| agave | (noun) tropical American plants with basal rosettes of fibrous sword-shaped leaves and flowers in tall spikes; some cultivated for ornament or for fiber | Synonyms: American aloe, century plant |
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| airwave | (noun) medium for radio and television broadcasting | Synonyms: air |
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| architrave | (noun) the lowest part of an entablature; rests immediately on the capitals of the columns | - |
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| (noun) the molding around a door or window | - |
| autoclave | (noun) a device for heating substances above their boiling point; used to manufacture chemicals or to sterilize surgical instruments | Synonyms: steriliser, sterilizer |
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| brainwave | (noun) the clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation | Synonyms: brainstorm, insight |
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| (noun) (neurophysiology) rapid fluctuations of voltage between parts of the cerebral cortex that are detectable with an electroencephalograph | Synonyms: brain wave, cortical potential |
| brave | (noun) people who are brave | - |
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| (noun) a North American Indian warrior | - |
| burgrave | (noun) the military governor of a German town in the 12th and 13th centuries | - |
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| (noun) a nobleman ruling a German castle and surrounding grounds by hereditary right | - |
| cave | (noun) a geological formation consisting of an underground enclosure with access from the surface of the ground or from the sea | - |
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| conclave | (noun) a confidential or secret meeting | - |
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| drawshave | (noun) a woodworker's knife to shave surfaces | Synonyms: drawknife |
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| enclave | (noun) an enclosed territory that is culturally distinct from the foreign territory that surrounds it | - |
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| grave | (noun) a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone) | Synonyms: tomb |
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| (noun) a mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation | Synonyms: grave accent |
| (noun) death of a person | - |
| greave | (noun) armor plate that protects legs below the knee | Synonyms: jambeau |
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| have | (noun) a person who possesses great material wealth | Synonyms: rich person, wealthy person |
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| heave | (noun) throwing something heavy (with great effort) | Synonyms: heaving |
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| (noun) the act of lifting something with great effort | Synonyms: heaving |
| (noun) the act of raising something | Synonyms: lift, raise |
| (noun) an involuntary spasm of ineffectual vomiting | Synonyms: retch |
| (noun) (geology) a horizontal dislocation | - |
| (noun) an upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling) | Synonyms: heaving |
| knave | (noun) one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a young prince | Synonyms: jack |
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| (noun) a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel | Synonyms: rapscallion, rascal, rogue, scalawag, scallywag, varlet |
| landgrave | (noun) a count who had jurisdiction over a large territory in medieval Germany | - |
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| leave | (noun) the act of departing politely | Synonyms: farewell, leave-taking, parting |
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| (noun) permission to do something | - |
| (noun) the period of time during which you are absent from work or duty | Synonyms: leave of absence |
| margrave | (noun) a German nobleman ranking above a count (corresponding in rank to a British marquess) | - |
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| (noun) the military governor of a frontier province in medieval Germany | - |
| microwave | (noun) kitchen appliance that cooks food by passing an electromagnetic wave through it; heat results from the absorption of energy by the water molecules in the food | Synonyms: microwave oven |
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| (noun) a short electromagnetic wave (longer than infrared but shorter than radio waves); used for radar and microwave ovens and for transmitting telephone, facsimile, video and data | - |
| nave | (noun) the central area of a church | - |
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| octave | (noun) a musical interval of eight tones | Synonyms: musical octave |
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| (noun) a rhythmic group of eight lines of verse | - |
| (noun) a feast day and the seven days following it | - |
| palsgrave | (noun) (Middle Ages) the lord of a palatinate who exercised sovereign powers over his lands | Synonyms: palatine |
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| pave | (noun) a setting with precious stones so closely set that no metal shows | - |
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| rave | (noun) an extravagantly enthusiastic review | - |
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| (noun) a dance party that lasts all night and electronically synthesized music is played | - |
| save | (noun) (sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring | - |
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| shave | (noun) the act of removing hair with a razor | Synonyms: shaving |
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| slave | (noun) a person who is owned by someone | - |
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| (noun) someone who works as hard as a slave | Synonyms: hard worker, striver |
| (noun) someone entirely dominated by some influence or person | - |
| spokeshave | (noun) a small plane that has a handle on each side of its blade; used for shaping or smoothing cylindrical wooden surfaces (originally wheel spokes) | - |
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| stave | (noun) one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket | Synonyms: lag |
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| (noun) a crosspiece between the legs of a chair | Synonyms: round, rung |
| (noun) (music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written | Synonyms: staff |
| trave | (noun) a horizontal beam that extends across something | Synonyms: crossbeam, crosspiece, traverse |
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| wave | (noun) a movement like that of a sudden occurrence or increase in a specified phenomenon | - |
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| (noun) a hairdo that creates undulations in the hair | - |
| (noun) the act of signaling by a movement of the hand | Synonyms: wafture, waving |
| (noun) (physics) a movement up and down or back and forth | Synonyms: undulation |
| (noun) one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water) | Synonyms: moving ridge |
| (noun) something that rises rapidly | - |
| (noun) a persistent and widespread unusual weather condition (especially of unusual temperatures) | - |
| (noun) an undulating curve | Synonyms: undulation |
| weave | (noun) pattern of weaving or structure of a fabric | - |
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