| 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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| venturi | (noun) a tube with a constriction; used to control fluid flow (as in the air inlet of a carburetor) | - |
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| venturous | (adjective) disposed to venture or take risks | Synonyms: audacious, daring, venturesome |
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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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| veracious | (adjective) precisely accurate | Synonyms: right |
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| (adjective) habitually speaking the truth | - |
| 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 | - |
| verbal | (adjective) relating to or having facility in the use of words | - |
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| (adjective) tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length | Synonyms: prolix |
| (adjective) of or relating to or formed from a verb | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to or formed from words in general | - |
| (adjective) communicated in the form of words | - |
| (adjective) expressed in spoken words | - |
| 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 |
| verbalise | (verb) convert into a verb | Synonyms: verbalize |
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| (verb) express in speech | Synonyms: mouth, speak, talk, utter, verbalize |
| (verb) be verbose | Synonyms: verbalize |
| (verb) articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise | Synonyms: express, give tongue to, utter, verbalize |
| verbalised | (adjective) communicated in words | Synonyms: expressed, uttered, verbalized, voiced |
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| 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 |
| verbalize | (verb) convert into a verb | Synonyms: verbalise |
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| (verb) express in speech | Synonyms: mouth, speak, talk, utter, verbalise |
| (verb) be verbose | Synonyms: verbalise |
| (verb) articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise | Synonyms: express, give tongue to, utter, verbalise |
| verbalized | (adjective) communicated in words | Synonyms: expressed, uttered, verbalised, voiced |
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| 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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| verbally | (adverb) as a verb | - |
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| (adverb) by means of language | - |
| verbatim | (adjective) in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker | Synonyms: direct |
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| (adverb) using exactly the same words | Synonyms: word for word |
| 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 |
| verbify | (verb) make into a verb | - |
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| verbolatry | (noun) the worship of words | Synonyms: grammatolatry, word-worship |
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| verbose | (adjective) using or containing too many words | Synonyms: long-winded, tedious, windy, wordy |
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| verbosely | (adverb) in a verbose manner | Synonyms: long-windedly, windily, wordily |
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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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| verboten | (adjective) excluded from use or mention | Synonyms: forbidden, out, prohibited, proscribed, taboo, tabu |
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| verdancy | (noun) the lush appearance of flourishing vegetation | Synonyms: greenness, verdure |
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| verdant | (adjective) characterized by abundance of 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 |
| (verb) color verdigris | - |
| 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 |
| (verb) border on; come close to | - |
| 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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| veridical | (adjective) coinciding with reality | Synonyms: real |
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| verifiability | (noun) The state or property of being capable of being verified; confirmability. | - |
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| verifiable | (adjective) capable of being tested (verified or falsified) by experiment or observation | Synonyms: confirmable, falsifiable |
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| (adjective) capable of being verified | - |
| 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 | - |
| verificatory | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verifying |
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| verified | (adjective) proved to be true | - |
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| verifier | (noun) someone who vouches for another or for the correctness of a statement | Synonyms: voucher |
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| verify | (verb) confirm the truth of | - |
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| (verb) to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true | Synonyms: affirm, assert, aver, avow, swan, swear |
| (verb) attach or append a legal verification to (a pleading or petition) | - |
| (verb) check or regulate (a scientific experiment) by conducting a parallel experiment or comparing with another standard | Synonyms: control |
| verifying | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory |
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| verily | (adverb) in truth; certainly | - |
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| verisimilar | (adjective) appearing to be true or real | - |
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| verisimilitude | (noun) the appearance of truth; the quality of seeming to be true | - |
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| veritable | (adjective) not counterfeit or copied | Synonyms: authentic, bona fide, unquestionable |
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| (adjective) often used as intensifiers | Synonyms: regular |
| 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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| vermicular | (adjective) decorated with wormlike tracery or markings | Synonyms: vermiculate, vermiculated |
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| vermiculate | (adjective) decorated with wormlike tracery or markings | Synonyms: vermicular, vermiculated |
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| (adjective) infested with or damaged (as if eaten) by worms | Synonyms: worm-eaten, wormy |
| (verb) decorate with wavy or winding lines | - |
| vermiculated | (adjective) decorated with wormlike tracery or markings | Synonyms: vermicular, vermiculate |
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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 |
| vermiculite | (noun) any of a group of yellow or brown hydrous silicate minerals having a micaceous structure | - |
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| vermiform | (adjective) resembling a worm; long and thin and cylindrical | Synonyms: worm-shaped |
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| vermifuge | (noun) a medication capable of causing the evacuation of parasitic intestinal worms | Synonyms: anthelminthic, anthelmintic, helminthic |
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| vermilion | (adjective) of a vivid red to reddish-orange color | Synonyms: Chinese-red, cinnabar, vermillion |
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| (noun) a variable color that is vivid red but sometimes with an orange tinge | Synonyms: orange red, scarlet |
| (verb) color vermilion | - |
| vermillion | (adjective) of a vivid red to reddish-orange color | Synonyms: Chinese-red, cinnabar, vermilion |
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| vermin | (noun) any of various small animals or insects that are pests; e.g. cockroaches or rats | - |
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| (noun) an irritating or obnoxious person | Synonyms: varmint |
| verminous | (adjective) of the nature of vermin; very offensive or repulsive | - |
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| vermis | (noun) the narrow central part of the cerebellum between the two hemispheres | Synonyms: vermis cerebelli |
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| vermouth | (noun) any of several white wines flavored with aromatic herbs; used as aperitifs or in mixed drinks | - |
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| vernacular | (adjective) being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language | Synonyms: common, vulgar |
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| (noun) the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language) | - |
| (noun) a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves) | Synonyms: argot, cant, jargon, lingo, patois, slang |
| vernal | (adjective) of or characteristic of or occurring in spring | - |
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| (adjective) suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh | Synonyms: young, youthful |
| vernation | (noun) (botany) the arrangement of young leaves in a leaf bud before it opens | - |
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| vernier | (noun) a small movable scale that slides along a main scale; the small scale is calibrated to indicate fractional divisions of the main scale | Synonyms: vernier scale |
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| vernix | (noun) a white cheeselike protective material that covers the skin of a fetus | Synonyms: vernix caseosa |
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| vernonia | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Vernonia of tropical and warm regions of especially North America that take their name from their loose heads of purple to rose flowers that quickly take on a rusty hue | Synonyms: ironweed |
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| veronal | (noun) a barbiturate used as a hypnotic | Synonyms: barbital, barbitone, diethylbarbituric acid, diethylmalonylurea |
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| veronica | (noun) any plant of the genus Veronica | Synonyms: speedwell |
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