8-letter words containing m, a, v
- valdemar — Waldemar I
- vambrace — a piece of plate armor for the forearm; a lower cannon. Compare rerebrace.
- vamphorn — a megaphone in use during the 18th and early 19th centuries for public address in church services.
- vampires — a preternatural being, commonly believed to be a reanimated corpse, that is said to suck the blood of sleeping persons at night.
- vampiric — a preternatural being, commonly believed to be a reanimated corpse, that is said to suck the blood of sleeping persons at night.
- vamplate — a metal plate mounted on a lance in front of the grip to protect the hand.
- vanadium — a rare element occurring in certain minerals and obtained as a light-gray powder with a silvery luster or as a ductile metal: used as an ingredient of steel to toughen it and increase its shock resistance. Symbol: V; atomic weight: 50.942; atomic number: 23; specific gravity: 5.96.
- variform — varied in form; having various forms.
- variorum — containing different versions of the text by various editors: a variorum edition of Shakespeare.
- vasculum — a kind of case or box used by botanists for carrying specimens as they are collected.
- vasiform — having the form of a duct or tube.
- vasotomy — incision or opening of the vas deferens.
- vax mips — (benchmark) (Or VAX Unit of Performance, VUP) The processing power normally attributed to a Digital Equipment Corporation VAX 11/780. Future VAX systems were rated according to this scale (e.g. VAX 8350's being 2.7 VUPs per CPU). A MicroVAX II is normally associated with 0.9 VUPs and at a later time the MicroVUP was coined to rate VAX workstations. The use of the VUP by Digital Equipment Corporation has been replaced with more standard benchmarks (SPECint and SPECfp) in the DEC Alpha processor systems.
- veganism — a vegetarian who omits all animal products from the diet.
- velarium — an awning drawn over a theater or amphitheater as a protection from rain or the sun.
- venogram — an x-ray of the veins produced by venography.
- veratrum — any poisonous herb of N American genus Veratrum
- verbatim — word for word and letter for letter; in exactly the same words.
- verkramp — bigoted or illiberal
- verseman — a man who writes verse
- viameter — an early form of odometer designed to measure the distance travelled by a carriage
- viaticum — Ecclesiastical. the Eucharist or Communion as given to a person dying or in danger of death.
- videocam — A videocam is a camera that you can carry around with you that records moving images.
- villadom — villas collectively.
- viraemia — a condition in which virus particles circulate and reproduce in the bloodstream
- viraemic — of, relating to, or affected by viraemia
- vitalism — the philosophical doctrine that the phenomena of life cannot be explained in purely mechanical terms because there is something immaterial which distinguishes living from inanimate matter
- vitamins — any of a group of organic substances essential in small quantities to normal metabolism, found in minute amounts in natural foodstuffs or sometimes produced synthetically: deficiencies of vitamins produce specific disorders.
- vivarium — a place, such as a laboratory, where live animals or plants are kept under conditions simulating their natural environment, as for research.
- vizament — a consultation
- vladimir — Saint. Also, Vladimir I, Wladimir. (Vladimir the Great) a.d. c956–1015, first Christian grand prince of Russia 980–1015.
- vlaminck — Maurice de [moh-rees duh] /moʊˈris də/ (Show IPA), 1876–1958, French painter.
- vocalism — Phonetics. a vowel, diphthong, triphthong, or vowel quality, as in a syllable. the system of vowels of a language.
- volkmann — (Friedrich) Robert, 1815–83, German composer.
- voltaism — the branch of electrical science that deals with the production of electricity or electric currents by chemical action.
- waveform — the shape of a wave, a graph obtained by plotting the instantaneous values of a periodic quantity against the time.