Name Report For First Name VAN:
VAN
First name VAN's origin is Dutch. VAN means "of". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with VAN below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of van.(Brown names are of the same origin (Dutch) with VAN and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with VAN - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming VAN
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES VAN AS A WHOLE:
evangeline evanthe ivanna ivana jivanta giovanna hovan yervant vanderbilt vanderpool vanderveer vandyke morvan vanko istvan pivane ivantie razvan cavana cevanah devaney devanie devansha devany eavan evanee evangelina evania evanna evanne giavanna govanne havanna ivane jeovana jeovanna jovana jovanna levane savanna savannah shavana sylvana vande vanesa vanessa vanna cavan crevan devan donavan donovan estevan evan garvan gavan giovanni ivan javan jeevan jovan kavan kevan lavan nevan stevan sullivan trevan vance vannes ivankor ivanetsr vandenberg bevan vanny vania evanth evangelia vanda govannon livana alvan devana devanna kelvanNAMES RHYMING WITH VAN (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (an) - Names That Ends with an:
achan ayan iman lishan loiyan nishan saran anan hanan janan rukan sawsan wijdan shoushan siran morgan regan nuallan jolan yasiman siobhan ran papan teyacapan tonalnan shuman lilian bian tan abdiraxman aman hassan labaan sultan taban aidan germian nechtan willan al-asfan aswan bourkan farhan ferhan foursan lahthan lamaan ramadan sahran shaaban shoukran aban abdul-rahman arfan ayman burhan ghassan hamdan ihsan imran irfan luqman ma'n marwan nabhan nu'man omran othman rahman rayhan ridwan safwan salman sofian sulaiman yaman bedrosian dickran izmirlian karayan korian vartan ban laodegan leodegan adiran alan condan duncan fiallan gelban hafgan morfran mynogan pendaran taran pulan siman dehaan demanNAMES RHYMING WITH VAN (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (va) - Names That Begins with va:
vac vach vachel vaden vadit vafara vail vaino vaiveahtoish 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 vappu var vara varaza varda vardan varden vardit vardon vare vareck vared varek vargovic varik varney vartoughi varunani varvara varyk vasek vasile vasileios vasilis vasos vasudev vaughan vaughn vavara vayleNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH VAN:
First Names which starts with 'v' and ends with 'n':
venamin veniamin venjamin verddun vern vernon veron vien vingon vinn vinson vivian vivien vojin von vortigernEnglish Words Rhyming VAN
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES VAN AS A WHOLE:
achievance | noun (n.) Achievement. |
adjuvant | noun (n.) A substance added to an immunogenic agent to enhance the production of antibodies. |
noun (n.) A substance added to a formulation of a drug which enhances the effect of the active ingredient. | |
noun (n.) An assistant. | |
noun (n.) An ingredient, in a prescription, which aids or modifies the action of the principal ingredient. | |
adjective (a.) Helping; helpful; assisting. |
advancing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Advance |
advance | adjective (a.) Before in place, or beforehand in time; -- used for advanced; as, an advance guard, or that before the main guard or body of an army; advance payment, or that made before it is due; advance proofs, advance sheets, pages of a forthcoming volume, received in advance of the time of publication. |
verb (v. t.) To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on. | |
verb (v. t.) To raise; to elevate. | |
verb (v. t.) To raise to a higher rank; to promote. | |
verb (v. t.) To accelerate the growth or progress; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten; as, to advance the ripening of fruit; to advance one's interests. | |
verb (v. t.) To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show; as, to advance an argument. | |
verb (v. t.) To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten. | |
verb (v. t.) To furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due, or in aid of an enterprise; to supply beforehand; as, a merchant advances money on a contract or on goods consigned to him. | |
verb (v. t.) To raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate; as, to advance the price of goods. | |
verb (v. t.) To extol; to laud. | |
verb (v. i.) To move or go forward; to proceed; as, he advanced to greet me. | |
verb (v. i.) To increase or make progress in any respect; as, to advance in knowledge, in stature, in years, in price. | |
verb (v. i.) To rise in rank, office, or consequence; to be preferred or promoted. | |
verb (v.) The act of advancing or moving forward or upward; progress. | |
verb (v.) Improvement or progression, physically, mentally, morally, or socially; as, an advance in health, knowledge, or religion; an advance in rank or office. | |
verb (v.) An addition to the price; rise in price or value; as, an advance on the prime cost of goods. | |
verb (v.) The first step towards the attainment of a result; approach made to gain favor, to form an acquaintance, to adjust a difference, etc.; an overture; a tender; an offer; -- usually in the plural. | |
verb (v.) A furnishing of something before an equivalent is received (as money or goods), towards a capital or stock, or on loan; payment beforehand; the money or goods thus furnished; money or value supplied beforehand. |
advanced | adjective (a.) In the van or front. |
adjective (a.) In the front or before others, as regards progress or ideas; as, advanced opinions, advanced thinkers. | |
adjective (a.) Far on in life or time. | |
(imp. & p. p.) of Advance |
advancer | noun (n.) One who advances; a promoter. |
noun (n.) A second branch of a buck's antler. |
advancive | adjective (a.) Tending to advance. |
advantage | noun (n.) Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position. |
noun (n.) Superiority; mastery; -- with of or over. | |
noun (n.) Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit; as, the advantage of a good constitution. | |
noun (n.) Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen). | |
verb (v. t.) To give an advantage to; to further; to promote; to benefit; to profit. |
advantaging | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Advantage |
advantageable | adjective (a.) Advantageous. |
advantageous | adjective (a.) Being of advantage; conferring advantage; gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial; as, an advantageous position; trade is advantageous to a nation. |
advantageousness | noun (n.) Profitableness. |
aggrievance | noun (n.) Oppression; hardship; injury; grievance. |
approvance | noun (n.) Approval. |
arrivance | noun (n.) Arrival. |
avant | noun (n.) The front of an army. [Obs.] See Van. |
caravan | noun (n.) A company of travelers, pilgrims, or merchants, organized and equipped for a long journey, or marching or traveling together, esp. through deserts and countries infested by robbers or hostile tribes, as in Asia or Africa. |
noun (n.) A large, covered wagon, or a train of such wagons, for conveying wild beasts, etc., for exhibition; an itinerant show, as of wild beasts. | |
noun (n.) A covered vehicle for carrying passengers or for moving furniture, etc.; -- sometimes shorted into van. |
caravaneer | noun (n.) The leader or driver of the camels in caravan. |
caravansary | noun (n.) A kind of inn, in the East, where caravans rest at night, being a large, rude, unfurnished building, surrounding a court. |
cervantite | noun (n.) See under Antimony. |
chievance | noun (n.) An unlawful bargain; traffic in which money is exported as discount. |
coadjuvancy | noun (n.) Joint help; cooperation. |
coadjuvant | noun (n.) An adjuvant. |
adjective (a.) Cooperating. |
connivance | noun (n.) Intentional failure or forbearance to discover a fault or wrongdoing; voluntary oversight; passive consent or cooperation. |
noun (n.) Corrupt or guilty assent to wrongdoing, not involving actual participation in, but knowledge of, and failure to prevent or oppose it. |
conservancy | noun (n.) Conservation, as from injury, defilement, or irregular use. |
conservant | adjective (a.) Having the power or quality of conservation. |
contrivance | noun (n.) The act or faculty of contriving, inventing, devising, or planning. |
noun (n.) The thing contrived, invented, or planned; disposition of parts or causes by design; a scheme; plan; atrifice; arrangement. |
cordovan | noun (n.) Same as Cordwain. In England the name is applied to leather made from horsehide. |
devanagari | noun (n.) The character in which Sanskrit is written. |
disadvantage | noun (n.) Deprivation of advantage; unfavorable or prejudicial quality, condition, circumstance, or the like; that which hinders success, or causes loss or injury. |
noun (n.) Loss; detriment; hindrance; prejudice to interest, fame, credit, profit, or other good. | |
verb (v. t.) To injure the interest of; to be detrimental to. |
disadvantageable | adjective (a.) Injurious; disadvantageous. |
disadvantageous | adjective (a.) Attended with disadvantage; unfavorable to success or prosperity; inconvenient; prejudicial; -- opposed to advantageous; as, the situation of an army is disadvantageous for attack or defense. |
disvantageous | adjective (a.) Disadvantageous. |
divan | noun (n.) A book; esp., a collection of poems written by one author; as, the divan of Hafiz. |
noun (n.) In Turkey and other Oriental countries: A council of state; a royal court. Also used by the poets for a grand deliberative council or assembly. | |
noun (n.) A chief officer of state. | |
noun (n.) A saloon or hall where a council is held, in Oriental countries, the state reception room in places, and in the houses of the richer citizens. Cushions on the floor or on benches are ranged round the room. | |
noun (n.) A cushioned seat, or a large, low sofa or couch; especially, one fixed to its place, and not movable. | |
noun (n.) A coffee and smoking saloon. |
dogvane | noun (n.) A small vane of bunting, feathers, or any other light material, carried at the masthead to indicate the direction of the wind. |
elvan | noun (n.) Alt. of Elvanite |
adjective (a.) Pertaining to elves; elvish. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to certain veins of feldspathic or porphyritic rock crossing metalliferous veins in the mining districts of Cornwall; as, an elvan course. |
elvanite | noun (n.) The rock of an elvan vein, or the elvan vein itself; an elvan course. |
evanescing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Evanesce |
evanescence | noun (n.) The act or state of vanishing away; disappearance; as, the evanescence of vapor, of a dream, of earthly plants or hopes. |
evanescent | adjective (a.) Liable to vanish or pass away like vapor; vanishing; fleeting; as, evanescent joys. |
adjective (a.) Vanishing from notice; imperceptible. |
evangel | noun (n.) Good news; announcement of glad tidings; especially, the gospel, or a gospel. |
evangelian | adjective (a.) Rendering thanks for favors. |
evangelic | adjective (a.) Belonging to, or contained in, the gospel; evangelical. |
evangelical | noun (n.) One of evangelical principles. |
adjective (a.) Contained in, or relating to, the four Gospels; as, the evangelical history. | |
adjective (a.) Belonging to, agreeable or consonant to, or contained in, the gospel, or the truth taught in the New Testament; as, evangelical religion. | |
adjective (a.) Earnest for the truth taught in the gospel; strict in interpreting Christian doctrine; preeminetly orthodox; -- technically applied to that party in the Church of England, and in the Protestant Episcopal Church, which holds the doctrine of "Justification by Faith alone"; the Low Church party. The term is also applied to other religion bodies not regarded as orthodox. |
evangelicalism | noun (n.) Adherence to evangelical doctrines; evangelism. |
evangelicalness | noun (n.) State of being evangelical. |
evangelicism | noun (n.) Evangelical principles; evangelism. |
evangelicity | noun (n.) Evangelicism. |
evangelism | noun (n.) The preaching or promulgation of the gospel. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH VAN (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 2 Letters (an) - English Words That Ends with an:
abderian | adjective (a.) Given to laughter; inclined to foolish or incessant merriment. |
abecedarian | noun (n.) One who is learning the alphabet; hence, a tyro. |
noun (n.) One engaged in teaching the alphabet. | |
adjective (a.) Alt. of Abecedary |
abelian | noun (n.) Alt. of Abelonian |
abelonian | noun (n.) One of a sect in Africa (4th century), mentioned by St. Augustine, who states that they married, but lived in continence, after the manner, as they pretended, of Abel. |
absinthian | noun (n.) Of the nature of wormwood. |
abyssinian | noun (n.) A native of Abyssinia. |
noun (n.) A member of the Abyssinian Church. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Abyssinia. |
academian | noun (n.) A member of an academy, university, or college. |
academician | noun (n.) A member of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, as of the French Academy, or the Royal Academy of arts. |
noun (n.) A collegian. |
acadian | noun (n.) A native of Acadie. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Acadie, or Nova Scotia. |
acalephan | noun (n.) One of the Acalephae. |
acanthopterygian | noun (n.) A spiny-finned fish. |
adjective (a.) Belonging to the order of fishes having spinose fins, as the perch. |
acaridan | noun (n.) One of a group of arachnids, including the mites and ticks. |
accadian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to a race supposed to have lived in Babylonia before the Assyrian conquest. |
acephalan | noun (n.) Same as Acephal. |
adjective (a.) Belonging to the Acephala. |
achaean | adjective (a.) Alt. of Achaian |
achaian | noun (n.) A native of Achaia; a Greek. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Achaia in Greece; also, Grecian. |
achean | noun (a & n.) See Achaean, Achaian. |
achillean | adjective (a.) Resembling Achilles, the hero of the Iliad; invincible. |
acoustician | noun (n.) One versed in acoustics. |
acritan | noun (n.) An individual of the Acrita. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Acrita. |
acroceraunian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the high mountain range of "thunder-smitten" peaks (now Kimara), between Epirus and Macedonia. |
acrolithan | adjective (a.) Alt. of Acrolithic |
acropolitan | adjective (a.) Pertaining to an acropolis. |
adamantean | adjective (a.) Of adamant; hard as adamant. |
adessenarian | noun (n.) One who held the real presence of Christ's body in the eucharist, but not by transubstantiation. |
adonean | adjective (a.) Pertaining to Adonis; Adonic. |
adrian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the Adriatic Sea; as, Adrian billows. |
aegean | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the sea, or arm of the Mediterranean sea, east of Greece. See Archipelago. |
aeolian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Aeolia or Aeolis, in Asia Minor, colonized by the Greeks, or to its inhabitants; aeolic; as, the Aeolian dialect. |
adjective (a.) Pertaining to Aeolus, the mythic god of the winds; pertaining to, or produced by, the wind; aerial. |
aeonian | adjective (a.) Eternal; everlasting. |
aesculapian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to Aesculapius or to the healing art; medical; medicinal. |
aesthetican | noun (n.) One versed in aesthetics. |
afghan | noun (n.) A native of Afghanistan. |
noun (n.) A kind of worsted blanket or wrap. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Afghanistan. |
african | noun (n.) A native of Africa; also one ethnologically belonging to an African race. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Africa. |
agrarian | noun (n.) One in favor of an equal division of landed property. |
noun (n.) An agrarian law. | |
adjective (a.) Pertaining to fields, or lands, or their tenure; esp., relating to an equal or equitable division of lands; as, the agrarian laws of Rome, which distributed the conquered and other public lands among citizens. | |
adjective (a.) Wild; -- said of plants growing in the fields. |
ahriman | noun (n.) The Evil Principle or Being of the ancient Persians; the Prince of Darkness as opposer to Ormuzd, the King of Light. |
alabastrian | adjective (a.) Alabastrine. |
alan | noun (n.) A wolfhound. |
alban | noun (n.) A white crystalline resinous substance extracted from gutta-percha by the action of alcohol or ether. |
albanian | noun (n.) A native of Albania. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Albania, a province of Turkey. |
albigensian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Albigenses. |
alcoran | noun (n.) The Mohammedan Scriptures; the Koran (now the usual form). |
aldebaran | noun (n.) A red star of the first magnitude, situated in the eye of Taurus; the Bull's Eye. It is the bright star in the group called the Hyades. |
alderman | noun (n.) A senior or superior; a person of rank or dignity. |
noun (n.) One of a board or body of municipal officers next in order to the mayor and having a legislative function. They may, in some cases, individually exercise some magisterial and administrative functions. |
aleutian | adjective (a.) Alt. of Aleutic |
alexandrian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Alexandria in Egypt; as, the Alexandrian library. |
adjective (a.) Applied to a kind of heroic verse. See Alexandrine, n. |
algerian | noun (n.) A native of Algeria. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Algeria. |
alkoran | noun (n.) The Mohammedan Scriptures. Same as Alcoran and Koran. |
allophylian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to a race or a language neither Aryan nor Semitic. |
alloxan | noun (n.) An oxidation product of uric acid. It is of a pale reddish color, readily soluble in water or alcohol. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH VAN (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 2 Letters (va) - Words That Begins with va:
vaagmer | noun (n.) The dealfish. |
vacancy | noun (n.) The quality or state of being vacant; emptiness; hence, freedom from employment; intermission; leisure; idleness; listlessness. |
noun (n.) That which is vacant. | |
noun (n.) Empty space; vacuity; vacuum. | |
noun (n.) An open or unoccupied space between bodies or things; an interruption of continuity; chasm; gap; as, a vacancy between buildings; a vacancy between sentences or thoughts. | |
noun (n.) Unemployed time; interval of leisure; time of intermission; vacation. | |
noun (n.) A place or post unfilled; an unoccupied office; as, a vacancy in the senate, in a school, etc. |
vacant | adjective (a.) Deprived of contents; not filled; empty; as, a vacant room. |
adjective (a.) Unengaged with business or care; unemployed; unoccupied; disengaged; free; as, vacant hours. | |
adjective (a.) Not filled or occupied by an incumbent, possessor, or officer; as, a vacant throne; a vacant parish. | |
adjective (a.) Empty of thought; thoughtless; not occupied with study or reflection; as, a vacant mind. | |
adjective (a.) Abandoned; having no heir, possessor, claimant, or occupier; as, a vacant estate. |
vacating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vacate |
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. |
vaccary | noun (n.) A cow house, dairy house, or cow pasture. |
vaccina | noun (n.) Vaccinia. |
vaccinal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to vaccinia or vaccination. |
vaccinating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vaccinate |
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. |
vaccinator | noun (n.) One who, or that which, vaccinates. |
vaccine | noun (n.) The virus of vaccinia used in vaccination. |
noun (n.) any preparation used to render an organism immune to some disease, by inducing or increasing the natural immunity mechanisms. Prior to 1995, such preparations usually contained killed organisms of the type for which immunity was desired, and sometimes used live organisms having attenuated virulence. since that date, preparations containing only specific antigenic portions of the pathogenic organism are also used, some of which are prepared by genetic engineering techniques. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to cows; pertaining to, derived from, or caused by, vaccinia; as, vaccine virus; the vaccine disease. |
vaccinia | noun (n.) Cowpox; vaccina. See Cowpox. |
vaccinist | noun (n.) A vaccinator. |
vaccinium | noun (n.) A genus of ericaceous shrubs including the various kinds of blueberries and the true cranberries. |
vacher | noun (n.) A keeper of stock or cattle; a herdsman. |
vachery | noun (n.) An inclosure for cows. |
noun (n.) A dairy. |
vacillancy | noun (n.) The quality or state of being vacillant, or wavering. |
vacillant | adjective (a.) Vacillating; wavering; fluctuating; irresolute. |
vacillating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vacillate |
adjective (a.) Inclined to fluctuate; wavering. |
vacillation | noun (n.) The act of vacillating; a moving one way and the other; a wavering. |
vacillatory | adjective (a.) Inclined to vacillate; wavering; irresolute. |
vacuation | noun (n.) The act of emptying; evacuation. |
vacuist | noun (n.) One who holds the doctrine that the space between the bodies of the universe, or the molecules and atoms of matter., is a vacuum; -- opposed to plenist. |
vacuity | noun (n.) The quality or state of being vacuous, or not filled; emptiness; vacancy; as, vacuity of mind; vacuity of countenance. |
noun (n.) Space unfilled or unoccupied, or occupied with an invisible fluid only; emptiness; void; vacuum. | |
noun (n.) Want of reality; inanity; nihility. |
vacuna | noun (n.) The goddess of rural leisure, to whom the husbandmen sacrificed at the close of the harvest. She was especially honored by the Sabines. |
vacuolated | adjective (a.) Full of vacuoles, or small air cavities; as, vacuolated cells. |
vacuolation | noun (n.) Formation into, or multiplication of, vacuoles. |
vacuole | noun (n.) A small air cell, or globular space, in the interior of organic cells, either containing air, or a pellucid watery liquid, or some special chemical secretions of the cell protoplasm. |
vacuous | adjective (a.) Empty; unfilled; void; vacant. |
vacuousness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being vacuous; emptiness; vacuity. |
vacuum | noun (n.) A space entirely devoid of matter (called also, by way of distinction, absolute vacuum); hence, in a more general sense, a space, as the interior of a closed vessel, which has been exhausted to a high or the highest degree by an air pump or other artificial means; as, water boils at a reduced temperature in a vacuum. |
noun (n.) The condition of rarefaction, or reduction of pressure below that of the atmosphere, in a vessel, as the condenser of a steam engine, which is nearly exhausted of air or steam, etc.; as, a vacuum of 26 inches of mercury, or 13 pounds per square inch. |
vadantes | noun (n. pl.) An extensive artificial group of birds including the wading, swimming, and cursorial birds. |
vadimony | noun (n.) A bond or pledge for appearance before a judge on a certain day. |
vadium | noun (n.) Pledge; security; bail. See Mortgage. |
vae | noun (n.) See Voe. |
vafrous | adjective (a.) Crafty; cunning; sly; as, vafrous tricks. |
vagabond | noun (n.) One who wanders from place to place, having no fixed dwelling, or not abiding in it, and usually without the means of honest livelihood; a vagrant; a tramp; hence, a worthless person; a rascal. |
adjective (a.) Moving from place to place without a settled habitation; wandering. | |
adjective (a.) Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro. | |
adjective (a.) Being a vagabond; strolling and idle or vicious. | |
verb (v. i.) To play the vagabond; to wander like a vagabond; to stroll. |
vagabondage | noun (n.) The condition of a vagabond; a state or habit of wandering about in idleness; vagrancy. |
vagabondism | noun (n.) Vagabondage. |
vagabondry | noun (n.) Vagabondage. |
vagal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the vagus, or pneumogastric nerves; pneumogastric. |
vagancy | noun (n.) A wandering; vagrancy. |
vagarious | adjective (a.) Given to, or characterized by, vagaries; capricious; whimsical; crochety. |
vagary | noun (n.) A wandering or strolling. |
noun (n.) Hence, a wandering of the thoughts; a wild or fanciful freak; a whim; a whimsical purpose. |
vagient | adjective (a.) Crying like a child. |
vagina | noun (n.) A sheath; a theca; as, the vagina of the portal vein. |
noun (n.) Specifically, the canal which leads from the uterus to the external orifice if the genital canal, or to the cloaca. | |
noun (n.) The terminal part of the oviduct in insects and various other invertebrates. See Illust., of Spermatheca. | |
noun (n.) The basal expansion of certain leaves, which inwraps the stem; a sheath. | |
noun (n.) The shaft of a terminus, from which the bust of figure seems to issue or arise. |
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. |
vaginant | adjective (a.) Serving to in invest, or sheathe; sheathing. |
vaginate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Vaginated |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH VAN:
English Words which starts with 'v' and ends with 'n':
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. |
verbalization | noun (n.) The act of verbalizing, or the state of being verbalized. |
verbarian | noun (n.) One who coins words. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to words; verbal. |
verberation | noun (n.) The act of verberating; a beating or striking. |
noun (n.) The impulse of a body; which causes sound. |
verdin | noun (n.) A small yellow-headed bird (Auriparus flaviceps) of Lower California, allied to the titmice; -- called also goldtit. |
vergalien | noun (n.) Alt. of Vergaloo |
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. |
vernacularization | noun (n.) The act or process of making vernacular, or the state of being made vernacular. |
vernation | noun (n.) The arrangement of the leaves within the leaf bud, as regards their folding, coiling, rolling, etc.; prefoliation. |
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. |