7-letter words starting with v
- visnomy — a method of judging character from facial features
- vistaed — possessing or forming a vista or vistas.
- vistula — a river in Poland, flowing N from the Carpathian Mountains past Warsaw into the Baltic near Danzig. About 650 miles (1050 km) long.
- vitally — of or relating to life: vital processes.
- vitamer — a chemical compound which exhibits vitamin activity
- vitamin — any of a group of organic substances essential in small quantities to normal metabolism, found in minute amounts in natural foodstuffs or sometimes produced synthetically: deficiencies of vitamins produce specific disorders.
- vitebsk — a city in NE Byelorussia (Belarus), on the Dvina River.
- vitesse — speed
- vitiate — to impair the quality of; make faulty; spoil.
- vitoria — a state in E Brazil. 15,196 sq. mi. (39,360 sq. km). Capital: Vitória.
- vitrage — a light fabric used for curtains
- vitrail — stained glass
- vitrain — the material of which the friable, vitreous layers in banded bituminous coal are composed.
- vitreum — (in prescriptions) glass.
- vitrics — (used with a singular verb) the art and technology of making glass products.
- vitrify — to convert or be converted into glass or a glassy substance
- vitrine — a glass cabinet or case, especially for displaying art objects.
- vitriol — Chemistry. any of certain metallic sulfates of glassy appearance, as copper sulfate or blue vitriol, iron sulfate or green vitriol, zinc sulfate or white vitriol, etc.
- vittate — provided with or having a vitta or vittae.
- vittles — victuals, food supplies; provisions.
- vivaldi — Antonio [an-toh-nee-oh;; Italian ahn-taw-nyaw] /ænˈtoʊ niˌoʊ;; Italian ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1678–1741, Italian violinist and composer.
- vivency — a manifestation of physical or mental energy
- viverra — an animal of the civet genus
- viviani — René [ruh-ney] /rəˈneɪ/ (Show IPA), 1863–1925, French statesman: premier of France 1911–15.
- vividly — strikingly bright or intense, as color, light, etc.: a vivid green.
- vivific — giving life
- viyella — a soft fabric made of wool and cotton, used esp for blouses and shirts
- vlogger — a blog that features mostly videos rather than text or images.
- vo-tech — vocational-technical: used especially of a school curriculum.
- vocable — a word; term; name.
- vocalic — of, relating to, or resembling a vowel.
- vocally — of, relating to, or uttered with the voice: the vocal mechanism; vocal criticism.
- vocoder — an electronic device that synthesizes speech.
- vocular — vocal or vocalic
- voetsek — an expression of dismissal or rejection
- voguing — a dance consisting of a series of stylized poses struck in imitation of fashion models.
- voguish — being in vogue; fashionable; chic.
- voicing — the sound or sounds uttered through the mouth of living creatures, especially of human beings in speaking, shouting, singing, etc.
- voiding — the discharging of waste matter from the body
- voiotia — a department of E central Greece: corresponds to ancient Boeotia and part of ancient Phocis. Pop: 123 913 (2001). Area: 3173 sq km (1225 sq miles)
- voiture — a carriage, wagon, or other wheeled vehicle.
- voivode — (in Eastern European history) a local ruler or governor, especially the semi-independent rulers of Transylvania, Wallachia, or Moldavia before c1700.
- volable — quick-witted
- volante — a horse carriage of Spanish origin
- volapuk — one of the earliest of the artificially constructed international auxiliary languages, invented about 1879.
- volatic — a creature with wings
- volcano — a vent in the earth's crust through which lava, steam, ashes, etc., are expelled, either continuously or at irregular intervals.
- volcker — Paul Adolph, born 1927, U.S. economist: Federal Reserve Board chairman 1979–87.
- vologda — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, NNE of Moscow.
- volpino — an Italian breed of dog