9-letter words starting with V
Embark on a linguistic journey with words that begin with the letter V. This section showcases how V at the start shapes the identity and sound of various words. From commonly used terms to rare finds, explore the diverse range of words that start with V, enriching your vocabulary and appreciation for language.
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| volunteer | 12 | a person who performs voluntary work | - |
| valentine | 12 | a card sent or given (as to a sweetheart) on Saint Valentine's Day | - |
| vegetable | 15 | edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant | - |
| virginity | 16 | the condition or quality of being a virgin | - |
| vengeance | 15 | the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life | For vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge |
| violation | 12 | the crime of forcing a person to submit to sexual intercourse against his or her will | - |
| virtually | 15 | (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but | virtually all the parties signed the contract |
| videotape | 15 | record on videotape | - |
| voluntary | 15 | (military) a person who freely enlists for service | - |
| violently | 15 | in a violent manner | they attacked violently |
| voicemail | 16 | a computerized system for answering and routing telephone calls; telephone messages can be recorded and stored and relayed | - |
| violating | 13 | - | - |
| vibrating | 15 | - | - |
| vibration | 14 | a shaky motion | - |
| visionary | 15 | not practical or realizable; speculative | visionary schemes for getting rich |
| visualize | 21 | make visible | With this machine, ultrasound can be visualized |
| vandalism | 15 | willful wanton and malicious destruction of the property of others | - |
| vigilante | 13 | member of a vigilance committee | - |
| variation | 12 | an activity that varies from a norm or standard | any variation in his routine was immediately reported |
| viewpoint | 17 | a place from which something can be viewed | - |
| vanishing | 16 | a sudden disappearance from sight | - |
| violinist | 12 | a musician who plays the violin | - |
| versatile | 12 | having great diversity or variety | his vast and versatile erudition |
| vaporized | 24 | converted into a gas or vapor | - |
| vermilion | 14 | of a vivid red to reddish-orange color | - |
| vigilance | 15 | vigilant attentiveness | - |
| veritable | 14 | often used as intensifiers | he's a veritable swine |
| venerable | 14 | profoundly honored | - |
| vasectomy | 19 | surgical procedure that removes all or part of the vas deferens (usually as a means of sterilization); is sometimes reversible | - |
| voracious | 14 | devouring or craving food in great quantities | voracious sharks |
| vulgarity | 16 | the quality of lacking taste and refinement | - |
| verifying | 19 | serving to support or corroborate | - |
| viciously | 17 | in a vicious manner | he was viciously attacked |
| valuation | 12 | an appraisal of the value of something | he set a high valuation on friendship |
| vivacious | 17 | vigorous and animated | a charming and vivacious hostess |
| valiantly | 15 | with valor; in a valiant manner | he fought valiantly until the end |
| vehicular | 17 | of or relating to or intended for (motor) vehicles | vehicular traffic |
| validated | 14 | declared or made legally valid | a validated claim |
| ventilate | 12 | expose to cool or cold air so as to cool or freshen | - |
| vindicate | 15 | show to be right by providing justification or proof | vindicate a claim |
| varnished | 16 | having a coating of stain or varnish | - |
| vaccinate | 16 | perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation | We vaccinate against scarlet fever |
| vulcanian | 14 | - | - |
| victorine | 14 | - | - |
| viability | 17 | capable of being done in a practical and useful way | - |
| vestibule | 14 | a large entrance or reception room or area | - |
| velveteen | 15 | a usually cotton fabric with a short pile imitating velvet | - |
| visualise | 12 | make visible | - |
| venturing | 13 | - | - |
| vertebral | 14 | of or relating to or constituting vertebrae | - |
| vandalize | 22 | destroy wantonly, as through acts of vandalism | vandalize the park |
| voiceless | 14 | being without sound through injury or illness and thus incapable of all but whispered speech | - |
| viscosity | 17 | resistance of a liquid to shear forces (and hence to flow) | - |
| vampirism | 18 | belief in the existence of vampires | - |
| vividness | 16 | interest and variety and intensity | the characters were delineated with exceptional vividness |
| ventricle | 14 | a chamber of the heart that receives blood from an atrium and pumps it to the arteries | - |
| vaporizer | 23 | a device that puts out a substance in the form of a vapor (especially for medicinal inhalation) | - |
| voyeurism | 17 | a perversion in which a person receives sexual gratification from seeing the genitalia of others or witnessing others' sexual behavior | - |
| vibratory | 17 | moving very rapidly to and fro or up and down | - |
| vestigial | 13 | not fully developed in mature animals | - |
| velodrome | 15 | a banked oval track for bicycle or motorcycle racing | - |
| volcanism | 16 | the phenomena associated with volcanic activity | - |
| verbalize | 23 | articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise | - |
| victimize | 25 | make a victim of | I was victimized by this con-man |
| vouchsafe | 20 | grant in a condescending manner | - |
| verdigris | 14 | a blue or green powder used as a paint pigment | - |
| vitriolic | 14 | of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action | - |
| vulgarian | 13 | a vulgar person (especially someone who makes a vulgar display of wealth) | - |
| valueless | 12 | of no value | - |
| vagueness | 13 | indistinctness of shape or character | the scene had the swirling vagueness of a painting by Turner |
| vulgarize | 22 | act in a vulgar manner | The drunkard tends to vulgarize |
| virtuosic | 14 | - | - |
| vermiform | 19 | resembling a worm; long and thin and cylindrical | - |
| vicarious | 14 | experienced at secondhand | read about mountain climbing and felt vicarious excitement |
| videlicet | 15 | as follows | - |
| virulence | 14 | extreme harmfulness (as the capacity of a microorganism to cause disease) | the virulence of the plague |
| vacillate | 14 | be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action | - |
| veridical | 15 | coinciding with reality | perceptual error...has a surprising resemblance to veridical perception |
| veracious | 14 | precisely accurate | a veracious account |
| vexatious | 19 | causing irritation or annoyance | a vexatious child |
| variously | 15 | in diverse ways | the alternatives that are variously represented by the participants |
| vehemence | 19 | the property of being wild or turbulent | - |
| volitient | 12 | - | - |
| voltinism | 14 | - | - |
| voltmeter | 14 | meter that measures the potential difference between two points | - |
| volucrine | 14 | - | - |
| volumeter | 14 | a meter to measure the volume of gases, liquids, or solids (either directly or by displacement) | - |
| volumetry | 17 | - | - |
| voluminal | 14 | - | - |
| volumised | 15 | - | - |
| volumises | 14 | - | - |
| voltigeur | 13 | - | - |
| voltaisms | 14 | - | - |
| volitions | 12 | - | - |
| volitives | 15 | - | - |
| volkslied | 17 | - | - |
| volksraad | 17 | - | - |
| volleyers | 15 | - | - |
| volleying | 16 | - | - |
| volplaned | 15 | - | - |
| volplanes | 14 | - | - |
| volumists | 14 | - | - |
| volumized | 24 | - | - |
| volumizes | 23 | - | - |
| voorkamer | 18 | - | - |
| voorskots | 16 | - | - |
| vorticism | 16 | - | - |
| vorticist | 14 | - | - |
| vorticity | 17 | - | - |
| vorticose | 14 | - | - |
| votarists | 12 | - | - |
| voodooist | 13 | - | - |
| voodooism | 15 | a religious cult practiced chiefly in Caribbean countries (especially Haiti); involves witchcraft and animistic deities | - |
| volutions | 12 | - | - |
| vomitings | 15 | - | - |
| vomitives | 17 | - | - |
| vomitoria | 14 | - | - |
| vomituses | 14 | - | - |
| voodooing | 14 | - | - |
| votresses | 12 | - | - |
| volitates | 12 | - | - |
| vivisects | 17 | - | - |
| vocaleses | 14 | - | - |
| vocalions | 14 | - | - |
| vocalised | 15 | - | - |
| vocaliser | 14 | a person who sings | - |
| vocalises | 14 | - | - |
| vocalisms | 16 | - | - |
| vocalists | 14 | - | - |
| vocalized | 24 | - | - |
| vocabular | 16 | - | - |
| vizzieing | 31 | - | - |
| vizaments | 23 | - | - |
| vizarding | 23 | - | - |
| vizcachas | 28 | - | - |
| vizierate | 21 | - | - |
| vizierial | 21 | - | - |
| vizirates | 21 | - | - |
| vizirship | 26 | - | - |
| vizorless | 21 | - | - |
| vocalizer | 23 | a person who sings | - |
| vocalizes | 23 | - | - |
| vocalness | 14 | - | - |
| volatiles | 12 | - | - |
| volcanian | 14 | - | - |
| volcanics | 16 | - | - |
| volcanise | 14 | - | - |
| volcanist | 14 | - | - |
| volcanize | 23 | - | - |
| volcanoes | 14 | - | - |
| voiturier | 12 | - | - |
| voisinage | 13 | - | - |
| vocations | 14 | - | - |
| vocatives | 17 | - | - |
| vogueings | 14 | - | - |
| voguishly | 19 | - | - |
| voiceover | 17 | - | - |
| voidances | 15 | - | - |
| volitated | 13 | - | - |
| vouchered | 18 | - | - |
| vowelling | 16 | - | - |
| voyageurs | 16 | - | - |
| vraickers | 18 | - | - |
| vraicking | 19 | - | - |
| vulcanise | 14 | subject to vulcanization | - |
| vulcanism | 16 | - | - |
| vowelless | 15 | - | - |
| vowelizes | 24 | - | - |
| voudouing | 14 | - | - |
| voussoirs | 12 | - | - |
| voutsafed | 16 | - | - |
| voutsafes | 15 | - | - |
| vowelised | 16 | - | - |
| vowelises | 15 | - | - |
| vowelized | 25 | - | - |
| vulcanist | 14 | - | - |
| vulcanite | 14 | a hard nonresilient rubber formed by vulcanizing natural rubber | - |
| vulcanize | 23 | subject to vulcanization | vulcanized rubber |
| vulpinite | 14 | - | - |
| vulsellae | 12 | - | - |
| vulsellum | 14 | - | - |
| vulturine | 12 | living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey | a vulturine taste for offal |
| vulturish | 15 | - | - |
| vulturism | 14 | - | - |
| vulturous | 12 | living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey | - |
| vulviform | 20 | - | - |
| vulpinism | 16 | - | - |
| vulpicide | 17 | - | - |
| vulgarest | 13 | - | - |
| vulgarise | 13 | act in a vulgar manner | - |
| vulgarism | 15 | the quality of lacking taste and refinement | - |
| vulnerary | 15 | - | - |
| vulnerate | 12 | - | - |
| vuvuzelas | 24 | - | - |
| vivifying | 22 | - | - |
| villosity | 15 | - | - |
| vinifying | 19 | - | - |
| vintagers | 13 | - | - |
| vintaging | 14 | - | - |
| violaters | 12 | - | - |
| violative | 15 | violating or tending to violate or offend against | violative of the principles of liberty |
| violators | 12 | - | - |
| viniferas | 15 | - | - |
| vineyards | 16 | - | - |
| villously | 15 | - | - |
| vimineous | 14 | - | - |
| vinaceous | 14 | of or relating to wine | - |
| vinculums | 16 | - | - |
| vindaloos | 13 | - | - |
| vindemial | 15 | - | - |
| vinegared | 14 | - | - |
| violences | 14 | - | - |
| violented | 13 | - | - |
| virginias | 13 | - | - |
| virgining | 14 | - | - |
| virginium | 15 | - | - |
| virgulate | 13 | - | - |
| viricidal | 15 | tending to destroy viruses | - |
| viricides | 15 | - | - |
| viridians | 13 | - | - |
| virginals | 13 | - | - |
| virescent | 14 | - | - |
| viomycins | 19 | - | - |
| viosterol | 12 | a fat-soluble vitamin that prevents rickets | - |
| viperfish | 20 | - | - |
| viraemias | 14 | - | - |
| viragoish | 16 | - | - |
| virements | 14 | - | - |
| vireonine | 12 | - | - |
| viridites | 13 | - | - |
| villiform | 17 | - | - |
| victrixes | 21 | - | - |
| videotext | 20 | - | - |
| vidimuses | 15 | - | - |
| viduities | 13 | - | - |
| viewdatas | 16 | - | - |
| viewiness | 15 | - | - |
| viewphone | 20 | - | - |
| vigesimal | 15 | relating to or based on the number twenty | - |
| videoland | 14 | - | - |
| victrolla | 14 | - | - |
| victualed | 15 | - | - |
| victualer | 14 | a supplier of victuals or supplies to an army | - |
| videodisc | 16 | a digital recording (as of a movie) on an optical disk that can be played on a computer or a television set | - |
| videodisk | 18 | a digital recording (as of a movie) on an optical disk that can be played on a computer or a television set | - |
| videofits | 16 | - | - |
| videogram | 16 | - | - |
| vignerons | 13 | - | - |
| villagers | 13 | - | - |
| villagery | 16 | - | - |
| villagios | 13 | - | - |
| villagree | 13 | - | - |
| villanage | 13 | - | - |
| villanies | 12 | - | - |
| villanous | 12 | - | - |
| villenage | 13 | - | - |
| villadoms | 15 | - | - |
| vilipends | 15 | - | - |
| vignetted | 14 | - | - |
| vignetter | 13 | - | - |
| vignettes | 13 | - | - |
| vikingism | 19 | - | - |
| viliacoes | 14 | - | - |
| viliagoes | 13 | - | - |
| vilifiers | 15 | - | - |
| vilifying | 19 | - | - |
| villiagos | 13 | - | - |
| visualist | 12 | - | - |
| vitalizes | 21 | - | - |
| vitalness | 12 | the quality possessed by something that you cannot possibly do without | - |
| vitamines | 14 | - | - |
| vitaminic | 16 | - | - |
| vitascope | 16 | - | - |
| vitellary | 15 | - | - |
| vitelline | 12 | - | - |
| vitellins | 12 | - | - |
| vitalizer | 21 | someone who imparts energy and vitality and spirit to other people | - |
| vitalized | 22 | - | - |
| visuality | 15 | - | - |
| vitaceous | 14 | - | - |
| vitalised | 13 | - | - |
| vitaliser | 12 | someone who imparts energy and vitality and spirit to other people | - |
| vitalises | 12 | - | - |
| vitalisms | 14 | - | - |
| vitalists | 12 | - | - |
| vitiating | 13 | - | - |
| vitiation | 12 | nullification by the destruction of the legal force; rendering null | the vitiation of the contract |
| vitiators | 12 | - | - |
| vivamente | 17 | - | - |
| vivandier | 16 | - | - |
| vivariums | 17 | - | - |
| vivencies | 17 | - | - |
| viverrids | 16 | - | - |
| viverrine | 15 | small cat-like predatory mammals of warmer parts of the Old World | - |
| vivianite | 15 | - | - |
| viticetum | 16 | - | - |
| viticides | 15 | - | - |
| vitiligos | 13 | - | - |
| vitiosity | 15 | - | - |
| vitrified | 16 | (of ceramics) having the surface made shiny and nonporous by fusing a vitreous solution to it | - |
| vitrifies | 15 | - | - |
| vitriform | 17 | - | - |
| vitrioled | 13 | - | - |
| vivifiers | 18 | - | - |
| virilised | 13 | - | - |
| virtuosos | 12 | - | - |
| virucidal | 15 | tending to destroy viruses | - |
| virucides | 15 | - | - |
| virulency | 17 | extreme harmfulness (as the capacity of a microorganism to cause disease) | - |
| viruslike | 16 | - | - |
| virusoids | 13 | - | - |
| visagiste | 13 | - | - |
| virtuosas | 12 | - | - |
| virilises | 12 | - | - |
| virilisms | 14 | - | - |
| virilized | 22 | - | - |
| virilizes | 21 | - | - |
| virilocal | 14 | - | - |
| virogenes | 13 | - | - |
| virologic | 15 | - | - |
| visagists | 13 | - | - |
| viscachas | 19 | - | - |
| viscarias | 14 | - | - |
| visionist | 12 | - | - |
| visitable | 14 | - | - |
| visitants | 12 | - | - |
| visitator | 12 | - | - |
| visitings | 13 | - | - |
| visitress | 12 | - | - |
| visnomies | 14 | - | - |
| visorless | 12 | - | - |
| visioning | 13 | - | - |
| visioners | 12 | - | - |
| viscerate | 14 | - | - |
| viscidity | 18 | the property of being cohesive and sticky | - |
| viscoidal | 15 | - | - |
| viscounts | 14 | - | - |
| viscounty | 17 | the dignity or rank or position of a viscount or viscountess | - |
| viscously | 17 | - | - |
| vistaless | 12 | - | - |
| valerians | 12 | - | - |
| vallonias | 12 | - | - |
| valorised | 13 | - | - |
| valorises | 12 | - | - |
| valorized | 22 | - | - |
| valorizes | 21 | - | - |
| valproate | 14 | - | - |
| valuables | 14 | - | - |
| valuating | 13 | - | - |
| vallhunds | 16 | - | - |
| vallecula | 14 | (anatomy) any furrow or channel on a bodily structure or part | - |
| valetings | 13 | - | - |
| valiances | 14 | - | - |
| validates | 13 | - | - |
| validness | 13 | the quality of having legal force or effectiveness | - |
| valkyries | 19 | - | - |
| vallation | 12 | - | - |
| valuators | 12 | - | - |
| vampirize | 25 | - | - |
| vampishly | 22 | - | - |
| vamplates | 16 | - | - |
| vanadates | 13 | - | - |
| vanadiate | 13 | - | - |
| vanadiums | 15 | - | - |
| vanaspati | 14 | - | - |
| vampirish | 19 | - | - |
| vampirise | 16 | - | - |
| valvassor | 15 | - | - |
| valveless | 15 | - | - |
| valvelets | 15 | - | - |
| valvelike | 19 | - | - |
| vambraced | 19 | - | - |
| vambraces | 18 | - | - |
| vamoosing | 15 | - | - |
| vampiring | 17 | - | - |
| vandalise | 13 | destroy wantonly, as through acts of vandalism | - |
| valerates | 12 | - | - |
| vaccinium | 18 | evergreen or deciduous berry-bearing shrubs of northern hemisphere: cranberries; blueberries | - |
| vacherins | 17 | - | - |
| vacillant | 14 | uncertain in purpose or action | - |
| vacuating | 15 | - | - |
| vacuation | 14 | - | - |
| vacuities | 14 | - | - |
| vacuolate | 14 | formed into or containing one or more vacuoles or small membrane-bound cavities within a cell | - |
| vaccinias | 16 | - | - |
| vaccinial | 16 | - | - |
| vacancies | 16 | - | - |
| vacatable | 16 | - | - |
| vacations | 14 | - | - |
| vaccinees | 16 | - | - |
| vacuously | 17 | in a vacuous manner | - |
| vacuuming | 17 | - | - |
| vagabonds | 16 | - | - |
| vagotonic | 15 | - | - |
| vagrantly | 16 | - | - |
| vainesses | 12 | - | - |
| vainglory | 16 | outspoken conceit | - |
| valancing | 15 | - | - |
| valencias | 14 | - | - |
| valencies | 14 | - | - |
| vagotonia | 13 | - | - |
| vagituses | 13 | - | - |
| vagarious | 13 | - | - |
| vaginally | 16 | - | - |
| vaginated | 14 | - | - |
| vaginitis | 13 | inflammation of the vagina (usually associated with candidiasis) | - |
| vaginoses | 13 | - | - |
| vaginosis | 13 | - | - |
| vaginulae | 13 | - | - |
| vaginules | 13 | - | - |
| verdurous | 13 | - | - |
| verligtes | 13 | - | - |
| vermeiled | 15 | - | - |
| vermeille | 14 | - | - |
| vermicide | 17 | an agent that kills worms (especially those in the intestines) | - |
| vermicule | 16 | - | - |
| vermifuge | 18 | a medication capable of causing the evacuation of parasitic intestinal worms | - |
| vermilies | 14 | - | - |
| verjuices | 21 | - | - |
| verjuiced | 22 | - | - |
| vergences | 15 | - | - |
| verglases | 13 | - | - |
| verifiers | 15 | - | - |
| veritably | 17 | - | - |
| veritates | 12 | - | - |
| vermilled | 15 | - | - |
| verminate | 14 | - | - |
| verqueres | 21 | - | - |
| verquires | 21 | - | - |
| verrucose | 14 | (of skin) covered with warts or projections that resemble warts | - |
| verrucous | 14 | - | - |
| verselets | 12 | - | - |
| versicles | 14 | - | - |
| versified | 16 | - | - |
| veronique | 21 | - | - |
| veronicas | 14 | - | - |
| verminous | 14 | of the nature of vermin; very offensive or repulsive | - |
| vermouths | 17 | - | - |
| vernacles | 14 | - | - |
| vernalise | 12 | - | - |
| vernality | 15 | - | - |
| vernalize | 21 | - | - |
| vernation | 12 | (botany) the arrangement of young leaves in a leaf bud before it opens | - |
| vernicles | 14 | - | - |
| versifier | 15 | a writer who composes rhymes; a maker of poor verses (usually used as terms of contempt for minor or inferior poets) | - |
| verditers | 13 | - | - |
| ventiduct | 15 | - | - |
| venvilles | 15 | - | - |
| verandaed | 14 | - | - |
| verandahs | 16 | - | - |
| verapamil | 16 | a drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine | - |
| veratrias | 12 | - | - |
| veratrine | 12 | - | - |
| veratrins | 12 | - | - |
| venturous | 12 | disposed to venture or take risks | a venturous spirit |
| ventifact | 17 | - | - |
| ventosity | 15 | - | - |
| ventouses | 12 | - | - |
| ventrally | 15 | in a ventral location or direction | - |
| ventrings | 13 | - | - |
| venturers | 12 | - | - |
| veratrums | 14 | - | - |
| verbalise | 14 | articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise | - |
| verbalism | 16 | the communication (in speech or writing) of your beliefs or opinions | the idea was immediate but the verbalism took hours |
| verbifies | 17 | - | - |
| verbosely | 17 | in a verbose manner | she explained her ideas verbosely |
| verbosest | 14 | - | - |
| verbosity | 17 | an expressive style that uses excessive or empty words | - |
| verdantly | 16 | - | - |
| verdelhos | 16 | - | - |
| verderers | 13 | - | - |
| verderors | 13 | - | - |
| verbified | 18 | - | - |
| verbicide | 17 | - | - |
| verbalist | 14 | - | - |
| verbality | 17 | - | - |
| verballed | 15 | - | - |
| verbarian | 14 | - | - |
| verbascum | 18 | genus of coarse herbs and subshrubs mostly with woolly leaves | - |
| verberate | 14 | - | - |
| verbiages | 15 | - | - |
| viameters | 14 | - | - |
| vibrative | 17 | - | - |
| vibrators | 14 | - | - |
| vibrionic | 16 | caused by bacteria of the genus Vibrio | vibrionic dysentery |
| vibrioses | 14 | - | - |
| vibriosis | 14 | - | - |
| vibrissae | 14 | - | - |
| vibrissal | 14 | - | - |
| viaticals | 14 | - | - |
| viaticums | 16 | - | - |
| viatorial | 12 | - | - |
| vibracula | 16 | - | - |
| vibraharp | 19 | a percussion instrument similar to a xylophone but having metal bars and rotating disks in the resonators that produce a vibrato sound | - |
| vibrances | 16 | - | - |
| vibrantly | 17 | - | - |
| vibratile | 14 | - | - |
| viburnums | 16 | - | - |
| vicarages | 15 | - | - |
| vicarates | 14 | - | - |
