Name Report For First Name VAIL:

VAIL

First name VAIL's origin is French. VAIL means "from the vale". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with VAIL below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of vail.(Brown names are of the same origin (French) with VAIL and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)

Rhymes with VAIL - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming VAIL

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES VAŻL AS A WHOLE:

 

NAMES RHYMING WITH VAŻL (According to last letters):

Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ail) - Names That Ends with ail:

abigail fudail isma'il isra'il mika'il suhail wa'il gouvernail cinnfhail mikhail abagail abichail avagail avigail dearbhail gail marcail ail coireail gouveniail maichail neakail isobail iseabail

Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (il) - Names That Ends with il:

goneril aimil daffodil mikil asil nabil siraj-al-leil tawil abdul-jalil jalil jamil kahil kalil kamil khalil wakil hueil bohumil bodil micheil akil keril emil abril amil april averil avichayil avril cibil lil rahil soleil sybil akhil ancil aveneil basil bidziil birdhil bssil cyril danil darneil denzil gil kahleil kahlil kermichil merril neil nikhil orvil phil raymil renneil virgil yigil leil fil caramichil stil brasil tentagil romil ril bathil mathil adil fadil jibril yagil zemil xipil

NAMES RHYMING WITH VAŻL (According to first letters):

Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (vai) - Names That Begins with vai:

vaino vaiveahtoish

Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (va) - Names That Begins with va:

vac vach vachel vaden vadit vafara val valara valborga valdemar valdemarr valdeze vale valen valencia valentin valentina valentine valentino valeraine valere valerica valerie valeriu vali valiant valicia valkoinen vallen vallis vallois van vance vanda vande vandenberg vanderbilt vanderpool vanderveer vandyke vanesa vanessa vania vanko vanna vannes vanny vappu var vara varaza varda vardan varden vardit vardon vare vareck vared varek vargovic varik varney vartan vartoughi varunani varvara varyk vasek vasile vasileios vasilis vasos vasudev vaughan vaughn vavara vayle

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH VAŻL:

First Names which starts with 'v' and ends with 'l':

vencel verdell verel vernell verrall verrell verrill veryl vidal videl vogel

English Words Rhyming VAIL

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES VAŻL AS A WHOLE:

availingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Avail

availnoun (n.) Profit; advantage toward success; benefit; value; as, labor, without economy, is of little avail.
 noun (n.) Proceeds; as, the avails of a sale by auction.
 verb (v. t.) To turn to the advantage of; to be of service to; to profit; to benefit; to help; as, artifices will not avail the sinner in the day of judgment.
 verb (v. t.) To promote; to assist.
 verb (v. i.) To be of use or advantage; to answer the purpose; to have strength, force, or efficacy sufficient to accomplish the object; as, the plea in bar must avail, that is, be sufficient to defeat the suit; this scheme will not avail; medicines will not avail to check the disease.
 verb (v. t. & i.) See Avale, v.

availabilitynoun (n.) The quality of being available; availableness.
 noun (n.) That which is available.

availableadjective (a.) Having sufficient power, force, or efficacy, for the object; effectual; valid; as, an available plea.
 adjective (a.) Such as one may avail one's self of; capable of being used for the accomplishment of a purpose; usable; profitable; advantageous; convertible into a resource; as, an available measure; an available candidate.

availablenessnoun (n.) Competent power; validity; efficacy; as, the availableness of a title.
 noun (n.) Quality of being available; capability of being used for the purpose intended.

availmentnoun (n.) Profit; advantage.

countervailingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Countervail

countervailnoun (n.) Power or value sufficient to obviate any effect; equal weight, strength, or value; equivalent; compensation; requital.
 verb (v. t.) To act against with equal force, power, or effect; to thwart or overcome by such action; to furnish an equivalent to or for; to counterbalance; to compensate.

mervaillenoun (n.) Marvel.

paravailadjective (a.) At the bottom; lowest.

prevailingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prevail
 adjective (a.) Having superior force or influence; efficacious; persuasive.
 adjective (a.) Predominant; prevalent; most general; as, the prevailing disease of a climate; a prevailing opinion.

prevailmentnoun (n.) Prevalence; superior influence; efficacy.

travailnoun (n.) Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion.
 noun (n.) Parturition; labor; as, an easy travail.
 noun (n.) To labor with pain; to toil.
 noun (n.) To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor.
 verb (v. t.) To harass; to tire.
 verb (v. i.) Same as Travois.

travailingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Travail

travailousadjective (a.) Causing travail; laborious.

vailnoun (n. & v. t.) Same as Veil.
 noun (n.) Avails; profit; return; proceeds.
 noun (n.) An unexpected gain or acquisition; a casual advantage or benefit; a windfall.
 noun (n.) Money given to servants by visitors; a gratuity; -- usually in the plural.
 noun (n.) Submission; decline; descent.
 verb (v. t.) To let fail; to allow or cause to sink.
 verb (v. t.) To lower, or take off, in token of inferiority, reverence, submission, or the like.
 verb (v. i.) To yield or recede; to give place; to show respect by yielding, uncovering, or the like.

vailernoun (n.) One who vails.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH VAŻL (According to last letters):


Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ail) - English Words That Ends with ail:


abigailnoun (n.) A lady's waiting-maid.

agnailnoun (n.) A corn on the toe or foot.
 noun (n.) An inflammation or sore under or around the nail; also, a hangnail.

ailnoun (n.) Indisposition or morbid affection.
 verb (v. t.) To affect with pain or uneasiness, either physical or mental; to trouble; to be the matter with; -- used to express some uneasiness or affection, whose cause is unknown; as, what ails the man? I know not what ails him.
 verb (v. i.) To be affected with pain or uneasiness of any sort; to be ill or indisposed or in trouble.

aswailnoun (n.) The sloth bear (Melursus labiatus) of India.

aventailnoun (n.) The movable front to a helmet; the ventail.

bailnoun (n.) A bucket or scoop used in bailing water out of a boat.
 noun (n.) Custody; keeping.
 noun (n.) The person or persons who procure the release of a prisoner from the custody of the officer, or from imprisonment, by becoming surely for his appearance in court.
 noun (n.) The security given for the appearance of a prisoner in order to obtain his release from custody of the officer; as, the man is out on bail; to go bail for any one.
 noun (n.) The arched handle of a kettle, pail, or similar vessel, usually movable.
 noun (n.) A half hoop for supporting the cover of a carrier's wagon, awning of a boat, etc.
 noun (n.) A line of palisades serving as an exterior defense.
 noun (n.) The outer wall of a feudal castle. Hence: The space inclosed by it; the outer court.
 noun (n.) A certain limit within a forest.
 noun (n.) A division for the stalls of an open stable.
 noun (n.) The top or cross piece ( or either of the two cross pieces) of the wicket.
 verb (v. t.) To lade; to dip and throw; -- usually with out; as, to bail water out of a boat.
 verb (v. t.) To dip or lade water from; -- often with out to express completeness; as, to bail a boat.
 verb (v./t.) To deliver; to release.
 verb (v./t.) To set free, or deliver from arrest, or out of custody, on the undertaking of some other person or persons that he or they will be responsible for the appearance, at a certain day and place, of the person bailed.
 verb (v./t.) To deliver, as goods in trust, for some special object or purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed on the part of the bailee, or person intrusted; as, to bail cloth to a tailor to be made into a garment; to bail goods to a carrier.

blackmailnoun (n.) A certain rate of money, corn, cattle, or other thing, anciently paid, in the north of England and south of Scotland, to certain men who were allied to robbers, or moss troopers, to be by them protected from pillage.
 noun (n.) Payment of money exacted by means of intimidation; also, extortion of money from a person by threats of public accusation, exposure, or censure.
 noun (n.) Black rent, or rent paid in corn, flesh, or the lowest coin, a opposed to "white rent", which paid in silver.
 verb (v. t.) To extort money from by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation, distress of mind, etc.; as, to blackmail a merchant by threatening to expose an alleged fraud.

blacktailnoun (n.) A fish; the ruff or pope.
 noun (n.) The black-tailed deer (Cervus / Cariacus Columbianus) of California and Oregon; also, the mule deer of the Rocky Mountains. See Mule deer.

bobtailnoun (n.) An animal (as a horse or dog) with a short tail.
 adjective (a.) Bobtailed.

brailnoun (n.) A thong of soft leather to bind up a hawk's wing.
 noun (n.) Ropes passing through pulleys, and used to haul in or up the leeches, bottoms, or corners of sails, preparatory to furling.
 noun (n.) A stock at each end of a seine to keep it stretched.
 verb (v. t.) To haul up by the brails; -- used with up; as, to brail up a sail.

brantailnoun (n.) The European redstart; -- so called from the red color of its tail.

breastrailnoun (n.) The upper rail of any parapet of ordinary height, as of a balcony; the railing of a quarter-deck, etc.

bristletailnoun (n.) An insect of the genera Lepisma, Campodea, etc., belonging to the Thysanura.

camailnoun (n.) A neck guard of chain mall, hanging from the bascinet or other headpiece.
 noun (n.) A hood of other material than mail;
 noun (n.) a hood worn in church services, -- the amice, or the like.

cocktailnoun (n.) A beverage made of brandy, whisky, or gin, iced, flavored, and sweetened.
 noun (n.) A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in his veins.
 noun (n.) A mean, half-hearted fellow; a coward.
 noun (n.) A species of rove beetle; -- so called from its habit of elevating the tail.

cottontailnoun (n.) The American wood rabbit (Lepus sylvaticus); -- also called Molly cottontail.

crailnoun (n.) A creel or osier basket.

culvertailnoun (n.) Dovetail.

curtailnoun (n.) The scroll termination of any architectural member, as of a step, etc.
 verb (v. t.) To cut off the end or tail, or any part, of; to shorten; to abridge; to diminish; to reduce.

detailnoun (n.) A minute portion; one of the small parts; a particular; an item; -- used chiefly in the plural; as, the details of a scheme or transaction.
 noun (n.) A narrative which relates minute points; an account which dwells on particulars.
 noun (n.) The selection for a particular service of a person or a body of men; hence, the person or the body of men so selected.
 noun (n.) To relate in particulars; to particularize; to report minutely and distinctly; to enumerate; to specify; as, he detailed all the facts in due order.
 noun (n.) To tell off or appoint for a particular service, as an officer, a troop, or a squadron.
 noun (n.) A minor part, as, in a building, the cornice, caps of the buttresses, capitals of the columns, etc., or (called larger details) a porch, a gable with its windows, a pavilion, or an attached tower.
 noun (n.) A detail drawing.

doornailnoun (n.) The nail or knob on which in ancient doors the knocker struck; -- hence the old saying, "As dead as a doornail."

dovetailnoun (n.) A flaring tenon, or tongue (shaped like a bird's tail spread), and a mortise, or socket, into which it fits tightly, making an interlocking joint between two pieces which resists pulling a part in all directions except one.
 verb (v. t.) To cut to a dovetail.
 verb (v. t.) To join by means of dovetails.
 verb (v. t.) To fit in or connect strongly, skillfully, or nicely; to fit ingeniously or complexly.

entailnoun (n.) That which is entailed.
 noun (n.) An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue.
 noun (n.) The rule by which the descent is fixed.
 noun (n.) Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.
 noun (n.) To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as an heritage.
 noun (n.) To appoint hereditary possessor.
 noun (n.) To cut or carve in a ornamental way.

entrailnoun (n.) Entanglement; fold.
 verb (v. t.) To interweave; to intertwine.

fantailnoun (n.) A variety of the domestic pigeon, so called from the shape of the tail.
 noun (n.) Any bird of the Australian genus Rhipidura, in which the tail is spread in the form of a fan during flight. They belong to the family of flycatchers.

firetailnoun (n.) The European redstart; -- called also fireflirt.

flailnoun (n.) An instrument for threshing or beating grain from the ear by hand, consisting of a wooden staff or handle, at the end of which a stouter and shorter pole or club, called a swipe, is so hung as to swing freely.
 noun (n.) An ancient military weapon, like the common flail, often having the striking part armed with rows of spikes, or loaded.

foresailnoun (n.) The sail bent to the foreyard of a square-rigged vessel, being the lowest sail on the foremast.
 noun (n.) The gaff sail set on the foremast of a schooner.
 noun (n.) The fore staysail of a sloop, being the triangular sail next forward of the mast.

forktailnoun (n.) One of several Asiatic and East Indian passerine birds, belonging to Enucurus, and allied genera. The tail is deeply forking.
 noun (n.) A salmon in its fourth year's growth.

foxtailnoun (n.) The tail or brush of a fox.
 noun (n.) The name of several kinds of grass having a soft dense head of flowers, mostly the species of Alopecurus and Setaria.
 noun (n.) The last cinders obtained in the fining process.

frailnoun (n.) A basket made of rushes, used chiefly for containing figs and raisins.
 noun (n.) The quantity of raisins -- about thirty-two, fifty-six, or seventy-five pounds, -- contained in a frail.
 noun (n.) A rush for weaving baskets.
  (superl) Easily broken; fragile; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish; easily destroyed; not tenacious of life; weak; infirm.
  (superl) Tender.
  (superl) Liable to fall from virtue or be led into sin; not strong against temptation; weak in resolution; also, unchaste; -- often applied to fallen women.

gilttailnoun (n.) A yellow-tailed worm or larva.

governailnoun (n.) Management; mastery.

grailnoun (n.) A book of offices in the Roman Catholic Church; a gradual.
 noun (n.) A broad, open dish; a chalice; -- only used of the Holy Grail.
 noun (n.) Small particles of earth; gravel.
 noun (n.) One of the small feathers of a hawk.

hailnoun (n.) Small roundish masses of ice precipitated from the clouds, where they are formed by the congelation of vapor. The separate masses or grains are called hailstones.
 noun (n.) A wish of health; a salutation; a loud call.
 adjective (a.) Healthy. See Hale (the preferable spelling).
 verb (v. i.) To pour down particles of ice, or frozen vapors.
 verb (v. t.) To pour forcibly down, as hail.
 verb (v. t.) To call loudly to, or after; to accost; to salute; to address.
 verb (v. t.) To name; to designate; to call.
 verb (v. i.) To declare, by hailing, the port from which a vessel sails or where she is registered; hence, to sail; to come; -- used with from; as, the steamer hails from New York.
 verb (v. i.) To report as one's home or the place from whence one comes; to come; -- with from.
 verb (v. t.) An exclamation of respectful or reverent salutation, or, occasionally, of familiar greeting.

hairtailnoun (n.) Any species of marine fishes of the genus Trichiurus; esp., T. lepterus of Europe and America. They are long and like a band, with a slender, pointed tail. Called also bladefish.

hangnailnoun (n.) A small piece or silver of skin which hangs loose, near the root of finger nail.

hardtailnoun (n.) See Jurel.

headsailnoun (n.) Any sail set forward of the foremast.

hobnailnoun (n.) A short, sharp-pointed, large-headed nail, -- used in shoeing houses and for studding the soles of heavy shoes.
 noun (n.) A clownish person; a rustic.
 verb (v. t.) To tread down roughly, as with hobnailed shoes.

horntailnoun (n.) Any one of family (Uroceridae) of large hymenopterous insects, allied to the sawflies. The larvae bore in the wood of trees. So called from the long, stout ovipositors of the females.

horsenailnoun (n.) A thin, pointed nail, with a heavy flaring head, for securing a horsehoe to the hoof; a horsehoe nail.

horsetailnoun (n.) A leafless plant, with hollow and rushlike stems. It is of the genus Equisetum, and is allied to the ferns. See Illust. of Equisetum.
 noun (n.) A Turkish standard, denoting rank.

jailnoun (n.) A kind of prison; a building for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.
 verb (v. t.) To imprison.

jeofailnoun (n.) An oversight in pleading, or the acknowledgment of a mistake or oversight.

kailnoun (n.) A kind of headless cabbage. Same as Kale, 1.
 noun (n.) Any cabbage, greens, or vegetables.
 noun (n.) A broth made with kail or other vegetables; hence, any broth; also, a dinner.

longtailnoun (n.) An animal, particularly a log, having an uncut tail. Cf. Curtail. Dog.

lugsailnoun (n.) A square sail bent upon a yard that hangs obliquely to the mast and is raised or lowered with the sail.

lymailnoun (n.) See Limaille.

mailnoun (n.) A spot.
 noun (n.) A small piece of money; especially, an English silver half-penny of the time of Henry V.
 noun (n.) Rent; tribute.
 noun (n.) A flexible fabric made of metal rings interlinked. It was used especially for defensive armor.
 noun (n.) Hence generally, armor, or any defensive covering.
 noun (n.) A contrivance of interlinked rings, for rubbing off the loose hemp on lines and white cordage.
 noun (n.) Any hard protective covering of an animal, as the scales and plates of reptiles, shell of a lobster, etc.
 noun (n.) A bag; a wallet.
 noun (n.) The bag or bags with the letters, papers, papers, or other matter contained therein, conveyed under public authority from one post office to another; the whole system of appliances used by government in the conveyance and delivery of mail matter.
 noun (n.) That which comes in the mail; letters, etc., received through the post office.
 noun (n.) A trunk, box, or bag, in which clothing, etc., may be carried.
 verb (v. t.) To arm with mail.
 verb (v. t.) To pinion.
 verb (v. t.) To deliver into the custody of the postoffice officials, or place in a government letter box, for transmission by mail; to post; as, to mail a letter.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH VAŻL (According to first letters):


Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (vai) - Words That Begins with vai:


vaimurenoun (n.) An outer, or exterior. wall. See Vauntmure.

vainnoun (n.) Vanity; emptiness; -- now used only in the phrase in vain.
 superlative (superl.) Having no real substance, value, or importance; empty; void; worthless; unsatisfying.
 superlative (superl.) Destitute of forge or efficacy; effecting no purpose; fruitless; ineffectual; as, vain toil; a vain attempt.
 superlative (superl.) Proud of petty things, or of trifling attainments; having a high opinion of one's own accomplishments with slight reason; conceited; puffed up; inflated.
 superlative (superl.) Showy; ostentatious.

vaingloriousadjective (a.) Feeling or indicating vainglory; elated by vanity; boastful.

vainglorynoun (n.) Excessive vanity excited by one's own performances; empty pride; undue elation of mind; vain show; boastfulness.

vainnessnoun (n.) The quality or state of being vain.

vairnoun (n.) The skin of the squirrel, much used in the fourteenth century as fur for garments, and frequently mentioned by writers of that period in describing the costly dresses of kings, nobles, and prelates. It is represented in heraldry by a series of small shields placed close together, and alternately white and blue.

vairynoun (n.) Charged with vair; variegated with shield-shaped figures. See Vair.

vaishnavanoun (n.) A worshiper of the god Vishnu in any of his incarnations.

vaishnavismnoun (n.) The worship of Vishnu.

vaisyanoun (n.) The third of the four great original castes among the Hindus, now either extinct or partially represented by the mercantile class of Banyas. See the Note under Caste, 1.

vaivodenoun (n.) See Waywode.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH VAŻL:

English Words which starts with 'v' and ends with 'l':

vaccinaladjective (a.) Of or pertaining to vaccinia or vaccination.

vagaladjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the vagus, or pneumogastric nerves; pneumogastric.

vaginaladjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a vagina; resembling a vagina, or sheath; thecal; as, a vaginal synovial membrane; the vaginal process of the temporal bone.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the vagina of the genital canal; as, the vaginal artery.

vakeelnoun (n.) A native attorney or agent; also, an ambassador.

valerylnoun (n.) The hypothetical radical C5H9O, regarded as the essential nucleus of certain valeric acid derivatives.

vanadylnoun (n.) The hypothetical radical VO, regarded as a characterized residue of certain vanadium compounds.

vandalnoun (n.) One of a Teutonic race, formerly dwelling on the south shore of the Baltic, the most barbarous and fierce of the northern nations that plundered Rome in the 5th century, notorious for destroying the monuments of art and literature.
 noun (n.) Hence, one who willfully destroys or defaces any work of art or literature.
 adjective (a.) Alt. of Vandalic

vanillylnoun (n.) The hypothetical radical characteristic of vanillic alcohol.

varietaladjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a variety; characterizing a variety; constituting a variety, in distinction from an individual or species.

varvelnoun (n.) In falconry, one of the rings secured to the ends of the jesses.

vassalnoun (n.) The grantee of a fief, feud, or fee; one who holds land of superior, and who vows fidelity and homage to him; a feudatory; a feudal tenant.
 noun (n.) A subject; a dependent; a servant; a slave.
 adjective (a.) Resembling a vassal; slavish; servile.
 verb (v. t.) To treat as a vassal; to subject to control; to enslave.

vastelnoun (n.) See Wastel.

vatfulnoun (n.) As much as a vat will hold; enough to fill a vat.

vaticaladjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a prophet; prophetical.

vaticinaladjective (a.) Of or pertaining to prophecy; prophetic.

vauntfuladjective (a.) Given to vaunting or boasting; vainly ostentatious; boastful; vainglorious.

vealnoun (n.) The flesh of a calf when killed and used for food.

vegetalnoun (n.) A vegetable.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to vegetables, or the vegetable kingdom; of the nature of a vegetable; vegetable.
 adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, that class of vital phenomena, such as digestion, absorption, assimilation, secretion, excretion, circulation, generation, etc., which are common to plants and animals, in distinction from sensation and volition, which are peculiar to animals.

veilnoun (n.) Something hung up, or spread out, to intercept the view, and hide an object; a cover; a curtain; esp., a screen, usually of gauze, crape, or similar diaphnous material, to hide or protect the face.
 noun (n.) A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense.
 noun (n.) The calyptra of mosses.
 noun (n.) A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; -- called also velum.
 noun (n.) A covering for a person or thing; as, a nun's veil; a paten veil; an altar veil.
 noun (n.) Same as Velum, 3.
 noun (n.) To throw a veil over; to cover with a veil.
 noun (n.) Fig.: To invest; to cover; to hide; to conceal.

veinaladjective (a.) Pertaining to veins; venous.

vellnoun (n.) The salted stomach of a calf, used in making cheese; a rennet bag.
 noun (n.) To cut the turf from, as for burning.

venaladjective (a.) Of or pertaining to veins; venous; as, venal blood.
 adjective (a.) Capable of being bought or obtained for money or other valuable consideration; made matter of trade or barter; held for sale; salable; mercenary; purchasable; hireling; as, venal services.

venaticaladjective (a.) Of or pertaining to hunting; used in hunting.

venatorialadjective (a.) Or or pertaining to hunting; venatic.

veneficaladjective (a.) Veneficial.

veneficialadjective (a.) Alt. of Veneficious

venerealnoun (n.) The venereal disease; syphilis.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to venery, or sexual love; relating to sexual intercourse.
 adjective (a.) Arising from sexual intercourse; as, a venereal disease; venereal virus or poison.
 adjective (a.) Adapted to the cure of venereal diseases; as, venereal medicines.
 adjective (a.) Adapted to excite venereal desire; aphrodisiac.
 adjective (a.) Consisting of, or pertaining to, copper, formerly called by chemists Venus.

vengefuladjective (a.) Vindictive; retributive; revengeful.

venialadjective (a.) Capable of being forgiven; not heinous; excusable; pardonable; as, a venial fault or transgression.
 adjective (a.) Allowed; permitted.

ventailnoun (n.) That part of a helmet which is intended for the admission of air, -- sometimes in the visor.

ventraladjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or situated near, the belly, or ventral side, of an animal or of one of its parts; hemal; abdominal; as, the ventral fin of a fish; the ventral root of a spinal nerve; -- opposed to dorsal.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to that surface of a carpel, petal, etc., which faces toward the center of a flower.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the lower side or surface of a creeping moss or other low flowerless plant. Opposed to dorsal.

ventriloquialadjective (a.) Ventriloquous.

veratrolnoun (n.) A liquid hydrocarbon obtained by the decomposition of veratric acid, and constituting the dimethyl ether of pyrocatechin.

verbalnoun (n.) A noun derived from a verb.
 adjective (a.) Expressed in words, whether spoken or written, but commonly in spoken words; hence, spoken; oral; not written; as, a verbal contract; verbal testimony.
 adjective (a.) Consisting in, or having to do with, words only; dealing with words rather than with the ideas intended to be conveyed; as, a verbal critic; a verbal change.
 adjective (a.) Having word answering to word; word for word; literal; as, a verbal translation.
 adjective (a.) Abounding with words; verbose.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a verb; as, a verbal group; derived directly from a verb; as, a verbal noun; used in forming verbs; as, a verbal prefix.

veridicaladjective (a.) Truth-telling; truthful; veracious.

vermeilnoun (n.) Vermilion; also, the color of vermilion, a bright, beautiful red.
 noun (n.) Silver gilt or gilt bronze.
 noun (n.) A liquid composition applied to a gilded surface to give luster to the gold.

vermifugaladjective (a.) Tending to prevent, destroy, or expel, worms or vermin; anthelmintic.

vermilnoun (n.) See Vermeil.

vernaladjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the spring; appearing in the spring; as, vernal bloom.
 adjective (a.) Fig.: Belonging to youth, the spring of life.

verrelnoun (n.) See Ferrule.

versaladjective (a.) Universal.

versualadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a verse.

vertebralnoun (n.) A vertebrate.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a vertebrae, or the vertebral column; spinal; rachidian.
 adjective (a.) Vertebrate.

vertebrarterialadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a vertebrae and an artery; -- said of the foramina in the transverse processes of cervical vertebrae and of the canal which they form for the vertebral artery and vein.

verticalnoun (n.) Vertical position; zenith.
 noun (n.) A vertical line, plane, or circle.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the vertex; situated at the vertex, or highest point; directly overhead, or in the zenith; perpendicularly above one.
 adjective (a.) Perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; upright; plumb; as, a vertical line.

verticilnoun (n.) A circle either of leaves or flowers about a stem at the same node; a whorl.

vervelnoun (n.) See Varvel.

vesicaladjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the bladder.

vesicovaginaladjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the bladder and the vagina.

vesperaladjective (a.) Vesper; evening.

vespertinaladjective (a.) Vespertine.

vesselnoun (n.) A hollow or concave utensil for holding anything; a hollow receptacle of any kind, as a hogshead, a barrel, a firkin, a bottle, a kettle, a cup, a bowl, etc.
 noun (n.) A general name for any hollow structure made to float upon the water for purposes of navigation; especially, one that is larger than a common rowboat; as, a war vessel; a passenger vessel.
 noun (n.) Fig.: A person regarded as receiving or containing something; esp. (Script.), one into whom something is conceived as poured, or in whom something is stored for use; as, vessels of wrath or mercy.
 noun (n.) Any tube or canal in which the blood or other fluids are contained, secreted, or circulated, as the arteries, veins, lymphatics, etc.
 noun (n.) A continuous tube formed from superposed large cylindrical or prismatic cells (tracheae), which have lost their intervening partitions, and are usually marked with dots, pits, rings, or spirals by internal deposition of secondary membranes; a duct.
 verb (v. t.) To put into a vessel.

vesselfulnoun (n.) As much as a vessel will hold; enough to fill a vessel.

vestaladjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Vesta, the virgin goddess of the hearth; hence, pure; chaste.
 adjective (a.) A virgin consecrated to Vesta, and to the service of watching the sacred fire, which was to be perpetually kept burning upon her altar.
 adjective (a.) A virgin; a woman pure and chaste; also, a nun.

vestigialadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a vestige or remnant; like a vestige.

vexilnoun (n.) A vexillum.

vialnoun (n.) A small bottle, usually of glass; a little glass vessel with a narrow aperture intended to be closed with a stopper; as, a vial of medicine.
 verb (v. t.) To put in a vial or vials.

vicarialadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a vicar; as, vicarial tithes.
 adjective (a.) Delegated; vicarious; as, vicarial power.

vicennialadjective (a.) Lasting or comprising twenty years.
 adjective (a.) Happening once in twenty years; as, a vicennial celebration.

vicinaladjective (a.) Near; vicine.

vicontieladjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the viscount or sheriff of a country.

victualnoun (n.) Food; -- now used chiefly in the plural. See Victuals.
 noun (n.) Grain of any kind.
 verb (v. t.) To supply with provisions for subsistence; to provide with food; to store with sustenance; as, to victual an army; to victual a ship.

vidualadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the state of a widow; widowed.

vigesimaladjective (a.) Twentieth; divided into, or consisting of, twenties or twenty parts.

villnoun (n.) A small collection of houses; a village.

villanelnoun (n.) A ballad.

viminaladjective (a.) Of or pertaining to twigs; consisting of twigs; producing twigs.

vindemialadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a vintage, or grape harvest.

vinealadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to vines; containing vines.

vinylnoun (n.) The hypothetical radical C2H3, regarded as the characteristic residue of ethylene and that related series of unsaturated hydrocarbons with which the allyl compounds are homologous.

violnoun (n.) A stringed musical instrument formerly in use, of the same form as the violin, but larger, and having six strings, to be struck with a bow, and the neck furnished with frets for stopping the strings.
 noun (n.) A large rope sometimes used in weighing anchor.

virginalnoun (n.) An instrument somewhat resembling the spinet, but having a rectangular form, like the small piano. It had strings and keys, but only one wire to a note. The instrument was used in the sixteenth century, but is now wholly obsolete. It was sometimes called a pair of virginals.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a virgin; becoming a virgin; maidenly.
 verb (v. i.) To play with the fingers, as if on a virginal; to tap or pat.

virialnoun (n.) A certain function relating to a system of forces and their points of application, -- first used by Clausius in the investigation of problems in molecular physics.

virtualadjective (a.) Having the power of acting or of invisible efficacy without the agency of the material or sensible part; potential; energizing.
 adjective (a.) Being in essence or effect, not in fact; as, the virtual presence of a man in his agent or substitute.

visceraladjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the viscera; splanchnic.
 adjective (a.) Fig.: Having deep sensibility.

visceroskeletaladjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the framework, or skeleton, or skeleton, of the viscera; as, the visceroskeletal system of muscles.

viscoidaladjective (a.) Somewhat viscous. Cf. Mobile, a., 2.

visionaladjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a vision.

visitatorialadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to visitation, or a judicial visitor or superintendent; visitorial.

visitorialadjective (a.) Same as Visitatorial.

visualadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to sight; used in sight; serving as the instrument of seeing; as, the visual nerve.
 adjective (a.) That can be seen; visible.

vitalnoun (n.) A vital part; one of the vitals.
 adjective (a.) Belonging or relating to life, either animal or vegetable; as, vital energies; vital functions; vital actions.
 adjective (a.) Contributing to life; necessary to, or supporting, life; as, vital blood.
 adjective (a.) Containing life; living.
 adjective (a.) Being the seat of life; being that on which life depends; mortal.
 adjective (a.) Very necessary; highly important; essential.
 adjective (a.) Capable of living; in a state to live; viable.

viticulturaladjective (a.) Of or pertaining to viticulture.

vitriolnoun (n.) A sulphate of any one of certain metals, as copper, iron, zinc, cobalt. So called on account of the glassy appearance or luster.
 noun (n.) Sulphuric acid; -- called also oil of vitriol. So called because first made by the distillation of green vitriol. See Sulphuric acid, under Sulphuric.
 noun (n.) To dip in dilute sulphuric acid; to pickle.
 noun (n.) To vitriolize.

vivificaladjective (a.) Giving life; reviving; enlivening.

vivisectionaladjective (a.) Of or pertaining to vivisection.

vizierialadjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or issued by, a vizier.

vocalnoun (n.) A vocal sound; specifically, a purely vocal element of speech, unmodified except by resonance; a vowel or a diphthong; a tonic element; a tonic; -- distinguished from a subvocal, and a nonvocal.
 noun (n.) A man who has a right to vote in certain elections.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the voice or speech; having voice; endowed with utterance; full of voice, or voices.
 adjective (a.) Uttered or modulated by the voice; oral; as, vocal melody; vocal prayer.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a vowel or voice sound; also, /poken with tone, intonation, and resonance; sonant; sonorous; -- said of certain articulate sounds.
 adjective (a.) Consisting of, or characterized by, voice, or tone produced in the larynx, which may be modified, either by resonance, as in the case of the vowels, or by obstructive action, as in certain consonants, such as v, l, etc., or by both, as in the nasals m, n, ng; sonant; intonated; voiced. See Voice, and Vowel, also Guide to Pronunciation, // 199-202.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a vowel; having the character of a vowel; vowel.

voicefuladjective (a.) Having a voice or vocal quality; having a loud voice or many voices; vocal; sounding.

volitionaladjective (a.) Belonging or relating to volition.

volumetricaladjective (a.) Volumetric.

vorticaladjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a vortex or vortexes; resembling a vortex in form or motion; whirling; as, a vortical motion.

vorticelnoun (n.) A vorticella.

vowelnoun (n.) A vocal, or sometimes a whispered, sound modified by resonance in the oral passage, the peculiar resonance in each case giving to each several vowel its distinctive character or quality as a sound of speech; -- distinguished from a consonant in that the latter, whether made with or without vocality, derives its character in every case from some kind of obstructive action by the mouth organs. Also, a letter or character which represents such a sound. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 5, 146-149.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a vowel; vocal.

voyolnoun (n.) See Viol, 2.
 noun (n.) The block through which a messenger passes.

vulnificaladjective (a.) Causing wounds; inflicting wounds; wounding.

vulvovaginaladjective (a.) Pertaining both to the vulva and the vagina.

valvaladjective (a.) Alt. of Valvar