English Words: V
7,391 words · Page 4 of 148
A student who has finished a certain level of schooling and is on holiday while they wait to receive their national examination marks, which will allow them to continue their education.
Initialism of Vertebral anomalies, Anal atresia, Cardiac defects, Tracheoesophageal fistula and/or Esophageal atresia, Renal and radial anomalies, and Limb defects (A group of birth defects that tend to occur together).
A centrifuge that operates in a vacuum; especially one used to concentrate or dehydrate biological samples
A believer in vacuism; someone who holds the doctrine that there is a vacuum in the space between the bodies of the universe, or the molecules and atoms of matter.
A glass or plastic test tube with a rubber stopper creating an internal vacuum, used to draw blood samples.
A device consisting of a large, latex envelope attached to a frame, from which most of the air may be removed via a vacuum pump while a person lies inside, which heavily restricts movement and induces asphyxiation for the purposes of stimulation.
A brake used on trains, working on the principle of keeping up a vacuum in a continuous pipe or pipes extending under the train, and in brake-cylinders connected to them under each vehicle, the air being sucked out by ejectors or pumps on the locomotive.
A device that uses suction, and often agitation, in order to remove dirt and other debris from carpets and hard floors.
To pack something in an airtight container from which some or all of the air is removed, creating a partial vacuum.
A piece of equipment used for extraction of gas or vapour from an enclosed space, leaving the container with a partial vacuum.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
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 4. 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.
For readers using this index as a spelling reference, the guarantee is that every form you see on the list is a documented English headword, not a guess, not a derived inflection lacking a lemma row. If a word you expected to find is absent from the "V" list, it usually means the form exists only as an inflection of another lemma (e.g. a past participle stored under the infinitive) or the entry has not yet been imported from Wiktionary. Use the search bar or the misspelling lookup to resolve these cases.