5-letter words starting with v
- vatic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a prophet.
- vatus — a nickel-brass coin and monetary unit of Vanuatu.
- vauch — to move fast
- vault — the act of vaulting.
- vaunt — to speak vaingloriously of; boast of: to vaunt one's achievements.
- vaxen — /vak'sn/ (From "oxen", perhaps influenced by "vixen") The plural canonically used among hackers for the DEC VAX computers. "Our installation has four PDP-10s and twenty vaxen." See boxen.
- vcode — 1. The intermediate language used in the compilation of NESL. 2. The intermediate language used in the compilation of [email protected].
- vealy — resembling veal.
- vedda — a Sri Lankan aborigine.
- vedic — of or relating to the Veda or Vedas.
- veeck — William Louis, Jr. 1914–86, U.S. baseball team owner and promoter.
- veena — vina.
- veery — a thrush, Catharus fuscescens, common in the eastern and northern U.S., noted for its song.
- vegan — a vegetarian who omits all animal products from the diet.
- vegas — a city in SE Nevada.
- veges — a vegetable.
- vegie — a vegetable.
- veily — like a veil
- veins — one of the system of branching vessels or tubes conveying blood from various parts of the body to the heart.
- veiny — full of veins; prominently veined: a veiny hand.
- 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.
- venae — a vein.
- venal — willing to sell one's influence, especially in return for a bribe; open to bribery; mercenary: a venal judge.
- venda — a self-governing Bantu territory of South Africa in the NE part: granted independence in 1979 by South Africa, but not recognized by any other country as an independent state. 2510 sq. mi. (6500 sq. km). Capital: Thohoyandou.
- vener — Vänern.
- veney — a thrust
- venge — to avenge.
- venin — any of several poisonous substances occurring in snake venom.
- venlo — a city in SE Netherlands.
- venom — the poisonous fluid that some animals, as certain snakes and spiders, secrete and introduce into the bodies of their victims by biting, stinging, etc.
- venue — Law. the place of a crime or cause of action. the county or place where the jury is gathered and the cause tried. the designation, in the pleading, of the jurisdiction where a trial will be held. the statement naming the place and person before whom an affidavit was sworn.
- venus — an ancient Italian goddess of gardens and spring, identified by the Romans with Aphrodite as the goddess of love and beauty.
- veras — a female given name: from a Russian word meaning “faith.”.
- verbs — any member of a class of words that function as the main elements of predicates, that typically express action, state, or a relation between two things, and that may be inflected for tense, aspect, voice, mood, and to show agreement with their subject or object.
- verde — Cape, a cape in Senegal, near Dakar: the westernmost point of Africa.
- verdi — Giuseppe [joo-zep-pe] /dʒuˈzɛp pɛ/ (Show IPA), 1813–1901, Italian composer.
- verge — the edge, rim, or margin of something: the verge of a desert; to operate on the verge of fraud.
- verna — a female given name.
- verne — a town in S California.
- verny — former name of Alma-Ata.
- verse — (not in technical use) a stanza.
- verso — a left-hand page of an open book or manuscript (opposed to recto).
- verst — a Russian measure of distance equivalent to 3500 feet or 0.6629 mile or 1.067 kilometers.
- vertu — excellence or merit in objects of art, curios, and the like.
- verve — enthusiasm or vigor, as in literary or artistic work; spirit: Her latest novel lacks verve.
- vesey — Denmark, 1767–1822, black freedman, born probably on St. Thomas, Danish West Indies: hanged as alleged leader of a slave insurrection, in Charleston, S.C.