7-letter words containing i, n, v
- vatting — a large container, as a tub or tank, used for storing or holding liquids: a wine vat.
- vaurien — a rascal
- vection — the transference of a disease from one person to another.
- veering — to change direction or turn about or aside; shift, turn, or change from one course, position, inclination, etc., to another: The speaker kept veering from his main topic. The car veered off the road.
- veganic — farmed without the use of animal products or by-products
- veiling — a piece of opaque or transparent material worn over the face for concealment, for protection from the elements, or to enhance the appearance.
- veinier — full of veins; prominently veined: a veiny hand.
- veining — one of the system of branching vessels or tubes conveying blood from various parts of the body to the heart.
- veinlet — a small vein.
- veinous — having veins; veiny
- veinule — venule.
- venatic — of or relating to hunting.
- vending — to sell as one's business or occupation, especially by peddling: to vend flowers at a sidewalk stand.
- venefic — having poisonous effects
- venetia — an ancient district in NE Italy: later a Roman province bounded by the Alps, the Po River, and the Adriatic Sea.
- venetic — an Indo-European language of NE Italy, possibly belonging to the Italic branch, known from inscriptions from the 4th to 2nd centuries b.c.
- venezia — Also, Venetia. Also called Veneto [ve-ne-taw] /ˈvɛ nɛ tɔ/ (Show IPA). a region in NE Italy. 7095 sq. mi. (18,375 sq. km).
- venison — the flesh of a deer or similar animal as used for food.
- ventail — the pivoted middle element of a face defense of a close helmet.
- venting — the act of venting or expressing emotion
- ventri- — ventro-
- ventris — Michael George Francis, 1922–56, English architect and linguist.
- venturi — Robert Charles, born 1925, U.S. architect.
- verbing — the act or practice of using a noun as a verb, such as 'medal' to mean "to win a medal"
- verging — the edge, rim, or margin of something: the verge of a desert; to operate on the verge of fraud.
- vermian — resembling or of the nature of a worm.
- vernier — Pierre [pyer] /pyɛr/ (Show IPA), 1580–1637, French mathematician and inventor.
- versine — versed sine.
- versing — (not in technical use) a stanza.
- version — a particular account of some matter, as from one person or source, contrasted with some other account: two different versions of the accident.
- vervain — any plant belonging to the genus Verbena, of the verbena family, having elongated or flattened spikes of stalkless flowers.
- vespine — of or relating to wasps.
- vesting — a close-fitting, waist-length, sleeveless garment that buttons down the front, designed to be worn under a jacket.
- vetoing — the power or right vested in one branch of a government to cancel or postpone the decisions, enactments, etc., of another branch, especially the right of a president, governor, or other chief executive to reject bills passed by the legislature.
- vetting — veterinarian.
- vibrant — moving to and fro rapidly; vibrating.
- vicente — Gil. ?1465–?1536, Portuguese dramatist, noted for his court entertainments, religious dramas, and comedies
- vicenza — a city in central Venezia, in NE Italy.
- vicinal — of, relating to, or belonging to a neighborhood or district.
- vidicon — a camera tube in which a charge-density pattern is formed on a photoconductive surface scanned by a beam of low-velocity electrons for transmission as signals.
- viersen — a city in North Rhine-Westphalia in W central Germany.
- vietnam — Official name Socialist Republic of Vietnam. a country in SE Asia, comprising the former states of Annam, Tonkin, and Cochin-China: formerly part of French Indochina; divided into North Vietnam and South Vietnam during the Vietnam War but now reunified. 126,104 sq. mi. (326,609 sq. km). Capital: Hanoi. Compare North Vietnam, South Vietnam.
- viewing — an instance of seeing or beholding; visual inspection.
- vignola — Giacomo da [jah-kaw-maw dah] /ˈdʒɑ kɔ mɔ dɑ/ (Show IPA), (Giacomo Barocchio or Barozzi) 1507–73, Italian architect.
- vikings — any of the Scandinavian pirates who plundered the coasts of Europe from the 8th to 10th centuries.
- villain — a cruelly malicious person who is involved in or devoted to wickedness or crime; scoundrel.
- villein — a member of a class of partially free persons under the feudal system, who were serfs with respect to their lord but had the rights and privileges of freemen with respect to others.
- vilnius — a republic in N Europe, on the Baltic: an independent state 1918–40; annexed by the Soviet Union 1940; regained independence 1991. 25,174 sq. mi. (65,200 sq. km). Capital: Vilnius.
- viminal — one of the seven hills on which ancient Rome was built.
- vinasse — the residuum in a still after distillation; slop.