8-letter words containing v, a, i
- valeting — a male servant who attends to the personal needs of his male employer, as by taking care of clothing or the like; manservant.
- valiance — valiant nature or quality; valor; bravery; courage.
- valiancy — valiant nature or quality; valor; bravery; courage.
- validate — to make valid; substantiate; confirm: Time validated our suspicions.
- validity — the state or quality of being valid: to question the validity of the argument.
- valkyrie — any of the beautiful maidens attendant upon Odin who bring the souls of slain warriors chosen by Odin or Tyr to Valhalla and there wait upon them.
- valorise — to provide for the maintaining of the value or price of (a commercial commodity) by a government's purchasing the commodity at the fixed price or by its making special loans to the producers.
- valorize — to provide for the maintaining of the value or price of (a commercial commodity) by a government's purchasing the commodity at the fixed price or by its making special loans to the producers.
- 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.
- van dine — S. S, Wright, Willard Huntington.
- van line — a transportation company that uses large motor vans for the long-distance moving of household effects.
- 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.
- vandalia — a town in W Ohio.
- vandalic — (initial capital letter) of, relating to, or characteristic of the Vandals.
- vanessid — a butterfly belonging to any of several brightly coloured species, including admirals, tortoiseshells, and the Camberwell beauty, which with the fritillaries comprise the Nymphalidae
- vanillic — of, derived from, or resembling vanilla or vanillin.
- vanillin — a white, crystalline, water-soluble, alcohol-soluble solid, C 8 H 8 O 3 , obtained by extraction from the vanilla bean or prepared synthetically: used chiefly as a flavoring agent and in perfumery.
- vanished — to disappear from sight, especially quickly; become invisible: The frost vanished when the sun came out.
- vanitied — with vanity units or mirrors
- vanitory — a combined dressing table and lavatory basin.
- vanquish — to conquer or subdue by superior force, as in battle.
- vanzetti — Bartolomeo [bahr-taw-law-me-aw] /ˌbɑr tɔ lɔˈmɛ ɔ/ (Show IPA), 1888–1927, Italian anarchist, in U.S. after 1908.
- vapidity — lacking or having lost life, sharpness, or flavor; insipid; flat: vapid tea.
- vaporing — that gives forth vapor.
- vaporise — to cause to change into vapor.
- vaporish — of the nature of or resembling vapor: a vaporish chiffon dress.
- vaporize — to cause to change into vapor.
- varanasi — a city in SE Uttar Pradesh, in NE India, on the Ganges River: Hindu holy city.
- varginha — a city in E Brazil.
- variable — apt or liable to vary or change; changeable: variable weather; variable moods.
- variably — apt or liable to vary or change; changeable: variable weather; variable moods.
- 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.
- varietal — of, pertaining to, designating, or characteristic of a variety.
- variform — varied in form; having various forms.
- variolar — variolous
- variorum — containing different versions of the text by various editors: a variorum edition of Shakespeare.
- varistor — a resistor whose resistance automatically varies in proportion to the voltage of the current through it.
- varitype — to operate a Varityper.
- varnishy — glossy; like varnish
- vaselike — like or resembling a vase
- vaseline — Vaseline is a soft clear jelly made from petroleum, which is used to protect the skin and for other purposes.
- vasiform — having the form of a duct or tube.
- vassalic — of, relating to, or resembling a vassal or vassalage.
- vaticide — a person who murders a prophet.
- vaulting — the act of vaulting.
- vaunting — having a boastfully proud disposition: a vaunting dictator.
- 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.