Words starting with vel
4 letter words starting with vel
- 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
- velo binding — a technique for binding books or documents that uses a narrow plastic strip along the length of the front and back binding edges and plastic pegs to attach the strips through holes punched in the pages.
5 letter words starting with vel
- velar — of or relating to a velum, especially the soft palate.
- veldt — the open country, bearing grass, bushes, or shrubs, or thinly forested, characteristic of parts of southern Africa.
- velic — pertaining to the operation of the velum in relation to the passageway into the nasal cavity: velic closure.
- velma — a female given name, form of Wilhelmina.
- velum — Biology. any of various veillike or curtainlike membranous partitions.
6 letter words starting with vel
7 letter words starting with vel
- velamen — Anatomy. a membranous covering; velum.
- velaric — of or relating to velar speech sounds
- velated — Biology. having a velum.
- velbert — a city in North-Rhine–Westphalia, in the Ruhr district of W central Germany.
- velella — a floating colony of hydrozoans of the genus Velella, having a vertical crest that is used as a sail.
8 letter words starting with vel
- velarium — an awning drawn over a theater or amphitheater as a protection from rain or the sun.
- velarize — to pronounce with velar articulation.
- velation — pronunciation with velar articulation.
- velatura — a thin layer of paint somewhat like a glaze but opaque or semi-opaque rather than transparent
- velleity — volition in its weakest form.
9 letter words starting with vel
- velarized — pronounced with velar coarticulation.
- velazquez — Diego Rodríguez de Silva y [dye-gaw raw-th ree-geth th e seel-vah ee] /ˈdyɛ gɔ rɔˈðri gɛθ ðɛ ˈsil vɑ i/ (Show IPA), 1599–1660, Spanish painter.
- veldskoen — an ankle-length boot of soft but strong rawhide
- vellicate — to pluck; twitch.
- velodrome — a sports arena equipped with a banked track for cycling.
10 letter words starting with vel
- velitation — a minor dispute or contest.
- velleities — volition in its weakest form.
- velocipede — a vehicle, usually having two or three wheels, that is propelled by the rider.
- veltheimia — any of several bulbous plants of the genus Veltheimia, especially V. viridifolia, native to southern Africa, having glossy, strap-shaped leaves and a long cluster of tubular pinkish flowers.
- velutinous — having a soft, velvety surface, as certain plants.
11 letter words starting with vel
- vellicating — to pluck; twitch.
- velocimeter — any of various instruments for measuring velocity, as of a wave in water or of sound in air.
- velocimetry — the measurement of the speed of sound in fluids
- velvetiness — the quality or state of being velvety
12 letter words starting with vel
- velarization — to pronounce with velar articulation.
- velocipedean — someone who rides a velocipede
- velociraptor — a small carnivorous dinosaur of the genus Velociraptor , from the late Cretaceous period, capable of leaping, and growing to a length of about 6 feet (2 meters), having feathers, a flat snout, short forelimbs with large handlike talons, and a large sickle-shaped claw on each foot.
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