8-letter words starting with v
- valorous — having valor; courageous; valiant; brave.
- valuable — having considerable monetary worth; costing or bringing a high price: a valuable painting; a valuable crop.
- valuably — having considerable monetary worth; costing or bringing a high price: a valuable painting; a valuable crop.
- valuated — to set a value on; appraise.
- valuator — to set a value on; appraise.
- valvelet — a small valve; valvule.
- valvular — having the form or function of a valve.
- vambrace — a piece of plate armor for the forearm; a lower cannon. Compare rerebrace.
- vamphorn — a megaphone in use during the 18th and early 19th centuries for public address in church services.
- vampires — a preternatural being, commonly believed to be a reanimated corpse, that is said to suck the blood of sleeping persons at night.
- vampiric — a preternatural being, commonly believed to be a reanimated corpse, that is said to suck the blood of sleeping persons at night.
- vamplate — a metal plate mounted on a lance in front of the grip to protect the hand.
- van dine — S. S, Wright, Willard Huntington.
- van duyn — Mona, 1921–2004, U.S. poet: U.S. poet laureate 1992.
- van dyck — Sir Anthony, 1599–1641, Flemish painter.
- van eyck — Jan (jɑn). died 1441, Flemish painter; founder of the Flemish school of painting. His most famous work is the altarpiece The Adoration of the Lamb, in Ghent, in which he may have been assisted by his brother Hubert (ˈhyːbərt), died ?1426
- van gogh — Vincent [vin-suh nt;; Dutch vin-sent] /ˈvɪn sənt;; Dutch vɪnˈsɛnt/ (Show IPA), 1853–90, Dutch painter.
- van line — a transportation company that uses large motor vans for the long-distance moving of household effects.
- van loon — Hendrik Willem [hen-drik vil-uh m] /ˈhɛn drɪk ˈvɪl əm/ (Show IPA), 1882–1944, U.S. author, born in the Netherlands.
- van pool — a type of car pool utilizing a van that can usually transport 6 to 15 passengers: often provided by a company for its commuting employees for a nominal charge or at cost.
- van vogt — A(lfred) E(lton) 1912–2000, U.S. science-fiction writer, born in Canada.
- van wert — a city in NW Ohio.
- vanadate — a salt or ester of a vanadic acid.
- vanadium — a rare element occurring in certain minerals and obtained as a light-gray powder with a silvery luster or as a ductile metal: used as an ingredient of steel to toughen it and increase its shock resistance. Symbol: V; atomic weight: 50.942; atomic number: 23; specific gravity: 5.96.
- vanadous — containing divalent or trivalent vanadium.
- vanbrugh — John, 1664–1726, English dramatist and architect.
- vandalia — a town in W Ohio.
- vandalic — (initial capital letter) of, relating to, or characteristic of the Vandals.
- vanessid — a butterfly belonging to any of several brightly coloured species, including admirals, tortoiseshells, and the Camberwell beauty, which with the fritillaries comprise the Nymphalidae
- vanguard — the foremost division or the front part of an army; advance guard; van.
- vanillic — of, derived from, or resembling vanilla or vanillin.
- vanillin — a white, crystalline, water-soluble, alcohol-soluble solid, C 8 H 8 O 3 , obtained by extraction from the vanilla bean or prepared synthetically: used chiefly as a flavoring agent and in perfumery.
- vanished — to disappear from sight, especially quickly; become invisible: The frost vanished when the sun came out.
- vanitied — with vanity units or mirrors
- vanitory — a combined dressing table and lavatory basin.
- vanquish — to conquer or subdue by superior force, as in battle.
- vanzetti — Bartolomeo [bahr-taw-law-me-aw] /ˌbɑr tɔ lɔˈmɛ ɔ/ (Show IPA), 1888–1927, Italian anarchist, in U.S. after 1908.
- vape pen — an e-cigarette.
- vapidity — lacking or having lost life, sharpness, or flavor; insipid; flat: vapid tea.
- vaporing — that gives forth vapor.
- vaporise — to cause to change into vapor.
- vaporish — of the nature of or resembling vapor: a vaporish chiffon dress.
- vaporize — to cause to change into vapor.
- vaporous — having the form or characteristics of vapor: a vaporous cloud.
- vapulate — to beat or whip
- varactor — a semiconductor diode whose capacitance changes to match applied voltage, used to tune circuits by varying the reactance.
- varanasi — a city in SE Uttar Pradesh, in NE India, on the Ganges River: Hindu holy city.
- varginha — a city in E Brazil.
- vargueno — a fall-front desk of the 16th, 17th, and early 18th centuries, having the form of a chest upon a small table.
- variable — apt or liable to vary or change; changeable: variable weather; variable moods.