8-Letter Words Starting VA & Ending S

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

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

• Flemish painter of numerous portraits (1599-1641)

• immunogen consisting of a suspension of weakened or dead pathogenic cells injected in order to stimulate the production of antibodies

• (folklore) a corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living

• 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

• get lost, as without warning or explanation

• become invisible or unnoticeable

• pass away rapidly

• cease to exist

• decrease rapidly and disappear

• a small valve

• so thin as to transmit light

• resembling or characteristic of vapor

• filled with vapor

• leave suddenly