English Words: V
7,391 words · Page 48 of 148
A small agile dinosaur, of the genus Velociraptor, having sickle-shaped claws. It is also thought to have had a feathered coat. Fossils have been found in Late Cretaceous deposits Mongolia and China (around 75-71 mya).
The condition of being accustomed to high speeds, so that they no longer seem as fast.
A vector quantity that denotes the rate of change of position with respect to time, combining speed with a directional component.
A human-powered vehicle, typically a recumbent tricycle with an outer fairing for aerodynamic advantage and/or protection from weather and collisions.
Articulated at the velopharynx. (Those with cleft palate produce such sounds instead of standard sibilants.)
A mother sauce in French cuisine, consisting of a light stock thickened with a blond roux.
A white wine made from a grape variety grown primarily in Austria, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic, often served with food.
Nickname for Donald Trump (born 1946), President of the United States (2017–2021; since 2025).
A closely woven fabric (originally of silk, now also of cotton or man-made fibres) with a thick short pile on one side.
A non-violent separation of formerly united nations, especially the one which occurred when Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993.
Superficial gentleness and courtesy masking a strong and unyielding will or determination.
Golden handcuffs: any arrangement designed to provide favorable benefits or pay so as to discourage a participant from choosing to leave it.
Any worm of the phylum Onychophora: an ecdysozoan organism with tiny eyes, antennae, multiple pairs of legs, and slime glands.
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 48. 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.