7 Letter Words That Start With V

venture

Noun : A risky or daring undertaking or journey.

Noun : An event that is not, or cannot be, foreseen.

Noun : The thing risked; especially, something sent to sea in trade.

vehicle

Noun : A conveyance; a device for carrying or transporting substances, objects or individuals.

Noun : A medium for expression of talent or views.

Noun : A liquid content (e.g. oil) which acts as a binding and drying agent in paint.

virtual

Adjective : In effect or essence, rather than in fact or reality; also, imitated, simulated.

Adjective : For practical purposes, though not technically; almost complete, very near.

Adjective : (computing)

vintage

Noun : The yield of grapes or wine from a vineyard or district during one season.

Noun : Wine, especially high-quality, identified as to year and vineyard or district of origin.

Noun : The harvesting of a grape crop and the initial pressing of juice for winemaking.

vetting

Noun : A checking or investigation.

vibrant

Adjective : Pulsing with energy or activity.

Adjective : Lively and vigorous.

Adjective : Vibrating, resonant or resounding.

vitriol

Noun : (dated) Any of various metal sulphates.

Noun : (dated) Oil of vitriol (sulphuric acid).

Noun : (by extension) Bitterly abusive language.

vicious

Adjective : Violent, destructive and cruel.

Adjective : Savage and aggressive.

Adjective : (archaic) Pertaining to vice; characterised by immorality or depravity.

verbose

Adjective : Containing or using more words than necessary; long-winded, wordy. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]

Adjective : (computing) Producing detailed output for diagnostic purposes.

variety

Noun : (countable)

Noun : A deviation or difference.

Noun : A specific variation of something.

venable

Noun : A surname.

Noun : The former name of Carrboro, North Carolina.

version

Noun : A specific form or variation of something.

Noun : A translation from one language to another.

Noun : (education, archaic) A school exercise, generally of composition in a foreign language.

vestige

Noun : A mark left on the earth by a foot.

Noun : (by extension) A faint mark or visible sign left by something which is lost, or has perished, or is no longer present.

Noun : (biology) A vestigial organ; a non-functional organ or body part that was once functional in an evolutionary ancestor.

vacuous

Adjective : Empty; void; lacking meaningful content.

Adjective : Showing a lack of thought or intelligence; vacant.

vitiate

Verb : (transitive) To spoil, make faulty; to reduce the value, quality, or effectiveness of something.

Verb : (transitive) To debase or morally corrupt.

Verb : (transitive, archaic) To violate, to rape.

veteran

Noun : A person with long experience of a particular activity.

Noun : (figurative) A group, animal, etc. with long experience of a particular activity.

Noun : A person who has served in the armed forces, especially an old soldier who has seen long service; also called a war veteran to distinguish from veterans who weren't in armed conflict.

various

Adjective : Having a broad range (of different elements).

Adjective : (dated) That varies or differs from others; variant; different.

valence

Noun : (countable, chemistry)

Noun : The combining capacity of an atom, functional group, or radical determined by the number of atoms of hydrogen with which it will unite, or the number of electrons that it will gain, lose, or share when it combines with other atoms, etc.

Noun : The number of binding sites of a molecule, such as an antibody or antigen.

verdict

Noun : (law) A decision on an issue of fact in a civil or criminal case or an inquest.

Noun : An opinion or judgement.

villain

Noun : A vile, wicked person.

Noun : An extremely depraved person, or one capable or guilty of great crimes.

Noun : A deliberate scoundrel.

vertigo

Noun : A sensation of whirling and loss of balance, caused by looking down from a great height or by disease affecting the inner ear.

Noun : A disordered or imbalanced state of mind or things analogous to physical vertigo; mental giddiness or dizziness.

Noun : The act of whirling round and round; rapid rotation.

valiant

Adjective : Possessing or showing courage or determination; brave, heroic.

Adjective : Characterized by or done with bravery or valour.

Noun : (obsolete) A person who acts with valour, showing hero-like characteristics in the midst of danger.

verdant

Adjective : Green in colour.

Adjective : Abundant in verdure; lush with vegetation.

Adjective : Fresh.

vaccine

Adjective : (historical)

Adjective : (medicine) Of, pertaining to, caused by, or characteristic of cowpox.

Adjective : (immunology) Of or pertaining to cowpox as a source of material for vaccination against smallpox; also, of or pertaining to such material used for vaccination.

verbage

Noun : Misconstruction of verbiage [Overabundance of words.]

vitamin

Noun : Any of a specific group of organic compounds essential in small quantities for healthy human growth, metabolism, development, and body function; found in minute amounts in plant and animal foods or sometimes produced synthetically; deficiencies of specific vitamins produce specific disorders.

Verb : (transitive, dated) To fortify with vitamins.

village

Noun : A rural habitation of size between a hamlet and a town.

Noun : (Britain) A rural habitation that has a church, but no market.

Noun : (Australia) A planned community such as a retirement community or shopping district.

vagrant

Noun : (dated) A person who wanders from place to place; a nomad, a wanderer.

Noun : (specifically) A person without settled employment or habitation who usually supports himself or herself by begging or some dishonest means; a tramp, a vagabond.

Noun : Vagrans egista, a widely distributed Asian butterfly of the family Nymphalidae.

voucher

Noun : A piece of paper that entitles the holder to a discount, or that can be exchanged for goods and services.

Noun : A receipt.

Noun : One who or that which vouches.

vantage

Noun : (archaic) An advantage.

Noun : A place or position affording a good view; a vantage point.

Noun : A superior or more favorable situation or opportunity; gain; profit; advantage.

violate

Verb : (transitive) To break or disregard (a rule or convention).

Verb : (transitive, euphemistic) To rape.

Verb : (transitive, prison slang) To cite (a person) for a parole violation.

vulture

Noun : Any of several carrion-eating birds of the families Accipitridae and Cathartidae.

Noun : (figurative, colloquial) A person who profits from the suffering of others.

Verb : (figurative, colloquial) To circle around one's target as if one were a vulture.

victory

Noun : (uncountable) The condition or state of having won a battle or competition, or having succeeded in an effort; (countable) an instance of this.

Verb : (transitive, obsolete or rare) To defeat or triumph over (someone or something).

Noun : (uncountable) The 48th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.

variant

Adjective : Showing variety, diverse.

Adjective : Showing deviation or disagreement.

Adjective : (obsolete) Variable.

versace

Noun : A surname from Italian.

Noun : Versace, the Italian fashion house.

Noun : An item sold by the House of Versace

viscera

Noun : Collectively, the internal organs of the body, especially those contained within the abdominal and thoracic cavities, such as the liver, heart, or stomach.

Noun : The intestines.

vesicle

Noun : (cytology) A membrane-bound compartment found in a cell.

Noun : A small bladder-like cell or cavity, as:

Noun : (botany) A small sac filled with juice, one of many constituting the pulp of a fruit such as an orange, lemon, or grapefruit.

vinegar

Noun : (uncountable) A sour liquid formed by the fermentation of alcohol used as a condiment or preservative; a dilute solution of acetic acid.

Noun : (countable) Any variety of vinegar.

Noun : (derogatory, uncommon) A black Vietnamese person.

viscous

Adjective : Having a thick, sticky consistency between solid and liquid.

Adjective : (physics) Of or pertaining to viscosity.

vanilla

Noun : (countable) Any tropical, climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla (especially Vanilla planifolia), bearing podlike fruit yielding an extract used in flavoring food or in perfumes.

Noun : (countable) The fruit or bean of the vanilla plant.

Noun : (uncountable) The extract of the fruit of the vanilla plant.

violent

Adjective : Involving extreme force or motion.

Adjective : Involving physical conflict.

Adjective : Likely to use physical force.

visible

Adjective : Able to be seen.

voluble

Adjective : (of a person or a manner of speaking) Fluent or having a ready flow of speech.

Adjective : Of thoughts, feelings, or something that is expressed: expressed readily or at length and in a fluent manner.

Adjective : Easily rolling or turning; having a fluid, undulating motion.

vulpine

Adjective : Pertaining to a fox.

Adjective : Having the characteristics of a fox; foxlike; cunning.

Noun : Any of certain canids called foxes (including true foxes, arctic foxes and grey foxes), distinguished from canines, which are regarded as similar to dogs and wolves.

veritas

Noun : Truth, particularly of a transcendent character.

vaguely

Verb : In a vague manner.

Verb : Loosely; more or less; somewhat.

viceroy

Noun : One who governs a country, province, or colony as the representative of a monarch.

Noun : A zongdu.

Noun : An orange and black North American butterfly (Limenitis archippus), so named because it is similar to, but smaller than, the monarch butterfly.

volcano

Noun : A vent or fissure on the surface of a planet (usually in a mountainous form) with a magma chamber attached to the mantle of a planet or moon, periodically erupting forth lava and volcanic gases onto the surface.

Noun : A kind of firework producing an upward plume of sparks.

Verb : to erupt; to burst forth

veranda

Noun : (Southern US) A gallery, platform, or balcony, usually roofed and often partly enclosed, extending along the outside of a building.

varnish

Noun : A type of paint with a solvent that evaporates to leave a hard, transparent, glossy film.

Noun : Anything resembling such a paint; glossy appearance.

Noun : (by extension) A deceptively showy appearance.

vampire

Noun : A mythological undead creature said to feed on the blood of the living.

Noun : (colloquial) A person with the medical condition Porphyria cutanea tarda, colloquially known as vampirism, with effects such as photosensitivity and brownish-red stained teeth.

Noun : A blood-sucking bat; vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus)

vietnam

Noun : A country in Southeast Asia. Official name: Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Capital: Hanoi.

Noun : (chiefly US, colloquial) The Vietnam War.

Noun : A long and protracted war or conflict in which the dominating foreign occupier is unable to secure a victory.

valance

Noun : A short curtain that usually hangs along the top edge of a window.

Noun : A decorative framework used to conceal the curtain mechanism and so on at the top of a window.

Noun : A short, decorative edging of cloth that hangs from a bed, from beneath the mattress to the floor, used to conceal the box spring or space under the bed and prevent dust from accumulating there.

vaunted

Adjective : Highly or widely praised or boasted about.

varsity

Noun : (often attributive) university

Noun : (sports, US) The principal sports team representing an institution (usually a high school, college, or university.)

ventral

Adjective : Related to the abdomen or stomach.

Adjective : (anatomy) On the front side of the human body, or the corresponding surface of an animal, usually the lower surface.

Adjective : (anatomy) On or relating to the sole of the foot or the palmar surface of the hand

vacancy

Noun : An unoccupied position or job.

Noun : An available room in a hotel; guest house, etc.

Noun : Empty space.

venison

Noun : The meat of a deer.

Noun : (South Africa) The meat of an antelope.

Noun : (obsolete) The meat of any wild animal that has been hunted rather than raised domestically.

vespers

Noun : (Christianity, plural only) The sixth of the seven canonical hours, an evening prayer service

Noun : (Christianity) A Christian service held in the late afternoon or early evening; evensong

varmint

Noun : (Southern US) A pestering animal such as one that kills or harasses a farmer's livestock or crops.

Noun : (by extension) An obnoxious person or troublemaker.

verdure

Noun : The greenness of lush or growing vegetation; also: the vegetation itself.

Noun : (by extension) A condition of health and vigour.

Verb : (transitive) To cover with verdure.

voltage

Noun : (electricity) The difference in electrostatic potential between two points in space, especially between live and neutral conductors or the earth.

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vittles

Noun : Alternative spelling of victual [(archaic) Food fit for human (or occasionally animal) consumption.]

Verb : Alternative spelling of victual [(transitive, reflexive, chiefly military, nautical) To provide (military troops, a place, a ship, etc., or oneself) with a stock of victuals or food; to provision.]

victual

Noun : (archaic) Food fit for human (or occasionally animal) consumption.

Noun : (archaic, chiefly in the plural) Food supplies; provisions.

Noun : (specifically, obsolete)

vacuity

Noun : Emptiness.

Noun : Physical emptiness, an absence of matter; vacuum.

Noun : Idleness; listlessness.

verbena

Noun : Verbena, a genus of herbaceous plants of which several species are extensively cultivated for the great beauty of their flowers; vervain.

virgule

Noun : (typography, obsolete or historical) A medieval punctuation mark similar to the slash ⟨/⟩ or pipe ⟨[[Unsupported titles/`vert`#Translingual||]]⟩ and used as a scratch comma and caesura mark.

Noun : (typography, dated) A slash, ⟨/⟩ or ⟨／⟩.

Noun : Used to mark line breaks within quotes.

viaduct

Noun : (transport) A bridge with several spans that carries road or rail traffic over a valley or other obstacles.

visitor

Noun : Someone who visits someone else; someone staying as a guest.

Noun : Someone who pays a visit to a specific place or event; a sightseer or tourist.

Noun : (sports, usually in the plural) Someone, or a team, that is playing away from home.

vermeil

Adjective : (poetic, now rare) Bright scarlet, vermilion.

Adjective : (poetic, now rare) Specifically of faces, lips etc.: red, ruddy, healthy-looking.

Noun : (poetic) Vermilion; bright red.

vintner

Noun : A seller of wine.

Noun : A manufacturer of wine.

vernier

Noun : A secondary scale with finer graduations than the primary scale of a measuring device; the vernier measures between graduations of the larger scale.

Noun : A secondary control input with finer control than the primary, or coarse, input; for example the vernier frequency tuning knob on a radio.

Noun : (physics) A secondary system of force application for the attitude control of a spacecraft; for example a vernier thruster.

vulgate

Noun : The Latin translation of the Bible (from Hebrew and Greek) made by Saint Jerome.

Adjective : (archaic) Made common, published for common use, vulgarized.

Adjective : (of a text, especially the Bible, not comparable) In or pertaining to the common version or edition.

vamping

Noun : The behaviour of one who vamps.

vibrate

Verb : (intransitive) To shake with small, rapid movements to and fro.

Verb : (intransitive) To resonate.

Verb : (transitive) To brandish; to swing to and fro.

vamoose

Verb : (transitive, intransitive, slang) To run away (from); to flee.

Verb : (intransitive, slang) To hurry.

varying

Noun : (computer graphics) A kind of variable, used by a fragment shader, that interpolates values across a primitive, so as to produce gradient effects etc.

vacuole

Noun : (cytology) A large membrane-bound vesicle in a cell's cytoplasm.

Noun : A small empty or air-filled space or vacuity.

vibrato

Noun : (music) The musical effect or technique where the pitch or frequency of a note or sound is quickly and repeatedly raised and lowered over a small distance for the duration of that note or sound.

vessels

Noun : (nautical) Any craft designed for transportation on water, such as a ship or boat.

Noun : A craft designed for transportation through air or space.

Noun : (uncountable, obsolete or dialectal) Dishes and cutlery collectively, especially if made of precious metals.

vaquero

Noun : (Southwestern US) A cowboy; a herdsman.

Noun : A surname from Spanish.

verismo

Noun : An artistic movement, from 19th-century Italian literature and opera, in which rural and everyday people and themes were treated in an often melodramatic manner

vividly

Verb : In a vivid manner.

vincent

Noun : (countable) A male given name from Latin.

Noun : (countable) A surname originating as a patronymic.

Noun : A number of places in the United States:

vatican

Noun : The official residence of the Pope within Vatican City, the Vatican or Apostolic Palace.

Noun : (metonymically) The papal government; the papacy, the Holy See.

Noun : A city-state in Southern Europe, an enclave within the city of Rome, Italy. Official name: Vatican City State.

venturi

Noun : A venturi tube.

Noun : The throat of a carburetor.

Noun : (rare, pathology) A constriction in the flow of air to lungs.

viscose

Noun : A viscous orange-brown liquid obtained by chemical treatment of cellulose and used as the basis of manufacturing rayon and cellulose film.

Noun : A fabric made from this material.

virtues

Noun : (uncountable) Accordance with moral principles; conformity of behaviour or thought with the strictures of morality; good moral conduct.

Noun : A particular manifestation of moral excellence in a person; an admirable quality.

Noun : Specifically, each of several qualities held to be particularly important, including the four cardinal virtues, the three theological virtues, or the seven virtues opposed to the seven deadly sins.

velvety

Adjective : (also figuratively) Like velvet; soft, smooth, soothing.

vistula

Noun : The longest river in Poland, which flows into the Baltic Sea.

vivendi

Noun : a multinational French-based media conglomerate, formerly Compagnie Générale des Eaux.

Noun : Vivendi SE is a French mass media holding company headquartered in Paris.

vection

Noun : (obsolete) Transport.

Noun : (medicine, dated) The transference of the germs of disease from those who are sick to those who are well; infection.

Noun : (neurology) The illusion of self-motion.

vitrine

Noun : A glass-paneled cabinet or case, especially for displaying articles such as china, objets d'art, or fine merchandise.

vendace

Noun : Either of two types of whitefish, Coregonus albula and Coregonus vandesius.

vesting

Noun : (law) The entitlement of an employee to receive the full benefit of a pension at normal retirement age or a reduced pension upon early retirement even upon change of employer before retirement.

Noun : (law) The entitlement of an employee to exercise a stock option after a predetermined period of time.

Noun : Cloth for making vests.

verruca

Noun : (pathology) A wart, especially one that grows on the foot, caused by a human papilloma virus.

Noun : (mycology) A rounded projection or wart.

Noun : (botany) A sexine element similar to a wart.

vanessa

Noun : A female given name originating as a coinage.

Noun : (zoology) Any butterfly of the genus Vanessa.

vaunter

Noun : Someone who vaunts, who brags; a braggart.

vesture

Noun : A covering of, or like, clothing.

Verb : (archaic) To clothe.

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