5-letter words containing v, s, i
- visct — Viscount or Viscountess
- vised — any of various devices, usually having two jaws that may be brought together or separated by means of a screw, lever, or the like, used to hold an object firmly while work is being done on it.
- viseu — a city in N central Portugal: 12th-century cathedral. Pop: 93 502 (2001)
- visit — to go to and stay with (a person or family) or at (a place) for a short time for reasons of sociability, politeness, business, curiosity, etc.: to visit a friend; to visit clients; to visit Paris.
- visna — Veterinary Pathology. a disease of sheep, caused by a quickly mutating lentivirus, and affecting the central nervous system.
- visne — a neighbourhood, or a jury selected from the neighbourhood, in which a disputed action or crime occurred
- vison — a North American mink
- visor — Armor. (on a close helmet) a piece having slits or holes for vision, situated above and pivoted with a beaver or a ventail and beaver. a similar piece of plate having holes or slits for vision and breathing, attached to or used with any of various other helmets, as the armet, sallet, basinet, or helm.
- vista — a national program in the U.S., sponsored by ACTION, for sending volunteers into poor areas to teach various job skills.
- vitas — a female given name, form of Davida.
- vives — inflammation and swelling of the submaxillary gland in horses.
- vlisp — (language) 1. A Lisp dialect developed by Patrick Greussay <[email protected]> in about 1973 with a fast interpreter and a portable virtual machine. Vlisp introduced the "chronology", a dynamic environment for implementing interrupts. It led to Le_Lisp. See also ObjVlisp. 2. Vincennes LISP.
- vries — Hugo [hyoo-goh;; Dutch hy-goh] /ˈhyu goʊ;; Dutch ˈhü goʊ/ (Show IPA), 1848–1935, Dutch botanist and student of organic heredity: developed the concept of mutation as a factor in the process of evolution.
- wives — plural of wife.