinvesting17
- coinvestors16
- collectives18
- collusively19
competitive20
involving competition or competitiveness
- compressive20
- conflictive21
conjunctive25
an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences
- connectives18
- conniveries16
consecutive18
in regular succession without gaps
consumptive20
a person with pulmonary tuberculosis
controversy19
a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement
- controverts16
- convections18
convenience18
a device or control that is very useful for a particular job
- conveniency21
conventicle18
a building for religious assembly (especially Nonconformists, e.g., Quakers)
- conventions16
convergence19
a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena
convergency22
the act of converging (coming closer)
- conversions16
convertible18
a car that has top that can be folded or removed
- convertibly21
- convexities23
- conveyorise19
- conveyorize28
- convictions18
- convoluting17
convolution16
a convex fold or elevation in the surface of the brain
convolvulus19
any of numerous plants of the genus Convolvulus
- convulsions16
- correctives18
- corrosively19
- costiveness16
countermove18
an attack by a defending force against an attacking enemy force in order to regain lost ground or cut off enemy advance units etc.
+ 702 more 11-letter words
10-letter words
987 words- bedeviling17
- bedevilled17
- bedriveled17
- belvederes16
benevolent15
generous in assistance to the poor
- beshivered19
- bevomiting18
- bidonville16
- biliverdin16
- biodiverse16
bolshevism20
Soviet communism
bolshevize27
make Communist or bring in accord with Communist principles
- bovinities15
- brevetcies17
- brevetting16
- cervicites17
cervicitis17
inflammation of the uterine cervix
- chevelures18
- chevrotins18
circumvent19
avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
- civilising16
- civilities15
- civilizers24
- civilizing25
cleverness15
intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty
- coderiving17
- codevelops18
- codiscover18
- coercively20
- coercivity20
- coevolving19
- cohesively21
- coinvented16
- coinventor15
- coinvested16
- coinvestor15
collective17
members of a cooperative enterprise
- colluviums17
combustive19
supporting combustion
- completive19
compulsive19
a person with a compulsive disposition; someone who feels compelled to do certain things
- conceivers17
- conceiving18
conceptive19
capable of conceiving
concessive17
of or pertaining to concession
conclusive17
forming an end or termination; especially putting an end to doubt or question
- concoctive19
- concussive17
conductive18
having the quality or power of conducting heat or electricity or sound; exhibiting conductivity
congestive16
relating to or affected by an abnormal collection of blood or other fluid
connective17
an instrumentality that connects
- connivings16
- conservers15
- conserving16
consultive15
giving advice; ,
- contortive15
- contrivers15
- contriving16
controvert15
be resistant to
- convecting18
+ 927 more 10-letter words
9-letter words
1,197 words- bedcovers17
- bedeviled16
- bedrivels15
- behooving18
- believers14
believing15
the cognitive process that leads to convictions
belvedere15
a gazebo sited to command a fine view
- beshivers17
- bevellers14
- bevelling15
- bevomited17
- bijective23
- boilovers14
- breveting15
- brevetted15
- brevities14
- bushvelds18
- chevelure17
- cheverons17
- chevrotin17
- chivvying24
- civetlike18
- civicisms18
civilised15
having a high state of culture and development both social and technological
- civilises14
civilized24
having a high state of culture and development both social and technological
- civilizer23
- civilizes23
- civilness14
- cleveites14
- cleverest14
- cleverish17
- coderived16
- coderives15
- codevelop17
- codrivers15
- codriving16
- coevolved18
- coevolves17
cognitive15
of or being or relating to or involving cognition
- cognovits15
- coinvents14
- coinvests14
collusive14
acting together in secret toward a fraudulent or illegal end
- colluvium16
- combovers18
- commoving19
- conceived17
conceiver16
someone who creates new things
- conceives16
conducive17
tending to bring about; being partly responsible for
- connivent14
- connivers14
- connivery17
conniving15
acting together in secret toward a fraudulent or illegal end
conserved15
protected from harm or loss
- conserver14
conserves14
fruit preserved by cooking with sugar
contrived15
artificially formal
contriver14
a person who makes plans
+ 1,137 more 9-letter words
8-letter words
1,181 wordsbedcover16
decorative cover for a bed
- bedevils14
- bedrivel14
- beehived17
- beehives16
- behooved17
- behooves16
- behoving17
- believed14
believer13
a person who has religious faith
- believes13
- beloveds14
- beshiver16
- bevelers13
- beveling14
- bevelled14
- beveller13
- bevomits15
biconvex22
convex on both sides; shaped like a lentil
- bilevels13
- bivinyls16
- boilover13
- bouviers13
- bovinely16
- bovinity16
- brevetcy18
- breveted14
- breviers13
- bushveld17
- cervices15
- cervixes20
- ceviches18
- chervils16
- cheveron16
cheviots16
a range of hills on the border between England and Scotland
- chevrets16
- chevrons16
- chevying20
- chivvied20
- chivvies19
- chivying20
- civicism17
civilise13
raise from a barbaric to a civilized state
civility16
formal or perfunctory politeness
civilize22
raise from a barbaric to a civilized state
- cleveite13
- cleverer13
cleverly16
in a clever manner
- clevises13
- clovered14
- coderive14
- codriven14
- codriver14
- codrives14
coercive15
serving or intended to coerce
- coevolve16
- cognovit14
cohesive16
causing cohesion
- coinvent13
- coinvest13
+ 1,121 more 8-letter words
7-letter words
779 wordsbedevil13
be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly
beehive15
a hairdo resembling a beehive
behoove15
be appropriate or necessary
- behoved16
- behoves15
believe12
accept as true; take to be true
beloved13
a beloved person; used as terms of endearment
- beveled13
- beveler12
- bevomit14
- bevvies15
- bilevel12
- bivinyl15
- bouvier12
- bovines12
- bovvers15
- brevets12
- brevier12
brevity15
the attribute of being brief or fleeting
- cervids13
cervine12
relating to or resembling deer
- ceviche17
chervil15
aromatic annual Old World herb cultivated for its finely divided and often curly leaves for use especially in soups and salads
- chevets15
- chevied16
- chevies15
cheviot15
hardy hornless sheep of the Cheviot Hills noted for its short thick wool
- chevres15
- chevret15
chevron15
V-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank and service
- chivied16
- chivies15
civilly15
in a civil manner
- civisms14
civvies15
civilian garb as opposed to a military uniform
clivers12
annual having the stem beset with curved prickles; North America and Europe and Asia
- clovers12
- clovery15
- codrive13
- codrove13
commove16
cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
connive12
encourage or assent to illegally or criminally
convect14
circulate hot air by convection
convene12
call together
convent12
a community of people in a religious order (especially nuns) living together
convert12
a person who has been converted to another religious or political belief
- conveys15
convict14
a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison
convoke16
call together
- convoys15
- corvees12
- corvets12
- corvids13
corvine12
relating to or resembling a crow
costive12
retarding evacuation of feces; binding; constipating
covered13
overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form
- coverer12
- coverts12
- coverup14
coveted13
greatly desired
+ 719 more 7-letter words
6-letter words
536 words- beeves11
behove14
be appropriate or necessary
- belive11
- bevels11
- bevies11
- bevors11
- bovids12
bovine11
any of various members of the genus Bos
- bovver14
- breves11
brevet11
a document entitling a commissioned officer to hold a higher rank temporarily (but without higher pay)
cervid12
distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers
cervix18
necklike opening to the uterus
- chevet14
chevre14
made from goats' milk
chives14
cylindrical leaves used fresh as a mild onion-flavored seasoning
chivvy20
annoy continually or chronically
- civets11
civics13
the social science of municipal affairs
civies11
civilian garb as opposed to a military uniform
- civism13
clever11
mentally quick and resourceful; ; -Bram Stoker
clevis11
a coupler shaped like the letter U with holes through each end so a bolt or pin can pass through the holes to complete the coupling; used to attach a drawbar to a plow or wagon or trailer etc.
cloven11
(used of hooves) split, divided
clover11
a plant of the genus Trifolium
- cloves11
convex18
curving or bulging outward
convey14
go or come after and bring or take back
- convos11
convoy14
a collection of merchant ships with an escort of warships
corvee11
unpaid labor (as for the maintenance of roads) required by a lord of his vassals in lieu of taxes
- corves11
- corvet11
- corvid12
- covens11
- covers11
covert11
a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something
- covets11
- coveys14
- covids12
- covine11
- coving12
- covins11
- culver11
curved12
having or marked by a curve or smoothly rounded bend
- curves11
curvet11
a light leap by a horse in which both hind legs leave the ground before the forelegs come down
curvey14
having curves
- cuvees11
- delved11
- delver10
- delves10
derive10
come from
devein10
remove the dark dorsal vein of (a shrimp)
- devels10
- devest10
device12
an emblematic design (especially in heraldry)
- devils10
devise10
(law) a gift of real property by will
devoid11
completely wanting or lacking
+ 476 more 6-letter words
5-letter words
265 wordsbevel10
a hand tool consisting of two rules that are hinged together so you can draw or measure angles of any size
- bevor10
- bevvy16
bovid11
hollow-horned ruminants
breve10
a diacritical mark (U-shaped) placed over a vowel to indicate a short sound
chevy16
annoy continually or chronically
chive13
perennial having hollow cylindrical leaves used for seasoning
chivy16
annoy continually or chronically
civet10
cat-like mammal typically secreting musk used in perfumes
civic12
of or relating or belonging to a city
- civie10
civil10
(of divisions of time) legally recognized in ordinary affairs of life
- civvy16
clove10
aromatic flower bud of a clove tree; yields a spice
- convo10
- coved11
coven10
an assembly of witches; usually 13 witches
cover10
a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something
- coves10
covet10
wish, long, or crave for (something, especially the property of another person)
covey13
a small collection of people
- covid11
- covin10
curve10
a line on a graph representing data
curvy13
(of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves
- cuvee10
delve9
turn up, loosen, or remove earth
- devel9
devil9
(Judeo-Christian and Islamic religions) chief spirit of evil and adversary of God; tempter of mankind; master of Hell
- devis9
devon9
a county in southwestern England
- dived10
diver9
large somewhat primitive fish-eating diving bird of the northern hemisphere having webbed feet placed far back; related to the grebes
- dives9
divot9
(golf) the cavity left when a piece of turf is cut from the ground by the club head in making a stroke
divvy15
short for dividend; especially one paid by a cooperative society
- doven9
- doves9
drive9
(computer science) a device that writes data onto or reads data from a storage medium
drove9
a group of animals (a herd or flock) moving together
duvet9
a soft quilt usually filled with the down of the eider
- elven8
elver8
young eel
elves8
an acronym for emissions of light and very low frequency perturbations due to electromagnetic pulse sources; extremely bright extremely short (less than a msec) electrical flashes forming a huge ring (up to 400 km diameter) in the ionosphere
envoi8
a brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetry
envoy11
a brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetry
- eruvs8
- ervil8
- evens8
event8
a phenomenon located at a single point in space-time; the fundamental observational entity in relativity theory
evert8
United States tennis player who won women's singles titles in the United States and at Wimbledon (born in 1954)
every11
(used of count nouns) each and all of the members of a group considered singly and without exception
evict10
expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process
- evils8
- evite8
evoke12
call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
fever11
a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection
fiver11
a United States bill worth 5 dollars
fives11
a game resembling handball; played on a court with a front wall and two side walls
given9
an assumption that is taken for granted
+ 205 more 5-letter words
4-letter words
93 wordsbevy12
a flock of birds (especially when gathered close together on the ground)
cove9
a small inlet
devi8
Hindu mother goddess; supreme power in the universe; wife or embodiment of the female energy of Siva having both beneficent and malevolent forms or aspects
- devs8
dive8
a cheap disreputable nightclub or dance hall
dove8
a constellation in the southern hemisphere near Puppis and Caelum
envy10
a feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something that is possessed by another
- eruv7
even7
the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall)
ever7
(intensifier for adjectives) very
- eves7
evil7
morally objectionable behavior
five10
a playing card or a domino or a die whose upward face shows five pips
give8
the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length
- guvs8
- gyve11
hive10
a man-made receptacle that houses a swarm of bees
- hove10
jive14
a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz
- jivy17
- levo7
- levs7
levy10
a charge imposed and collected
live7
continue to live through hardship or adversity
love7
a beloved person; used as terms of endearment
- luvs7
move9
(game) a player's turn to take some action permitted by the rules of the game
neve7
the upper part of a glacier (beyond the limit of perpetual snow) where the snow turns to ice
- nevi7
oven7
kitchen appliance used for baking or roasting
over7
(cricket) the division of play during which six balls are bowled at the batsman by one player from the other team from the same end of the pitch
ovum9
the female reproductive cell; the female gamete
- perv9
- revs7
rive7
separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument
rove7
move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
- sevs7
shiv10
a knife used as a weapon
spiv9
a person without employment who makes money by various dubious schemes; goes about smartly dressed and having a good time
- tivy10
- veep9
veer7
shift to a clockwise direction
- vees7
veil7
a garment that covers the head and face
vein7
a blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart
veld8
elevated open grassland in southern Africa
vend8
sell or offer for sale from place to place
vent7
a fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt
verb9
a content word that denotes an action, occurrence, or state of existence
- vert7
very10
being the exact same one; not any other:
vest7
a collarless men's undergarment for the upper part of the body
veto7
a vote that blocks a decision
- vets7
- vext14
vibe9
a distinctive emotional aura experienced instinctively
vice9
a specific form of evildoing
- vide8
- vids8
- vied8
+ 33 more 4-letter words
3-letter words
24 words- dev7
eve6
(Old Testament) Adam's wife in Judeo-Christian mythology: the first woman and mother of the human race; God created Eve from Adam's rib and placed Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden
- guv7
ivy9
Old World vine with lobed evergreen leaves and black berrylike fruits
lev6
the basic unit of money in Bulgaria
- luv6
rev6
rate of revolution of a motor
- sev6
- vee6
veg7
edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant
vet6
a doctor who practices veterinary medicine
vex13
be a mystery or bewildering to
- vid7
vie6
compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others
- vig7
vim8
a healthy capacity for vigorous activity
- vin6
- vis6
- voe6
- vog7
vow9
a solemn pledge (to oneself or to another or to a deity) to do something or to behave in a certain manner
vox13
the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract
- vug7
- vum8