Index of English words, starting with "va"

(1) - Vanadium (n.) A rare element of the nitrogen-phosphorus group, found combined, in vanadates, in certain minerals, and reduced as an infusible, grayish-white metallic powder. It is intermediate between the metals and the non-metals, having both basic and acid properties. Symbol V (or Vd, rarely). Atomic weight 51.2.

(1) - Vandal (a.) Alt. of Vandalic
(2) - Vandal (n.) Hence, one who willfully destroys or defaces any work of art or literature.
(3) - Vandal (n.) One of a Teutonic race, formerly dwelling on the south shore of the Baltic, the most barbarous and fierce of the northern nations that plundered Rome in the 5th century, notorious for destroying the monuments of art and literature.

(1) - Vandalic (a.) Of or pertaining to the Vandals; resembling the Vandals in barbarism and destructiveness.

(1) - Vandalism (n.) The spirit or conduct of the Vandals; ferocious cruelty; hostility to the arts and literature, or willful destruction or defacement of their monuments.