| vehemence | (noun) the property of being wild or turbulent | Synonyms: ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, violence, wildness |
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| (noun) intensity or forcefulness of expression | Synonyms: emphasis |
| vehicle | (noun) a conveyance that transports people or objects | - |
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| (noun) a medium for the expression or achievement of something | - |
| (noun) any inanimate object (as a towel or money or clothing or dishes or books or toys etc.) that can transmit infectious agents from one person to another | Synonyms: fomite |
| (noun) any substance that facilitates the use of a drug or pigment or other material that is mixed with it | - |
| veil | (noun) a garment that covers the head and face | Synonyms: head covering |
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| (noun) a vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church; a silk shawl | Synonyms: humeral veil |
| (noun) the inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth) | Synonyms: caul, embryonic membrane |
| (noun) a membranous covering attached to the immature fruiting body of certain mushrooms | Synonyms: velum |
| veiling | (noun) a net of transparent fabric with a loose open weave | Synonyms: gauze, netting |
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| vein | (noun) one of the horny ribs that stiffen and support the wing of an insect | Synonyms: nervure |
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| (noun) a blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart | Synonyms: vena, venous blood vessel |
| (noun) a distinctive style or manner | - |
| (noun) a layer of ore between layers of rock | Synonyms: mineral vein |
| (noun) any of the vascular bundles or ribs that form the branching framework of conducting and supporting tissues in a leaf or other plant organ | Synonyms: nervure |
| velar | (noun) a consonant produced with the back of the tongue touching or near the soft palate | Synonyms: velar consonant |
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| veld | (noun) elevated open grassland in southern Africa | Synonyms: veldt |
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| veldt | (noun) elevated open grassland in southern Africa | Synonyms: veld |
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| velleity | (noun) volition in its weakest form | - |
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| (noun) a mere wish, unaccompanied by effort to obtain | - |
| vellication | (noun) a sudden muscle spasm; especially one caused by a nervous condition | Synonyms: twitch, twitching |
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| vellum | (noun) fine parchment prepared from the skin of a young animal e.g. a calf or lamb | - |
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| (noun) a heavy creamy-colored paper resembling parchment | - |
| velocipede | (noun) a vehicle with three wheels that is moved by foot pedals | Synonyms: tricycle, trike |
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| (noun) any of several early bicycles with pedals on the front wheel | - |
| velociraptor | (noun) small active carnivore that probably fed on protoceratops; possibly related more closely to birds than to other dinosaurs | - |
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| velocity | (noun) distance travelled per unit time | Synonyms: speed |
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| velodrome | (noun) a banked oval track for bicycle or motorcycle racing | - |
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| velour | (noun) heavy fabric that resembles velvet | Synonyms: velours |
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| velours | (noun) heavy fabric that resembles velvet | Synonyms: velour |
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| veloute | (noun) white sauce made with stock instead of milk | - |
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| velum | (noun) a muscular flap that closes off the nasopharynx during swallowing or speaking | Synonyms: soft palate |
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| (noun) a membranous covering attached to the immature fruiting body of certain mushrooms | Synonyms: veil |
| velvet | (noun) a silky densely piled fabric with a plain back | - |
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| velveteen | (noun) a usually cotton fabric with a short pile imitating velvet | - |
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| velvetiness | (noun) Quality of velvet: velvety appearance, feeling, or taste. | - |
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| velvetleaf | (noun) tall annual herb or subshrub of tropical Asia having velvety leaves and yellow flowers and yielding a strong fiber; naturalized in southeastern Europe and United States | Synonyms: Abutilon theophrasti, butter-print, China jute, Indian mallow, velvet-leaf, velvetweed |
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| (noun) arborescent perennial shrub having palmately lobed furry leaves and showy red-purple flowers; southwestern United States | Synonyms: Lavatera arborea, tree mallow, velvet-leaf |
| velvetweed | (noun) tall annual herb or subshrub of tropical Asia having velvety leaves and yellow flowers and yielding a strong fiber; naturalized in southeastern Europe and United States | Synonyms: Abutilon theophrasti, butter-print, China jute, Indian mallow, velvet-leaf, velvetleaf |
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| vena | (noun) a blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart | Synonyms: vein, venous blood vessel |
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| venality | (noun) prostitution of talents or offices or services for reward | - |
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| venation | (noun) (zoology) the system of venous blood vessels in an animal | Synonyms: venous blood system |
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| (noun) (botany) the arrangement of veins in a leaf | - |
| vendee | (noun) a person who buys | Synonyms: buyer, emptor, purchaser |
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| vender | (noun) someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money | Synonyms: marketer, seller, trafficker, vendor |
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| vendetta | (noun) a feud in which members of the opposing parties murder each other | Synonyms: blood feud |
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| vending | (noun) the act of selling goods for a living | Synonyms: hawking, peddling, vendition |
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| vendition | (noun) the act of selling goods for a living | Synonyms: hawking, peddling, vending |
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| vendor | (noun) someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money | Synonyms: marketer, seller, trafficker, vender |
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| vendue | (noun) the public sale of something to the highest bidder | Synonyms: auction, auction sale |
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| veneer | (noun) an ornamental coating to a building | Synonyms: facing |
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| (noun) coating consisting of a thin layer of superior wood glued to a base of inferior wood | Synonyms: veneering |
| veneering | (noun) the act of applying veneer | - |
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| (noun) coating consisting of a thin layer of superior wood glued to a base of inferior wood | Synonyms: veneer |
| venerability | (noun) the quality of deserving veneration | Synonyms: venerableness |
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| venerableness | (noun) the quality of deserving veneration | Synonyms: venerability |
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| veneration | (noun) religious zeal; the willingness to serve God | Synonyms: cultism, devotion |
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| (noun) a feeling of profound respect for someone or something | Synonyms: awe, fear, reverence |
| venerator | (noun) someone who regards with deep respect or reverence | - |
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| venesection | (noun) surgical incision into a vein; used to treat hemochromatosis | Synonyms: phlebotomy |
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| vengeance | (noun) the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life | Synonyms: payback, retribution |
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| vengefulness | (noun) a malevolent desire for revenge | Synonyms: vindictiveness |
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| venipuncture | (noun) (medicine) puncture of a vein through the skin in order to withdraw blood for analysis or to start an intravenous drip or to inject medication or a radiopaque dye | - |
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| venire | (noun) (law) a group of people summoned for jury service (from whom a jury will be chosen) | Synonyms: panel |
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| venison | (noun) meat from a deer used as food | - |
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| venogram | (noun) an X ray of a vein injected with a radiopaque contrast medium | Synonyms: phlebogram |
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| venography | (noun) roentgenographic examination of veins | - |
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| venom | (noun) feeling a need to see others suffer | Synonyms: malice, maliciousness, spite, spitefulness |
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| (noun) toxin secreted by animals; secreted by certain snakes and poisonous insects (e.g., spiders and scorpions) | - |
| venomousness | (noun) The property of being poisonous or envenomed; or of having a venom-producing gland. | - |
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| vent | (noun) activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion | Synonyms: outlet, release |
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| (noun) external opening of urinary or genital system of a lower vertebrate | - |
| (noun) a hole for the escape of gas or air | Synonyms: blowhole, vent-hole, venthole |
| (noun) a slit in a garment (as in the back seam of a jacket) | - |
| (noun) a fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt | Synonyms: volcano |
| ventail | (noun) a medieval hood of mail suspended from a basinet to protect the head and neck | Synonyms: aventail, camail |
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| venter | (noun) the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis | Synonyms: abdomen, belly, stomach |
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| (noun) a bulging body part (as the belly of a muscle) | - |
| (noun) the womb | - |
| (noun) a speaker who expresses or gives vent to a personal opinion or grievance | - |
| venthole | (noun) a hole for the escape of gas or air | Synonyms: blowhole, vent-hole, vent |
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| ventilation | (noun) the act of supplying fresh air and getting rid of foul air | Synonyms: airing |
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| (noun) the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation | Synonyms: breathing, external respiration, respiration |
| (noun) a mechanical system in a building that provides fresh air | Synonyms: ventilating system, ventilation system |
| (noun) free and open discussion of (or debate on) some question of public interest | Synonyms: public discussion |
| ventilator | (noun) a device (such as a fan) that introduces fresh air or expels foul air | - |
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| (noun) a device that facilitates breathing in cases of respiratory failure | Synonyms: breathing apparatus, breathing device, breathing machine |
| venting | (noun) the act of venting | Synonyms: discharge |
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| ventricle | (noun) a chamber of the heart that receives blood from an atrium and pumps it to the arteries | Synonyms: heart ventricle |
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| (noun) one of four connected cavities in the brain; is continuous with the central canal of the spinal cord and contains cerebrospinal fluid | - |
| ventriculus | (noun) thick-walled muscular pouch below the crop in many birds and reptiles for grinding food | Synonyms: gastric mill, gizzard |
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| ventriloquism | (noun) the art of projecting your voice so that it seems to come from another source (as from a ventriloquist's dummy) | Synonyms: ventriloquy |
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| ventriloquist | (noun) a performer who projects the voice into a wooden dummy | - |
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| ventriloquy | (noun) the art of projecting your voice so that it seems to come from another source (as from a ventriloquist's dummy) | Synonyms: ventriloquism |
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| venture | (noun) any venturesome undertaking especially one with an uncertain outcome | - |
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| (noun) a commercial undertaking that risks a loss but promises a profit | - |
| (noun) an investment that is very risky but could yield great profits | Synonyms: speculation |
| venturer | (noun) a person who enjoys taking risks | Synonyms: adventurer |
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| (noun) a merchant who undertakes a trading venture (especially a venture that sends goods overseas) | Synonyms: merchant-venturer |
| venturesomeness | (noun) the trait of being adventurous | Synonyms: adventurousness |
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| venturi | (noun) a tube with a constriction; used to control fluid flow (as in the air inlet of a carburetor) | - |
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| venue | (noun) in law: the jurisdiction where a trial will be held | - |
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| (noun) the scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting) | Synonyms: locale, locus |
| venula | (noun) a minute vein continuous with a capillary | Synonyms: capillary vein, venule |
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| venule | (noun) a minute vein continuous with a capillary | Synonyms: capillary vein, venula |
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| veracity | (noun) unwillingness to tell lies | - |
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| veranda | (noun) a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed) | Synonyms: gallery, verandah |
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| verandah | (noun) a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed) | Synonyms: gallery, veranda |
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| verapamil | (noun) a drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine | Synonyms: Calan, Isoptin |
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| verb | (noun) a content word that denotes an action, occurrence, or state of existence | - |
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| (noun) the word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence | - |
| verbalisation | (noun) the activity of expressing something in words | Synonyms: verbalization |
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| (noun) the words that are spoken in the activity of verbalization | Synonyms: verbalization |
| verbaliser | (noun) someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous) | Synonyms: speaker, talker, utterer, verbalizer |
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| verbalism | (noun) the communication (in speech or writing) of your beliefs or opinions | Synonyms: expression, verbal expression |
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| (noun) overabundance of words | Synonyms: verbiage |
| verbalization | (noun) the activity of expressing something in words | Synonyms: verbalisation |
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| (noun) the words that are spoken in the activity of verbalization | Synonyms: verbalisation |
| verbalizer | (noun) someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous) | Synonyms: speaker, talker, utterer, verbaliser |
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| verbena | (noun) any of numerous tropical or subtropical American plants of the genus Verbena grown for their showy spikes of variously colored flowers | Synonyms: vervain |
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| verbiage | (noun) the manner in which something is expressed in words | Synonyms: choice of words, diction, phraseology, phrasing, wording |
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| (noun) overabundance of words | Synonyms: verbalism |
| verbolatry | (noun) the worship of words | Synonyms: grammatolatry, word-worship |
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| verboseness | (noun) an expressive style that uses excessive or empty words | Synonyms: verbosity |
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| verbosity | (noun) an expressive style that uses excessive or empty words | Synonyms: verboseness |
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| verdancy | (noun) the lush appearance of flourishing vegetation | Synonyms: greenness, verdure |
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| verdict | (noun) (law) the findings of a jury on issues of fact submitted to it for decision; can be used in formulating a judgment | Synonyms: finding of fact |
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| verdigris | (noun) a green patina that forms on copper or brass or bronze that has been exposed to the air or water for long periods of time | - |
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| (noun) a blue or green powder used as a paint pigment | Synonyms: cupric acetate |
| verdin | (noun) very small yellow-headed titmouse of western North America | Synonyms: Auriparus flaviceps |
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| verdolagas | (noun) weedy trailing mat-forming herb with bright yellow flowers cultivated for its edible mildly acid leaves eaten raw or cooked especially in Indian and Greek and Middle Eastern cuisine; cosmopolitan | Synonyms: common purslane, Portulaca oleracea, pussley, pussly |
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| verdure | (noun) the lush appearance of flourishing vegetation | Synonyms: greenness, verdancy |
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| (noun) green foliage | Synonyms: greenery |
| verge | (noun) a grass border along a road | - |
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| (noun) the limit beyond which something happens or changes | Synonyms: brink |
| (noun) a ceremonial or emblematic staff | Synonyms: scepter, sceptre, wand |
| (noun) a region marking a boundary | Synonyms: brink, threshold |
| verger | (noun) a church officer who takes care of the interior of the building and acts as an attendant (carries the verge) during ceremonies | - |
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| verifiability | (noun) The state or property of being capable of being verified; confirmability. | - |
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| verification | (noun) additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct | Synonyms: check, confirmation, substantiation |
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| (noun) (law) an affidavit attached to a statement confirming the truth of that statement | - |
| verifier | (noun) someone who vouches for another or for the correctness of a statement | Synonyms: voucher |
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| verisimilitude | (noun) the appearance of truth; the quality of seeming to be true | - |
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| verity | (noun) an enduring or necessary ethical or religious or aesthetic truth | - |
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| (noun) conformity to reality or actuality | Synonyms: the true, trueness, truth |
| vermicelli | (noun) pasta in strings thinner than spaghetti | - |
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| vermicide | (noun) an agent that kills worms (especially those in the intestines) | - |
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| vermiculation | (noun) a decoration consisting of wormlike carvings | - |
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| (noun) the process of wavelike muscle contractions of the alimentary tract that moves food along | Synonyms: peristalsis |