7-letter words starting with v
- volsung — a grandson of Odin and the father of Sigmund and Signy.
- voltage — electromotive force or potential difference expressed in volts.
- voltaic — Electricity. noting or pertaining to electricity or electric currents, especially when produced by chemical action, as in a cell; galvanic.
- voluble — characterized by a ready and continuous flow of words; fluent; glib; talkative: a voluble spokesman for the cause.
- volubly — characterized by a ready and continuous flow of words; fluent; glib; talkative: a voluble spokesman for the cause.
- volumed — consisting of a volume or volumes (usually used in combination): a many-volumed work.
- volupté — intense pleasure that is both sensuous and spiritual; ecstasy; bliss
- voluspa — an Icelandic mythological poem
- voluted — having a carved ornament, esp as used on an Ionic capital, that has the form of a spiral scroll
- volutes — a spiral or twisted formation or object.
- volutin — basophilic nucleoprotein granules in the cytoplasm or the vacuoles of certain microorganisms.
- volvent — a small, pear-shaped nematocyst discharging a thread that entangles its prey.
- vomitus — the act of vomiting.
- vongole — (in Italian cookery) clams
- vorkuta — a city N of the Arctic Circle, in the Komi Republic, in NE European Russia.
- vorlage — a position in which a skier leans forward but keeps the heels in contact with the skis.
- vorster — Balthazar Johannes, 1915–83, South African political leader: prime minister 1966–78; president 1978–79.
- voskhod — one of a series of Soviet spacecraft, carrying two or three cosmonauts.
- votable — capable of being voted upon; subject to a vote: a votable issue.
- vote in — elect to power
- votress — a votaress.
- vouchee — the person for whom someone vouches.
- voucher — a person or thing that vouches.
- vouches — to support as being true, certain, reliable, etc. (usually followed by for): Her record in office vouches for her integrity.
- vouvray — a town in W central France, E of Tours.
- vowelly — marked by vowels
- vox pop — the voice of the people; popular opinion. Abbreviation. vox pop.
- voyager — one of a series of U.S. space probes that obtained scientific information while flying by the planets Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus.
- voyeuse — a chair of the 18th century used at game tables, having a padded top rail on which spectators could lean.
- vriesia — any of numerous tropical American epiphytic bromeliads of the genus Vriesia, many species of which are cultivated for their rosettes of variegated leaves and showy flower spikes.
- vt fuze — a variable time fuze.
- vulgars — characterized by ignorance of or lack of good breeding or taste: vulgar ostentation.
- vulgate — the Latin version of the Bible, prepared chiefly by Saint Jerome at the end of the 4th century a.d., and used as the authorized version of the Roman Catholic Church.
- vulpine — of or resembling a fox.
- vulture — any of several large, primarily carrion-eating Old World birds of prey of the family Accipitridae, often having a naked head and less powerful feet than those of the related hawks and eagles.
- vulturn — an Australian wild turkey
- vxworks — (operating system) A real-time multitasking operating system from Wind River Systems. Originally it used the VRTX kernel but this has been replaced by Wind River's own "Wind kernel 2.4". Before version 5.3 VxWorks included a software development environment but this is now called "Tornado".
- vyernyi — former name of Alma-Ata.
- vyingly — in a vying manner