ventriloquist, n. gastriloquist, polyphonist.
venture, n. [chance], [risk], [hazard], contingency.
venture, v. [dare], [hazard], [risk].
venturesome, a. daring, [bold], intrepid, undaunted, temerarious.
Venus, n. Aphrodite, Cytherea; Morning Star, Lucifer Phosphor; Evening Star, Hesper, Hesperus.
veracious, a. [truthful].
veracity, n. truthfulness. Associated words: compurgation, compurgator, compurgatorial.
veranda, n. [porch], [piazza].
verbal, a. [oral].
verbiage, n. [wordiness], verbosity, perissology, prolixity, pleonasm.