7 Letter Words That Start With V

vacuous

Adjective : Empty; void; lacking meaningful content.

Adjective : Showing a lack of thought or intelligence; vacant.

vestige

Noun : A mark left on the earth by a foot.

Noun : (by extension) A faint mark or visible sign left by something which is lost, or has perished, or is no longer present.

Noun : (biology) A vestigial organ; a non-functional organ or body part that was once functional in an evolutionary ancestor.

vitiate

Verb : (transitive) To spoil, make faulty; to reduce the value, quality, or effectiveness of something.

Verb : (transitive) To debase or morally corrupt.

Verb : (transitive, archaic) To violate, to rape.

vitriol

Noun : (dated) Any of various metal sulphates.

Noun : (dated) oil of vitriol (sulfuric acid).

Noun : (by extension) Bitterly abusive language.

vagrant

Noun : (dated) A person who wanders from place to place; a nomad, a wanderer.

Noun : (specifically) A person without settled employment or habitation who usually supports himself or herself by begging or some dishonest means; a tramp, a vagabond.

Noun : Vagrans egista, a widely distributed Asian butterfly of the family Nymphalidae.

vibrant

Adjective : Pulsing with energy or activity.

Adjective : Lively and vigorous.

Adjective : Vibrating, resonant or resounding.

vicious

Adjective : Violent, destructive and cruel.

Adjective : Savage and aggressive.

Adjective : (archaic) Pertaining to vice; characterised by immorality or depravity.

verdant

Adjective : Green in colour.

Adjective : Abundant in verdure; lush with vegetation.

Adjective : Fresh.

veranda

Noun : A gallery, platform, or balcony, usually roofed and often partly enclosed, extending along the outside of a building.

vantage

Noun : (archaic) An advantage.

Noun : A place or position affording a good view; a vantage point.

Noun : A superior or more favorable situation or opportunity; gain; profit; advantage.

vesture

Noun : A covering of, or like, clothing.

Verb : (archaic) To clothe.

viscera

Noun : Collectively, the internal organs of the body, especially those contained within the abdominal and thoracic cavities, such as the liver, heart, or stomach.

Noun : The intestines.

various

Adjective : Having a broad range (of different elements).

Adjective : (dated) That varies or differs from others; variant; different.

venture

Noun : A risky or daring undertaking or journey.

Noun : An event that is not, or cannot be, foreseen.

Noun : The thing risked; especially, something sent to sea in trade.

valiant

Adjective : Possessing or showing courage or determination; brave, heroic.

Adjective : Characterized by or done with bravery or valour.

Noun : (obsolete) A person who acts with valour, showing hero-like characteristics in the midst of danger.

vacuity

Noun : Emptiness.

Noun : Physical emptiness, an absence of matter; vacuum.

Noun : Idleness; listlessness.

velvety

Adjective : (also figuratively) Like velvet; soft, smooth, soothing.

verbose

Adjective : Containing or using more words than necessary; long-winded, wordy. [from 17th c.]

Adjective : (computing) Producing detailed output for diagnostic purposes.

variety

Noun : (countable)

Noun : A deviation or difference.

Noun : A specific variation of something.

verdure

Noun : The greenness of lush or growing vegetation (greenery); also: the vegetation itself.

Noun : (by extension) A condition of health and vigour.

Verb : (transitive) To cover with verdure.

verdict

Noun : (law) A decision on an issue of fact in a civil or criminal case or an inquest.

Noun : An opinion or judgement.

vedette

Noun : (historical, military) A sentinel, usually on horseback, stationed on the outpost of an army, to watch an enemy and give notice of danger.

Noun : (entertainment) A cabaret performer, usually the main female artist of a show.

viscous

Adjective : Having a thick, sticky consistency between solid and liquid (that is, a high viscosity).

Adjective : (physics) Of or pertaining to viscosity.

voluble

Adjective : (of a person or a manner of speaking) Fluent or having a ready flow of speech.

Adjective : Of thoughts, feelings, or something that is expressed: expressed readily or at length and in a fluent manner.

Adjective : Easily rolling or turning; having a fluid, undulating motion.

violent

Adjective : Involving extreme force or motion.

Adjective : Involving physical conflict.

Adjective : Likely to use physical force.

versant

Adjective : (archaic) Experienced, practiced.

Adjective : Conversant.

Noun : A slope of a mountain or mountain ridge.

vivific

Adjective : (obsolete) Giving life or vigor; reviving; enlivening

vermeil

Adjective : (poetic, now rare) Bright scarlet, vermilion.

Adjective : (poetic, now rare) Specifically of faces, lips etc.: red, ruddy, healthy-looking.

Noun : (poetic) Vermilion; bright red.

varmint

Noun : A pestering animal such as one that kills or harasses a farmer's livestock or crops.

Noun : (by extension) An obnoxious person or troublemaker.

vertigo

Noun : A sensation of whirling and loss of balance, caused by looking down from a great height or by disease affecting the inner ear.

Noun : A disordered or imbalanced state of mind or things analogous to physical vertigo; mental giddiness or dizziness.

Noun : The act of whirling round and round; rapid rotation.

vehicle

Noun : A conveyance; a spacious device for carrying or transporting substances, objects, people or animals.

Noun : A medium for expression of talent or views.

Noun : A liquid content (e.g., oil) which acts as a binding and drying agent in paint.

vivency

Noun : (obsolete) Manner of supporting or continuing life or vegetation.

village

Noun : A rural habitation of size between a hamlet and a town.

Noun : (British) A rural habitation that has a church, but no market.

Noun : (Australia) A planned community such as a retirement community or shopping district.

vaulted

Adjective : (architecture) Of a ceiling supported by arches, introduced in the Gothic style.

vanilla

Noun : (countable) Any tropical climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla (especially Vanilla planifolia), bearing podlike fruit yielding an extract used in flavoring food or in perfumes.

Noun : (countable) The fruit or bean of the vanilla plant.

Noun : (uncountable) The extract of the fruit of the vanilla plant.

version

Noun : A specific form or variation of something.

Noun : A translation from one language to another.

Noun : (education, archaic) A school exercise, generally of composition in a foreign language.

villain

Noun : A vile, wicked person.

Noun : An extremely depraved person, or one capable or guilty of great crimes.

Noun : A deliberate scoundrel.

vintage

Noun : The yield of grapes or wine from a vineyard or district during one season.

Noun : Wine, especially high-quality, identified as to year and vineyard or district of origin.

Noun : The harvesting of a grape crop and the initial pressing of juice for winemaking.

vacancy

Noun : An unoccupied position or job.

Noun : An available room in a hotel; guest house, etc.

Noun : Empty space.

viceroy

Noun : One who governs a country, province, or colony as the representative of a monarch.

Noun : A zongdu.

Noun : An orange and black North American butterfly (Limenitis archippus), so named because it is similar to, but smaller than, the monarch butterfly.

viaduct

Noun : (transport) A bridge with several spans that carries rail or road traffic over a valley or other obstacles.

voguish

Adjective : Elegant, fashionable or chic.

Adjective : Trendy.

valence

Noun : (countable, chemistry)

Noun : The combining capacity of an atom, functional group, or radical determined by the number of atoms of hydrogen with which it will unite, or the number of electrons that it will gain, lose, or share when it combines with other atoms, etc.

Noun : The number of binding sites of a molecule, such as an antibody or antigen.

variant

Adjective : Showing variety, diverse.

Adjective : Showing deviation or disagreement.

Adjective : (obsolete) Variable.

vulture

Noun : Any of several carrion-eating birds of the families Accipitridae and Cathartidae.

Noun : (figurative, colloquial) A person who profits from the suffering of others.

Verb : (figurative, colloquial) To circle around one's target as if one were a vulture.

veteran

Noun : A person with long experience of a particular activity.

Noun : A person who has served in the armed forces, especially an old soldier who has seen long service.

Noun : (figurative) A group, animal, etc. with long experience of a particular activity.

victual

Noun : (archaic) Food fit for human (or occasionally animal) consumption.

Noun : (archaic, chiefly in the plural) Food supplies; provisions.

Noun : (specifically, obsolete)

valance

Noun : A short curtain that usually hangs along the top edge of a window.

Noun : A decorative framework used to conceal the curtain mechanism and so on at the top of a window.

Noun : A short, decorative edging of cloth that hangs from a bed, from beneath the mattress to the floor, used to conceal the box spring or space under the bed and prevent dust from accumulating there.

vaunted

Adjective : Highly or widely praised or boasted about.

vanward

Adjective : On or towards the front.

Verb : Towards the front.

Noun : (archaic) The vanguard of an army.

visible

Adjective : Able to be seen.

villein

Noun : (historical) A feudal tenant, a serf.

vulpine

Adjective : Pertaining to a fox.

Adjective : Having the characteristics of a fox; foxlike; cunning.

Noun : Any of certain canids called foxes (including true foxes, arctic foxes and grey foxes), distinguished from canines, which are regarded as similar to dogs and wolves.

variate

Noun : (statistics) Random variable.

Noun : A measurable quantity capable of taking on a number of values.

Noun : A variable, often the set of x values plotted on a graph.

vidette

Noun : Alternative form of vedette [(historical, military) A sentinel, usually on horseback, stationed on the outpost of an army, to watch an enemy and give notice of danger.]

virtual

Adjective : In effect or essence, rather than in fact or reality; also, imitated, simulated.

Adjective : For practical purposes, though not technically; almost complete, very near.

Adjective : (computing)

victory

Noun : (uncountable) The condition or state of having won a battle or competition, or having succeeded in an effort; (countable) an instance of this.

Verb : (transitive, obsolete or rare) To defeat or triumph over (someone or something).

Noun : (uncountable) The 48th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.

vandyke

Noun : An edge with ornamental triangular points.

Noun : A style of facial hair which has both a mustache and a goatee but with all cheek hair shaven, popular in Europe in the 17th century.

Noun : A style of dress or collar similar to those in Anthony van Dyck's portrait paintings; a small round cape, the border ornamented with points and indentations.

vaunter

Noun : Someone who vaunts, who brags; a braggart.

vitrine

Noun : A glass-paneled cabinet or case, especially for displaying articles such as china, objets d'art, or fine merchandise.

vastity

Noun : (obsolete) Emptiness or desolation.

Noun : Vastness.

vidimus

Noun : A preliminary drawing of something to be designed and constructed.

Noun : An inspection or audit.

vesania

Noun : Madness, insanity, mental derangement.

vortice

Noun : (nonstandard) Alternative form of vortex [A whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column.]

violate

Verb : (transitive) To break or disregard (a rule or convention).

Verb : (transitive) To rape.

Verb : (transitive, prison slang) To cite (a person) for a parole violation.

vulgate

Noun : A particular Latin translation of the Bible made by Saint Jerome in the late 4th-century CE.

Adjective : (archaic) Made common, published for common use.

Adjective : (of a text, especially the Bible, not comparable) In or pertaining to the common version or edition.

vaquero

Noun : (Southwestern US) A cowboy; a herdsman.

Noun : A surname from Spanish.

vection

Noun : (obsolete) Transport.

Noun : (medicine, dated) The transference of the germs of disease from those who are sick to those who are well; infection.

Noun : (neurology) The illusion of self-motion.

vespine

Adjective : Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of wasps.

vampire

Noun : A mythological creature (usually humanoid and undead) said to feed on the blood or life energy of the living.

Noun : (colloquial) A person with the medical condition Porphyria cutanea tarda, colloquially known as vampirism, with effects such as photosensitivity and brownish-red stained teeth.

Noun : A blood-sucking bat; vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus)

vibrate

Verb : (intransitive) To shake with small, rapid movements to and fro.

Verb : (intransitive) To resonate.

Verb : (transitive) To brandish; to swing to and fro.

viewing

Noun : An instance of viewing something.

Noun : A wake.

Adjective : Related to or for viewing.

voltaic

Adjective : of or relating to electricity.

Adjective : producing electricity by chemical action.

Adjective : (figurative) reminiscent of the action of electricity: thrilling, shocking, dramatic.

veering

Noun : A motion that veers; a sudden swerve.

veiling

Noun : The act of covering with a veil.

Noun : Material for making veils.

venting

Noun : The act by which something is vented.

Noun : (oil industry) The release of unwanted gas directly into the atmosphere.

vamoose

Verb : (ambitransitive, slang) To run away (from); to flee.

Verb : (intransitive, slang) To hurry.

villous

Adjective : Hairy, covered with soft long hair.

Adjective : (biology) Covered with villi.

veritas

Noun : Truth, particularly of a transcendent character.

Noun : (Roman mythology) The Goddess of truth, a daughter of Saturn, and the mother of Virtus, also sometimes considered the daughter of Jupiter, or a creation of Prometheus; she is equivalent to Aletheia in Greek mythology

vapored

Adjective : Wet with vapors; moist.

Adjective : Affected with the vapors (hysterical disorder)

virtues

Noun : the third full-length studio album by pop-punk band Amber Pacific, released on April 13, 2010.

vampish

Adjective : Like a vamp (flirtatious woman).

versute

Adjective : crafty; wily; artful

vagitus

Noun : The crying of a newborn baby.

venerer

Noun : A gamekeeper.

Noun : A hunter.

vitious

Adjective : Obsolete form of vicious. [Violent, destructive and cruel.]

voyeuse

Noun : A female voyeur; a woman who derives sexual pleasure from secretly observing other people.

venomer

Noun : (dated, rare) One who or that which poisons.

varnish

Noun : A type of paint with a solvent that evaporates to leave a hard, transparent, glossy film.

Noun : Anything resembling such a paint; glossy appearance.

Noun : (by extension) A deceptively showy appearance.

ventral

Adjective : Related to the abdomen or stomach.

Adjective : (anatomy) On the front side of the human body, or the corresponding surface of an animal, usually the lower surface.

Adjective : (anatomy) On or relating to the sole of the foot or the palmar surface of the hand.

visitor

Noun : Someone who visits someone else; someone staying as a guest.

Noun : Someone who pays a visit to a specific place or event; a sightseer or tourist.

Noun : (sports, usually in the plural) Someone, or a team, that is playing away from home.

voyager

Noun : A person who voyages, traveller, a person who explores new lands and worlds.

vegetal

Adjective : (now rare, historical) Capable of growth and reproduction, but not feeling or reason (often opposed to sensible and rational).

Adjective : Pertaining to vegetables or plants.

Adjective : (wine) Having a grassy, herbaceous taste.

verbena

Noun : Verbena, a genus of herbaceous plants of which several species are extensively cultivated for the great beauty of their flowers; vervain.

vocable

Noun : (linguistics) A word or utterance, especially with reference to its form rather than its meaning.

Noun : (music) A syllable or sound without specific meaning, used together with or in place of actual words in a song.

Adjective : (linguistics) Able to be uttered.

voiding

Noun : An act by which something is voided, such as urination.

Noun : That which is voided; that which is ejected or evacuated; a remnant; a fragment.

viscose

Noun : A viscous orange-brown liquid obtained by chemical treatment of cellulose and used as the basis of manufacturing rayon and cellulose film.

Noun : A fabric made from this material.

valvule

Noun : A small valve.

Noun : A structure similar to a small valve.

valuate

Verb : To estimate the value of something; to appraise or to make a valuation.

voluted

Adjective : Having a volute, or spiral scroll.

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