6-letter words starting with v
- vaulty — having the appearance or characteristics of a vault; arching: the vaulty rows of elm trees.
- vaunce — to advance
- vaunty — boastful; vain.
- vaward — vanguard.
- vaxset — A set of software development tools from DEC, including a language-sensitive editor, compilers etc.
- vdm-sl — Vienna Development Method Specification Language
- ve day — May 8, 1945, the day of victory in Europe for the Allies in World War II.
- veadar — an intercalary month of the Jewish calendar.
- vealer — Also, vealer [vee-ler] /ˈvi lər/ (Show IPA). a calf raised for its meat, usually a milk-fed animal less than three months old.
- veblen — Oswald, 1880–1960, U.S. mathematician.
- vector — Mathematics. a quantity possessing both magnitude and direction, represented by an arrow the direction of which indicates the direction of the quantity and the length of which is proportional to the magnitude. Compare scalar (def 4). such a quantity with the additional requirement that such quantities obey the parallelogram law of addition. such a quantity with the additional requirement that such quantities are to transform in a particular way under changes of the coordinate system. any generalization of the above quantities.
- veduta — a painting of a town or city
- veejay — video jockey.
- veepee — a vice president.
- veered — 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.
- vegete — lively; active
- veggie — a vegetable.
- vehmic — of or relating to a vehm
- veight — noting an internal-combustion engine having two opposed banks of four cylinders, each inclined so that the axes of the cylinders form a V -shaped angle as seen from the end of the engine.
- veiled — having a veil: a veiled hat.
- veinal — one of the system of branching vessels or tubes conveying blood from various parts of the body to the heart.
- veined — Veined skin has a lot of veins showing through it.
- veiner — a wood-carving tool
- vela's — Biology. any of various veillike or curtainlike membranous partitions.
- velate — Biology. having a velum.
- velcro — fastening tape used for garment closure
- vellet — velvet
- vellon — a silver and copper alloy used in old Spanish coins
- vellum — calfskin, lambskin, kidskin, etc., treated for use as a writing surface.
- veloce — played at a fast tempo (used as a musical direction).
- velour — a velvetlike fabric of rayon, wool, or any of several other natural or synthetic fibers, used for outerwear and upholstery.
- velsen — a seaport in W Netherlands.
- velure — velvet or a substance resembling it.
- velvet — a fabric of silk, nylon, acetate, rayon, etc., sometimes having a cotton backing, with a thick, soft pile formed of loops of the warp thread either cut at the outer end or left uncut.
- vended — to sell as one's business or occupation, especially by peddling: to vend flowers at a sidewalk stand.
- vendee — a department in W France, on the Atlantic: royalist revolt 1793–95. 2709 sq. mi. (7015 sq. km). Capital: La Roche-sur-Yon.
- vender — vendor.
- vendor — a person or agency that sells.
- vendue — a public auction.
- veneer — a thin layer of wood or other material for facing or inlaying wood.
- venene — venin.
- venera — one of a series of Soviet space probes that obtained scientific information about the atmosphere of Venus.
- venery — the practice or sport of hunting; the chase.
- veneti — Also, Venetia. Also called Veneto [ve-ne-taw] /ˈvɛ nɛ tɔ/ (Show IPA). a region in NE Italy. 7095 sq. mi. (18,375 sq. km).
- veneto — Also, Venetia. Also called Veneto [ve-ne-taw] /ˈvɛ nɛ tɔ/ (Show IPA). a region in NE Italy. 7095 sq. mi. (18,375 sq. km).
- venez. — Venezuela
- venger — an avenger
- venges — to avenge.
- venial — able to be forgiven or pardoned; not seriously wrong, as a sin (opposed to mortal).
- venice — Italian Venezia. a seaport in NE Italy, built on numerous small islands in the Lagoon of Venice.