7-letter words containing r, v
- viremic — the presence of a virus in the blood.
- virgate — shaped like a rod or wand; long, slender, and straight.
- virgoan — a person born under the sign of Virgo.
- virgule — a short oblique stroke (/) between two words indicating that whichever is appropriate may be chosen to complete the sense of the text in which they occur: The defendant and his/her attorney must appear in court.
- viribus — with all one's might.
- virions — the infectious form of a virus as it exists outside the host cell, consisting of a nucleic acid core, a protein coat, and, in some species, an external envelope.
- virosis — infection with a virus.
- virtual — being such in power, force, or effect, though not actually or expressly such: a virtual dependence on charity.
- virtues — moral excellence; goodness; righteousness.
- viruses — an ultramicroscopic (20 to 300 nm in diameter), metabolically inert, infectious agent that replicates only within the cells of living hosts, mainly bacteria, plants, and animals: composed of an RNA or DNA core, a protein coat, and, in more complex types, a surrounding envelope.
- viscera — Viscera are the large organs inside the body, such as the heart, liver, and stomach.
- visitor — a person who visits, as for reasons of friendship, business, duty, travel, or the like.
- vitamer — a chemical compound which exhibits vitamin activity
- vitoria — a state in E Brazil. 15,196 sq. mi. (39,360 sq. km). Capital: Vitória.
- vitrage — a light fabric used for curtains
- vitrail — stained glass
- vitrain — the material of which the friable, vitreous layers in banded bituminous coal are composed.
- vitreum — (in prescriptions) glass.
- vitrics — (used with a singular verb) the art and technology of making glass products.
- vitrify — to convert or be converted into glass or a glassy substance
- vitrine — a glass cabinet or case, especially for displaying art objects.
- vitriol — Chemistry. any of certain metallic sulfates of glassy appearance, as copper sulfate or blue vitriol, iron sulfate or green vitriol, zinc sulfate or white vitriol, etc.
- viverra — an animal of the civet genus
- vlogger — a blog that features mostly videos rather than text or images.
- vocoder — an electronic device that synthesizes speech.
- vocular — vocal or vocalic
- voiture — a carriage, wagon, or other wheeled vehicle.
- volcker — Paul Adolph, born 1927, U.S. economist: Federal Reserve Board chairman 1979–87.
- vorkuta — a city N of the Arctic Circle, in the Komi Republic, in NE European Russia.
- vorlage — a position in which a skier leans forward but keeps the heels in contact with the skis.
- vorster — Balthazar Johannes, 1915–83, South African political leader: prime minister 1966–78; president 1978–79.
- votress — a votaress.
- voucher — a person or thing that vouches.
- vouvray — a town in W central France, E of Tours.
- voyager — one of a series of U.S. space probes that obtained scientific information while flying by the planets Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus.
- vriesia — any of numerous tropical American epiphytic bromeliads of the genus Vriesia, many species of which are cultivated for their rosettes of variegated leaves and showy flower spikes.
- vulgars — characterized by ignorance of or lack of good breeding or taste: vulgar ostentation.
- vulture — any of several large, primarily carrion-eating Old World birds of prey of the family Accipitridae, often having a naked head and less powerful feet than those of the related hawks and eagles.
- vulturn — an Australian wild turkey
- vxworks — (operating system) A real-time multitasking operating system from Wind River Systems. Originally it used the VRTX kernel but this has been replaced by Wind River's own "Wind kernel 2.4". Before version 5.3 VxWorks included a software development environment but this is now called "Tornado".
- vyernyi — former name of Alma-Ata.
- waivers — Plural form of waiver.
- wavered — Simple past tense and past participle of waver.
- waverer — to sway to and fro; flutter: Foliage wavers in the breeze.
- weavers — Plural form of weaver.
- weevers — Plural form of weever.
- wharves — Spinning. a wheel or round piece of wood on a spindle, serving as a flywheel or as a pulley.
- whoever — The person or people who; any person who.
- whyever — For whatever reason.
- wyverns — Plural form of wyvern.