8-Letter Words Starting V & Ending A

• gregarious burrowing rodent larger than the chinchillas

• a local infection induced in humans by inoculation with the virus causing cowpox in order to confer resistance to smallpox; normally lasts three weeks and leaves a pitted scar

• a viral disease of cattle causing a mild skin disease affecting the udder; formerly used to inoculate humans against smallpox

• An information retrieval service of the 1970s and 1980s permitting subscribers to access a remote database and receive requested data on a video display.

• common European grape cultivated in many varieties; chief source of Old World wine and table grapes

• any plant of the genus Veronica

• queen of Great Britain and Ireland and empress of India from 1837 to 1901; the last Hanoverian ruler of England (1819-1901)

• (Roman mythology) goddess of victory; counterpart of Greek Nike

• a waterfall in the Zambezi River on the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia; diminishes seasonally

• a town in southeast Texas to the southeast of San Antonio

• port city and the capital of Seychelles

• a state in southeastern Australia

• capital of the Canadian province of British Columbia on Vancouver Island

• an industrial city in northern Venezuela

• a city in eastern Spain on the Mediterranean

• one of the bony segments of the spinal column