7-letter words starting with v
- ventail — the pivoted middle element of a face defense of a close helmet.
- ventana — a window
- venting — the act of venting or expressing emotion
- ventose — (in the French Revolutionary calendar) the sixth month of the year, extending from February 19 to March 20.
- ventrad — toward the ventral side; ventrally.
- ventral — of or relating to the venter or belly; abdominal.
- ventri- — ventro-
- ventris — Michael George Francis, 1922–56, English architect and linguist.
- ventro- — abdomen, belly
- ventura — city in SW Calif., northwest of Los Angeles: pop. 101,000
- venture — an undertaking involving uncertainty as to the outcome, especially a risky or dangerous one: a mountain-climbing venture.
- venturi — Robert Charles, born 1925, U.S. architect.
- veranda — Also, verandah. Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. a large, open porch, usually roofed and partly enclosed, as by a railing, often extending across the front and sides of a house; gallery.
- verbage — overabundance or superfluity of words, as in writing or speech; wordiness; verbosity.
- verbals — abuse or invective
- verbena — any of various plants of the genus Verbena, especially any of several hybrid species cultivated for their showy flower clusters. Compare verbena family.
- verbify — to change into or employ as a verb, as a noun.
- verbile — a person who is best stimulated by words
- verbing — the act or practice of using a noun as a verb, such as 'medal' to mean "to win a medal"
- verbose — characterized by the use of many or too many words; wordy: a verbose report.
- verdant — green with vegetation; covered with growing plants or grass: a verdant oasis.
- verdict — Law. the finding or answer of a jury given to the court concerning a matter submitted to their judgment.
- verdite — a type of rare green rock used in jewellery
- verdure — greenness, especially of fresh, flourishing vegetation.
- verging — the edge, rim, or margin of something: the verge of a desert; to operate on the verge of fraud.
- verglas — glaze (def 17).
- veridic — truthful; veracious.
- veriest — precise; particular: That is the very item we want.
- verilog — (language) A Hardware Description Language for electronic design and gate level simulation by Cadence Design Systems.
- verismo — the use of everyday life and actions in artistic works: introduced into opera in the early 1900s in reaction to contemporary conventions, which were seen as artificial and untruthful.
- veritas — truth.
- vermeer — Jan [yahn] /yɑn/ (Show IPA), (Jan van der Meer van Delft) 1632–75, Dutch painter.
- vermeil — vermilion red.
- vermian — resembling or of the nature of a worm.
- vermont — a state of the NE United States: a part of New England. 9609 sq. mi. (24,885 sq. km). Capital: Montpelier. Abbreviation: VT (for use with zip code), Vt.
- vernant — blooming or flourishing; vernal
- vernier — Pierre [pyer] /pyɛr/ (Show IPA), 1580–1637, French mathematician and inventor.
- verruca — Medicine/Medical. a wart.
- versace — Donatella. (donaˈtɛlla) born 1955, Italian fashion designer and businesswoman; creative director of the Versace group from 1997
- versant — a slope of a mountain or mountain chain.
- versify — to relate, describe, or treat (something) in verse.
- versine — versed sine.
- versing — (not in technical use) a stanza.
- version — a particular account of some matter, as from one person or source, contrasted with some other account: two different versions of the accident.
- versute — cunning or crafty
- vertigo — a dizzying sensation of tilting within stable surroundings or of being in tilting or spinning surroundings.
- vervain — any plant belonging to the genus Verbena, of the verbena family, having elongated or flattened spikes of stalkless flowers.
- vesical — of or relating to a vesica or bladder, especially the urinary bladder.
- vesicle — a small sac or cyst.
- vesico- — bladder