7-letter words starting with v
- valvate — furnished with or opening by a valve or valves.
- valving — any device for halting or controlling the flow of a liquid, gas, or other material through a passage, pipe, inlet, outlet, etc.
- valvula — a small valve or valvule.
- valvule — a small valve or a part resembling a valve.
- vamoose — to leave hurriedly or quickly; decamp.
- vamping — a seductive woman who uses her sensuality to exploit men.
- vampire — a preternatural being, commonly believed to be a reanimated corpse, that is said to suck the blood of sleeping persons at night.
- vampish — the portion of a shoe or boot upper that covers the instep and toes.
- van-boy — a young man who helps a van driver deliver goods
- vanadic — of or containing vanadium, especially in the trivalent or pentavalent state.
- vandals — (initial capital letter) a member of a Germanic people who in the 5th century a.d. ravaged Gaul and Spain, settled in Africa, and in a.d. 455 sacked Rome.
- vandyke — a wide collar of lace and linen with the edge formed into scallops or deep points.
- vanessa — a female given name.
- vanilla — any tropical, climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla, especially V. planifolia, bearing podlike fruit yielding an extract used in flavoring food, in perfumery, etc.
- vanitas — a type of still-life painting that flourished in the Netherlands from about 1620 to 1650, conveying a religious message and characterized by objects symbolic of mortality and the meaninglessness of worldly pleasures.
- vanload — the amount carried by a van.
- vanning — a covered vehicle, usually a large truck or trailer, used for moving furniture, goods, animals, etc.
- vanpool — a group of people who share a van to commute to work
- vantage — a position, condition, or place affording some advantage or a commanding view.
- vanuatu — a republic consisting of a group of 80 islands in the S Pacific, about 1000 miles (1600 km) NE of Australia: formerly under joint British and French administration; gained independence 1980. About 5700 sq. mi. (14,763 sq. km). Capital: Vila.
- vanward — in or towards the front
- vaquero — a cowboy or herdsman.
- vareuse — a type of loose coat or jacket
- variant — tending to change or alter; exhibiting variety or diversity; varying: variant shades of color.
- variate — Statistics. random variable.
- varices — plural of varix.
- varico- — indicating a varix or varicose veins
- variety — the state of being varied or diversified: to give variety to a diet.
- variola — smallpox.
- variole — a shallow pit or depression like the mark left by a smallpox pustule; foveola.
- various — of different kinds, as two or more things; differing one from another: Various experiments have not proved his theory.
- varment — Chiefly Southern and South Midland U.S. vermin. an objectionable or undesirable animal, usually predatory, as a coyote or bobcat.
- varmint — Chiefly Southern and South Midland U.S. vermin. an objectionable or undesirable animal, usually predatory, as a coyote or bobcat.
- varnish — a preparation consisting of resinous matter, as copal or lac, dissolved in an oil (oil varnish) or in alcohol (spirit varnish) or other volatile liquid. When applied to the surface of wood, metal, etc., it dries and leaves a hard, more or less glossy, usually transparent coating.
- varsity — any first-string team, especially in sports, that represents a school, college, university, or the like: He is on the varsity in tennis and in debating.
- varying — to change or alter, as in form, appearance, character, or substance: to vary one's methods.
- vascula — a kind of case or box used by botanists for carrying specimens as they are collected.
- vassals — (in the feudal system) a person granted the use of land, in return for rendering homage, fealty, and usually military service or its equivalent to a lord or other superior; feudal tenant.
- vastest — of very great area or extent; immense: the vast reaches of outer space.
- vastity — immensity; vastness.
- vat dye — any of the class of insoluble dyes impregnated into textile fibers by reduction into soluble leuco bases that regenerate the insoluble dye on oxidation.
- vatable — subject to VAT
- vatican — Second Vatican Council.
- vättern — a lake in S Sweden. 80 miles (130 km) long; 733 sq. mi. (1900 sq. km).
- vatting — a large container, as a tub or tank, used for storing or holding liquids: a wine vat.
- vaudois — Waldenses.
- vaughan — Henry, 1622–95, English poet and mystic.
- vaulted — constructed or covered with a vault, as a building or chamber.
- vaunted — praised boastfully or excessively: the vaunted beauties of Paris.
- vaurien — a rascal