7-letter words containing r, v
- verging — the edge, rim, or margin of something: the verge of a desert; to operate on the verge of fraud.
- verglas — glaze (def 17).
- veridic — truthful; veracious.
- veriest — precise; particular: That is the very item we want.
- verilog — (language) A Hardware Description Language for electronic design and gate level simulation by Cadence Design Systems.
- verismo — the use of everyday life and actions in artistic works: introduced into opera in the early 1900s in reaction to contemporary conventions, which were seen as artificial and untruthful.
- veritas — truth.
- vermeer — Jan [yahn] /yɑn/ (Show IPA), (Jan van der Meer van Delft) 1632–75, Dutch painter.
- vermeil — vermilion red.
- vermian — resembling or of the nature of a worm.
- vermont — a state of the NE United States: a part of New England. 9609 sq. mi. (24,885 sq. km). Capital: Montpelier. Abbreviation: VT (for use with zip code), Vt.
- vernant — blooming or flourishing; vernal
- vernier — Pierre [pyer] /pyɛr/ (Show IPA), 1580–1637, French mathematician and inventor.
- verruca — Medicine/Medical. a wart.
- versace — Donatella. (donaˈtɛlla) born 1955, Italian fashion designer and businesswoman; creative director of the Versace group from 1997
- versant — a slope of a mountain or mountain chain.
- versify — to relate, describe, or treat (something) in verse.
- 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.
- versute — cunning or crafty
- vertigo — a dizzying sensation of tilting within stable surroundings or of being in tilting or spinning surroundings.
- vervain — any plant belonging to the genus Verbena, of the verbena family, having elongated or flattened spikes of stalkless flowers.
- vespers — (initial capital letter) the evening star, especially Venus; Hesperus.
- vestral — a room in or a building attached to a church, in which the vestments, and sometimes liturgical objects, are kept; sacristy.
- vesture — Law. everything growing on and covering the land, with the exception of trees. any such covering, as grass or wheat.
- veteran — a person who has had long service or experience in an occupation, office, or the like: a veteran of the police force; a veteran of many sports competitions.
- vetiver — the long, fibrous, aromatic roots of an East Indian grass, Vetiveria zizanioides, used for making hangings and screens and yielding an oil used in perfumery.
- vettura — an Italian carriage with four wheels, esp one hired out
- vibrant — moving to and fro rapidly; vibrating.
- vibrate — to move rhythmically and steadily to and fro, as a pendulum; oscillate.
- vibrato — a pulsating effect, produced in singing by the rapid reiteration of emphasis on a tone, and on bowed instruments by a rapid change of pitch corresponding to the vocal tremolo.
- vicarly — of, pertaining to, suggesting, or resembling a vicar: vicarly duties; a vicarly manner.
- viceroy — a person appointed to rule a country or province as the deputy of the sovereign: the viceroy of India.
- vickers — Jon, born 1926, Canadian operatic tenor.
- victory — a success or triumph over an enemy in battle or war.
- victrix — victress.
- viereck — Peter, 1916–2006, U.S. poet and historian.
- viersen — a city in North Rhine-Westphalia in W central Germany.
- vigours — active strength or force.
- viipuri — Finnish name of Vyborg.
- villard — Henry (Ferdinand Heinrich Gustav Hilgard) 1835–1900, U.S. railroad executive and publisher, born in Bavaria.
- villars — Claude Louis Hector de [klohd lwee ek-tawr duh] /kloʊd lwi ɛkˈtɔr də/ (Show IPA), 1653–1734, marshal of France.
- vinegar — a sour liquid consisting of dilute and impure acetic acid, obtained by acetous fermentation from wine, cider, beer, ale, or the like: used as a condiment, preservative, etc.
- vintner — a person who makes wine or sells wines.
- virally — in a viral manner
- virchow — Rudolf [roo-dawlf] /ˈru dɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1821–1902, German pathologist, anthropologist, and political leader.
- virelai — an old French form of short poem, composed of short lines running on two rhymes and having two opening lines recurring at intervals.
- virelay — an old French form of short poem, composed of short lines running on two rhymes and having two opening lines recurring at intervals.
- viremia — the presence of a virus in the blood.