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- VEXATIOUSCausing vexation or annoyance; teasing; troublesome.
- VICUNAA South American mammal, Lama vicugna, closely related to the alpaca, llama, and guanaco.
- WHELKCertain edible sea snails, especially, any one of numerous species of large marine gastropods belonging to Buccinidae, much used as food in Europe.
- WHELMTo bury, to cover; to engulf, to submerge.
- WHIMBRELA large migratory wading bird, Numenius phaeopus, of the family Scolopacidae, with a long downcurved bill.
- WHYDUNITA type of detective story in which the focus is not on the person who committed the crime, but on the motives for committing it.
- WINKLEA periwinkle or its shell, of family Littorinidae.
- XANTHAMAlternative form of xanthan.
- XANTHICOf a yellowish colour.
- XIPHOIDShaped like a sword, ensiform.
- XYSTA xystus.