10-Letter Words Starting with V

Vacation

One taking off, maybe

One away (wordplay)

One enjoying a respite

Having gotten a shot

Immune, likely

Inoculated

Administers a flu shot, perhaps

Inoculates

Syringe user

Was irresolute, being abandoned and sick at heart

Unwell after brief holiday, an old rocker hesitated

Blows hot and cold

Is wishy-washy

Hesitates, but leaves to provide shelter for poor

VACILLATE To move one way and the other; to reel or stagger; to waver.

Vagility

""A painful spasmodic contraction of the vagina, often rendering copulation impossible.""

Vagotomy

Vagotonia

Vagrancy

Vainness

Objects of affection.

Love notes

February items

Valiancy

Checking up on girl, I may have technique to discover age!

Confirmation (of the truth of something)

Proof from new violin data

Validity

Valorise

Valorize

Assessor's figures

Plural or third person singular

""VALVULE a small valve, also VALVULA""

Vampirism

Vanaspati

Damaged museum slide replaced

Wrecked and put in case on top of desk

Destroyed by devils and a radicalised ...

Vandalise

Malicious defacements

Willfully destroyed

Trashed

Vandalize

Vanitory

VANPOOL an arrangement whereby several commuters travel in one van

Squid haven (anagram)

Overthrown queen left guards

Conquered, became the victor

""One who, or that which, vanquishes.""

Vanquish

Vapidity

Vaporise

Vaporizer

Vaporize

Provided by Tom Waits' mule (wordplay)

No aviarist adapts to changes

Some musical works

Varicella

""A varicose enlargement of the veins of the spermatic cord; also, a like enlargement of the veins of the scrotum.""

The quality or state of being varicose.

With coloured patches

Showing mixed colours

Changed around opening then streaked

Adds different colours to very small sign around entrance

""VARIEGATE To diversify in external appearance; to mark with different colors; to dapple; to streak; as, to variegate a floor with marble of different colors. as, to variegate a floor with marble of different colors.""

""An instrument for comparing magnetic forces, esp. in the earth's magnetic field.""

Varletry

Varnisher

Making glossy

Queen, in leaving, is putting a coat on (wordplay)

Putting on coat and disappearing over the river

Inflammation of a vessel of the body.

Causing constriction or dilation of blood vessels.

Vasotocin

Vasotomy

Vastitude

Prophesy

Foretell.

Old-style entertainment

Milieu of Moran and Mack

Poorly valued live entertainment

VAULTING the act of vaulting

In a vaunting manner.

Flier's request

Non-meat eater

Non-meat-eater

Vegetate

Flora vetoing tea break

Plant life of a particular region

Plants collectively

Kind of state

Relating to the growth of plants

Velarize

Velleity

Tot's transit

Early form of bicycle

A forerunner of the bicycle

Velocity

Adjective meaning resembling

Venality

Veneering

Venenate

Venerate

Nation ever turns to worship (wordplay)

Very moved by weakness in worship

Star treatment

VENIAL easily excused or forgiven

Venosity

Ventifact

Brought out into the open.

One's got the air of being fresh

Aired

Gets fresh (wordplay)

By opening the seal, it somehow lets air through

Fan of sickness benefit (wordplay)

Contrivance bringing fresh air

Device to help breathing

Heart chambers

""Inflated, swollen, or distended, especially on one side: the ventricose gullet of an insect.""

""Pl. ventriculi (-l ) A hollow digestive organ, especially the stomach of certain insects or the gizzard of a bird.""

Truths.

Verapamil

Veratrine

Verbalism

Verbalist

Put into words

Spoke

VERBALIZE To convert into a verb; to verbify.

Verbalize

Verbicide

Verbify

Verdancy

Unlike a legend

Able to be confirmed

Pasta with pets in it (wordplay)

Literally, "little worms"*

Pasta thinner than spaghetti

Vermicide

""Of or pertaining to a worm or worms; resembling a worm; shaped like a worm; especially, resembling the motion or track of a worm; as, the vermicular, or peristaltic, motion of the intestines. See Peristaltic. as, the vermicular, or peristaltic, motion of the intestines. See Peristaltic.""

Vermifuge

Vermilion

Indiana county whose name is a red color

Indiana county whose name is a color

River or city in S.D.

VERNALIZE

Vernalize

Vernation

Private viewing is flop, somehow never entertaining

Of or pertaining to verses; designating distinct divisions of a writing.

Versifier

Versify

I'll act very animatedly on the up-and-up (wordplay)

Vertigo

Vesicate

""Bladdery; full of, or covered with, bladders; vesicular.""

Of or pertaining to the evening; happening or being in the evening.

Vespiary

Vestiary

Like some entrances

VESTIBULE The porch or entrance into a house; a hall or antechamber next the entrance; a lobby; a porch; a hall.

God of passageways (wordplay)

Places for coatracks

Foyers

Vetchling

Like a field for horses, perhaps (wordplay)

Vary entire treatment for some non-NHS patients

Change around, alien to Ireland (South), to encourage advance of professional

Vibraharp

Vibrancy

Jazz percussion instrument

Bobby Hutcherson's instrument

Musical percussion instrument

Reverberations from foreign visitor ban

Shaking is repeatedly good for the Beach Boys!

Visit baron about the after-effects of earthquake

""Biology The separation or division of a group of organisms by a geographic barrier, such as a mountain or a body of water, resulting in differentiation of the original group into new varieties or species.""

Vicariant

Vicariate

Vicarship

It's not right gentleman admits hesitation to God's man on earth

Vicereine

Vicinity

One who is harmed or killed by another: a victim of a mugging.

VICTIMISE

ITV screens '101 Turning Twisting Messi Tricks'

""VICTIMIZE To make a victim of, esp. by deception; to dupe; to cheat.""

Cheat

Swindles.

Like some crimes

Crime to which all participants have consented

Vic takes ten, with us winning

Mean to secure prominence first

Winning man promises to pay

Victress

Victualer

""Of or pertaining to victuals, or provisions; supplying provisions; as, a victualing ship. as, a victualing ship.""

Victual

Licensed purveyor of spirits

Videodisc

Videodisk

Videoland

Couch potato

Movie lover

Skype predecessor

Recorded (images, sound) magnetically

Shot with a camcorder

Couch potatoes

Videotex

Videotext

The people who watch a television program or motion picture: a largely male viewership.

Market researcher on camera

Camera device.

VIEWLESS having no opinions

Opinions of wives worried about tip

Opinions

Mindsets

Vigilance

They have their own sense of justice

In a vigilant manner.

Vignetter

The act of describing briefly

VIGNETTE to describe briefly

Vigorish

In a robust manner

Vileness

Vilipend

Poison Ivy of the Batman universe, e.g

Poison Ivy of the Batman universe, for example

Criminal acts at house in the middle of Trieste

Wicked home in America without love

Given to scurvy tricks.

Half-dozen with nasty allusion that is wicked

""An old rustic dance, accompanied with singing.""

French verse form.

Poem of nineteen lines

Poem like "Do Not Go Gentle . . . "

Villenage

Capable of being vindicated.

A number shown to be justified

Shown to be innocent

Five shown to be justified

Vindicate

One justifies V-sign

Revengeful

Spiteful mood about to disappear after sign of victory

Five engineers invited around - one hundred might be out for revenge

Rather sour gaudy plant first

Having a sour disposition

Enravish GI turning rather sour

Vinosity

""(Chemistry / Elements & Compounds) (modifier) of, consisting of, or containing the group CH 2 :C a vinylidene group or radical vinylidene chloride a vinylidene resin [from vinyl + -ide + -ene ]""

Of a lavender shade.

Meter maids' quests

Traffic infractions

Members of a string quartet.

Jack Benny and Henny Youngman, for example

They bow during and after their performances

VIPEROUS resembling a {viper=n}

""Pl. viragoes or viragos A woman regarded as noisy, scolding, or domineering.""

The act or state of becoming green through the formation of chlorophyll.

VIRGINAL a musical instrument

Viridity

Virility

Virology

(n.) a studier of manly men

Disease expert is special visitor keeping record

The quality or state of being virtual.

Destitute of virtue; without efficacy or operating qualities; powerless.

Great performing skill

Technical skill

Mastery - artistry

VIRTUOUS characterized by virtue

Virulence

Obnoxiously

VISCERAL pertaining to the internal organs

An instrument used to measure viscosity. Also called viscosimeter .