9-letter words starting with ve
- venturing — an undertaking involving uncertainty as to the outcome, especially a risky or dangerous one: a mountain-climbing venture.
- venturous — venturesome.
- venusberg — a mountain in central Germany in the caverns of which, according to medieval legend, Venus held court.
- veracious — habitually speaking the truth; truthful; honest: a veracious witness.
- verandaed — having a veranda: a verandaed house.
- verapamil — a white crystalline powder, C 27 H 38 N 2 O 4 , used as a calcium blocker in the treatment of angina and certain arrhythmias.
- veratrine — a white or grayish-white, slightly water-soluble, poisonous mixture of alkaloids obtained by extraction from the seeds of the sabadilla: formerly used in medicine as a counterirritant in the treatment of rheumatism and neuralgia.
- verbalise — to express in words: He couldn't verbalize his feelings.
- verbalism — a verbal expression, as a word or phrase.
- verbalist — a person skilled in the use of words.
- verbality — wordiness; verbal diffuseness: a speech full of tedious verbality.
- verbalize — to express in words: He couldn't verbalize his feelings.
- verbarian — an inventor of words
- verberate — to lash, beat, or whip
- verbiages — overabundance or superfluity of words, as in writing or speech; wordiness; verbosity.
- verbicide — the willful distortion or depreciation of the original meaning of a word.
- verbosely — characterized by the use of many or too many words; wordy: a verbose report.
- verbosity — the state or quality of being verbose; superfluity of words; wordiness: His speeches were always marred by verbosity.
- verdigris — a green or bluish patina formed on copper, brass, or bronze surfaces exposed to the atmosphere for long periods of time, consisting principally of basic copper sulfate.
- verdurous — rich in verdure; freshly green; verdant.
- vergilian — pertaining to or characteristic of the poet Vergil.
- verhaeren — Émile. 1855–1916, Belgian poet, writing in French. His works include the collections Les Flamandes (1883), Les Soirs (1887), and Les Visages de la Vie (1899)
- veridical — truthful; veracious.
- verifying — to prove the truth of, as by evidence or testimony; confirm; substantiate: Events verified his prediction.
- verissimo — Érico Lopes [e-ri-koo law-puh s] /ˈɛ rɪ kʊ ˈlɔ pəs/ (Show IPA), 1905–75, Brazilian novelist.
- veritable — being truly or very much so: a veritable triumph.
- veritably — being truly or very much so: a veritable triumph.
- vermicide — a substance or agent used to kill worms, especially a drug used to kill parasitic intestinal worms.
- vermicule — a small, wormlike structure.
- vermiform — resembling a worm in shape; long and slender.
- vermifuge — serving to expel worms or other animal parasites from the intestines, as a medicine.
- vermilion — a town in N Ohio.
- vermilled — coloured vermilion
- verminate — to become infested with vermin, especially parasitic vermin.
- verminous — of the nature of or resembling vermin.
- vermonter — a native or inhabitant of Vermont.
- vernality — the quality or state of being vernal
- vernalize — to shorten the growth period of (a plant) by chilling or other special treatment of it, its seeds, or its bulbs.
- vernation — the arrangement of the foliage leaves within the bud.
- veronique — (of a dish) served in a white sauce and garnished with seedless white grapes
- verrazano — Giovanni da [jaw-vahn-nee dah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni dɑ/ (Show IPA), c1480–1527? Italian navigator and explorer.
- verrucose — studded with wartlike protuberances or elevations.
- verrucous — of, pertaining to, marked by, or like a wart or warts.
- versatile — capable of or adapted for turning easily from one to another of various tasks, fields of endeavor, etc.: a versatile writer.
- versifier — to relate, describe, or treat (something) in verse.
- versiform — changing in form
- version 7 — (operating system) (V7) The unsupported release of Unix ancestral to all current commercial versions. Brian Kernighan announced the release of V7 in summer 1979, at the Unix User's Group meeting in Toronto. Before the release of the POSIX/SVID standards, V7's features were often treated as a Unix portability baseline. Some old-timers impatient with commercialisation and kernel bloat still maintain that V7 was the Last True Unix. See BSD, USG Unix, System V.
- vertebrae — 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.
- vertebral — of or relating to a vertebra or the vertebrae; spinal.
- verticity — the ability to turn