VAIL

Name Report For First Name 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 VA�L AS A WHOLE:

NAMES RHYMING WITH VA�L (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 VA�L (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 VA�L:

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 VA�L AS A WHOLE:

availing

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

avail	noun (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.

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

available	adjective (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.

availableness	noun (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.

availment

noun (n.) Profit; advantage.

countervailing

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

countervail	noun (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.

mervaille

noun (n.) Marvel.

paravail

adjective (a.) At the bottom; lowest.

prevailing	noun (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.

prevailment

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

travail	noun (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.

travailing

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

travailous

adjective (a.) Causing travail; laborious.

vail	noun (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.

vailer

noun (n.) One who vails.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH VA�L (According to last letters):

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

abigail

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

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

ail	noun (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.

aswail

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

aventail

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

bail	noun (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.

blackmail	noun (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.

blacktail	noun (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.

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

brail	noun (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.

brantail

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

breastrail

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

bristletail

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

camail	noun (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.

cocktail	noun (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.

cottontail

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

crail

noun (n.) A creel or osier basket.

culvertail

noun (n.) Dovetail.

curtail	noun (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.

detail	noun (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.

doornail

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

dovetail	noun (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.

entail	noun (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.

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

fantail	noun (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.

firetail

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

flail	noun (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.

foresail	noun (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.

forktail	noun (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.

foxtail	noun (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.

frail	noun (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.

gilttail

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

governail

noun (n.) Management; mastery.

grail	noun (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.

hail	noun (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.

hairtail

noun (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.

hangnail

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

hardtail

noun (n.) See Jurel.

headsail

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

hobnail	noun (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.

horntail

noun (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.

horsenail

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

horsetail	noun (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.

jail	noun (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.

jeofail

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

kail	noun (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.

longtail

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

lugsail

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

lymail

noun (n.) See Limaille.

mail	noun (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 VA�L (According to first letters):

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

vaimure

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

vain	noun (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.

vainglorious

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

vainglory

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

vainness

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

vair

noun (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.

vairy

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

vaishnava

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

vaishnavism

noun (n.) The worship of Vishnu.

vaisya

noun (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.

vaivode

noun (n.) See Waywode.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH VA�L:

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

vaccinal

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

vagal

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

vaginal	adjective (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.

vakeel

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

valeryl

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

vanadyl

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

vandal	noun (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

vanillyl

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

varietal

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

varvel

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

vassal	noun (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.

vastel

noun (n.) See Wastel.

vatful

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

vatical

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

vaticinal

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

vauntful

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

veal

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

vegetal	noun (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.

veil	noun (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.

veinal

adjective (a.) Pertaining to veins; venous.

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

venal	adjective (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.

venatical

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

venatorial

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

venefical

adjective (a.) Veneficial.

veneficial

adjective (a.) Alt. of Veneficious

venereal	noun (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.

vengeful

adjective (a.) Vindictive; retributive; revengeful.

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

ventail

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

ventral	adjective (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.

ventriloquial

adjective (a.) Ventriloquous.

veratrol

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

verbal	noun (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.

veridical

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

vermeil	noun (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.

vermifugal

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

vermil

noun (n.) See Vermeil.

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

verrel

noun (n.) See Ferrule.

versal

adjective (a.) Universal.

versual

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

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

vertebrarterial

adjective (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.

vertical	noun (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.

verticil

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

vervel

noun (n.) See Varvel.

vesical

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

vesicovaginal

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

vesperal

adjective (a.) Vesper; evening.

vespertinal

adjective (a.) Vespertine.

vessel	noun (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.

vesselful

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

vestal	adjective (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.

vestigial

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

vexil

noun (n.) A vexillum.

vial	noun (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.

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

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

vicinal

adjective (a.) Near; vicine.

vicontiel

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

victual	noun (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.

vidual

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

vigesimal

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

vill

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

villanel

noun (n.) A ballad.

viminal

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

vindemial

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

vineal

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

vinyl

noun (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.

viol	noun (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.

virginal	noun (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.

virial

noun (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.

virtual	adjective (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.

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

visceroskeletal

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

viscoidal

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

visional

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

visitatorial

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

visitorial

adjective (a.) Same as Visitatorial.

visual	adjective (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.

vital	noun (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.

viticultural

adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to viticulture.

vitriol	noun (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.

vivifical

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

vivisectional

adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to vivisection.

vizierial

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

vocal	noun (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.

voiceful

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

volitional

adjective (a.) Belonging or relating to volition.

volumetrical

adjective (a.) Volumetric.

vortical

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

vorticel

noun (n.) A vorticella.

vowel

noun (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.

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

vulnifical

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

vulvovaginal

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

valval

adjective (a.) Alt. of Valvar

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