| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| vaccinated | imp. & past participle | of Vaccinate |
| vaccinator | noun | One who, or that which, vaccinates. |
| vacillancy | noun | The quality or state of being vacillant, or wavering. |
| vacillated | imp. & past participle | of Vacillate |
| vacuolated | adjective | Full of vacuoles, or small air cavities; as, vacuolated cells. |
| vade mecum | A book or other thing that a person carries with him as a constant companion; a manual; a handbook. | |
| vagabondry | noun | Vagabondage. |
| vaginicola | noun | A genus of Infusoria which form minute vaselike or tubular cases in which they dwell. |
| vaginismus | noun | A painful spasmodic contraction of the vagina, often rendering copulation impossible. |
| valeramide | noun | The acid amide derivative of valeric acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance. |
| valerianic | adjective | Performance to, or obtained from, valerian root; specifically, designating an acid which is usually called valeric acid. |
| valeridine | noun | A base, C10H19N, produced by heating valeric aldehyde with ammonia. It is probably related to the conine alkaloids. |
| valerylene | noun | A liquid hydrocarbon, C5H8; — called also pentine. |
| validation | noun | The act of giving validity. |
| valleculae | plural | of Vallecula |
| valsalvian | adjective | Of or pertaining to Valsalva, an Italian anatomist of the 17th century. |
| vanadinite | noun | A mineral occurring in yellowish, and ruby-red hexagonal crystals. It consist of lead vanadate with a small proportion of lead chloride. |
| vanishment | noun | A vanishing. |
| vanquished | imp. & past participle | of Vanquish |
| vanquisher | noun | One who, or that which, vanquishes. |
| vaporation | noun | The act or process of converting into vapor, or of passing off in vapor; evaporation. |
| vaporiform | adjective | Existing in a vaporous form or state; as, steam is a vaporiform substance. |
| vaporizing | present participle & vb. noun | of Vaporize |
| vapulation | noun | The act of beating or whipping. |
| variciform | adjective | Resembling a varix. |
| varicocele | noun | A varicose enlargement of the veins of the spermatic cord; also, a like enlargement of the veins of the scrotum. |
| varicosity | noun | The quality or state of being varicose., An enlargement or swelling in a vessel, fiber, or the like; a varix; as, the varicosities of nerve fibers. |
| variegated | imp. & past participle | of Variegate, Having marks or patches of different colors; as, variegated leaves, or flowers. |
| variformed | adjective | Formed with different shapes; having various forms; variform. |
| variolitic | adjective | Thickly marked with small, round specks; spotted., Of, pertaining to, or resembling, variolite. |
| varnishing | present participle & vb. noun | of Varnish, The act of laying on varnish; also, materials for varnish. |
| vaticanism | noun | The doctrine of papal supremacy; extreme views in support of the authority of the pope; ultramontanism; — a term used only by persons who are not Roman Catholics. |
| vaticanist | noun | One who strongly adheres to the papal authority; an ultramontanist. |
| vaticinate | verb i. & t. | To prophesy; to foretell; to practice prediction; to utter prophecies. |
| vaudeville | noun | A kind of song of a lively character, frequently embodying a satire on some person or event, sung to a familiar air in couplets with a refrain; a street song; a topical song., A theatrical piece, usually a comedy, the dialogue of which is intermingled with light or satirical songs, set to familiar airs. |
| vauntingly | adverb | In a vaunting manner. |
| vegetality | noun | The quality or state of being vegetal, or vegetable., The quality or state of being vegetal, or exhibiting those physiological phenomena which are common to plants and animals. See Vegetal, a., 2. |
| vegetarian | noun | One who holds that vegetables and fruits are the only proper food for man. Strict vegetarians eat no meat, eggs, or milk., Of or pertaining to vegetarianism; as, a vegetarian diet. |
| vegetating | present participle & vb. noun | of Vegetate |
| vegetation | noun | The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth., The sum of vegetable life; vegetables or plants in general; as, luxuriant vegetation., An exuberant morbid outgrowth upon any part, especially upon the valves of the heart. |
| vegetative | adjective | Growing, or having the power of growing, as plants; capable of vegetating., Having the power to produce growth in plants; as, the vegetative properties of soil., Having relation to growth or nutrition; partaking of simple growth and enlargement of the systems of nutrition, apart from the sensorial or distinctively animal functions; vegetal. |
| vehemently | adverb | In a vehement manner. |
| vehiculary | adjective | Vehicular. |
| vehiculate | verb t. & i. | To convey by means of a vehicle; to ride in a vehicle. |
| veliferous | adjective | Carrying or bearing sails. |
| velitation | noun | A dispute or contest; a slight contest; a skirmish. |
| velivolant | adjective | Flying with sails; passing under full sail. |
| vellicated | imp. & past participle | of Vellicate |
| velocipede | noun | A light road carriage propelled by the feet of the rider. Originally it was propelled by striking the tips of the toes on the roadway, but commonly now by the action of the feet on a pedal or pedals connected with the axle of one or more of the wheels, and causing their revolution. They are made in many forms, with two, three, or four wheels. See Bicycle, and Tricycle. |
| velocities | plural | of Velocity |
| velutinous | adjective | Having the surface covered with a fine and dense silky pubescence; velvety; as, a velutinous leaf. |
| velvetleaf | noun | A name given to several plants which have soft, velvety leaves, as the Abutilon Avicennae, the Cissampelos Pareira, and the Lavatera arborea, and even the common mullein. |
| venatorial | adjective | Or or pertaining to hunting; venatic. |
| veneficial | adjective | Alt. of Veneficious |
| venerating | present participle & vb. noun | of Venerate |
| veneration | noun | The act of venerating, or the state of being venerated; the highest degree of respect and reverence; respect mingled with awe; a feeling or sentimental excited by the dignity, wisdom, or superiority of a person, by sacredness of character, by consecration to sacred services, or by hallowed associations. |
| ventilated | imp. & past participle | of Ventilate |
| ventilator | noun | A contrivance for effecting ventilation; especially, a contrivance or machine for drawing off or expelling foul or stagnant air from any place or apartment, or for introducing that which is fresh and pure. |
| ventricose | adjective | Alt. of Ventricous |
| ventricous | adjective | Swelling out on one side or unequally; bellied; ventricular; as, a ventricose corolla. |
| ventriculi | plural | of Ventriculus |
| verbalized | imp. & past participle | of Verbalize |
| verbenated | imp. & past participle | of Verbenate |
| verdingale | noun | See Farthingale. |
| veretillum | noun | Any one of numerous species of club-shaped, compound Alcyonaria belonging to Veretillum and allied genera, of the tribe Pennatulacea. The whole colony can move about as if it were a simple animal. |
| vergeboard | noun | The ornament of woodwork upon the gable of a house, used extensively in the 15th century. It was generally suspended from the edge of the projecting roof (see Verge, n., 4), and in position parallel to the gable wall. Called also bargeboard. |
| verifiable | adjective | Capable of being verified; confirmable. |
| vermeology | noun | A discourse or treatise on worms; that part of zoology which treats of worms; helminthology. |
| vermicelli | noun | The flour of a hard and small-grained wheat made into dough, and forced through small cylinders or pipes till it takes a slender, wormlike form, whence the Italian name. When the paste is made in larger tubes, it is called macaroni. |
| vermicious | adjective | Of or pertaining to worms; wormy. |
| vermicular | adjective | Of or pertaining to a worm or worms; resembling a worm; shaped like a worm; especially, resembling the motion or track of a worm; as, the vermicular, or peristaltic, motion of the intestines. See Peristaltic. |
| vermifugal | adjective | Tending to prevent, destroy, or expel, worms or vermin; anthelmintic. |
| vernacular | adjective | Belonging to the country of one’s birth; one’s own by birth or nature; native; indigenous; — now used chiefly of language; as, English is our vernacular language., The vernacular language; one’s mother tongue; often, the common forms of expression in a particular locality. |
| verrayment | adverb | Verily; truly. |
| versicolor | adjective | Alt. of Versicolored |
| versicular | adjective | Of or pertaining to verses; designating distinct divisions of a writing. |
| versifying | present participle & vb. noun | of Versify |
| versionist | noun | One who makes or favors a version; a translator. |
| vertebrata | noun pl. | One of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom, comprising all animals that have a backbone composed of bony or cartilaginous vertebrae, together with Amphioxus in which the backbone is represented by a simple undivided notochord. The Vertebrata always have a dorsal, or neural, cavity above the notochord or backbone, and a ventral, or visceral, cavity below it. The subdivisions or classes of Vertebrata are Mammalia, Aves, Reptilia, Amphibia, Pisces, Marsipobranchia, and Leptocardia. |
| vertebrate | noun | One of the Vertebrata., Alt. of Vertebrated |
| vertically | adverb | In a vertical manner, position, or direction; perpendicularly; as, to look down vertically; to raise a thing vertically. |
| vertigines | plural | of Vertigo |
| vesicating | present participle & vb. noun | of Vesicate |
| vesication | noun | The process of vesicating, or of raising blisters. |
| vesicatory | adjective | Tending, or having power, to raise a blister., A blistering application or plaster; a vesicant; an epispastic. |
| vesiculata | noun pl. | The campanularian medusae. |
| vesiculate | adjective | Bladdery; full of, or covered with, bladders; vesicular., To form vesicles in, as lava. |
| vesiculose | adjective | Alt. of Vesiculous |
| vesiculous | adjective | Bladdery; vesicular; vesiculate; composed of vesicles; covered with vesicles; as, a vesiculose shell. |
| vespertine | adjective | Of or pertaining to the evening; happening or being in the evening., Blossoming in the evening. |
| vespilloes | plural | of Vespillo |
| vesselfuls | plural | of Vesselful |
| vestiarian | adjective | Of or pertaining to a vestiary or vestments. |
| vestibular | adjective | Of or pertaining to a vestibule; like a vestibule. |
| vestibulum | noun | A cavity into which, in certain bryozoans, the esophagus and anus open. |
| veteranize | verb i. | To reenlist for service as a soldier. |
| veterinary | adjective | Of or pertaining to the art of healing or treating the diseases of domestic animals, as oxen, horses, sheep, etc.; as, a veterinary writer or school. |
| viatecture | noun | The art of making roads or ways for traveling, including the construction of bridges, canals, viaducts, etc. |
| viatometer | noun | A viameter. |
| vibraculum | noun | One of the movable, slender, spinelike organs or parts with which certain bryozoans are furnished. They are regarded as specially modified zooids, of nearly the same nature as Avicularia. |
| vibroscope | noun | An instrument for observing or tracing vibrations., An instrument resembling the phenakistoscope. |
| vicegerent | adjective | Having or exercising delegated power; acting by substitution, or in the place of another., Having or exercising delegated power; acting by substitution, or in the place of another., An officer who is deputed by a superior, or by proper authority, to exercise the powers of another; a lieutenant; a vicar. |
| vice-regal | adjective | Of or pertaining to a viceroy or viceroyalty. |
| vicontiels | noun pl. | Things belonging to the sheriff; especially, farms (called also vicontiel rents) for which the sheriff used to pay rent to the king. |
| victimized | imp. & past participle | of Victimize |
| victorious | adjective | Of or pertaining to victory, or a victor’ being a victor; bringing or causing a victory; conquering; winning; triumphant; as, a victorious general; victorious troops; a victorious day. |
| victualled | of Victual | |
| victualing | present participle & vb. noun | of Victual, Of or pertaining to victuals, or provisions; supplying provisions; as, a victualing ship. |
| victualage | noun | Victuals; food. |
| vida finch | The whidah bird. | |
| vigilantly | adverb | In a vigilant manner. |
| villainous | adjective | Base; vile; mean; depraved; as, a villainous person or wretch., Proceeding from, or showing, extreme depravity; suited to a villain; as, a villainous action., Sorry; mean; mischievous; — in a familiar sense. |
| villainies | plural | of Villainy |
| villanelle | plural | of Villanella, A poem written in tercets with but two rhymes, the first and third verse of the first stanza alternating as the third verse in each successive stanza and forming a couplet at the close. |
| villanella | noun | An old rustic dance, accompanied with singing. |
| villanette | noun | A small villa. |
| villanized | imp. & past participle | of Villanize |
| villanizer | noun | One who villanizes. |
| vincentian | adjective | Of or pertaining to Saint Vincent de Paul, or founded by him., Same as Lazarist., A member of certain charitable sisterhoods. |
| vincetoxin | noun | A glucoside extracted from the root of the white swallowwort (Vincetoxicum officinale, a plant of the Asclepias family) as a bitter yellow amorphous substance; — called also asclepiadin, and cynanchin. |
| vindemiate | verb i. | To gather the vintage. |
| vindicable | adjective | Capable of being vindicated. |
| vindicated | imp. & past participle | of Vindicate |
| vindicator | noun | One who vindicates; one who justifies or maintains. |
| vindictive | adjective | Disposed to revenge; prompted or characterized by revenge; revengeful., Punitive. |
| violaceous | adjective | Resembling violets in color; bluish purple., Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants, of which the violet is the type. It contains about twenty genera and two hundred and fifty species. |
| violascent | adjective | Violescent. |
| violescent | adjective | Tending to a violet color; violascent. |
| violet-tip | noun | A very handsome American butterfly (Polygonia interrogationis). Its wings are mottled with various shades of red and brown and have violet tips. |
| viperoidea | noun pl. | Alt. of Viperoides |
| viperoides | noun pl. | A division of serpents which includes the true vipers of the Old World and the rattlesnakes and moccasin snakes of America; — called also Viperina. |
| viraginian | adjective | Of or pertaining to a virago; having the qualities of a virago. |
| viraginity | noun | The qualities or characteristics of a virago. |
| virescence | The act or state of becoming green through the formation of chlorophyll. | |
| virginhood | noun | Virginity; maidenhood. |
| viripotent | adjective | Developed in manhood; hence, able to beget; marriageable. |
| virtuality | noun | The quality or state of being virtual., Potentiality; efficacy; potential existence. |
| virtueless | adjective | Destitute of virtue; without efficacy or operating qualities; powerless. |
| virtuosity | noun | The quality or state of being a virtuoso; in a bad sense, the character of one in whom mere artistic feeling or aesthetic cultivation takes the place of religious character; sentimentalism., Virtuosos, collectively., An art or study affected by virtuosos. |
| virulented | adjective | Made virulent; poisoned. |
| virulently | adverb | In a virulent manner. |
| viscerated | imp. & past participle | of Viscerate |
| viscountcy | noun | The dignity or jurisdiction of a viscount. |
| visibility | noun | The quality or state of being visible. |
| visionless | adjective | Destitute of vision; sightless. |
| visitation | noun | The act of visiting, or the state of being visited; access for inspection or examination., Specifically: The act of a superior or superintending officer who, in the discharge of his office, visits a corporation, college, etc., to examine into the manner in which it is conducted, and see that its laws and regulations are duly observed and executed; as, the visitation of a diocese by a bishop., The object of a visit., The act of a naval commander who visits, or enters on board, a vessel belonging to another nation, for the purpose of ascertaining her character and object, but without claiming or exercising a right of searching the vessel. It is, however, usually coupled with the right of search (see under Search), visitation being used for the purpose of search., Special dispensation; communication of divine favor and goodness, or, more usually, of divine wrath and vengeance; retributive calamity; retribution; judgment., A festival in honor of the visit of the Virgin Mary to Elisabeth, mother of John the Baptist, celebrated on the second of July. |
| visitorial | adjective | Same as Visitatorial. |
| vitalistic | adjective | Pertaining to, or involving, vitalism, or the theory of a special vital principle. |
| vitalizing | present participle & vb. noun | of Vitalize |
| viticulose | adjective | Having long and slender trailing stems. |
| vitrescent | adjective | Capable of being formed into glass; tending to become glass. |
| vitrifying | present participle & vb. noun | of Vitrify |
| vitriolate | verb t. | To convert into, or change to, a vitriol; to make into sulphuric acid or a sulphate., To subject to the action of, or impregnate with, vitriol., Vitriolated., A sulphate. |
| vitriolize | verb t. | To convert into a vitriol; to vitriolate. |
| vitriolous | adjective | See Vitriolic. |
| vituperate | verb t. | To find fault with; to scold; to overwhelm with wordy abuse; to censure severely or abusively; to rate. |
| vivandiere | noun | In Continental armies, especially in the French army, a woman accompanying a regiment, who sells provisions and liquor to the soldiers; a female sutler. |
| vivificate | verb t. | To give life to; to animate; to revive; to vivify., To bring back a metal to the metallic form, as from an oxide or solution; to reduce. |
| viviparity | noun | The quality or condition of being viviparous. |
| viviparous | adjective | Producing young in a living state, as most mammals, or as those plants the offspring of which are produced alive, either by bulbs instead of seeds, or by the seeds themselves germinating on the plant, instead of falling, as they usually do; — opposed to oviparous. |
| vivisector | noun | A vivisectionist. |
| vocabulary | noun | A list or collection of words arranged in alphabetical order and explained; a dictionary or lexicon, either of a whole language, a single work or author, a branch of science, or the like; a word-book., A sum or stock of words employed. |
| vocabulist | noun | The writer or maker of a vocabulary; a lexicographer. |
| vocalizing | present participle & vb. noun | of Vocalize |
| vociferant | adjective | Noisy; clamorous. |
| vociferate | verb i. | To cry out with vehemence; to exclaim; to bawl; to clamor., To utter with a loud voice; to shout out. |
| vociferous | adjective | Making a loud outcry; clamorous; noisy; as, vociferous heralds. |
| volapukist | noun | One who is conversant with, or who favors adoption of, Volapuk. |
| volatility | noun | Quality or state of being volatile; disposition to evaporate; changeableness; fickleness. |
| volatilize | verb t. | To render volatile; to cause to exhale or evaporate; to cause to pass off in vapor. |
| volcanized | imp. & past participle | of Volcanize |
| volitation | noun | The act of flying; flight. |
| volitional | adjective | Belonging or relating to volition. |
| voltairean | adjective | Of or relating to Voltaire, the French author. |
| voltairism | noun | The theories or practice of Voltaire. |
| voltameter | noun | An instrument for measuring the voltaic electricity passing through it, by its effect in decomposing water or some other chemical compound acting as an electrolyte. |
| voltaplast | noun | A form of voltaic, or galvanic, battery suitable for use electrotyping. |
| volubilate | adjective | Alt. of Volubile |
| volubility | noun | The quality or state of being voluble (in any of the senses of the adjective). |
| volumetric | adjective | Of or pertaining to the measurement of volume. |
| voluminous | adjective | Of or pertaining to volume or volumes., Consisting of many folds, coils, or convolutions., Of great volume, or bulk; large., Having written much, or produced many volumes; copious; diffuse; as, a voluminous writer. |
| voluptuary | noun | A voluptuous person; one who makes his physical enjoyment his chief care; one addicted to luxury, and the gratification of sensual appetites., Voluptuous; luxurious. |
| voluptuous | adjective | Full of delight or pleasure, especially that of the senses; ministering to sensuous or sensual gratification; exciting sensual desires; luxurious; sensual., Given to the enjoyments of luxury and pleasure; indulging to excess in sensual gratifications. |
| volutation | noun | A rolling of a body; a wallowing. |
| vomitories | plural | of Vomitory |
| voraginous | adjective | Pertaining to a gulf; full of gulfs; hence, devouring. |
| vorticella | noun | Any one of numerous species of ciliated Infusoria belonging to Vorticella and many other genera of the family Vorticellidae. They have a more or less bell-shaped body with a circle of vibrating cilia around the oral disk. Most of the species have slender, contractile stems, either simple or branched. |
| vouchsafed | imp. & past participle | of Vouchsafe |
| vow-fellow | noun | One bound by the same vow as another. |
| voyageable | adjective | That may be sailed over, as water or air; navigable. |
| vulcanized | imp. & past participle | of Vulcanize |
| vulcanizer | noun | One who, or that which, vulcanizes; esp., an apparatus for vulcanizing caoutchouc. |
| vulgarized | imp. & past participle | of Vulgarize |
| vulgarness | noun | The quality of being vulgar. |
| vulnerable | adjective | Capable of being wounded; susceptible of wounds or external injuries; as, a vulnerable body., Liable to injury; subject to be affected injuriously; assailable; as, a vulnerable reputation. |
| vulnifical | adjective | Causing wounds; inflicting wounds; wounding. |