Words Starting VE & Ending R

• The grass Chrysopogon zizanioides ( <= Vetiveria zizanioides), which is native to India, but planted throughout the tropics for its fragrant roots and for erosion control.

• The aromatic root of the grass.

• An essential oil derived from the root; the fragrance of the oil.

• a variable quantity that can be resolved into components

• a straight line segment whose length is magnitude and whose orientation in space is direction

• any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease

• (genetics) a virus or other agent that is used to deliver DNA to a cell

• a late afternoon or evening worship service

• a planet (usually Venus) seen at sunset in the western sky

• The planktonic larva of many kinds of marine and freshwater gastropod molluscs, as well as most bivalve molluscs.

• someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money

• a church officer who takes care of the interior of the building and acts as an attendant (carries the verge) during ceremonies

• someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money

• a small movable scale that slides along a main scale; the small scale is calibrated to indicate fractional divisions of the main scale

• French mathematician who described the vernier scale (1580-1637)