8-letter words containing v, e, a
- valerate — a salt of valeric acid
- valerian — (Publius Licinius Valerianus) died a.d. c260, Roman emperor 253–60.
- valeting — a male servant who attends to the personal needs of his male employer, as by taking care of clothing or the like; manservant.
- valiance — valiant nature or quality; valor; bravery; courage.
- validate — to make valid; substantiate; confirm: Time validated our suspicions.
- valkyrie — any of the beautiful maidens attendant upon Odin who bring the souls of slain warriors chosen by Odin or Tyr to Valhalla and there wait upon them.
- vallenar — a city in central Chile.
- valletta — an island in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Africa. 95 sq. mi. (246 sq. km).
- valleyed — having a valley
- valorise — to provide for the maintaining of the value or price of (a commercial commodity) by a government's purchasing the commodity at the fixed price or by its making special loans to the producers.
- valorize — to provide for the maintaining of the value or price of (a commercial commodity) by a government's purchasing the commodity at the fixed price or by its making special loans to the producers.
- valuable — having considerable monetary worth; costing or bringing a high price: a valuable painting; a valuable crop.
- valuated — to set a value on; appraise.
- valvelet — a small valve; valvule.
- vambrace — a piece of plate armor for the forearm; a lower cannon. Compare rerebrace.
- vampires — a preternatural being, commonly believed to be a reanimated corpse, that is said to suck the blood of sleeping persons at night.
- vamplate — a metal plate mounted on a lance in front of the grip to protect the hand.
- van dine — S. S, Wright, Willard Huntington.
- van eyck — Jan (jɑn). died 1441, Flemish painter; founder of the Flemish school of painting. His most famous work is the altarpiece The Adoration of the Lamb, in Ghent, in which he may have been assisted by his brother Hubert (ˈhyːbərt), died ?1426
- van line — a transportation company that uses large motor vans for the long-distance moving of household effects.
- van wert — a city in NW Ohio.
- vanadate — a salt or ester of a vanadic acid.
- vanessid — a butterfly belonging to any of several brightly coloured species, including admirals, tortoiseshells, and the Camberwell beauty, which with the fritillaries comprise the Nymphalidae
- vanished — to disappear from sight, especially quickly; become invisible: The frost vanished when the sun came out.
- vanitied — with vanity units or mirrors
- vanzetti — Bartolomeo [bahr-taw-law-me-aw] /ˌbɑr tɔ lɔˈmɛ ɔ/ (Show IPA), 1888–1927, Italian anarchist, in U.S. after 1908.
- vape pen — an e-cigarette.
- vaporise — to cause to change into vapor.
- vaporize — to cause to change into vapor.
- vapulate — to beat or whip
- vargueno — a fall-front desk of the 16th, 17th, and early 18th centuries, having the form of a chest upon a small table.
- variable — apt or liable to vary or change; changeable: variable weather; variable moods.
- variance — the state, quality, or fact of being variable, divergent, different, or anomalous.
- variceal — of or relating to a varix
- varicose — abnormally or unusually enlarged or swollen: a varicose vein.
- varietal — of, pertaining to, designating, or characteristic of a variety.
- varitype — to operate a Varityper.
- varletry — varlets collectively.
- vartabed — (in the Armenian church) a doctor, master, or teacher
- vasarely — Victor. 1908–97, French painter, born in Hungary; a leading exponent of op art
- vaselike — like or resembling a vase
- vaseline — Vaseline is a soft clear jelly made from petroleum, which is used to protect the skin and for other purposes.
- vasteras — a city in central Sweden.
- vastness — of very great area or extent; immense: the vast reaches of outer space.
- vat rate — the rate at which VAT is applied
- vaticide — a person who murders a prophet.
- vaucluse — a department in SE France. 1382 sq. mi. (3580 sq. km). Capital: Avignon.
- vaultage — a group of vaults; a vaulted place
- vauntery — bravado; boasting
- veganism — a vegetarian who omits all animal products from the diet.