| 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 | - |
| vehicular | (adjective) of or relating to or intended for (motor) vehicles | - |
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| 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 |
| (verb) make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing | Synonyms: blot out, hide, obliterate, obscure |
| (verb) to obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil | - |
| veiled | (adjective) having or as if having a veil or concealing cover | - |
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| (adjective) muted or unclear | - |
| 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 |
| (verb) make a veinlike pattern | - |
| veinal | (adjective) relating to the veins of plants | - |
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| veined | (adjective) having or showing markings that resemble veins | Synonyms: veinlike, venose |
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| veinlike | (adjective) having or showing markings that resemble veins | Synonyms: veined, venose |
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| velar | (adjective) of or relating to the velum | - |
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| (adjective) produced with the back of the tongue touching or near the soft palate (as `k' in `cat' and `g' in `gun' and `ng' in `sing') | - |
| (noun) a consonant produced with the back of the tongue touching or near the soft palate | Synonyms: velar consonant |
| velcro | (verb) fasten with Velcro | - |
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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 | - |
| vellicate | (verb) irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear | Synonyms: pinch |
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| (verb) touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements | Synonyms: tickle, titillate |
| 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 | (adjective) smooth and soft to sight or hearing or touch or taste | Synonyms: velvet-textured, velvety |
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| (adjective) resembling velvet in having a smooth soft surface | Synonyms: velvety |
| (noun) a silky densely piled fabric with a plain back | - |
| 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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| velvety | (adjective) smooth and soft to sight or hearing or touch or taste | Synonyms: velvet-textured, velvet |
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| (adjective) resembling velvet in having a smooth soft surface | Synonyms: velvet |
| vena | (noun) a blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart | Synonyms: vein, venous blood vessel |
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| venal | (adjective) capable of being corrupted | Synonyms: bribable, corruptible, dishonest, purchasable |
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| venality | (noun) prostitution of talents or offices or services for reward | - |
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| venally | (adverb) in a corrupt and deceitful manner | Synonyms: deceitfully, dishonestly |
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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 | - |
| vend | (verb) sell or offer for sale from place to place | Synonyms: hawk, huckster, monger, peddle, pitch |
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| vendable | (adjective) fit to be offered for sale | Synonyms: marketable, merchantable, sellable, vendible |
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| 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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| vendible | (adjective) fit to be offered for sale | Synonyms: marketable, merchantable, sellable, vendable |
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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 |
| (verb) cover with veneer | - |
| 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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| venerable | (adjective) profoundly honored | Synonyms: august, revered |
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| (adjective) impressive by reason of age | - |
| venerableness | (noun) the quality of deserving veneration | Synonyms: venerability |
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| venerate | (verb) regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of | Synonyms: fear, revere, reverence |
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| venerating | (adjective) feeling or manifesting veneration | Synonyms: respectful, reverential |
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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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| venereal | (adjective) of or relating to the external sex organs | Synonyms: genital |
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| venesect | (verb) practice venesection | - |
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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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| vengeful | (adjective) disposed to seek revenge or intended for revenge | Synonyms: revengeful, vindictive |
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| vengefully | (adverb) in a vindictive, revengeful manner | Synonyms: revengefully, vindictively |
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| vengefulness | (noun) a malevolent desire for revenge | Synonyms: vindictiveness |
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| venial | (adjective) easily excused or forgiven | Synonyms: excusable, forgivable |
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| (adjective) warranting only temporal punishment | Synonyms: minor |
| 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) | - |
| venomed | (adjective) full of malice or hate | - |
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| venomous | (adjective) marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful | Synonyms: poisonous, vicious |
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| (adjective) extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom | Synonyms: deadly, virulent |
| venomously | (adverb) in a very malevolent manner | Synonyms: poisonously |
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| venomousness | (noun) The property of being poisonous or envenomed; or of having a venom-producing gland. | - |
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| venose | (adjective) having or showing markings that resemble veins | Synonyms: veined, veinlike |
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| venous | (adjective) of or contained in or performing the function of the veins | - |
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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 |
| (verb) expose to cool or cold air so as to cool or freshen | Synonyms: air, air out, ventilate |
| (verb) give expression or utterance to | Synonyms: give vent, ventilate |
| ventail | (noun) a medieval hood of mail suspended from a basinet to protect the head and neck | Synonyms: aventail, camail |
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| vented | (adjective) supplied with a vent or vents for intake of air or discharge of gases | - |
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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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| ventilate | (verb) expose to cool or cold air so as to cool or freshen | Synonyms: air, air out, vent |
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| (verb) furnish with an opening to allow air to circulate or gas to escape | - |
| (verb) give expression or utterance to | Synonyms: give vent, vent |
| (verb) circulate through and freshen | - |
| (verb) expose to the circulation of fresh air so as to retard spoilage | - |
| ventilated | (adjective) exposed to air | - |
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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 |
| ventilatory | (adjective) provided with ventilation or involving pulmonary ventilation | - |
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| venting | (noun) the act of venting | Synonyms: discharge |
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| ventral | (adjective) toward or on or near the belly (front of a primate or lower surface of a lower animal) | - |
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| (adjective) nearest to or facing toward the axis of an organ or organism | Synonyms: adaxial |
| ventrally | (adverb) in a ventral location or direction | - |
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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 | - |
| ventricose | (adjective) having a swelling on one side | Synonyms: ventricous |
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| ventricous | (adjective) having a swelling on one side | Synonyms: ventricose |
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| ventricular | (adjective) of or relating to a ventricle (of the heart or brain) | - |
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| 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 |
| (verb) put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation | Synonyms: guess, hazard, pretend |
| (verb) put at risk | Synonyms: adventure, hazard, jeopardize, stake |
| (verb) proceed somewhere despite the risk of possible dangers | Synonyms: embark |
| 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 |
| venturesome | (adjective) disposed to venture or take risks | Synonyms: audacious, daring, venturous |
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| venturesomeness | (noun) the trait of being adventurous | Synonyms: adventurousness |
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