Words That Start With: VA

• a short pointed beard (named after the artist Anthony Vandyke)

• Flemish painter of numerous portraits (1599-1641)

• being unoccupied

• an empty area or space

• Like a vamp (flirtatious woman).

• in a vapid manner

• the phenomenon of forming chemical bonds

• (biology) a relative capacity to unite or react or interact as with antigens or a biological substrate

• (chemistry) a property of atoms or radicals; their combining power given in terms of the number of hydrogen atoms (or the equivalent)

• abnormally enlarged or twisted blood vessel or lymphatic vessel

• the absence of matter

• a region that is devoid of matter

• total lack of meaning or ideas