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vérificateur orthographique: spell checker
vérificatif: verificative
vérification: verification
vérifier: to verify
vérin: cylinder (containing a piston); actuator
vérisme: verism
vériste: verist
véritable: veritable
véritablement: really, truly
vérité: truth
vérité terrain: ground truth
vérole: syphilis; pox
véroler: to give someone syphilis; to contaminate with a toxin or poison; to contaminate thoughts, often politically
vérolé: syphilitic; pockmarked
véronais: Veronese (of, from or relating to the city or province of Verona in the Veneto region, Italy)
véronal: veronal
véronique: veronica (cloth); veronica (movement of the cape); veronica (flower)
vérumontanum: verumontanum
vérécondie: restraint, reserve, modesty
vésanie: vesania
vésanique: vesanic
vésical: vesical
vésicant: vesicant
vésiculaire: vesicular(being, having, or resembling a vesicle or vesicles)
vésicule: bladder (flexible sac that can expand and contract and that holds liquids or gases); vesicle (blister)
vésicule biliaire: gall bladder (pear-shaped organ that stores bile)
vésicule séminale: seminal vesicle
vésiculectomie: vesiculectomy
vésiculeux: vesicular
vésiculographie: vesiculography
vétillard: trifler (someone who trifles)
vétillard: particular, fastidious punctilious; nitpicky, captious
vétille: trifle, triviality
vétiller: to trifle (deal with unimportant things)
vétilleux: particular, fastidious, punctilious; nitpicky, captious
vétiver: vetiver
véto: post-1990 spelling of veto (“vet (veterinarian, veterinary surgeon)”)
véto: post-1990 spelling of veto (“veto”)
vétuste: run-down, dilapidated; outdated, antiquated
vétusté: dilapidation
vétyver: alternative spelling of vétiver
vétéran: veteran
vétérance: the quality of being veteran
vétérinaire: veterinary
vétérinaire: veterinarian, veterinary surgeon, vet (short form for the two previous terms)
vétérotestamentaire: Old Testament; vetero-testamentary
vêlage: calving (all senses)
vêler: to calve (all senses)
vêpre: the evening
vêpres: plural of vêpre; vespers; evensong
vêprée: the end of the afternoon; evening
vêtement: garment, item of clothing; clothes, clothing; a set of four triangles covering the corners of the shield, leaving a lozenge of the field (the edges of which reach the edges of the shield) in the middle (compare vêtu)
vêtir: to dress, to clothe; to dress, get dressed
vêtu: dressed; clothed (in a specified tincture); covered with a vêtement (four triangles of a specified tincture which cover the corner of the shield, leaving a lozenge of the field in the middle)
vêture: investiture; clothing (action); cladding
vîte: archaic spelling of vite
vîtesse: obsolete spelling of vitesse
vôtres: your (belonging to you, plural or formal)
vüe: obsolete spelling of vue
vœu: vow; wish