English Words Starting With V

• vorlage

  nounC2/Rare
  /ˈfɔː.lɑː.ɡə/A pre-existing document, template, or model used as a starting point for creating something new, especially in bureaucratic, legal, or drafting contexts.
• voronezh

  nounLow
  /vəˈrɒnɪʒ/A city in southwestern Russia, situated on the Voronezh River.
• voronoff

  nounVery Low
  /vɒˈrɒnɒf/Relating to or resembling the work or theories of Serge Voronoff, especially the surgical grafting of animal gland tissue to humans.
• voroshilov

  nounVery Low
  /vɒrəˈʃiːlɒf/A proper noun referring to Kliment Voroshilov, a prominent Soviet military and political figure.
• voroshilovgrad

  nounVery Low
  /vɒˈrɒʃɪlɒvˌɡræd/A historical name for the Ukrainian city Luhansk, in use from 1935 to 1958 and 1970 to 1990.
• voroshilovsk

  nounRare
  /vɔːˈrɒʃɪlɒf/A proper noun, most commonly referring to Kliment Voroshilov (1881–1969), a prominent Soviet military and political leader.
• vorspiel

  nounC1/C2
  /ˈfɔː(r)ˌʃpiːl/A short musical introduction or prelude.
• vorster

  nounVery rare
  /ˈvɔːstə/A person who carries out administrative work or a clerical role.
• vortex

  nounC1
  /ˈvɔːtɛks/A whirling mass of fluid or air, especially a whirlpool or whirlwind; something resembling such a flow in its power to draw things into its centre.
• vortex drag

  nounC2/Highly Technical
  /ˈvɔː.tɛks dræɡ/A force resisting an object's motion, caused by the rotation of fluids (like air or water) around it, resulting in swirling flow patterns.
• vortex ring

  nounC2 (Very Low Frequency)
  /ˈvɔː.tɛks ˌrɪŋ/A toroidal (doughnut-shaped) region of rotating fluid or gas, such as a smoke ring, where the flow is roughly axisymmetric.
• vortex shedding

  nounLow/Very Low
  /ˈvɔː.tɛks ˈʃɛd.ɪŋ/A fluid dynamics phenomenon where alternating vortices are shed behind a bluff body placed in a fluid flow.
• vortex street

  nounVery Low (C2)
  /ˈvɔːtɛks striːt/A repeating pattern of swirling vortices created when a fluid flows past a bluff (non-streamlined) body at certain speeds.
• vorticella

  nounC2 / Very Low
  /ˌvɔːtɪˈsɛlə/A type of microscopic, aquatic, single-celled organism (protist) from the ciliate family, typically attached to a surface by a long, slender, contractile stalk, with a bell-shaped body surrounded by cilia for feeding.
• vorticism

  nounRare
  /ˈvɔː.tɪ.sɪ.zəm/A short-lived early 20th-century British modernist art movement championing dynamic, angular, and machine-inspired abstraction.
• vorticity

  nounC2
  /vɔːˈtɪsɪti/A measure of the rotation of fluid particles in a flow.
• vortumnus

  nounRare
  /vɔːˈtʌmnəs/An Etruscan/Roman god of the seasons, change, and plant life, often associated with the turning of the year.
• vosges

  nounLow
  /vəʊʒ/A mountain range in northeastern France.
• voskhod

  nounLow (in English usage); primarily appears in historical/cultural contexts.
  /ˈvɒskhɒd/The Russian word for 'sunrise' or 'dawn'.
• vostok

  nounLow
  /ˈvɒstɒk/The Russian word for 'east'; primarily used in English in historical, geopolitical, or technical contexts relating to Russia, the Soviet Union, or space exploration.

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