Name Report For First Name VERN:
VERN
First name VERN's origin is English. VERN means "surname related to vernon alder tree grove. also used as abbreviations of vernon or lavern". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with VERN below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of vern.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with VERN and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with VERN - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming VERN
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES VERN AS A WHOLE:
gouvernail vernon vernados avernus alverna lavern laverne lavernia elvern severn severne vernay vernell verney governayle laverna verneNAMES RHYMING WITH VERN (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ern) - Names That Ends with ern:
edern vortigern gwern ahern kern bern fern hern stern albern kentigern trahernRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (rn) - Names That Ends with rn:
caliburn padarn ashburn rayburn thorn eachthighearn rhearn aethelbeorn alburn bjorn bourn brarn claiborn clayburn kearn melborn melburn osburn rayhurn reyhurn sherbourn stearn torn usbeorn welborn welburn arn wellburn washburn sanborn reyburn radburn osborn milburn farn dearborn chadburn burn bradburn ahearn bearn beorn coburn wilburnNAMES RHYMING WITH VERN (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (ver) - Names That Begins with ver:
verbrugge verdad verddun verdell verel verena verene verge verina verity veron veronica veronika veronique verrall verrell verrill verylRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ve) - Names That Begins with ve:
vedetta vedette vedika vega vellamo velma velouette velvet vema vemados venamin vencel venessa venetia veniamin venjam venjamin ventura venus vesna veta veto vevila vevinaNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH VERN:
First Names which starts with 'v' and ends with 'n':
vaden valen valentin valkoinen vallen van vardan varden vardon vartan vaughan vaughn vien vingon vinn vinson vivian vivien vojin vonEnglish Words Rhyming VERN
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES VERN AS A WHOLE:
| avernal | adjective (a.) Alt. of Avernian |
| avernian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Avernus, a lake of Campania, in Italy, famous for its poisonous vapors, which ancient writers fancied were so malignant as to kill birds flying over it. It was represented by the poets to be connected with the infernal regions. |
| cavern | noun (n.) A large, deep, hollow place in the earth; a large cave. |
| caverned | adjective (a.) Containing caverns. |
| adjective (a.) Living in a cavern. |
| cavernous | adjective (a.) Full of caverns; resembling a cavern or large cavity; hollow. |
| adjective (a.) Filled with small cavities or cells. | |
| adjective (a.) Having a sound caused by a cavity. |
| cavernulous | adjective (a.) Full of little cavities; as, cavernulous metal. |
| cleverness | noun (n.) The quality of being clever; skill; dexterity; adroitness. |
| deliverness | noun (n.) Nimbleness; agility. |
| evernic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to Evernia, a genus of lichens; as, evernic acid. |
| governing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Govern |
| adjective (a.) Holding the superiority; prevalent; controlling; as, a governing wind; a governing party in a state. | |
| adjective (a.) Requiring a particular case. |
| governability | noun (n.) Governableness. |
| governable | adjective (a.) Capable of being governed, or subjected to authority; controllable; manageable; obedient. |
| governableness | noun (n.) The quality of being governable; manageableness. |
| governal | noun (n.) Alt. of Governail |
| governail | noun (n.) Management; mastery. |
| governance | noun (n.) Exercise of authority; control; government; arrangement. |
| governante | noun (n.) A governess. |
| governess | noun (n.) A female governor; a woman invested with authority to control and direct; especially, one intrusted with the care and instruction of children, -- usually in their homes. |
| government | noun (n.) The act of governing; the exercise of authority; the administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil, church, or family government. |
| noun (n.) The mode of governing; the system of polity in a state; the established form of law. | |
| noun (n.) The right or power of governing; authority. | |
| noun (n.) The person or persons authorized to administer the laws; the ruling power; the administration. | |
| noun (n.) The body politic governed by one authority; a state; as, the governments of Europe. | |
| noun (n.) Management of the limbs or body. | |
| noun (n.) The influence of a word in regard to construction, requiring that another word should be in a particular case. |
| governmental | adjective (a.) Pertaining to government; made by government; as, governmental duties. |
| governor | noun (n.) One who governs; especially, one who is invested with the supreme executive authority in a State; a chief ruler or magistrate; as, the governor of Pennsylvania. |
| noun (n.) One who has the care or guardianship of a young man; a tutor; a guardian. | |
| noun (n.) A pilot; a steersman. | |
| noun (n.) A contrivance applied to steam engines, water wheels, and other machinery, to maintain nearly uniform speed when the resistances and motive force are variable. |
| governorship | noun (n.) The office of a governor. |
| incaverned | adjective (a.) Inclosed or shut up as in a cavern. |
| intercavernous | adjective (a.) Between the cavernous sinuses; as, the intercavernous sinuses connecting the cavernous sinuses at the base of the brain. |
| misgovernance | noun (n.) Misgovernment; misconduct; misbehavior. |
| misgoverned | adjective (a.) Ill governed, as a people; ill directed. |
| misgovernment | noun (n.) Bad government; want of government. |
| nonvernacular | adjective (a.) Not vernacular. |
| overneat | adjective (a.) Excessively neat. |
| overnice | adjective (a.) Excessively nice; fastidious. |
| overnight | noun (n.) The fore part of the night last past; the previous evening. |
| adverb (adv.) In the fore part of the night last past; in the evening before; also, during the night; as, the candle will not last overnight. |
| overnumerous | adjective (a.) Excessively numerous; too many. |
| silvern | adjective (a.) Made of silver. |
| subgovernor | noun (n.) A subordinate or assistant governor. |
| tavern | noun (n.) A public house where travelers and other transient guests are accomodated with rooms and meals; an inn; a hotel; especially, in modern times, a public house licensed to sell liquor in small quantities. |
| taverner | noun (n.) One who keeps a tavern. |
| taverning | noun (n.) A feasting at taverns. |
| tavernman | noun (n.) The keeper of a tavern; also, a tippler. |
| ungovernable | adjective (a.) Not governable; not capable of being governed, ruled, or restrained; licentious; wild; unbridled; as, ungovernable passions. |
| vernacle | noun (n.) See Veronica, 1. |
| vernacular | noun (n.) The vernacular language; one's mother tongue; often, the common forms of expression in a particular locality. |
| adjective (a.) Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous; -- now used chiefly of language; as, English is our vernacular language. |
| vernacularism | noun (n.) A vernacular idiom. |
| vernacularization | noun (n.) The act or process of making vernacular, or the state of being made vernacular. |
| vernaculous | adjective (a.) Vernacular. |
| adjective (a.) Scoffing; scurrilous. |
| vernage | noun (n.) A kind of sweet wine from Italy. |
| 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. |
| vernant | adjective (a.) Flourishing, as in spring; vernal. |
| vernation | noun (n.) The arrangement of the leaves within the leaf bud, as regards their folding, coiling, rolling, etc.; prefoliation. |
| vernicle | noun (n.) A Veronica. See Veronica, 1. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH VERN (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ern) - English Words That Ends with ern:
| alatern | noun (n.) Alt. of Alaternus |
| aldern | adjective (a.) Made of alder. |
| altern | adjective (a.) Acting by turns; alternate. |
| bickern | noun (n.) An anvil ending in a beak or point (orig. in two beaks); also, the beak or horn itself. |
| bittern | noun (n.) A wading bird of the genus Botaurus, allied to the herons, of various species. |
| adjective (a.) The brine which remains in salt works after the salt is concreted, having a bitter taste from the chloride of magnesium which it contains. | |
| adjective (a.) A very bitter compound of quassia, cocculus Indicus, etc., used by fraudulent brewers in adulterating beer. |
| casern | noun (n.) A lodging for soldiers in garrison towns, usually near the rampart; barracks. |
| cistern | noun (n.) An artificial reservoir or tank for holding water, beer, or other liquids. |
| noun (n.) A natural reservoir; a hollow place containing water. |
| cithern | noun (n.) See Cittern. |
| cittern | noun (n.) An instrument shaped like a lute, but strung with wire and played with a quill or plectrum. |
| concern | noun (n.) That which relates or belongs to one; business; affair. |
| noun (n.) That which affects the welfare or happiness; interest; moment. | |
| noun (n.) Interest in, or care for, any person or thing; regard; solicitude; anxiety. | |
| noun (n.) Persons connected in business; a firm and its business; as, a banking concern. | |
| verb (v. t.) To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to. | |
| verb (v. t.) To engage by feeling or sentiment; to interest; as, a good prince concerns himself in the happiness of his subjects. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be of importance. |
| dern | noun (n.) A gatepost or doorpost. |
| adjective (a.) Hidden; concealed; secret. | |
| adjective (a.) Solitary; sad. |
| eastern | adjective (a.) Situated or dwelling in the east; oriental; as, an eastern gate; Eastern countries. |
| adjective (a.) Going toward the east, or in the direction of east; as, an eastern voyage. |
| eldern | adjective (a.) Made of elder. |
| ern | noun (n.) Alt. of Erne |
| verb (v. i.) To stir with strong emotion; to grieve; to mourn. [Corrupted into yearn in modern editions of Shakespeare.] |
| etern | adjective (a.) Alt. of Eterne |
| extern | noun (n.) A pupil in a seminary who lives without its walls; a day scholar. |
| noun (n.) Outward form or part; exterior. | |
| adjective (a.) External; outward; not inherent. |
| fern | noun (n.) An order of cryptogamous plants, the Filices, which have their fructification on the back of the fronds or leaves. They are usually found in humid soil, sometimes grow epiphytically on trees, and in tropical climates often attain a gigantic size. |
| adjective (a.) Ancient; old. [Obs.] "Pilgrimages to . . . ferne halwes." [saints]. | |
| adverb (adv.) Long ago. |
| flittern | adjective (a.) A term applied to the bark obtained from young oak trees. |
| gittern | noun (n.) An instrument like a guitar. |
| verb (v. i.) To play on gittern. |
| hardfern | noun (n.) A species of fern (Lomaria borealis), growing in Europe and Northwestern America. |
| hern | noun (n.) A heron; esp., the common European heron. |
| hestern | adjective (a.) Alt. of Hesternal |
| hodiern | adjective (a.) Alt. of Hodiernal |
| intern | adjective (a.) Internal. |
| adjective (a.) To put for safe keeping in the interior of a place or country; to confine to one locality; as, to intern troops which have fled for refuge to a neutral country. |
| kern | noun (n.) A light-armed foot soldier of the ancient militia of Ireland and Scotland; -- distinguished from gallowglass, and often used as a term of contempt. |
| noun (n.) Any kind of boor or low-lived person. | |
| noun (n.) An idler; a vagabond. | |
| noun (n.) A part of the face of a type which projects beyond the body, or shank. | |
| noun (n.) A churn. | |
| noun (n.) A hand mill. See Quern. | |
| noun (n.) Kernel; corn; grain. | |
| noun (n.) The last handful or sheaf reaped at the harvest. | |
| noun (n.) The harvest-home. | |
| verb (v. t.) To form with a kern. See 2d Kern. | |
| verb (v. i.) To harden, as corn in ripening. | |
| verb (v. i.) To take the form of kernels; to granulate. |
| knoppern | noun (n.) A kind of gall produced by a gallfly on the cup of an acorn, -- used in tanning and dyeing. |
| lampern | noun (n.) The river lamprey (Ammocoetes, / Lampetra, fluviatilis). |
| lantern | noun (n.) Something inclosing a light, and protecting it from wind, rain, etc. ; -- sometimes portable, as a closed vessel or case of horn, perforated tin, glass, oiled paper, or other material, having a lamp or candle within; sometimes fixed, as the glazed inclosure of a street light, or of a lighthouse light. |
| noun (n.) An open structure of light material set upon a roof, to give light and air to the interior. | |
| noun (n.) A cage or open chamber of rich architecture, open below into the building or tower which it crowns. | |
| noun (n.) A smaller and secondary cupola crowning a larger one, for ornament, or to admit light; such as the lantern of the cupola of the Capitol at Washington, or that of the Florence cathedral. | |
| noun (n.) A lantern pinion or trundle wheel. See Lantern pinion (below). | |
| noun (n.) A kind of cage inserted in a stuffing box and surrounding a piston rod, to separate the packing into two parts and form a chamber between for the reception of steam, etc. ; -- called also lantern brass. | |
| noun (n.) A perforated barrel to form a core upon. | |
| noun (n.) See Aristotle's lantern. | |
| verb (v. t.) To furnish with a lantern; as, to lantern a lighthouse. |
| leathern | adjective (a.) Made of leather; consisting of. leather; as, a leathern purse. |
| lectern | noun (n.) See Lecturn. |
| lettern | noun (n.) See Lecturn. |
| lucern | noun (n.) A sort of hunting dog; -- perhaps from Lucerne, in Switzerland. |
| noun (n.) An animal whose fur was formerly much in request (by some supposed to be the lynx). | |
| noun (n.) A leguminous plant (Medicago sativa), having bluish purple cloverlike flowers, cultivated for fodder; -- called also alfalfa. | |
| noun (n.) A lamp. |
| lusern | noun (n.) A lynx. See 1st Lucern and Loup-cervier. |
| luthern | noun (n.) A dormer window. See Dormer. |
| martern | noun (n.) Same as Marten. |
| modern | noun (n.) A person of modern times; -- opposed to ancient. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the present time, or time not long past; late; not ancient or remote in past time; of recent period; as, modern days, ages, or time; modern authors; modern fashions; modern taste; modern practice. | |
| adjective (a.) New and common; trite; commonplace. |
| northeastern | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the northeast; northeasterly. |
| northern | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the north; being in the north, or nearer to that point than to the east or west. |
| adjective (a.) In a direction toward the north; as, to steer a northern course; coming from the north; as, a northern wind. |
| northwestern | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or being in, the northwest; in a direction toward the northwest; coming from the northwest; northwesterly; as, a northwestern course. |
| quartern | noun (n.) A quarter. Specifically: (a) The fourth part of a pint; a gill. (b) The fourth part of a peck, or of a stone (14 ibs.). |
| noun (n.) A loaf of bread weighing about four pounds; -- called also quartern loaf. | |
| noun (n.) A quarter. Specifically: (a) The fourth part of a pint; a gill. (b) The fourth part of a peck, or of a stone (14 ibs.). | |
| noun (n.) A loaf of bread weighing about four pounds; -- called also quartern loaf. |
| quern | noun (n.) A mill for grinding grain, the upper stone of which was turned by hand; -- used before the invention of windmills and watermills. |
| noun (n.) A mill for grinding grain, the upper stone of which was turned by hand; -- used before the invention of windmills and watermills. |
| pastern | noun (n.) The part of the foot of the horse, and allied animals, between the fetlock and the coffin joint. See Illust. of Horse. |
| noun (n.) A shackle for horses while pasturing. | |
| noun (n.) A patten. |
| pattern | noun (n.) Anything proposed for imitation; an archetype; an exemplar; that which is to be, or is worthy to be, copied or imitated; as, a pattern of a machine. |
| noun (n.) A part showing the figure or quality of the whole; a specimen; a sample; an example; an instance. | |
| noun (n.) Stuff sufficient for a garment; as, a dress pattern. | |
| noun (n.) Figure or style of decoration; design; as, wall paper of a beautiful pattern. | |
| noun (n.) Something made after a model; a copy. | |
| noun (n.) Anything cut or formed to serve as a guide to cutting or forming objects; as, a dressmaker's pattern. | |
| noun (n.) A full-sized model around which a mold of sand is made, to receive the melted metal. It is usually made of wood and in several parts, so as to be removed from the mold without injuring it. | |
| noun (n.) A diagram showing the distribution of the pellets of a shotgun on a vertical target perpendicular to the plane of fire. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make or design (anything) by, from, or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate. | |
| verb (v. t.) To serve as an example for; also, to parallel. |
| pern | noun (n.) The honey buzzard. |
| verb (v. t.) To take profit of; to make profitable. |
| postern | noun (n.) Originally, a back door or gate; a private entrance; hence, any small door or gate. |
| noun (n.) A subterraneous passage communicating between the parade and the main ditch, or between the ditches and the interior of the outworks. | |
| adjective (a.) Back; being behind; private. |
| pottern | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to potters. |
| saltern | noun (n.) A building or place where salt is made by boiling or by evaporation; salt works. |
| shern | noun (n.) See Shearn. |
| slattern | noun (n.) A woman who is negligent of her dress or house; one who is not neat and nice. |
| adjective (a.) Resembling a slattern; sluttish; slatterny. | |
| verb (v. t.) To consume carelessly or wastefully; to waste; -- with away. |
| southeastern | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the southeast; southeasterly. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH VERN (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (ver) - Words That Begins with ver:
| veracious | adjective (a.) Observant of truth; habitually speaking truth; truthful; as, veracious historian. |
| adjective (a.) Characterized by truth; not false; as, a veracious account or narrative. |
| veracity | noun (n.) The quality or state of being veracious; habitual observance of truth; truthfulness; truth; as, a man of veracity. |
| veranda | noun (n.) An open, roofed gallery or portico, adjoining a dwelling house, forming an out-of-door sitting room. See Loggia. |
| veratralbine | noun (n.) A yellowish amorphous alkaloid extracted from the rootstock of Veratrum album. |
| veratrate | noun (n.) A salt of veratric acid. |
| veratria | noun (n.) Veratrine. |
| veratric | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, plants of the genus Veratrum. |
| veratrina | noun (n.) Same as Veratrine. |
| veratrine | noun (n.) A poisonous alkaloid obtained from the root hellebore (Veratrum) and from sabadilla seeds as a white crystalline powder, having an acrid, burning taste. It is sometimes used externally, as in ointments, in the local treatment of neuralgia and rheumatism. Called also veratria, and veratrina. |
| veratrol | noun (n.) A liquid hydrocarbon obtained by the decomposition of veratric acid, and constituting the dimethyl ether of pyrocatechin. |
| veratrum | noun (n.) A genus of coarse liliaceous herbs having very poisonous qualities. |
| verb | noun (n.) A word; a vocable. |
| noun (n.) A word which affirms or predicates something of some person or thing; a part of speech expressing being, action, or the suffering of action. |
| 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. |
| verbalism | noun (n.) Something expressed verbally; a verbal remark or expression. |
| verbalist | noun (n.) A literal adherent to, or a minute critic of, words; a literalist. |
| verbality | noun (n.) The quality or state of being verbal; mere words; bare literal expression. |
| verbalization | noun (n.) The act of verbalizing, or the state of being verbalized. |
| verbalizing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Verbalize |
| verbarian | noun (n.) One who coins words. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to words; verbal. |
| verbarium | noun (n.) A game in word making. See Logomachy, 2. |
| verbena | noun (n.) A genus of herbaceous plants of which several species are extensively cultivated for the great beauty of their flowers; vervain. |
| verbenaceous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a natural order (Verbenaceae) of gamopetalous plants of which Verbena is the type. The order includes also the black and white mangroves, and many plants noted for medicinal use or for beauty of bloom. |
| verbenating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Verbenate |
| verberation | noun (n.) The act of verberating; a beating or striking. |
| noun (n.) The impulse of a body; which causes sound. |
| verbiage | noun (n.) The use of many words without necessity, or with little sense; a superabundance of words; verbosity; wordiness. |
| verbose | adjective (a.) 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. |
| verbosity | noun (n.) The quality or state of being verbose; the use of more words than are necessary; prolixity; wordiness; verbiage. |
| verd | noun (n.) The privilege of cutting green wood within a forest for fuel. |
| noun (n.) The right of pasturing animals in a forest. | |
| noun (n.) Greenness; freshness. |
| verdancy | noun (n.) The quality or state of being verdant. |
| verdant | adjective (a.) Covered with growing plants or grass; green; fresh; flourishing; as, verdant fields; a verdant lawn. |
| adjective (a.) Unripe in knowledge or judgment; unsophisticated; raw; green; as, a verdant youth. |
| verderer | noun (n.) Alt. of Verderor |
| verderor | noun (n.) An officer who has the charge of the king's forest, to preserve the vert and venison, keep the assizes, view, receive, and enroll attachments and presentments of all manner of trespasses. |
| verdict | noun (n.) 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. |
| noun (n.) Decision; judgment; opinion pronounced; as, to be condemned by the verdict of the public. |
| verdigris | noun (n.) A green poisonous substance used as a pigment and drug, obtained by the action of acetic acid on copper, and consisting essentially of a complex mixture of several basic copper acetates. |
| noun (n.) The green rust formed on copper. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cover, or coat, with verdigris. |
| verdin | noun (n.) A small yellow-headed bird (Auriparus flaviceps) of Lower California, allied to the titmice; -- called also goldtit. |
| verdine | noun (n.) A commercial name for green aniline dye. |
| verdingale | noun (n.) See Farthingale. |
| verdit | noun (n.) Verdict. |
| verditer | noun (n.) Verdigris. |
| noun (n.) Either one of two pigments (called blue verditer, and green verditer) which are made by treating copper nitrate with calcium carbonate (in the form of lime, whiting, chalk, etc.) They consist of hydrated copper carbonates analogous to the minerals azurite and malachite. |
| verditure | noun (n.) The faintest and palest green. |
| verdoy | adjective (a.) Charged with leaves, fruits, flowers, etc.; -- said of a border. |
| verdure | noun (n.) Green; greenness; freshness of vegetation; as, the verdure of the meadows in June. |
| verdured | adjective (a.) Covered with verdure. |
| verdureless | adjective (a.) Destitute of verdure. |
| verdurous | adjective (a.) Covered with verdure; clothed with the fresh green of vegetation; verdured; verdant; as, verdurous pastures. |
| verecund | adjective (a.) Rashful; modest. |
| verecundious | adjective (a.) Verecund. |
| verecundity | noun (n.) The quality or state of being verecund; modesty. |
| veretillum | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of club-shaped, compound Alcyonaria belonging to Veretillum and allied genera, of the tribe Pennatulacea. The whole colony can move about as if it were a simple animal. |
| vergalien | noun (n.) Alt. of Vergaloo |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH VERN:
English Words which starts with 'v' and ends with 'n':
| vacation | noun (n.) The act of vacating; a making void or of no force; as, the vacation of an office or a charter. |
| noun (n.) Intermission of a stated employment, procedure, or office; a period of intermission; rest; leisure. | |
| noun (n.) Intermission of judicial proceedings; the space of time between the end of one term and the beginning of the next; nonterm; recess. | |
| noun (n.) The intermission of the regular studies and exercises of an educational institution between terms; holidays; as, the spring vacation. | |
| noun (n.) The time when an office is vacant; esp. (Eccl.), the time when a see, or other spiritual dignity, is vacant. |
| vaccination | noun (n.) The act, art, or practice of vaccinating, or inoculating with the cowpox, in order to prevent or mitigate an attack of smallpox. Cf. Inoculation. |
| vacillation | noun (n.) The act of vacillating; a moving one way and the other; a wavering. |
| vacuation | noun (n.) The act of emptying; evacuation. |
| vacuolation | noun (n.) Formation into, or multiplication of, vacuoles. |
| 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. |
| valediction | noun (n.) A farewell; a bidding farewell. |
| valedictorian | noun (n.) One who pronounces a valedictory address; especially, in American colleges, the student who pronounces the valedictory of the graduating class at the annual commencement, usually the student who ranks first in scholarship. |
| valentinian | noun (n.) One of a school of Judaizing Gnostics in the second century; -- so called from Valentinus, the founder. |
| valerian | noun (n.) Any plant of the genus Valeriana. The root of the officinal valerian (V. officinalis) has a strong smell, and is much used in medicine as an antispasmodic. |
| valerin | noun (n.) A salt of valeric acid with glycerin, occurring in butter, dolphin oil., and forming an forming an oily liquid with a slightly unpleasant odor. |
| valetudinarian | noun (n.) A person of a weak or sickly constitution; one who is seeking to recover health. |
| adjective (a.) Of infirm health; seeking to recover health; sickly; weakly; infirm. |
| validation | noun (n.) The act of giving validity. |
| valkyrian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Valkyrias; hence, relating to battle. |
| vallation | noun (n.) A rampart or intrenchment. |
| valsalvian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Valsalva, an Italian anatomist of the 17th century. |
| valuation | noun (n.) The act of valuing, or of estimating value or worth; the act of setting a price; estimation; appraisement; as, a valuation of lands for the purpose of taxation. |
| noun (n.) Value set upon a thing; estimated value or worth; as, the goods sold for more than their valuation. |
| van | noun (n.) The front of an army; the first line or leading column; also, the front line or foremost division of a fleet, either in sailing or in battle. |
| noun (n.) A shovel used in cleansing ore. | |
| noun (n.) A light wagon, either covered or open, used by tradesmen and others fore the transportation of goods. | |
| noun (n.) A large covered wagon for moving furniture, etc., also for conveying wild beasts, etc., for exhibition. | |
| noun (n.) A close railway car for baggage. See the Note under Car, 2. | |
| noun (n.) A fan or other contrivance, as a sieve, for winnowing grain. | |
| noun (n.) A wing with which the air is beaten. | |
| verb (v. t.) To wash or cleanse, as a small portion of ore, on a shovel. | |
| verb (v. t.) To fan, or to cleanse by fanning; to winnow. |
| vanessian | noun (n.) A vanessa. |
| vanillin | noun (n.) A white crystalline aldehyde having a burning taste and characteristic odor of vanilla. It is extracted from vanilla pods, and is also obtained by the decomposition of coniferin, and by the oxidation of eugenol. |
| vaporation | noun (n.) The act or process of converting into vapor, or of passing off in vapor; evaporation. |
| vaporization | noun (n.) The act or process of vaporizing, or the state of being converted into vapor; the artificial formation of vapor; specifically, the conversion of water into steam, as in a steam boiler. |
| vapulation | noun (n.) The act of beating or whipping. |
| varan | noun (n.) The monitor. See Monitor, 3. |
| varangian | noun (n.) One of the Northmen who founded a dynasty in Russia in the 9th century; also, one of the Northmen composing, at a later date, the imperial bodyguard at Constantinople. |
| variation | noun (n.) The act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing; modification; alternation; mutation; diversity; deviation; as, a variation of color in different lights; a variation in size; variation of language. |
| noun (n.) Extent to which a thing varies; amount of departure from a position or state; amount or rate of change. | |
| noun (n.) Change of termination of words, as in declension, conjugation, derivation, etc. | |
| noun (n.) Repetition of a theme or melody with fanciful embellishments or modifications, in time, tune, or harmony, or sometimes change of key; the presentation of a musical thought in new and varied aspects, yet so that the essential features of the original shall still preserve their identity. | |
| noun (n.) One of the different arrangements which can be made of any number of quantities taking a certain number of them together. |
| variegation | noun (n.) The act of variegating or diversifying, or the state of being diversified, by different colors; diversity of colors. |
| variolation | noun (n.) Inoculation with smallpox. |
| vastation | noun (n.) A laying waste; waste; depopulation; devastation. |
| vatican | noun (n.) A magnificent assemblage of buildings at Rome, near the church of St. Peter, including the pope's palace, a museum, a library, a famous chapel, etc. |
| vaticination | noun (n.) Prediction; prophecy. |
| vection | noun (n.) Vectitation. |
| vectitation | noun (n.) The act of carrying, or state of being carried. |
| vegetarian | noun (n.) One who holds that vegetables and fruits are the only proper food for man. Strict vegetarians eat no meat, eggs, or milk. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to vegetarianism; as, a vegetarian diet. |
| vegetation | noun (n.) The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth. |
| noun (n.) The sum of vegetable life; vegetables or plants in general; as, luxuriant vegetation. | |
| noun (n.) An exuberant morbid outgrowth upon any part, especially upon the valves of the heart. |
| vehiculation | noun (n.) Movement of vehicles. |
| vein | noun (n.) One of the vessels which carry blood, either venous or arterial, to the heart. See Artery, 2. |
| noun (n.) One of the similar branches of the framework of a leaf. | |
| noun (n.) One of the ribs or nervures of the wings of insects. See Venation. | |
| noun (n.) A narrow mass of rock intersecting other rocks, and filling inclined or vertical fissures not corresponding with the stratification; a lode; a dike; -- often limited, in the language of miners, to a mineral vein or lode, that is, to a vein which contains useful minerals or ores. | |
| noun (n.) A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance. | |
| noun (n.) A streak or wave of different color, appearing in wood, and in marble and other stones; variegation. | |
| noun (n.) A train of association, thoughts, emotions, or the like; a current; a course. | |
| noun (n.) Peculiar temper or temperament; tendency or turn of mind; a particular disposition or cast of genius; humor; strain; quality; also, manner of speech or action; as, a rich vein of humor; a satirical vein. | |
| verb (v. t.) To form or mark with veins; to fill or cover with veins. |
| velitation | noun (n.) A dispute or contest; a slight contest; a skirmish. |
| vellon | noun (n.) A word occurring in the phrase real vellon. See the Note under Its Real. |
| velveteen | noun (n.) A kind of cloth, usually cotton, made in imitation of velvet; cotton velvet. |
| venation | noun (n.) The arrangement or system of veins, as in the wing of an insect, or in the leaves of a plant. See Illust. in Appendix. |
| noun (n.) The act or art of hunting, or the state of being hunted. |
| venditation | noun (n.) The act of setting forth ostentatiously; a boastful display. |
| vendition | noun (n.) The act of vending, or selling; sale. |
| vennation | noun (n.) The act of poisoning. |
| noun (n.) Poison; venom. |
| veneration | noun (n.) The act of venerating, or the state of being venerated; the highest degree of respect and reverence; respect mingled with awe; a feeling or sentimental excited by the dignity, wisdom, or superiority of a person, by sacredness of character, by consecration to sacred services, or by hallowed associations. |
| venerean | adjective (a.) Devoted to the offices of Venus, or love; venereal. |
| venesection | noun (n.) The act or operation of opening a vein for letting blood; bloodletting; phlebotomy. |
| venetian | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Venice. |
| noun (n.) Galligaskins. | |
| noun (n.) A Venetian blind. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Venice in Italy. |
| venison | noun (n.) Beasts of the chase. |
| noun (n.) Formerly, the flesh of any of the edible beasts of the chase, also of game birds; now, the flesh of animals of the deer kind exclusively. |
| ventilation | noun (n.) The act of ventilating, or the state of being ventilated; the art or process of replacing foul air by that which is pure, in any inclosed place, as a house, a church, a mine, etc.; free exposure to air. |
| noun (n.) The act of refrigerating, or cooling; refrigeration; as, ventilation of the blood. | |
| noun (n.) The act of fanning, or winnowing, for the purpose of separating chaff and dust from the grain. | |
| noun (n.) The act of sifting, and bringing out to view or examination; free discussion; public exposure. | |
| noun (n.) The act of giving vent or expression. |
| ventrilocution | noun (n.) Ventriloquism. |
| ventrimeson | noun (n.) See Meson. |
| verfication | noun (n.) The act of verifying, or the state of being verified; confirmation; authentication. |
| noun (n.) Confirmation by evidence. | |
| noun (n.) A formal phrase used in concluding a plea. |
| vermiculation | noun (n.) The act or operation of moving in the manner of a worm; continuation of motion from one part to another; as, the vermiculation, or peristaltic motion, of the intestines. |
| noun (n.) The act of vermiculating, or forming or inlaying so as to resemble the motion, track, or work of a worm. | |
| noun (n.) Penetration by worms; the state of being wormeaten. | |
| noun (n.) A very fine wavy crosswise color marking, or a patch of such markings, as on the feathers of birds. |
| vermilion | noun (n.) A bright red pigment consisting of mercuric sulphide, obtained either from the mineral cinnabar or artificially. It has a fine red color, and is much used in coloring sealing wax, in printing, etc. |
| noun (n.) Hence, a red color like the pigment; a lively and brilliant red; as, cheeks of vermilion. | |
| verb (v. t.) To color with vermilion, or as if with vermilion; to dye red; to cover with a delicate red. |
| vermin | noun (n. sing. & pl.) An animal, in general. |
| noun (n. sing. & pl.) A noxious or mischievous animal; especially, noxious little animals or insects, collectively, as squirrels, rats, mice, flies, lice, bugs, etc. | |
| noun (n. sing. & pl.) Hence, in contempt, noxious human beings. |
| vermination | noun (n.) The generation or breeding of vermin. |
| noun (n.) A griping of the bowels. |
| vernonin | noun (n.) A glucoside extracted from the root of a South African plant of the genus Vernonia, as a deliquescent powder, and used as a mild heart tonic. |
| verseman | noun (n.) Same as Versemonger. |
| versification | noun (n.) The act, art, or practice, of versifying, or making verses; the construction of poetry; metrical composition. |
| version | noun (n.) A change of form, direction, or the like; transformation; conversion; turning. |
| noun (n.) A condition of the uterus in which its axis is deflected from its normal position without being bent upon itself. See Anteversion, and Retroversion. | |
| noun (n.) The act of translating, or rendering, from one language into another language. | |
| noun (n.) 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. | |
| noun (n.) An account or description from a particular point of view, especially as contrasted with another account; as, he gave another version of the affair. |
| vervain | noun (n.) Any plant of the genus Verbena. |
| vesication | noun (n.) The process of vesicating, or of raising blisters. |
| vesiculation | noun (n.) The state of containing vesicles, or the process by which vesicles are formed. |
| vessicnon | noun (n.) Alt. of Vessignon |
| vessignon | noun (n.) A soft swelling on a horse's leg; a windgall. |
| vestiarian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a vestiary or vestments. |
| vestryman | noun (n.) A member of a vestry; especially (Prot. Epis. Ch.), a member other than a warden. See Vestry. |
| vesuvian | noun (n.) A kind of match or fusee for lighting cigars, etc. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Vesuvius, a volcano near Naples. | |
| adjective (a.) Vesuvianite. |
| veteran | noun (n.) One who has been long exercised in any service or art, particularly in war; one who has had. |
| adjective (a.) Long exercised in anything, especially in military life and the duties of a soldier; long practiced or experienced; as, a veteran officer or soldier; veteran skill. |
| veterinarian | noun (n.) One skilled in the diseases of cattle or domestic animals; a veterinary surgeon. |
| vexation | noun (n.) The act of vexing, or the state of being vexed; agitation; disquiet; trouble; irritation. |
| noun (n.) The cause of trouble or disquiet; affliction. | |
| noun (n.) A harassing by process of law; a vexing or troubling, as by a malicious suit. |
| vexillation | noun (n.) A company of troops under one vexillum. |
| vibration | noun (n.) The act of vibrating, or the state of being vibrated, or in vibratory motion; quick motion to and fro; oscillation, as of a pendulum or musical string. |
| noun (n.) A limited reciprocating motion of a particle of an elastic body or medium in alternately opposite directions from its position of equilibrium, when that equilibrium has been disturbed, as when a stretched cord or other body produces musical notes, or particles of air transmit sounds to the ear. The path of the particle may be in a straight line, in a circular arc, or in any curve whatever. |
| vicarian | noun (n.) A vicar. |
| viceman | noun (n.) A smith who works at the vice instead of at the anvil. |
| victorian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the reign of Queen Victoria of England; as, the Victorian poets. |
| viduation | noun (n.) The state of being widowed or bereaved; loss; bereavement. |
| vigesimation | noun (n.) The act of putting to death every twentieth man. |
| vilification | noun (n.) The act of vilifying or defaming; abuse. |
| villain | noun (n.) One who holds lands by a base, or servile, tenure, or in villenage; a feudal tenant of the lowest class, a bondman or servant. |
| noun (n.) A baseborn or clownish person; a boor. | |
| noun (n.) A vile, wicked person; a man extremely depraved, and capable or guilty of great crimes; a deliberate scoundrel; a knave; a rascal; a scamp. | |
| adjective (a.) Villainous. | |
| verb (v. t.) To debase; to degrade. |
| villakin | noun (n.) A little villa. |
| villan | noun (n.) A villain. |
| villein | noun (n.) See Villain, 1. |
| vimen | noun (n.) A long, slender, flexible shoot or branch. |
| vincentian | noun (n.) Same as Lazarist. |
| noun (n.) A member of certain charitable sisterhoods. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Saint Vincent de Paul, or founded by him. |
| vincetoxin | noun (n.) A glucoside extracted from the root of the white swallowwort (Vincetoxicum officinale, a plant of the Asclepias family) as a bitter yellow amorphous substance; -- called also asclepiadin, and cynanchin. |
| vindemiation | noun (n.) The operation of gathering grapes. |
| vindication | noun (n.) The act of vindicating, or the state of being vindicated; defense; justification against denial or censure; as, the vindication of opinions; his vindication is complete. |
| noun (n.) The claiming a thing as one's own; the asserting of a right or title in, or to, a thing. |
| vingtun | noun (n.) Contraction for Vingt et un. |
| violantin | noun (n.) A complex nitrogenous substance, produced as a yellow crystalline substance, and regarded as a complex derivative of barbituric acid. |
| violaquercitrin | noun (n.) A yellow crystalline glucoside obtained from the pansy (Viola tricolor), and decomposing into glucose and quercitrin. |
| violation | noun (n.) The act of violating, treating with violence, or injuring; the state of being violated. |
| noun (n.) Infringement; transgression; nonobservance; as, the violation of law or positive command, of covenants, promises, etc. | |
| noun (n.) An act of irreverence or desecration; profanation or contemptuous treatment of sacred things; as, the violation of a church. | |
| noun (n.) Interruption, as of sleep or peace; disturbance. | |
| noun (n.) Ravishment; rape; outrage. |
| violin | noun (n.) A small instrument with four strings, played with a bow; a fiddle. |
| viraginian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a virago; having the qualities of a virago. |
| vireton | noun (n.) An arrow or bolt for a crossbow having feathers or brass placed at an angle with the shaft to make it spin in flying. |
| virgilian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Virgil, the Roman poet; resembling the style of Virgil. |
| virgin | noun (n.) A woman who has had no carnal knowledge of man; a maid. |
| noun (n.) A person of the male sex who has not known sexual indulgence. | |
| noun (n.) See Virgo. | |
| noun (n.) Any one of several species of gossamer-winged butterflies of the family Lycaenidae. | |
| noun (n.) A female insect producing eggs from which young are hatched, though there has been no fecundation by a male; a parthenogenetic insect. | |
| adjective (a.) Being a virgin; chaste; of or pertaining to a virgin; becoming a virgin; maidenly; modest; indicating modesty; as, a virgin blush. | |
| adjective (a.) Pure; undefiled; unmixed; fresh; new; as, virgin soil; virgin gold. | |
| adjective (a.) Not yet pregnant; impregnant. | |
| verb (v. i.) To act the virgin; to be or keep chaste; -- followed by it. See It, 5. |
| virgularian | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of long, slender Alcyonaria belonging to Virgularia and allied genera of the family Virgularidae. These corals are allied to the sea-pens, but have a long rodlike rhachis inclosing a slender, round or square, calcareous axis. The polyps are arranged in transverse rows or clusters along each side of the rhachis. |
| virmilion | noun (n.) See Vermilion. |
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