8-Letter Words Starting: VA

• come out better in a competition, race, or conflict

• kill with or as if with a burst of gunfire or electric current or as if by shooting

• turn into gas

• lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue

• decrease rapidly and disappear

• local names for a cowboy (`vaquero' is used especially in southwestern and central Texas and `buckaroo' is used especially in California)

• To assess (something) as being valuable or admirable.

• To fix the price of (something) at an artificially high level, usually by government action.

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

• Flemish painter of numerous portraits (1599-1641)

• (Norse mythology) one of the maidens of Odin who chose heroes to be slain in battle and conducted them to Valhalla

• the state of wandering from place to place; having no permanent home or means of livelihood