| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |