4-letter words containing v
- vest — a close-fitting, waist-length, sleeveless garment that buttons down the front, designed to be worn under a jacket.
- veto — the power or right vested in one branch of a government to cancel or postpone the decisions, enactments, etc., of another branch, especially the right of a president, governor, or other chief executive to reject bills passed by the legislature.
- vfat — (operating system) A standard developed by Microsoft to enable long file names on standard FAT partitions. VFAT suffers from all the drawbacks of FAT and adds more problems but moving to it is very easy.
- vffc — Vereinigten FCL Fan Club
- vgfn — Video Gamers First Network
- vgqf — A query language.
- vgwf — Video Game Wrestling Federation
- vhdl — Very High Speed Integrated Circuit (VHSIC) Hardware Description Language. A large high-level VLSI design language with Ada-like syntax. The DoD standard for hardware description, now standardised as IEEE 1076.
- vhll — Very-High-Level Language. A bondage-and-discipline language that the speaker happens to like; Prolog and Backus's FP are often called VHLLs.
- vial — Also, phial. a small container, as of glass, for holding liquids: a vial of rare perfume; a vial of medicine.
- vibe — Informal. vibration (def 4).
- vibs — climbing or walking shoes with rubber soles
- vice — 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.
- vick — a male given name, form of Victor.
- vico — Giovanni Battista [jaw-vahn-nee baht-tees-tah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni bɑtˈtis tɑ/ (Show IPA), 1668–1744, Italian philosopher and jurist.
- vida — a female given name.
- vide — see (used especially to refer a reader to parts of a text).
- vied — to strive in competition or rivalry with another; contend for superiority: Swimmers from many nations were vying for the title.
- vier — to strive in competition or rivalry with another; contend for superiority: Swimmers from many nations were vying for the title.
- vies — to strive in competition or rivalry with another; contend for superiority: Swimmers from many nations were vying for the title.
- viet — South Vietnam, North Vietnam, or both.
- view — an instance of seeing or beholding; visual inspection.
- vifa — Valley International Foosball Association
- viff — a technique used in flying VTOL aircraft to change direction suddenly by swivelling the jet engine nozzles
- viga — a rough-hewn beam, usually of fir, used to support the roof in adobe construction.
- vigo — Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), (Jean Almereyda) 1905–34, French film director.
- vigs — a charge paid on a bet, as to a bookie.
- viki — a female given name, form of Victoria.
- vila — a republic consisting of a group of 80 islands in the S Pacific, about 1000 miles (1600 km) NE of Australia: formerly under joint British and French administration; gained independence 1980. About 5700 sq. mi. (14,763 sq. km). Capital: Vila.
- vile — wretchedly bad: a vile humor.
- vill — a territorial division under the feudal system; township.
- vimy — a town in N France, N of Arras: battle 1917.
- vina — a musical stringed instrument of India, made of rosewood or ebony, consisting of a long, hollow, fretted stick to which one, two, or three gourds are attached to increase the resonance.
- vine — any plant having a long, slender stem that trails or creeps on the ground or climbs by winding itself about a support or holding fast with tendrils or claspers.
- vino — wine; specifically, red Italian wine, as chianti.
- vint — to sell (wine)
- viny — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resembling vines: viny tendrils.
- viol — a bowed musical instrument, differing from the violin in having deeper ribs, sloping shoulders, a greater number of strings, usually six, and frets: common in the 16th and 17th centuries in various sizes from the treble viol to the bass viol.
- vire — a type of arrow which had a turning motion and which was formerly used with a crossbow
- virl — ferrule (def 1).
- visa — an endorsement issued by an authorized representative of a country and marked in a passport, permitting the passport holder to enter, travel through, or reside in that country for a specified amount of time, for the purpose of tourism, education, employment, etc.
- vise — visa.
- vish — to try to obtain financial or other confidential information from people by placing phone calls, typically automated, that seem to be from a legitimate organization, usually a financial institution: an increase in vishing, facilitated by voIP, an Internet-based phone system.
- viso — Mount, a mountain in NW Italy: highest peak of the Cottian Alps. 12,602 feet (3841 meters).
- vita — curriculum vitae (def 1).
- vite — briskly; lively.
- vito — a male given name.
- viva — (in British and European universities) an oral examination; viva voce.
- vive — long live; up with (a specified person or thing)
- vivo — with life and vigour