Words starting with V

122 words.

• vagarist One whose thought wanders in many directions.
• vagitate To wander or move at random.
• vaguen To make (something) vague or more vague; to blur, to obscure.
• vagus A homeless person or vagrant.
• valanced Furnished or ornamented with a valance.
• valedict To farewell; to make a valediction or parting gesture.
• valetudinarian Sickly, infirm, of ailing health; related to ill health.
• valetudinary Sickly, infirm, valetudinarian.
• vamachara Any such path, set of practices or individual practice.
• vaporium A curved hollow metal sheet that is filled with boiling water and used for the therapeutic applicati
• vardapet A highly educated archimandrite in the Armenian Apostolic Church tradition who holds a Doctorate in
• vargord A spar or bar used instead of a bowline.
• variorum An edition of a written work (especially the complete works of a classical writer) showing the notes
• varmint An obnoxious person or troublemaker.
• vates A poet or bard who is divinely inspired.
• vaticinate To predict or foretell future events; to prophesy or presage.
• vavasour a subvassal; someone holding their lands from a vassal of the crown rather than from the crown direc
• vedro A Russian liquid measure, equal to approximately 2.7 imperial gallons.
• velarium The marginal membrane of certain medusae belonging to the Discophora.
• velleity The lowest degree of desire or volition; a total lack of effort to act.
• vellicate To touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or
• vellichor The pensive nostalgia and temporality of used bookstores; the feeling evoked by the scent of old boo
• velocipede An early two-wheeled conveyance upon which one rode astride a wooden frame propelled by means of pus
• velveeta The crossposting of a message to an unreasonably large number of newsgroups.
• venality The fact or state of being for sale, especially with reference to bribes or corruption.
• venation The hunting of wild animals.
• vendaval A westerly wind, especially one that blows into the Mediterranean Sea around the area of the Straits
• vendication An act of claiming property.
• venditate To exhibit, as though for sale; to show off.
• venenate To poison; to infect with poison.
• venene Venenose, venenous, venomous, poisonous.
• venery The hunting of wild animals.
• venge To avenge; to punish; to revenge.
• venire A writ of venire facias.
• venitive Indicating motion to or toward a thing.
• ventail The movable front part of a medieval helmet, originally including the visor but later specifically t
• ventriduct To bring, carry, or draw the head of an animal (or another body part) toward the belly or the lower
• venustraphobia Fear of beautiful women.
• verboten (Strictly) forbidden or prohibited.
• verdoy Charged with leaves, fruits, flowers, etc.; said of a border.
• verdurous Freshly green; verdant; covered with verdure, or consisting of it.
• vergence The simultaneous turning of both eyes when focusing.
• vergescu The white shield that was the mark of novice knights, especially in Arthurian legend.
• vergobret A magistrate in ancient Gaul who held the highest office in many Gallic cities, especially among the
• veridical True.
• verisimilar Appearing to be true or real; probable; likely.
• verisimilitude The property of seeming true, of resembling reality; resemblance to reality.
• verjuice To render something sour; to embitter.
• verklempt Overcome with emotion, choked up.
• verkramp Politically conservative.
• verlig politically optimistic and receptive to change
• vernant Flourishing, as in spring; vernal.
• vernix Vernix caseosa; a fatty deposit covering the skin of newborn babies.
• veronal A barbiturate, used formerly to induce sleep.
• versable Capable of being turned; flexible, changeable, or inconsistent.
• versant Experienced, practiced.
• vertible Able to turn or to be turned; changeable.
• vertu The fine arts as a subject of study or expertise; understanding of arts and antiquities.
• vesper The bell that summons worshippers to vespers; the vesper-bell.
• vestiary A dressing room or storeroom for clothes, especially in a church or other religious house.
• vestiture The hairs of plants, invertebrates and other non-mammalian organisms, taken as a whole.
• vesture A covering of, or like, clothing.
• viaticum The Eucharist, when given to a person who is dying or one in danger of death.
• vibecession A general state of societal pessimism about the economy, independently of whether a recession is cur
• vibrotaxis The way an organism responds to mechanical (physical) vibrations.
• vicambulist Someone who walks or wanders streets.
• vicenarian A person whose age is between twenty and twenty-nine years, inclusive; someone in their twenties.
• vicenary An officer in command of twenty men.
• vicennalia The festival and religious rituals celebrating a Roman emperor's 20th year of rule.
• vicinage A surrounding district; a neighbourhood.
• victimology The study of the victims of crime, and especially of the reasons some people are more prone to be vi
• vicus A small civilian settlement outside a Roman fort.
• videlicet Namely, to wit, that is to say (used when clarifying or naming the preceding item or topic)
• vierling A long firearm with four barrels (typically two shotgun barrels and two rifle barrels).
• viewquake A sudden drastic shift in someone's view on the world or a particular subject.
• vigesimal Occurring in intervals of twenty.
• vigintile Any of the values in a series that divides the distribution of individuals in that series into twent
• vilipend To treat (something) as inconsequential or worthless; to despise, to look down on.
• villein A feudal tenant, a serf.
• vincible Capable of being defeated or overcome; assailable or vulnerable.
• vinnewed Mouldy; (by extension) having some other unwanted or spoiling growth like mould.
• virago A woman given to undue belligerence or ill manner at the slightest provocation.
• virama A diacritic used in most writing systems of the Indian subcontinent to signify the lack of an inhere
• virelai A medieval poetic form consisting of two or more three line units in each stanza, with the rhyme sch
• virga A type of note used in plainsong notation, having a tail and representing a single tone.
• virgated Striped; streaked with rod-shaped (long and narrow) streaks.
• virgule A medieval punctuation mark similar to the slash ⟨/⟩ or pipe ⟨|⟩ and used as a scratch comma and cae
• virial One-half of the product of the stress of attraction or repulsion with the distance between two parti
• virome The genomes of all the viruses that inhabit a particular organism or environment.
• viscacha Any of the several South American rodents, native to the Andes Mountains, of the genera Lagidium and
• viscoid Derived from viscose (a liquid made from cellulose).
• viscounty The territory administered by a viscount as (notably royal) official
• visitant One who visits; a guest; a visitor.
• vitalometer A device used to test the vitality of the dental pulp.
• vitellus The contents or substance of the ovum; egg yolk.
• vitiation A reduction in the value, or an impairment in the quality of something.
• vitology An approach to healthy living promoted in the late 19th and early 20th century.
• vitrain A constituent of banded bituminous coal consisting of a horizontal glossy band of friable material.
• vitrine A glass-paneled cabinet or case, especially for displaying articles such as china, objets d'art, fin
• vituperate To criticize (someone or something) in an abusive or harsh manner.
• vivificate To give life to; to animate or vitalise.
• viziometrics The organization and presentation of visual information.
• vocabulist The writer or maker of a vocabulary (dictionary or glossary); a lexicographer.
• vocant A vowel-like sound such as uttered by a preverbal infant.
• vocule An emphatic aspiration or burst of air.
• voider One who, or that which, voids, empties, vacates, or annuls.
• volens In the state of mind where one voluntarily accepts a specific risk.
• volia freedom; lack of restraint or constriction.
• volost A traditional administrative subdivision in Eastern Europe.
• voluntell To tell or force (someone) to "volunteer" to do something.
• voluptuary One whose life is devoted to sensual appetites; a pleasure-seeker, a sensualist.
• volutation A circular movement; a rolling, wallowing, circulation or rotation.
• volution A turning (rolling or revolving) motion.
• voorwerp An ionization or light echo, especially the quasar ionization echo known as Hanny's Voorwerp.
• voskresnik A Sunday designated for community volunteer work, such as cleaning the streets, after the October Re
• votator A machine that cools and kneads liquid margarine etc., preparatory to packaging.
• voulgier A fighter armed with a voulge, particularly in a French military context.
• voussoir One of a series of wedge-shaped bricks or stones forming an arch or vault.
• vranyo White lies or half-lies ascribed to Russian culture, told without the intention of (maliciously) dec
• vulnerary Useful or used for healing wounds; curative, healing.
• vulpine Any of certain canids called foxes (including true foxes, arctic foxes and grey foxes), distinguishe
• vuvuzela A trumpet-shaped horn, now usually plastic, that produces a loud buzzing sound.