Select a letter for some words
Vadimony
A bond or pledge for appearance before a judge on a certain day.
Valkyria
One of the maidens of Odin, represented as awful and beautiful, who presided over battle and marked out those who were to be slain, and who also ministered at the feasts of heroes in Valhalla. Now commonly written .
Vallum
A rampart; a wall, as in a fortification.
Valuable
Having value or worth; possessing qualities which are useful and esteemed; precious; costly;
Vanadous
Of or pertaining to vanadium; obtained from vanadium; -- said of an acid containing one equivalent of vanadium and two of oxygen; specifically, designating those compounds in which vanadium has a lower valence as contrasted with the compounds;
Vandalism
The spirit or conduct of the Vandals; ferocious cruelty; hostility to the arts and literature, or willful destruction or defacement of any object of beauty or value.
Vaporiform
Existing in a vaporous form or state; .
Variance
The quality or state of being variant; change of condition; variation.
Variolic
Variolous.
Variolite
A kind of diorite or diabase containing imbedded whitish spherules, which give the rock a spotted appearance.
Varvel
In falconry, one of the rings secured to the ends of the jesses.
Vasiform
Having the form of a vessel, or duct.
Vassal
To treat as a vassal; to subject to control; to enslave.
Vaticination
Prediction; prophecy.
Vaulted
Arched; concave; .
Vaunt
To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation. In the latter sense, the term usually used is .
Vaut
A vault; a leap.
Vaward
The fore part; van.
Veda
The ancient sacred literature of the Hindus; also, one of the four collections, called , , , and , constituting the most ancient portions of that literature.
Vehmgericht
A vehmic court.
Velocimeter
An apparatus for measuring speed, as of machinery or vessels, but especially of projectiles.
Velverd
The veltfare.
Venditate
To cry up. as if for sale; to blazon.
Verbal
Expressed in words, whether spoken or written, but commonly in spoken words; hence, spoken; oral; not written;
Verberation
The act of verberating; a beating or striking.
Verbigerate
To talk; chat.
Verbose
Abounding in words; using or containing more words than are necessary; tedious by a multiplicity of words; prolix; wordy; .
Vermicular
Of or pertaining to a worm or worms; resembling a worm; shaped like a worm; especially, resembling the motion or track of a worm; . See .
Vermiculate
Wormlike in shape; covered with wormlike elevations; marked with irregular fine lines of color, or with irregular wavy impressed lines like worm tracks; .
Verminously
In a verminous manner.
vernal
Of or pertaining to the spring; appearing in the spring; .
Vernant
Flourishing, as in spring; vernal.
Verruca
A wart.
Versificator
A versifier.
Versus
Against; ; -- chiefly used in legal language, and abbreviated to or
Vesicouterine
Of or pertaining to the bladder and the uterus.
Vespers
One of the little hours of the Breviary.
Vexillation
A company of troops under one vexillum.
Vicar
One deputed or authorized to perform the functions of another; a substitute in office; a deputy.
Vicinage
The place or places adjoining or near; neighborhood; vicinity; .
Vigilant
Attentive to discover and avoid danger, or to provide for safety; wakeful; watchful; circumspect; wary.
Villakin
A little villa.
Vimen
A long, slender, flexible shoot or branch.
Vindicative
Tending to vindicate; vindicating; .
Vineyardist
One who cultivates a vineyard.
Viperous
Having the qualities of a viper; malignant; venomous; .
Visard
To mask.
Viscin
A clear, viscous, tasteless substance extracted from the mucilaginous sap of the mistletoe (), holly, etc., and constituting an essential ingredient of birdlime.
Viscus
One of the organs, as the brain, heart, or stomach, in the great cavities of the body of an animal; -- especially used in the plural, and applied to the organs contained in the abdomen.
Vista
A view; especially, a view through or between intervening objects, as trees; a view or prospect through an avenue, or the like; hence, the trees or other objects that form the avenue.
Vitric
Having the nature and qualities of glass; glasslike; -- distinguished from .
Vivant
In mort, bridge, and similar games, the partner of dummy.
Vocable
A word; a term; a name; specifically, a word considered as composed of certain sounds or letters, without regard to its meaning.
Vocabulary
A list or collection of words arranged in alphabetical order and explained; a dictionary or lexicon, either of a whole language, a single work or author, a branch of science, or the like; a word-book.
Vocalism
The exercise of the vocal organs; vocalization.
Void
To be emitted or evacuated.
Volksraad
A legislative assembly or parliament of any one of several countries colonized by the Dutch, esp. that of the South African Republic, or the Transvaal, and that of the Orange Free State.
Volutation
A rolling of a body; a wallowing.
Vomit
To eject the contents of the stomach by the mouth; to puke; to spew.
Vowel
Of or pertaining to a vowel; vocal.
Vox
A voice.
Voyage
To travel; to pass over; to traverse.
Vulnerose
Full of wounds; wounded.
Vultern
The brush turkey () of Australia. See .
Vulturine
Of or pertaining to a vulture; resembling a vulture in qualities or looks;