| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| veranda | noun | An open, roofed gallery or portico, adjoining a dwelling house, forming an out-of-door sitting room. See Loggia. |
| verbena | noun | A genus of herbaceous plants of which several species are extensively cultivated for the great beauty of their flowers; vervain. |
| verbose | adjective | Abounding in words; using or containing more words than are necessary; tedious by a multiplicity of words; prolix; wordy; as, a verbose speaker; a verbose argument. |
| verdant | adjective | Covered with growing plants or grass; green; fresh; flourishing; as, verdant fields; a verdant lawn., Unripe in knowledge or judgment; unsophisticated; raw; green; as, a verdant youth. |
| verdict | noun | The answer of a jury given to the court concerning any matter of fact in any cause, civil or criminal, committed to their examination and determination; the finding or decision of a jury on the matter legally submitted to them in the course of the trial of a cause., Decision; judgment; opinion pronounced; as, to be condemned by the verdict of the public. |
| verdine | noun | A commercial name for green aniline dye. |
| verdure | noun | Green; greenness; freshness of vegetation; as, the verdure of the meadows in June. |
| verging | present participle & vb. noun | of Verge |
| veritas | noun | The Bureau Veritas. See under Bureau. |
| vermeil | noun | Vermilion; also, the color of vermilion, a bright, beautiful red., Silver gilt or gilt bronze., A liquid composition applied to a gilded surface to give luster to the gold. |
| vermily | noun | Vermeil. |
| vermuth | noun | A liqueur made of white wine, absinthe, and various aromatic drugs, used to excite the appetite. |
| vernage | noun | A kind of sweet wine from Italy. |
| vernant | adjective | Flourishing, as in spring; vernal. |
| vernate | verb i. | To become young again. |
| vernier | noun | A short scale made to slide along the divisions of a graduated instrument, as the limb of a sextant, or the scale of a barometer, for indicating parts of divisions. It is so graduated that a certain convenient number of its divisions are just equal to a certain number, either one less or one more, of the divisions of the instrument, so that parts of a division are determined by observing what line on the vernier coincides with a line on the instrument. |
| vernile | adjective | Suiting a salve; servile; obsequious. |
| vernine | noun | An alkaloid extracted from the shoots of the vetch, red clover, etc., as a white crystalline substance. |
| vernish | noun & verb | Varnish. |
| versant | adjective | Familiar; conversant., The slope of a side of a mountain chain; hence, the general slope of a country; aspect. |
| versing | present participle & vb. noun | of Verse |
| versify | verb i. | To make verses., To relate or describe in verse; to compose in verse., To turn into verse; to render into metrical form; as, to versify the Psalms. |
| version | noun | A change of form, direction, or the like; transformation; conversion; turning., A condition of the uterus in which its axis is deflected from its normal position without being bent upon itself. See Anteversion, and Retroversion., The act of translating, or rendering, from one language into another language., A translation; that which is rendered from another language; as, the Common, or Authorized, Version of the Scriptures (see under Authorized); the Septuagint Version of the Old Testament., An account or description from a particular point of view, especially as contrasted with another account; as, he gave another version of the affair. |
| versual | adjective | Of or pertaining to a verse. |
| versute | adjective | Crafty; wily; cunning; artful. |
| vertigo | noun | Dizziness or swimming of the head; an affection of the head in which objects, though stationary, appear to move in various directions, and the person affected finds it difficult to maintain an erect posture; giddiness., Any one of numerous species of small land snails belonging to the genus Vertigo, having an elongated or conical spiral shell and usually teeth in the aperture. |
| vervain | noun | Any plant of the genus Verbena. |