8-letter words containing v, a, c, i
- vacating — to give up possession or occupancy of: to vacate an apartment.
- vacation — a period of suspension of work, study, or other activity, usually used for rest, recreation, or travel; recess or holiday: Schoolchildren are on vacation now.
- vaccinal — of, relating to, or caused by vaccine or vaccination.
- vaccinee — a person who receives a vaccination.
- vaccinia — a variant of the cowpox virus that became established in vaccines derived from cowpox-inoculated humans.
- vacherin — a soft French or Swiss cheese made from cows' milk
- valencia — Guillermo León [gee-yer-maw le-awn] /giˈyɛr mɔ lɛˈɔn/ (Show IPA), 1909–71, Colombian diplomat and statesman: president 1962–66.
- valiance — valiant nature or quality; valor; bravery; courage.
- valiancy — valiant nature or quality; valor; bravery; courage.
- vampiric — a preternatural being, commonly believed to be a reanimated corpse, that is said to suck the blood of sleeping persons at night.
- vandalic — (initial capital letter) of, relating to, or characteristic of the Vandals.
- vanillic — of, derived from, or resembling vanilla or vanillin.
- variance — the state, quality, or fact of being variable, divergent, different, or anomalous.
- variceal — of or relating to a varix
- varicose — abnormally or unusually enlarged or swollen: a varicose vein.
- vassalic — of, relating to, or resembling a vassal or vassalage.
- vaticide — a person who murders a prophet.
- veracity — habitual observance of truth in speech or statement; truthfulness: He was not noted for his veracity.
- veronica — a female given name.
- vertical — being in a position or direction perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; upright; plumb.
- vesicant — producing a blister or blisters, as a medicinal substance; vesicating.
- vesicate — to raise vesicles or blisters on; blister.
- viatical — of or relating to a viaticum.
- viaticum — Ecclesiastical. the Eucharist or Communion as given to a person dying or in danger of death.
- vibrance — moving to and fro rapidly; vibrating.
- vibrancy — moving to and fro rapidly; vibrating.
- vicarage — the residence of a vicar.
- vicarate — vicariate.
- vicaress — a rank of nun
- vicarial — of or relating to a vicar.
- vicenary — of, relating to, or consisting of twenty.
- vicinage — the region near or about a place; vicinity.
- victoria — a province in W Canada on the Pacific coast. 366,255 sq. mi. (948,600 sq. km). Capital: Victoria.
- victrola — a gramophone
- victuals — victuals, food supplies; provisions.
- videocam — A videocam is a camera that you can carry around with you that records moving images.
- villatic — of or relating to the country or to a farm; rural.
- viraemic — of, relating to, or affected by viraemia
- viscacha — a burrowing rodent, Lagostomus maximus, about the size of a groundhog, inhabiting the pampas of Paraguay and Argentina, allied to the chinchilla.
- viscaria — any plant of the Eurasian perennial genus Viscaria, closely related to genus Lychnis, in which it is sometimes included: low-growing, with pink, white, or purple flowers: family Carophyllaceae
- visceral — of or relating to the viscera.
- visicalc — (application, tool, business, history) /vi'zi-calk/ The first spreadsheet program, conceived in 1978 by Dan Bricklin, while he was an MBA student at Harvard Business School. Inspired by a demonstration given by Douglas Engelbart of a point-and-click user interface, Bricklin set out to design an application that would combine the intuitiveness of pencil and paper calculations with the power of a programmable pocket calculator. Bricklin's design was based on the (paper) financial spreadsheet, a kind of document already used in business planning. (Some of Bricklin's notes for VisiCalc were scribbled on the back of a spreadsheet pad.) VisiCalc was probably not the first application to use a spreadsheet model, but it did have a number of original features, all of which continue to be fundamental to spreadsheet software. These include point-and-type editing, range replication and formulas that update automatically with changes to other cells. VisiCalc is widely credited with creating the sudden demand for desktop computers that helped fuel the microcomputer boom of the early 1980s. Thousands of business people with little or no technical expertise found that they could use VisiCalc to create sophisticated financial programs. This makes VisiCalc one of the first killer apps.
- vivacity — the quality or state of being vivacious.
- vizcacha — a burrowing rodent, Lagostomus maximus, about the size of a groundhog, inhabiting the pampas of Paraguay and Argentina, allied to the chinchilla.
- vizcaino — Sebastián [Spanish se-vahs-tyahn] /Spanish ˌsɛ vɑsˈtyɑn/ (Show IPA), 1550?–1628? Spanish explorer in the Americas.
- vlaminck — Maurice de [moh-rees duh] /moʊˈris də/ (Show IPA), 1876–1958, French painter.
- vocalics — the non-verbal aspects of voice creation
- vocalion — a type of reed instrument which resembles a human voice
- vocalise — a musical composition consisting of the singing of melody with vowel sounds or nonsense syllables rather than text, as for special effect in classical compositions, in polyphonic jazz singing by special groups, or in virtuoso vocal exercises.
- vocalism — Phonetics. a vowel, diphthong, triphthong, or vowel quality, as in a syllable. the system of vowels of a language.