8-Letter Words Starting: VEL

• To raise the back of the tongue toward the velum while articulating another consonant, such as the l of English pool.

• To replace a (usually more front) consonant with a velar.

• distance travelled per unit time

• a mere wish, unaccompanied by effort to obtain

• volition in its weakest form

• A covering membrane or velum

• A spongy, usually pale, multiseriate epidermis (i.e. consisting of multiple layers of cells) covering the roots of some kinds of plants, especially plant species with an epiphytic or semi-epiphytic habit. Examples include various orchid and Clivia species

• The marginal membrane of certain medusae belonging to the Discophora

• An awning that stretched over the seating area of the Colosseum in Ancient Rome

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

• white sauce made with stock instead of milk