9-Letter Words Starting with V

After five, pussy is on the leaves

Leave them

What students and employees enjoy during Thanksgiving

Give a shot in the arm, maybe

Give a shot, perhaps

Protect against harm, in a way

Be unsteady, vital lace coming undone

Go back and forth

Keep changing one's mind

Vacuity

VACUOLE a small cavity in organic tissue

""Inflammation of the vagina, or the genital canal, usually of its mucous living membrane.""

""Overactivity or irritability of the vagus nerve, adversely affecting function of the blood vessels, stomach, and muscles.""

""Overactivity or irritability of the vagus nerve, adversely affecting function of the blood vessels, stomach, and muscles.""

In a vagrant manner.

Patron of the hearts (wordplay)

He had his day with Ramadhin

Heart in the mail

Valerate

With heroic fortitude

Girl I went out with proved true

Sanctioned half of values I saw

Woman, one old-fashioned, is backed up

Legally declares

Corroborates

Authenticates

Valuate

Estimation of worth

Estimation

Assessment

Valuator

Valvelet

Vanadate

A vegetable oil used in Indian cookery

Unusually portative boats

Venetian canal boats

Venetian canal boat

Tank for storing brood

Steamboat in Venice

Varactor

Variate

Tipsy aviator in for change

Basic process of genetics

Departure from the norm

Marbelize, for example

Diversify, I say, coming in against a tax

Diversify with patches of different colours

Varietal

Heinz offering

Assortments,diversities

Assortments, mixtures

Varistor

Where old Blues were young

A-teams, in high school

College sports squads

Male contraceptive measure

Cut glass object caught with expression of surprise

Regulating the diameter of blood vessels

English word

Vastity

Vastness; immense extent.

Vaticide

Of or pertaining to prophecy; prophetic.

Vaulty

Vaulting

VECTOR to guide in flight by means of radioed directions

Vector

Edible root or leaf, say

Squash, for one

One of three kingdoms

VEGETE {healthy=adj}

Sat around and sat around

Showing good growth

Led a very inactive life.

Does almost nothing

Grows like a plant

Does little but eat and grow.

Vegetist

Veinulet

Velveret

Cotton fabric with soft pile

Material for children's clothes

Supply 11, importing check fabric

Leaf patterns

Rows of houses to sell by state order

Rows of houses to sell on state order

Rivalries and 13 struggling over English

Venenate

Venenate

Held in reverence

Held in awe

'In respect of this, never date it (9)'

Even corrupt classes can get honours

Worships seat Verne abandoned

Puts on a pedestal

Priest saying Mass, for example

Deeply respectful one.

Respectful one

Shakespearean merchant Antonio et al.

Marco Polo and neighbors

Shakespeare's Antonio and Bassanio, e.g

""A stone that has been shaped, polished, or faceted by wind-driven sand.""

Expose to air

Air hole a tile was moved to create

Wind in vet, behind producing air

By and by, to a whale (wordplay)

Air marshal - on his belly (wordplay)

Shattered relic by opening chamber

Chamber of the heart

Cavity with opening left inside grain

Risktakers

Given turn, making a guess!

Taking a risk

Risking a commercial undertaking, given turn around

""Daring; bold; hardy; fearless; venturesome; adveturous; as, a venturous soldier. as, a venturous soldier.""

Veratria

""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. 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.""

Veratrin

Veratrum

""A literal adherent to, or a minute critic of, words; a literalist.""

So brevity different!

Is brevity so different? Yes!

Truth about Ms. Derek's talkativeness

In a verdant manner.

Verditer

Upset a cleric on board? Quite true

After victory, reconstruct (liberate outright)

True - real

VERITE a technique of filming so as to convey candid realism

Veritas

Martini ingredients

""The arrangement of the leaves within the leaf bud, as regards their folding, coiling, rolling, etc.; prefoliation.""

Resourceful; relatives (anagram)

Adapting easily to different tasks

Able to adapt

Segments of spinal column

They are articulate in personal columns

Facet joints connect them

Of the backbone

Relating to the spine

Spiny (wordplay)

They give you backbone

Backbones (var.)

Stats for basketball players

Jumping measurements for basketball players

Verticil

Vertigo

Vesicant

Vesicate

Vesicate

Unfortunately I've sublet part of house

I've sublet renovated part of house

Lobby against sporting blue ties

Like a small, degenerate body part

Extant with no use

Rudimentary toes, say, all but the first inverted in flesh of calf

{vestige=n}

Sunday best attire (wordplay)

What the Church finds so wearing

Ceremonial robes as worn by priests

Member of a meeting of church members

Parish councillor offering terms with navy rum

My servant has been retrained as a church official

That's the last way to test people for church work after 'e's after five

Vesture

Any plant of the sweet pea genus

Vetivert

Annoyances

Troublesome

Annoying

Harassing

Six bringing skill to practicality

Six with skill showing potential

Prospect of surviving flying bomb requires skill

Viaticum

With gusto

""Adapted to, or used in, vibratory motion; having the power of vibrating; vibratory; as, the vibratile organs of insects. as, the vibratile organs of insects.""

Vibrate

At last, an allowance of the shakes

Sixth born gets allowance for movement

Quick back and forward movement

They can really shake things up in the bedroom

Robotic members of congress entering a recess (wordplay)

""Consisting in, or causing, vibration, or oscillation; vibrating; as, a vibratory motion; a vibratory power. as, a vibratory motion; a vibratory power.""

Vicarate

""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.""

""Having delegated power, as a vicar; vicarious.""

Single out unfairly

Punish unjustly

Abel's baby-blues (wordplay)

Dupe

Secret front (wordplay)

Retailer with a fashion show (with "Secret")

What winners collect

They have to be won

Successes against Conservatives? Independent candidates initially restrained

""VICTUAL to provide with food (pa t VICTUALED, VICTUALLED), also VITTLE""

One who furnishes victuals.

Device lit when working, that is to say

Viz. in full

Viz. in full, namely

The reel thing (wordplay)

Incriminating record, maybe

Old home movie, maybe

Closed caption system

Viduity

Spot to spot (wordplay)

Slant of The Stand (wordplay)

Way of thinking

One taking the law into their own hands

Oater stock character

Phenomenon of frontier days.

Vignette

""A device used by photographers in printing vignettes, consisting of a screen of paper or glass with a central aperture the edges of which become opaque by insensible gradations.""

Brief sketches

State of being villous.

Clear one's name, say

Divine cat (anagram)

(v.) to show where the wines are

Vintager

Violater

Have six go up about a classical tongue so as to be the ruination of it

A fiddling assault, perhaps

It can be moving

Reason for a ticket

""Violating, or tending to violate.""

Breakers of rules

Cruelly, lovely tin gets smashed

With aggression

With vehemence

*Performer who takes a bow (wordplay)

One with bow but no arrow

One who always takes a bow

Beginning to be green; slightly green; greenish.

You can only lose it once

Maidenhood

In effect but not in fact

Virtuosa

VIRTUOSI virtuoso

Master musicians

Expert musicians

Masters overturned emergency broadcast, released half of rivals

""The quality or state of being viscid; also, that which is viscid; glutinous concretion; stickiness.""

Resistance of a liquid to shear forces

Six's what matters for Lords

Between earls and barons

Noble types opposed to screening one's tally

""The quality, rank, or office of a viscount.""

Holding pose, possible can be seen

Opening can it's very accommodating of callers

Five insects come to stay around where I sit

Made a liver of one, perhaps

The slit I save puts life in me

Vitalism

Vitalist

Charged

Vitalize

Vitamine

Yellow like an egg yolk

Egg yolk.

Vitellin

Vitiate

Act of spoiling or impairment

Debasement

Ones who impair

Vitiligo

Changed into glass.

Turned into glass

Vitrify

Vitriol

Cruelly savage (criticism)

Civil riot can be expressive of ill will

Capable of destroying by chemical action

Cuts open living animals for research

""The office, dignity, or authority of a vizier.""

Vizirate

They sound the same as 5 down

Singers

Those teaching have them in the missions

Trades

Careers

Vocative

Volatile

Acts of choosing.

Voltaism

Electrical engineer's tool

Will give one current measure

Elector arrests lieutenant, this person showing measure of force

An instrument for measuring the volumes of gases or liquids by introducing them into a vessel of known capacity.

Undertaken by free choice

Elective, not compulsory

Given of one's own free will

One with a game face, maybe (wordplay)

One raising a hand (TN)

Raise your hand, perhaps

Volution

Vomitive

Vomitus

""VOODOO a primitive religion, also VODUN, VOUDON, VODOUN, VOUDOUN""

Artistic movement influenced by cubism and futurism

A short-lived English movement in art and literature that arose in 1914 and was heavily influenced by cubism and futurism.

Measure of fluid rotation

Aswirl

Votarist

Votress

Vulgar

Lack of good taste

Coarseness, lack of refinement

Bad taste

""Of or pertaining to a vulture; resembling a vulture in qualities or looks; as, the vulturine sea eagle (Gypohierax Angolensis); vulturine rapacity. as, the vulturine sea eagle (Gypohierax Angolensis); vulturine rapacity.""

Vulturous.

Like a vulture; rapacious.