4-letter words starting with v
- veal — Also, vealer [vee-ler] /ˈvi lər/ (Show IPA). a calf raised for its meat, usually a milk-fed animal less than three months old.
- veda — Sometimes, Vedas. the entire body of Hindu sacred writings, chief among which are four books, the Rig-Veda, the Sama-Veda, the Atharva-Veda, and the Yajur-Veda.
- veep — a vice president.
- veer — to change direction or turn about or aside; shift, turn, or change from one course, position, inclination, etc., to another: The speaker kept veering from his main topic. The car veered off the road.
- vega — Lope [loh-pey,, -pee;; Spanish law-pe] /ˈloʊ peɪ,, -pi;; Spanish ˈlɔ pɛ/ (Show IPA), (Lope Félix de Vega Carpio) 1562–1635, Spanish dramatist and poet.
- vego — vegetarian
- vegs — a vegetable.
- vehm — a secret medieval German court
- veii — an ancient city in central Italy, in Etruria, near Rome: Etruscan city destroyed by the Romans 396 b.c.
- veil — a piece of opaque or transparent material worn over the face for concealment, for protection from the elements, or to enhance the appearance.
- vein — one of the system of branching vessels or tubes conveying blood from various parts of the body to the heart.
- vela — plural of velum.
- veld — the open country, bearing grass, bushes, or shrubs, or thinly forested, characteristic of parts of southern Africa.
- vell — a salted calf's stomach, used in cheese making
- ven. — Venerable
- vena — a vein.
- vend — to sell as one's business or occupation, especially by peddling: to vend flowers at a sidewalk stand.
- vent — a slit in the back or side of a coat, jacket, or other garment, at the bottom part of a seam.
- vera — a female given name: from a Russian word meaning “faith.”.
- verb — any member of a class of words that function as the main elements of predicates, that typically express action, state, or a relation between two things, and that may be inflected for tense, aspect, voice, mood, and to show agreement with their subject or object.
- vern — a male given name, form of Vernon.
- vers — versed sine
- vert — English Forest Law. vegetation bearing green leaves in a forest and capable of serving as a cover for deer. the right to cut such vegetation.
- very — in a high degree; extremely; exceedingly: A giant is very tall.
- vesa — Video Electronics Standards Association
- vest — a close-fitting, waist-length, sleeveless garment that buttons down the front, designed to be worn under a jacket.
- veto — the power or right vested in one branch of a government to cancel or postpone the decisions, enactments, etc., of another branch, especially the right of a president, governor, or other chief executive to reject bills passed by the legislature.
- vfat — (operating system) A standard developed by Microsoft to enable long file names on standard FAT partitions. VFAT suffers from all the drawbacks of FAT and adds more problems but moving to it is very easy.
- vffc — Vereinigten FCL Fan Club
- vgfn — Video Gamers First Network
- vgqf — A query language.
- vgwf — Video Game Wrestling Federation
- vhdl — Very High Speed Integrated Circuit (VHSIC) Hardware Description Language. A large high-level VLSI design language with Ada-like syntax. The DoD standard for hardware description, now standardised as IEEE 1076.
- vhll — Very-High-Level Language. A bondage-and-discipline language that the speaker happens to like; Prolog and Backus's FP are often called VHLLs.
- vial — Also, phial. a small container, as of glass, for holding liquids: a vial of rare perfume; a vial of medicine.
- vibe — Informal. vibration (def 4).
- vibs — climbing or walking shoes with rubber soles
- vice — any of various devices, usually having two jaws that may be brought together or separated by means of a screw, lever, or the like, used to hold an object firmly while work is being done on it.
- vick — a male given name, form of Victor.
- vico — Giovanni Battista [jaw-vahn-nee baht-tees-tah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni bɑtˈtis tɑ/ (Show IPA), 1668–1744, Italian philosopher and jurist.
- vida — a female given name.
- vide — see (used especially to refer a reader to parts of a text).
- vied — to strive in competition or rivalry with another; contend for superiority: Swimmers from many nations were vying for the title.
- vier — to strive in competition or rivalry with another; contend for superiority: Swimmers from many nations were vying for the title.
- vies — to strive in competition or rivalry with another; contend for superiority: Swimmers from many nations were vying for the title.
- viet — South Vietnam, North Vietnam, or both.
- view — an instance of seeing or beholding; visual inspection.
- vifa — Valley International Foosball Association
- viff — a technique used in flying VTOL aircraft to change direction suddenly by swivelling the jet engine nozzles
- viga — a rough-hewn beam, usually of fir, used to support the roof in adobe construction.