2-Letter Words Starting with V

Things that change

X and Y

Arabs live all over the place - their values may change

Zoning board requests

Zoning board grants

Zoning board issues

Variate

Tipsy aviator in for change

Basic process of genetics

Departure from the norm

Shot cavalier infected by Latin disease

Chickenpox

VARICOSE abnormally swollen or dilated

Marbelize, for example

Diversify, I say, coming in against a tax

Diversify with patches of different colours

Varietal

Heinz offering

Assortments,diversities

Assortments, mixtures

Variorum

With eclecticism

Of different sizes.

Varistor

Made the bad seem good

Put on a certain coat

Left frames red-stained

One applying a gloss to wood and nails

Puts on a coat, maybe

Protective finishes

Wood treatments

Varoom

Where old Blues were young

A-teams, in high school

College sports squads

VARYING the act of varying

Regulating the diameter of blood vessels

Vavasour

Vavassor

VECTOR to guide in flight by means of radioed directions

Vector

VEERING the act of veering

Relating to cars, trucks, etc

Concerning the car, I've a lurch (wobble)

Automotive

Velarize

Velarize

Manchester cycling track

Stadium containing a cycle-racing track

Building containing cycle-racing track

Velveret

Veneerer

Thin material for overlaying wood.

Thin covering of wood

Social climbing couple (Our Mutual Friend)

Respected, as an elder

Archdeacon's honorific title

Senior cleric incredibly never competent

With worthiness of respect

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

Jury-panel member

They have box seats

Jury candidates

Jury candidates.

Venogram

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.""

Honest lady, civic leader promises to pay

Trustworthy girl gets many promises of money

Woman beginning to cry 'I love America!' - and it's true

""VERANDA a type of porch, also VERANDAH, VIRANDA, VIRANDO""

Open porches

""A vasodilator, C 27 H 38 N 2 O 4 , that inhibits calcium activity, used in the treatment of hypertension, angina pectoris, and certain cardiac arrhythmias.""

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

Something expressed verbally; a verbal remark or expression.

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

Put into words

Express audibly

Verbiage

English word

Verbify

Turns a noun into an action word, in an example of doing so (wordplay)

At length

So brevity different!

Is brevity so different? Yes!

Truth about Ms. Derek's talkativeness

In a verdant manner.

Verderer

Verderor

Diver's rig treated with bluish coating

Greenish blue coating on copper

Blue-green deposit on copper

Verditer

""Covered with verdure; clothed with the fresh green of vegetation; verdured; verdant; as, verdurous pastures. as, verdurous pastures.""

Vergence

Verglas

Truthful.

They check Very lights soundly

Fact checkers

Confirming the truth of

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

Verjuice

Worm killer

It kills worms and most of obnoxious pests on the side, say

""Resembling a worm in form or motions; vermicular; as, the vermiform process of the cerebellum. as, the vermiform process of the cerebellum.""

A medicine or substance that expels worms from animal bodies; an anthelmintic.

Minor evil, perhaps, of Lucas's box

Prefix meaning ?worm (wordplay)

Vivid red (with an orange tinge?)

Tending to breed vermin; infested by vermin.

Martini ingredients

Vernacle

VERNAL pertaining to spring

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

Vernicle

Daring bullfight maneuvers.

Shrubs of the figwort family.

""Covered with wartlike elevations; tuberculate; warty; verrucous; as, a verrucose capsule. as, a verrucose capsule.""

Resourceful; relatives (anagram)

Adapting easily to different tasks

Able to adapt

Versicle

Versify

Bard's son stops one checking authenticity

Versify

A lover's in distress, according to one account

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

Relating to blisters or other fluid-filled sacs

Vesperal

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

Vetivert

Big name taking British pop group right to US music producer

Vibrance

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.""

""VIBRION a bacterium with a slight spiral curve, also VIBRIO""

VIBRIOS vibrio

VIBRIOS vibrio

Cat's whiskers

Viburnum

Homes for clergymen

Ecclesiastics' dwellings

Clergy houses

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.""

Serving as a substitute

Minister's accepting debt second-hand

Like some thrills

Office of a Church of England parson

Pertaining to a king's deputy

Relating to a colonial ruler

Like a provincial ruler

Female provincial governor

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

One who furnishes victuals.

Vigneron

""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.""

Vilifier

Grave ills (anagram)

Relatives of townspeople

"Our Town" personae

Villages; a district of villages.

""Having the form or appearance of villi; like closeset fibers, either hard or soft; as, the teeth of perch are villiform. as, the teeth of perch are villiform.""

Vinegar

Oenophile's vacation destinations

The best ones in France are Grand Crus

Napa Valley sight

Vinifera

Vintager

Violater

Breakers of rules

Beginning to be green; slightly green; greenish.

Early keyboard instrument

You can only lose it once

Maidenhood

""VIRICIDE a substance that destroys viruses, also VIRUCIDE""

Viricide

Viridian

Virilism

Medical Specialties

In effect but not in fact

Virtuosa

VIRTUOSI virtuoso

Master musicians

Expert musicians

Masters overturned emergency broadcast, released half of rivals

""VIRUCIDE a substance that destroys viruses, also VIRICIDE""

Virucide

Extreme hostility or harmfulness

Quality of being highly infective

Little boy keeping the law, a lethal quality

The quality or state of being virulent or venomous; poisonousness; malignancy.

Six iron, say, oddly unpractical

Impractical oculist (wordplay)

Excellent as Barrie's butler

""VISOR to provide with a projecting brim, also VIZOR""

Ones who impair

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

Vivarium

Viverrid

Vivifier

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

""Of, pertaining to, or issued by, a vizier.""

Vizirate

English word

""VOCALIZE to produce with the voice, also VOCALISE""

Tennis players in action

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

Big (of appetite)

Having a huge appetite

Having great appetite

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

Voucher

Voussoir

Voyageur

VOYEUR one who seeks sexual gratification by viewing sexual objects

Vulgar

One with ostentatious bad taste

Philistine versus empty-headed European

An inelegant upstart.

VULGAR a common person

Grossness; rudeness; vulgarity.

Lack of good taste

Coarseness, lack of refinement

Bad taste

""To make vulgar, or common.""

""Useful in healing wounds; adapted to the cure of external injuries; as, vulnerary plants or potions. as, vulnerary plants or potions.""

""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.