Phrase Hound found 6 phrases and 15 compound words that contain volta. The most common are listed below. Open volta in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 6
- Upper VoltaFormer name of Burkina Faso: a country in West Africa, used from 1958-1984.
- Red VoltaA waterway in West Africa.
- Volta-NigerOne of the branches of the Niger-Congo language family.
- Proto-Volta-NigerThe reconstructed proto-language ancestral to the Volta-Niger languages.
- volta-electricOf or pertaining to voltaic electricity, i.e. electric currents, or voltaism, the chemical generation of electricity.
- volta-electricityVoltaic electricity.
Compound words 15
- voltaicOf, relating to, or producing electricity.
- VoltanSomeone who lives by the river Volta.
- voltaismgalvanism
- VoltaireA surname from French.
- voltagesplural of voltage: The difference in electrostatic potential between two points in space, especially between live and neutral conductors or the earth.
- TravoltaA surname from Italian. Most famously borne by American actor John Travolta
- voltaelectricUncommon spelling of volta-electric.
- Voltaicsplural of Voltaic: Of, relating to, or producing electricity.
- Voltairesplural of Voltaire: A surname from French.
- VoltairianAlternative form of Voltairean: Of or pertaining to François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778; pen name "Voltaire"), French writer, essayist, and philosopher known for his wit and defence of civil liberties.