English Words: V
7,391 words · Page 144 of 148
Initialism of Value of Statistical Life, a measure of the monetary value of reducing the statistical likelihood of death in a population by a given amount.
A fixed-wing aircraft that is capable of ascending into the air straight up as opposed to needing to accelerate horizontally first.
An orthorhombic-disphenoidal mineral containing aluminum, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, and silicon.
A musical genre emerged in Fiji in the 1980s, combining island music with disco and country elements.
A small to medium-sized cavity inside rock that may be formed through a variety of processes.
A city, the administrative centre of Vuhledar urban hromada, Volnovakha Raion, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, founded in 1964 around the Pivdennodonbaska 1 coal mine.
Of or pertaining to the ideas of Serbian philologist and linguist Vuk Karadžić (1787–1864) concerning the standardization of the Serbo-Croatian language.
A reef in the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea, administered as part of Sansha, Hainan, China, and claimed by Taiwan and Vietnam.
The god of volcanoes and fire, especially the forge, also the patron of all craftsmen, especially blacksmiths. The Roman counterpart of Hephaestus.
A gesture of greeting among Star Trek fans, consisting of a raised hand with the palm forward and the thumb extended, and the fingers parted between the middle finger and ring finger.
The Ancient Roman festival of the god Vulcan, celebrated on August 23, during which live fish or small animals were thrown into bonfires as a sacrifice.
Of, related to, or created by Vulcan, the Roman god of fire and metalwork, considered equivalent to the Greek Hephaestus and several German and Celtic gods.
The belief, held mostly in the 18th century, that rocks were formed in fire. It was a rival theory to Neptunism.
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The English alphabetical index for the letter V contains 7,391 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 148 pages, and you are currently viewing page 144. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.
On this page 50 of 50 entries carry a part-of-speech tag and 50 carry at least one stored definition. Coverage varies across letters because Wiktionary volunteers build entries at different speeds for different parts of the alphabet, letters with common starting sounds (S, C, T, P) usually have the densest coverage, while less frequent starters (X, Q, Z) tend to have shorter but more specialised lists. PlainSpell surfaces whatever data is present and links back to the source when a definition is not yet recorded.
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