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- VEHEMENTShowing strong feelings; passionate; forceful or intense.
- VEHICLEA conveyance: a spacious device for carrying or transporting substances, objects, people or animals.
- VEHICULAROf or pertaining to a vehicle or vehicles, usually specifically cars and trucks; involving a vehicle.
- VEILSomething hung up or spread out to hide or protect the face, or hide an object from view; usually of gauze, crepe, or similar diaphanous material.
- VEINA blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart.
- VELAMENA covering membrane or velum
- VELARArticulated at the velum or soft palate.
- VELARIUMThe marginal membrane of certain medusae belonging to the Discophora.
- VELATEHaving a veil; veiled.
- VELIGERThe planktonic larva of many kinds of marine and freshwater gastropod molluscs, as well as most bivalve molluscs.
- VELOCIPEDEAn early two-wheeled conveyance upon which one rode astride a wooden frame propelled by means of pushing the feet against the ground.
- VELOCITYA vector quantity that denotes the rate of change of position with respect to time, combining speed with a directional component.
- VELUMA thin membrane resembling a veil or curtain. The soft palate. A thin membrane partially covering the cluster of sporangia near the leaf base in quillworts and their extinct relati
- VENASynonym of vein.
- VENALVenous; pertaining to veins.
- VENALITYThe fact or state of being for sale, especially with reference to bribes or corruption.
- VENATICOf, pertaining to or involved in hunting.
- VENATORIALOf, pertaining to or involved in hunting or the chase.
- VENDSynonym of sell, to sell through a vending machine.
- VENDACEEither of two types of whitefish, Coregonus albula and Coregonus vandesius.
- VENDETTARevenge.
- VENDIBLESalable; able to be bought, sold, or traded.
- VENDORA person or a company that vends or sells.
- VENDUEA public auction.
- VENEFICpoisonous; pertaining to poison or poisoning
- VENEFICALObsolete form of veneficial.
- VENERABILITYThe qualities of being venerable; great age, respectability, infirmity, etc.
- VENERABLECommanding respect because of age, dignity, character or position.
- VENERABLESCommanding respect because of age, dignity, character or position.
- VENERATETo treat with great respect and deference.
- VENEREOUSvenereal (of diseases)
- VENERYThe hunting of wild animals.
- VENGETo avenge; to punish; to revenge.
- VENIALAble to be forgiven; worthy of forgiveness.
- VENIREA writ of venire facias.
- VENOUSOf or pertaining to veins.
- VENTAn opening through which gases, especially air, can pass.
- VENTERA woman with offspring.
- VENTILATORA device that circulates fresh air and expels stale or noxious air.
- VENTRALRelated to the abdomen or stomach.
- VENTRICLEAny small cavity within a body; a hollow part or organ, especially: One of two lower chambers of the heart.
- VENTRICULUSA digestive cavity such as a gizzard or stomach.
- VENTRILOQUYVentriloquism.
- VENUSAny of the bivalve molluscs in the genus Venus or family Veneridae.
- VERACIOUSTrue.
- VERACITYThe quality of speaking or stating the truth; truthfulness.
- VERBALOf or relating to words.
- VERBASCUMA mullein (of genus Verbascum)
- VERBATIMWord for word; in exactly the same words as were used originally.
- VERBICIDEThe destruction or elimination of a word.
- VERBOSITYThe excess use of words, especially using more than are needed for clarity or precision.
- VERDANTGreen in colour.
- VERECUNDmodest
- VERGEA rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger. The stick or wand with which persons were formerly admitted tenants, by holding it in the hand and swearing fealty to the lord. Such ten
- VERIDICveridical
- VERIDICALTrue.
- VERIFYTo substantiate or prove the truth of something.
- VERISMPresenting common, everyday subjects, specifically eschewing the heroic or legendary.
- VERITABLETrue; genuine.
- VERITASTruth, particularly of a transcendent character.
- VERITYTruth, fact or reality, especially an enduring religious or ethical truth; veracity.
- VERMALRelating to the vermis
- VERMEILBright scarlet, vermilion.
- VERMICIDEAny substance used to kill worms, especially parasitic intestinal worms
- VERMICULATETo decorate with lines resembling the tracks of worms.
- VERMICULEA small worm or worm-like organism.
- VERMICULITEA hydrated silicate mineral which expands on heating; it is used in insulation and as a medium for planting.
- VERMICULOUSContaining, or full of, worms; resembling worms; wormy.
- VERMIFUGALTending to prevent, destroy, or expel worms or vermin; anthelmintic.
- VERMIFUGEActing as a drug to cause the expulsion or death of intestinal worms.
- VERMILIONA vivid red synthetic pigment made of mercury sulfide, cinnabar.
- VERMINAny of various common types of small insects or other animals which cause harm and annoyance.
- VERMINATETo breed vermin.
- VERNALITIESThe quality of being vernal or spring-like.
- VERNALITYThe quality of being vernal or spring-like.
- VERNIXVernix caseosa; a fatty deposit covering the skin of newborn babies.
- VERNIXESVernix caseosa; a fatty deposit covering the skin of newborn babies.
- VERSANTExperienced, practiced.
- VERSATILECapable of doing many things competently.
- VERSEA poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme.
- VERSICLEOne of a series of lines that are shorter than a standard line of verse, particularly in a hymn.
- VERSIFYto make or compose verses
- VERSIONA specific form or variation of something.
- VERSOThe back side of a flat object which is to be examined visually, as for reading, such as a sheet, leaf, coin or medal; The left-hand page of a book of a script which reads from lef
- VERSUTEcrafty; wily; artful
- VERTA green colour, now only in heraldry; represented in engraving by diagonal parallel lines 45 degrees counter-clockwise.
- VERTEXThe highest point, top or apex of something.
- VERTICALStanding, pointing, or moving straight up or down; parallel to the local direction of gravity; along the direction of a plumb line; perpendicular to something horizontal.
- VERTICILA whorl, a group of similar parts such as leaves radiating from a shared axis
- VERTIGINOUSHaving an aspect of great depth, drawing the eye to look downwards.
- VERTIGOA sensation of whirling and loss of balance, caused by looking down from a great height or by disease affecting the inner ear.
- VERTUThe fine arts as a subject of study or expertise; understanding of arts and antiquities.
- VERTUSThe fine arts as a subject of study or expertise; understanding of arts and antiquities.
- VESICAA bladder, especially the urinary bladder or the gall bladder.
- VESICALPertaining to the urinary bladder.
- VESICANTCausing blistering to the skin.
- VESICLEA membrane-bound compartment found in a cell.
- VESICULASynonym of vesicle (small blister).
- VESPERThe bell that summons worshippers to vespers; the vesper-bell.
- VESPERTILIANof, pertaining to, or characteristic of bats.