6-letter words starting with ve
- venter — Anatomy, Zoology. the abdomen or belly. a bellylike cavity or concavity. a bellylike protuberance.
- ventil — a valve on a musical instrument
- venues — 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.
- venule — a small vein.
- verbal — of or relating to words: verbal ability.
- verbid — a nonfinite verb form; a verbal; an infinitive, participle, or gerund.
- verbis — with just so many words; in these words.
- verdet — a bluish green substance which is a type of verdigris that is insoluble in water but is soluble in vinegar and other acids
- verdin — a small, yellow-headed, titmouse-like bird, Auriparus flaviceps, of arid regions of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, which builds a compact, spherical nest of thorny twigs.
- verdoy — a floral or leafy shield decoration
- verdun — a fortress city in NE France, on the Meuse River. A German offensive was stopped here in 1916 in the bloodiest fighting of World War I.
- verein — a union, association, or society.
- verged — the edge, rim, or margin of something: the verge of a desert; to operate on the verge of fraud.
- verger — Chiefly British. a church official who serves as sacristan, caretaker, usher, and general attendant.
- vergil — (Publius Vergilius Maro) 70–19 b.c, Roman poet: author of The Aeneid.
- verier — in a high degree; extremely; exceedingly: A giant is very tall.
- verify — to prove the truth of, as by evidence or testimony; confirm; substantiate: Events verified his prediction.
- verily — in truth; really; indeed.
- verism — the theory that rigid representation of truth and reality is essential to art and literature, and therefore the ugly and vulgar must be included.
- verist — the theory that rigid representation of truth and reality is essential to art and literature, and therefore the ugly and vulgar must be included.
- verite — truth; truthfulness.
- verity — the state or quality of being true; accordance with fact or reality: to question the verity of a statement.
- verlan — a variety of French slang in which the syllables are inverted, such as meuf for femme, and also incorporating Arabic words and phrases
- verlig — enlightened; liberal
- vermal — of or relating to the vermis
- vermi- — worm
- vermin — noxious, objectionable, or disgusting animals collectively, especially those of small size that appear commonly and are difficult to control, as flies, lice, bedbugs, cockroaches, mice, and rats.
- vermis — the median lobe or division of the cerebellum.
- vernal — of or relating to spring: vernal sunshine.
- verner — Karl Adolph [kahrl ah-dolf] /kɑrl ˈɑ dɒlf/ (Show IPA), 1846–96, Danish linguist.
- vernet — Claude Joseph [klohd zhaw-zef] /kloʊd ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), 1714–89, French painter.
- vernix — a white substance covering the skin of a fetus
- vernon — Edward ("Old Grog") 1684–1757, British admiral.
- verona — a city in N Italy, on the Adige River.
- verrel — a ferrule
- versal — universal or whole.
- versed — of, relating to, or written in verse: a verse play.
- verser — a versifier; rhymer
- verses — (not in technical use) a stanza.
- verset — Prosody. a brief verse, especially from Scripture.
- versus — against (used especially to indicate an action brought by one party against another in a court of law, or to denote competing teams or players in a sports contest): Smith versus Jones; Army versus Navy.
- vertex — the highest point of something; apex; summit; top: the vertex of a mountain.
- vertus — excellence or merit in objects of art, curios, and the like.
- vervet — an African monkey, Cercopithecus aethiops pygerythrus, allied to the green monkey and the grivet, but distinguished by a rusty patch at the root of the tail.
- vesica — Anatomy. a bladder.
- vesper — (initial capital letter) the evening star, especially Venus; Hesperus.
- vespid — any of numerous, mostly colonial, nest-building wasps of the family Vespidae, as the yellow jackets, hornets, and mason wasps.
- vessel — a craft for traveling on water, now usually one larger than an ordinary rowboat; a ship or boat.
- vestal — of or relating to the goddess Vesta.
- vested — held completely, permanently, and inalienably: vested rights.