8-letter words starting with ve
- verandah — Also, verandah. Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. a large, open porch, usually roofed and partly enclosed, as by a railing, often extending across the front and sides of a house; gallery.
- veratrum — any poisonous herb of N American genus Veratrum
- verbally — of or relating to words: verbal ability.
- verbatim — word for word and letter for letter; in exactly the same words.
- verbiage — overabundance or superfluity of words, as in writing or speech; wordiness; verbosity.
- verbless — 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.
- verboten — forbidden, as by law; prohibited.
- vercelli — a city in NW Italy, W of Milan.
- verdancy — green with vegetation; covered with growing plants or grass: a verdant oasis.
- verdandi — any of three goddesses of fate, the goddess of the past (Urd) the goddess of the present (Verdandi) and the goddess of the future (Skuld)
- verdelho — a white grape grown in Portugal, used for making wine
- verderer — an English judicial officer in the royal forests having charge especially of the vert, or trees and undergrowth.
- verditer — either of two pigments, consisting usually of carbonate of copper prepared by grinding either azurite (blue verditer) or malachite (green verditer)
- verecund — bashful; modest.
- verge on — the edge, rim, or margin of something: the verge of a desert; to operate on the verge of fraud.
- vergence — the turning motion of the eyeballs toward or away from each other. Compare convergence (def 4), divergence (def 3).
- vergency — an inclination or tendency; the act of verging or approaching
- veridian — a long-lasting, bluish-green pigment, consisting of a hydrated oxide of chromium.
- verified — confirmed as to accuracy or truth by acceptable evidence, action, etc.
- verifier — to prove the truth of, as by evidence or testimony; confirm; substantiate: Events verified his prediction.
- verifies — to prove the truth of, as by evidence or testimony; confirm; substantiate: Events verified his prediction.
- veristic — the theory that rigid representation of truth and reality is essential to art and literature, and therefore the ugly and vulgar must be included.
- verities — the state or quality of being true; accordance with fact or reality: to question the verity of a statement.
- verjuice — an acid liquor made from the sour juice of crab apples, unripe grapes, etc., formerly much used for culinary and other purposes.
- verkramp — bigoted or illiberal
- verlaine — Paul [pawl] /pɔl/ (Show IPA), 1844–96, French poet.
- verligte — (during apartheid) a person of any of the White political parties who supported liberal trends in government policy
- vermined — plagued with vermin
- vermoulu — worm-eaten
- vermouth — an aromatized white wine in which herbs, roots, barks, bitters, and other flavorings have been steeped.
- vernazza — a group of five coastal villages (Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, and Riomaggiore) on the Ligurian Sea in NW Italy, near La Spezia.
- vernicle — veronica1 .
- veronese — of or relating to the city or town of Verona.
- veronica — a female given name.
- verquere — a variation of backgammon
- verriere — a French bowl similar to a monteith in form and use.
- verrucae — Medicine/Medical. a wart.
- verselet — a small verse
- verseman — a man who writes verse
- versicle — a little verse.
- versiera — witch of Agnesi.
- vertebra — any of the bones or segments composing the spinal column, consisting typically of a cylindrical body and an arch with various processes, and forming a foramen, or opening, through which the spinal cord passes.
- vertical — being in a position or direction perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; upright; plumb.
- vertices — a plural of vertex.
- verticil — a whorl or circle, as of leaves or hairs, arranged around a point on an axis.
- vertisol — a clay-rich soil in which deep cracks form during the dry season.
- vervelle — any of a number of staples riveted along the base of a basinet to hold an aventail.
- verwoerd — Hendrik Frensch [hen-drik frens] /ˈhɛn drɪk frɛns/ (Show IPA), 1901–66, South African political leader, born in the Netherlands: prime minister 1958–66.
- vesalius — Andreas [ahn-dre-ahs] /ɑnˈdrɛ ɑs/ (Show IPA), 1514–64, Flemish anatomist.
- vesicant — producing a blister or blisters, as a medicinal substance; vesicating.