9-letter words containing v, i, d, e
- vandalize — to destroy or deface by vandalism: Someone vandalized the museum during the night.
- varisized — of several or various sizes: varisized patterns on a fabric.
- varnished — a preparation consisting of resinous matter, as copal or lac, dissolved in an oil (oil varnish) or in alcohol (spirit varnish) or other volatile liquid. When applied to the surface of wood, metal, etc., it dries and leaves a hard, more or less glossy, usually transparent coating.
- vastitude — vastness; immensity: the vastitude of his love for all humankind.
- vedutista — an artist who creates vedutas or cityscapes
- velarized — pronounced with velar coarticulation.
- vendition — the act of vending; sale.
- ventiduct — an air pipe or passage for ventilation
- verbicide — the willful distortion or depreciation of the original meaning of a word.
- verdigris — a green or bluish patina formed on copper, brass, or bronze surfaces exposed to the atmosphere for long periods of time, consisting principally of basic copper sulfate.
- veridical — truthful; veracious.
- vermicide — a substance or agent used to kill worms, especially a drug used to kill parasitic intestinal worms.
- vermilled — coloured vermilion
- via media — a middle way; a mean between two extremes.
- vide ante — (used to direct a reader to a specified place in a text) see before
- vide post — (used to direct a reader to a specified place in a text) see after
- videlicet — that is to say; namely (used especially to introduce examples, details, etc.). Abbreviation: viz.
- video art — an art form involving the creative exploitation of video technology to produce videotapes for viewing on a television screen.
- videocast — a television broadcast of the video only.
- videodisc — an act of recording.
- videodisk — See under record (def 17).
- videogram — an audiovisual recording, as on a videotape or DVD
- videoland — the world of television and televised images
- videoplay — teleplay.
- videoporn — pornographic movies available on videocassette or optical disk, on the Internet, or on subscription television.
- videotape — magnetic tape on which the electronic impulses produced by the video and audio portions of a television program, motion picture, etc., are recorded (distinguished from audiotape).
- videotext — an electronic information transmission and retrieval technology enabling interactive communication, for such purposes as data acquisition and dissemination and electronic banking and shopping, between typically large and diverse computer databases and users of home or office display terminals connected to telephone or cable-television lines, or through use of broadcast television signals.
- vindemial — relating to a grape harvest
- vindicate — to clear, as from an accusation, imputation, suspicion, or the like: to vindicate someone's honor.
- vistadome — dome (def 7).
- vivandier — a male sutler
- vividness — strikingly bright or intense, as color, light, etc.: a vivid green.
- vocalised — to make vocal; utter; articulate; sing.
- voir dire — an oath administered to a proposed witness or juror by which he or she is sworn to speak the truth in an examination to ascertain his or her competence.
- volkslied — a folk song.
- vulpicide — the act of killing a fox other than by hunting it with hounds.
- waveguide — a conduit, as a metal tube, coaxial cable, or strand of glass fibers, used as a conductor or directional transmitter for various kinds of electromagnetic waves.
- weevilled — infested with weevils.
- wind vane — weather vane.
- windhover — the kestrel, Falco tinnunculus.
- woodville — Elizabeth. ?1437–92, wife of Edward IV of England and mother of Edward V
- worldview — Weltanschauung.
- zip drive — (hardware, storage) A disk drive from Iomega Corporation which takes removable hard disks storig 100 to 750 megabytes. Both internal and external drives are manufactured, making the drive suitable for backup, mass storage or for moving files between computers. Software is included to help with file organisation. The internal SCSI model offers up to 60 MB / minute transfer rate. The Zip drive was awarded Byte's Readers' Hardware Choice Award 1996. It was superceded by the Jaz drive which takes one gigbyte disks.