English Words: V
7,391 words · Page 54 of 148
In a breechloading firearm, a vertical sliding block with a conical plug on its front surface to seal the firing chamber and close the breech.
Synonym of aventail (“mail curtain or flap, on a helmet or a mail coif, that protects the lower face and neck”).
Any of the nineteen points that divide an ordered distribution into twenty parts, each containing one twentieth of the population.
A small, pivoting or fixed glass panel set into the front corner of a vehicle's side window, designed to provide ventilation by directing airflow into the passenger compartment.
A town and civil parish with a town council on the south coast of the Isle of Wight, England (OS grid ref SZ5677).
Any of a set of tiered values for compensation for damages payable for injury to feelings and psychiatric injury, awarded by the Employment Tribunals of England and Wales and of Scotland.
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 54. 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.