English Words: V
7,391 words · Page 84 of 148
The study of the victims of crime, and especially of the reasons some people are more prone to be victims.
Any of a set of low-altitude airways defined as line segments, each based on a straight line between either two VOR (VHF omnidirectional range) stations, or a VOR and a VOR intersection.
Unfair judgement in which an entity gives preferential treatment to its own forces over those of a defeated enemy.
The highest military award in the honours system of the United Kingdom, and some members of the Commonwealth of Nations. Its symbol is a form of cross pattée.
A local government area in the Northern Territory, Australia; in full, Victoria Daly Regional Council.
A holiday commemorating the birthdays of Queen Victoria and the reigning monarch of Canada, falling on the last Monday before May 25.
A waterfall located in southern Africa on the Zambezi river between the countries of Zambia and Zimbabwe.
A harbour in Hong Kong separating Hong Kong Island in the south from the Kowloon Peninsula to the north.
A retail marketer of women's clothing and beauty products, best known for lingerie, founded in San Francisco in 1977.
A bathing procedure in which the bather sweats freely in a room heated by hot dry air (or in a series of two or three such rooms maintained at progressively higher temperatures), usually followed by a cold plunge, a full body wash and massage, and a final period of relaxation in a cooling-room.
A neighbourhood of Quebec. Synonym of Goose Village (a former Irish neighbourhood in Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
A silver coin, stamped with an image of Victory, minted during the Roman Republic, and valued at half a denarius.
A town in Arthabaska Regional County Municipality, in south-central Quebec, Canada.
Being or relating to a genre of steampunk that combines Victorian and Oriental themes.
A supposed chemical element discovered in 1898, later found to be a mixture of rare earths.
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 84. 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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