| 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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