English Words: V

A surname from French.

Any tropical climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla (especially Vanilla planifolia), bearing podlike fruit yielding an extract used in flavoring food or in perfumes.

A liquid, technically a tincture, used in cooking, prepared by soaking vanilla beans in alcohol.

A snack similar to a mille-feuille, consisting of a layer of vanilla custard or cream between two layers of pastry.

A traditional Greek spoon sweet made from vanilla fondant served submerged in a glass of cold water.

A white person.

Alternative form of vanillalike (“characteristic of vanilla”).

Like or resembling vanilla in flavour.

Flavoured with vanilla

Generic, safe, or anodyne.

To make generic, tame, or anodyne.

Resembling or characteristic of vanilla in taste or scent.

Of vanilla.

Any salt or ester of vanillic acid.

A vanilla-flavoured latte.

Archaic form of vanilla.

Of or pertaining to vanillin or vanillic acid.

A chemical compound, 4-hydroxy-3-methoxybenzaldehyde, that is the primary constituent of vanilla.

A form of dermatitis caused by flour mites, associated with the vanilla industry.

Synonym of zingerone.

Idle or vain talk.

Talking in a vain or foolish way

Archaic spelling of vaniloquy.

Idle or vain talk.

The community and friends of a nomadic van dweller on the road.

The principal deities, as a group, of the Norse pantheon that represent chaos, fertility, and cultivation; opponents of the Æsir.

To become invisible or to move out of view unnoticed.

Capable of being vanished.

No longer apparent; not extant; gone.

One who vanishes.

second-person singular simple present indicative of vanish

third-person singular simple present indicative of vanish

to vanish, to disappear

That vanishes.

The point in a perspective drawing at which parallel lines receding from an observer seem to converge.

So as to vanish, or appear to vanish; especially, very small or rare.

Extremely uncommon.

The act or process of vanishing; disappearance.

A follower of Henry Vane the Younger (1613?–1662), English politician, statesman, and colonial governor.

A type of still life painting, symbolic of mortality, characteristic of Dutch painting of the 16th and 17th centuries.

To embellish for reasons of vanity.

In a vanitous manner

That which is vain, futile, or worthless; that which is of no value, use or profit.

Society, especially high society, as a place of self-interest and the superficial.

The difference between the height of the last usable floor and the total height of a building, especially for tall skyscrapers.

A book publisher that lets the author pay the expenses of publishing up front, leaving the risk of financial failure with the author.

The phenomenon of ready-to-wear clothing of the same nominal size becoming bigger in physical size over time, to flatter the wearer by making them believe they are thinner than they are.

lacking in vanity; not vain.

A surname.

Without a van.