Word origins

• vermiculationThe process of being turned into a worm.
• vermiculeA small worm or worm-like organism.
• vermiculousContaining, or full of, worms; resembling worms; wormy.
• vermifugalTending to prevent, destroy, or expel worms or vermin; anthelmintic.
• vermifugeActing as a drug to cause the expulsion or death of intestinal worms.
• verminateTo breed vermin.
• verminationThe generation or breeding of vermin.
• vermiparousGiving birth to worms or grubs, such as various insects.
• vermiphobiaAn abnormal or irrational fear of worms or being infected by worms.
• vermisolA kind of soil subject to worm activity.
• vernaculousvernacular (of everyday language)
• vernalityThe quality of being vernal or spring-like.
• vernantFlourishing, as in spring; vernal.
• vernileSuiting a slave; servile; obsequious.
• vernilityFawning or obsequious behaviour; servility.
• vernix caseosaThe waxy or "cheesy" white substance found coating the skin of newborn humans.
• verriculateHaving verricules (thick tufts of parallel hairs, bristles, or branches).
• verriculeA tuft of upright hairs.
• versableCapable of being turned; flexible, changeable, or inconsistent.
• versicolourHaving changing or varied colours.
• versiculusSynonym of versicle.
• versificatorSomeone who writes verse; a poet.
• versificatrixA female poet.
• versorA quaternion of norm one.
• verspeciesA true species, neither subspecies nor superspecies.
• versutecrafty; wily; artful
• -vertUsed to refer to a person with a particular personality around other people.
• verticilA whorl, a group of similar parts such as leaves radiating from a shared axis
• verticillasterA whorl of flowers apparently of one cluster, but composed of two opposite axillary cymes, as in mint.
• verticillateForming or having whorls
• verticillusA whorl; a verticil.
• vertisolA clay soil, containing a high content of montmorillonite, that forms deep cracks in drier conditions.
• vertumniteA monoclinic-prismatic colorless mineral containing aluminum, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, silicon, and strontium.
• VertumnusThe Ancient Roman god of seasons, change, and plant growth, capable of changing his form at will.
• VerulaeA city of the Hernici in Latium, situated between the valley of the Liris and the valley of the Tolerus, now Veroli
• VerulamianOf or relating to the English city of St Albans.
• VerulamiumA town in Britannia, Roman Empire. An ancient town in Roman Britain, sited in the southwest of the modern city of St Albans in Hertfordshire, England, UK.
• VerulanOf or relating to Verulae.
• vesaniaMadness, insanity, mental derangement.
• vesbiumA supposed rare metallic element extracted from Vesuvian lava. Later tests showed it to be a composite.
• vesicaA bladder, especially the urinary bladder or the gall bladder.
• vesica biliarisSynonym of gall bladder.
• vesica felleaSynonym of gall bladder.
• vesico-bladder, as
• vesiculaSynonym of vesicle (small blister).
• vesiculo-vesicula (vesicle) (cutaneous or mucosal); blister.
• vesiculosebladdery; vesicular; vesiculate; composed of, or covered with, vesicles
• vesperateTo darken as at the beginning of night
• vesperingwestward; moving toward the setting sun.
• vespertilianof, pertaining to, or characteristic of bats.
• vespiaryA nest built by a social wasp species.
• vespilloOne who carried out the dead bodies of the poor at night for burial.
• vestiaryA dressing room or storeroom for clothes, especially in a church or other religious house.
• vestigiumA vestige.
• vestimentClothing, clothes, especially ecclesiastical.
• veterascentGrowing old.
• veterateOf long standing, experienced, seasoned.
• veterationaging
• vetero-testamentaryOf or pertaining to the Old Testament of the Bible.
• Vetus LatinaThe Biblical texts, dating from AD 200–380, written in (Late) Latin, that predate the Vulgate.
• vetustantique; ancient; old, in a positive way
• vetustityThe state of being old; old age.
• vetustyantiquity; great age
• vexata quaestioA vexed, unresolved, or intractable question.
• vexillaryCreating a partition.
• vexillationA company of soldiers (especially in ancient Rome) grouped under the same flag.
• V-formA second-person pronoun used in formal situations, to address unfamiliar people and superiors.
• v.g.Used to introduce an example or list of examples to illustrate what is being discussed.
• via mediaA third way; a middle course, a compromise.
• viameterAn early type of odometer.
• viaryOf or pertaining to roads, or occurring on roads.
• viatectureThe art of making roads or other patha travelling, including the construction of bridges, canals, viaducts, etc.
• viaticOf or pertaining to traveling or a journey.
• viaticumThe Eucharist, when given to a person who is dying or one in danger of death.
• vibexA narrow streak of subcutaneous extravasation of blood, often one of many in a patch of such streaks, which may be extensive.
• vibraculoidCharacteristic of a vibraculum
• vibraculumA long, whiplike, modified zooid on the surface of certain colonies of bryozoa
• vibratiuncleA minuscule or slight vibration; specifically, a vibration in brain tissue caused by the comparatively greater vibrations of the particles of the medullary substance of the nerves (formerly hypothesised to convey external impressions to the mind).
• vibrissaAny of the tactile whiskers on the nose of an animal such as a cat.
• vibrissantVibrant.
• vibrotaxisThe way an organism responds to mechanical (physical) vibrations.
• vicambulistSomeone who walks or wanders streets.
• vicar foraneA priest entrusted by the bishop with a certain degree of leadership in a territorial division of a diocese or a pastoral region.
• Vicar of ChristThe Pope.
• vice-Taking the place or rank of (another person); deputy.
• vicecomesA viscount.
• vicegerentThe official administrative deputy of a ruler, head of state, or church official.
• vicenarianA person whose age is between twenty and twenty-nine years, inclusive; someone in their twenties.
• vicenariousSynonym of vicenary: of, pertaining to, or based on the number twenty.
• vicenaryOf, pertaining to, or based on the number twenty.
• vicennaliaThe festival and religious rituals celebrating a Roman emperor's 20th year of rule.
• vicennalsSynonym of vicennalia: the festival and religious ritual held on the 20th anniversary of a Roman emperor's reign.
• vicennialOccurring once every twenty years.
• vicenniumA period of twenty years.
• VicentineOf, from or relating to the city or province of Vicenza in the Veneto region in northeastern Italy.
• vicesimationThe destruction of one-twentieth of something; especially, the killing or putting to death of every twentieth person, especially by lot.
• vicibusBy turns; in succession; alternatim.
• vicineAn alkaloid extracted from the seeds of the vetch (Vicia sativa), as well as other species of Vicia. It is a white crystalline substance.
• vicininAn organic compound from Lathyrus sativus.
• viciosityViciousness.