| Urschleim | n. | primordial soup | ||
| urticant | adj. | producing stinging or itching sensations | ||
| urticaria | n. | hives | ||
| usufruct | n. | right to benefit and profit from a property without actual ownership nor the right to destroy, diminish, or alienate said property | ||
| uxorious | adj. | doting upon or excessively submissive to one’s wife | ||
| vacuously | adv. | emptily | ||
| vade mecum | n. | handbook or manual for constant reference; EDC item | Latin | |
| vair | n. | regular tesselated cup-shaped design in alternating colors, usu. blue and white (‘argent’); fur of a white-bellied squirrel used often in medieval times for trimmings of coats, etc. | heraldry | |
| valedictory | adj. | of or related to farewells or to saying goodbye | ||
| valetudinarian | n. | person obsessively concerned with his or her poor health | ||
| valiance | n. | bravery; deed of valor | ||
| valuta | n. | currency, money | ||
| vaporing | n. | bragging, boastful talk | ||
| varix | n. | varicose vein | ||
| vatic | adj. | prophetical | ||
| vaticide | n. | murderer of a prophet; act of killing a prophet | ||
| vaticinate | n. | to prophesy, to predict the future | ||
| vaunt | n. | boast | ||
| vavasor | n. | feudal vassal ranking just below baron | ||
| vaward | n. | forefront; vanguard | archaic | |
| vedette | n. | mounted sentry patrolling beyond an army’s outposts | ||
| velleity | n. | the merest wish, without any attempt to gain it | ||
| vellus hair | n. | short, almost invisible hairs covering most of the human body save for the head | ||
| velum | n. | membrane; the soft palate; [meteorology] widespread thin cloud | biology | |
| veneer | n. | thin layer of decorative wood, usu. placed over other cheaper wood; layer of wood used to make plywood; superficial attractive surface covering less attractive substance beneath | ||
| venery | n. | 1 | hunting, the chase | archaic |
| venery | n. | 2 | devotion to sexual pleasure, sexual congress | archaic |
| venifice | n. | poisoning | obsolete | |
| venireman | n. | person summoned as a potential juror | ||
| verandah | n. | roofed gallery or porch | ||
| verbum sap | int. | enough, no more need be said (used to indicate that further discussion would we unwise, unwarranted, or unnecessary) | ||
| verderer | n. | officer of the English king having charge of royal forests with especial duty to protect the trees and undergrowth and deer | ||
| verge | n. | rod or staff carried as badge of office | ||
| veriest | adj. | utmost | ||
| verisimilar | adj. | appearing true or real | ||
| vermeil | adj. | vermillion, bright red; gilt silver or bronze | ||
| vermiculate | adj. | having wormlike, wavy lines | ||
| vermifuge | n. | a medicine which expels worms or other parasites from the intestines | ||
| vernal | adj. | of or related to spring; of youth | ||
| veronica | n. | 2 | bullfighting pass in which matador swings his muleta before the bull while keeping his legs perfectly still | |
| veronica | n. | 1 | image of Jesus Christ impressed upon handkerchief, after the relic of Saint Veronica (also vernicle) | |
| versant | n. | slope of a mountain | ||
| vershok | n. | old Russian unit of measurement equal to 1-3/4 inches, or 4.445 cm | ||
| verst | v. | Russian measure of length equal to about two-thirds of a mile | ||
| vertiginous | adj. | likely to cause vertigo | ||
| vertu | n. | taste for works of art or curios; objets d’art, curios (more commonly virtu) | ||
| vervain | n. | verbena officinalis, a common European plant once much used for its supposed medicinal qualities | ||
| Very light | n. | flares used for signaling or illumination, fired from a special pistol | ||
| vesicant | n. | blister producing substance | ||
| vesicle | n. | cyst, sac, blister |
