| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| vialling | of Vial | |
| viameter | noun | An odometer; — called also viatometer. |
| vi-apple | noun | See Otaheite apple. |
| viaticum | noun | An allowance for traveling expenses made to those who were sent into the provinces to exercise any office or perform any service., Provisions for a journey., The communion, or eucharist, when given to persons in danger of death. |
| vibrancy | noun | The state of being vibrant; resonance. |
| vibrissa | noun | One of the specialized or tactile hairs which grow about the nostrils, or on other parts of the face, in many animals, as the so-called whiskers of the cat, and the hairs of the nostrils of man., The bristlelike feathers near the mouth of many birds. |
| viburnum | noun | A genus of shrubs having opposite, petiolate leaves and cymose flowers, several species of which are cultivated as ornamental, as the laurestine and the guelder-rose. |
| vicarage | noun | The benefice of a vicar., The house or residence of a vicar. |
| vicarial | adjective | Of or pertaining to a vicar; as, vicarial tithes., Delegated; vicarious; as, vicarial power. |
| vicarian | noun | A vicar. |
| vicenary | adjective | Of or pertaining to twenty; consisting of twenty. |
| vicinity | noun | The quality or state of being near, or not remote; nearness; propinquity; proximity; as, the value of the estate was increased by the vicinity of two country seats., That which is near, or not remote; that which is adjacent to anything; adjoining space or country; neighborhood. |
| victoria | noun | A genus of aquatic plants named in honor of Queen Victoria. The Victoria regia is a native of Guiana and Brazil. Its large, spreading leaves are often over five feet in diameter, and have a rim from three to five inches high; its immense rose-white flowers sometimes attain a diameter of nearly two feet., A kind of low four-wheeled pleasure carriage, with a calash top, designed for two persons and the driver who occupies a high seat in front., An asteroid discovered by Hind in 1850; — called also Clio. |
| victress | noun | A woman who wins a victory; a female victor. |
| victrice | noun | A victress. |
| victuals | noun pl. | Food for human beings, esp. when it is cooked or prepared for the table; that which supports human life; provisions; sustenance; meat; viands. |
| viennese | adjective | Of or pertaining to Vienna, or people of Vienna., An inhabitant, or the inhabitants, of Vienna. |
| viewless | adjective | Not perceivable by the eye; invisible; unseen. |
| viewsome | adjective | Pleasing to the sight; sightly. |
| vigilant | adjective | Attentive to discover and avoid danger, or to provide for safety; wakeful; watchful; circumspect; wary. |
| vignette | noun | A running ornament consisting of leaves and tendrils, used in Gothic architecture., A decorative design, originally representing vine branches or tendrils, at the head of a chapter, of a manuscript or printed book, or in a similar position; hence, by extension, any small picture in a book; hence, also, as such pictures are often without a definite bounding line, any picture, as an engraving, a photograph, or the like, which vanishes gradually at the edge., To make, as an engraving or a photograph, with a border or edge insensibly fading away. |
| vigorite | noun | An explosive containing nitroglycerin. It is used in blasting. |
| vigoroso | adjective & adverb | Vigorous; energetic; with energy; — a direction to perform a passage with energy and force. |
| vigorous | adjective | Possessing vigor; full of physical or mental strength or active force; strong; lusty; robust; as, a vigorous youth; a vigorous plant., Exhibiting strength, either of body or mind; powerful; strong; forcible; energetic; as, vigorous exertions; a vigorous prosecution of a war. |
| vilifier | noun | One who vilifies or defames. |
| vilified | imp. & past participle | of Vilify |
| vilipend | verb t. | To value lightly; to depreciate; to slight; to despise. |
| villager | noun | An inhabitant of a village. |
| villainy | noun | The quality or state of being a villain, or villainous; extreme depravity; atrocious wickedness; as, the villainy of the seducer., Abusive, reproachful language; discourteous speech; foul talk., The act of a villain; a deed of deep depravity; a crime. |
| villakin | noun | A little villa. |
| villanel | noun | A ballad. |
| villatic | adjective | Of or pertaining to a farm or a village; rural. |
| vinatico | noun | Madeira mahogany; the coarse, dark-colored wood of the Persea Indica. |
| vincible | adjective | Capable of being overcome or subdued; conquerable. |
| vincture | noun | A binding. |
| vinculum | noun | A bond of union; a tie., A straight, horizontal mark placed over two or more members of a compound quantity, which are to be subjected to the same operation, as in the expression x2 + y2 – x + y., A band or bundle of fibers; a fraenum., A commissure uniting the two main tendons in the foot of certain birds. |
| vinegary | adjective | Having the nature of vinegar; sour; unamiable. |
| vineyard | noun | An inclosure or yard for grapevines; a plantation of vines producing grapes. |
| vinnewed | adjective | Moldy; musty. |
| vinolent | adjective | Given to wine; drunken; intemperate. |
| vinosity | noun | The quality or state of being vinous. |
| vinquish | noun | See Vanquish, n. |
| vintager | noun | One who gathers the vintage. |
| violable | adjective | Capable of being violated, broken, or injured. |
| violates | imp. & past participle | of Violate |
| violator | noun | One who violates; an infringer; a profaner; a ravisher. |
| violence | noun | The quality or state of being violent; highly excited action, whether physical or moral; vehemence; impetuosity; force., Injury done to that which is entitled to respect, reverence, or observance; profanation; infringement; unjust force; outrage; assault., Ravishment; rape; constupration., To assault; to injure; also, to bring by violence; to compel. |
| violuric | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or designating, a complex nitroso derivative of barbituric acid. It is obtained as a white or yellow crystalline substance, and forms characteristic yellow, blue, and violet salts. |
| viperina | noun pl. | See Viperoidea. |
| viperine | adjective | Of or pertaining to a viper or vipers; resembling a viper. |
| viperish | adjective | Somewhat like a viper; viperous. |
| viperous | adjective | Having the qualities of a viper; malignant; venomous; as, a viperous tongue. |
| viragoes | plural | of Virago |
| virgated | adjective | Striped; streaked. |
| virginal | adjective | Of or pertaining to a virgin; becoming a virgin; maidenly., An instrument somewhat resembling the spinet, but having a rectangular form, like the small piano. It had strings and keys, but only one wire to a note. The instrument was used in the sixteenth century, but is now wholly obsolete. It was sometimes called a pair of virginals., To play with the fingers, as if on a virginal; to tap or pat. |
| virginia | noun | One of the States of the United States of America., Of or pertaining to the State of Virginia. |
| viridine | noun | A greenish, oily, nitrogenous hydrocarbon, C12H19N7, obtained from coal tar, and probably consisting of a mixture of several metameric compounds which are higher derivatives of the base pyridine. |
| viridite | noun | A greenish chloritic mineral common in certain igneous rocks, as diabase, as a result of alternation. |
| viridity | noun | Greenness; verdure; the color of grass and foliage., Freshness; soundness. |
| virility | noun | The quality or state of being virile; developed manhood; manliness; specif., the power of procreation; as, exhaustion. |
| virtuate | verb t. | To make efficacious; to give virtue of efficacy. |
| virtuosi | plural | of Virtuoso |
| virtuoso | noun | One devoted to virtu; one skilled in the fine arts, in antiquities, and the like; a collector or ardent admirer of curiosities, etc., A performer on some instrument, as the violin or the piano, who excels in the technical part of his art; a brilliant concert player. |
| virtuous | adjective | Possessing or exhibiting virtue., Exhibiting manly courage and strength; valorous; valiant; brave., Having power or efficacy; powerfully operative; efficacious; potent., Having moral excellence; characterized by morality; upright; righteous; pure; as, a virtuous action., Chaste; pure; — applied especially to women. |
| virulent | adjective | Extremely poisonous or venomous; very active in doing injury., Very bitter in enmity; actuated by a desire to injure; malignant; as, a virulent invective. |
| viscacha | noun | Alt. of Viz-cacha |
| visceral | adjective | Of or pertaining to the viscera; splanchnic., Fig.: Having deep sensibility. |
| viscount | adjective | An officer who formerly supplied the place of the count, or earl; the sheriff of the county., A nobleman of the fourth rank, next in order below an earl and next above a baron; also, his degree or title of nobility. See Peer, n., 3. |
| visigoth | noun | One of the West Goths. See the Note under Goth. |
| visioned | imp. & past participle | of Vision, Having the power of seeing visions; inspired; also, seen in visions. |
| visional | adjective | Of or pertaining to a vision. |
| visiting | present participle & vb. noun | of Visit, a. & vb. n. from Visit. |
| visitant | noun | One who visits; a guest; a visitor., Visiting. |
| vitaille | noun | Food; victuals. |
| vitalism | noun | The doctrine that all the functions of a living organism are due to an unknown vital principle distinct from all chemical and physical forces. |
| vitalist | noun | A believer in the theory of vitalism; — opposed to physicist. |
| vitality | noun | The quality or state of being vital; the principle of life; vital force; animation; as, the vitality of eggs or vegetable seeds; the vitality of an enterprise. |
| vitalize | verb t. | To endow with life, or vitality; to give life to; to make alive; as, vitalized blood. |
| vitellin | noun | An albuminous body, belonging to the class of globulins, obtained from yolk of egg, of which it is the chief proteid constituent, and from the seeds of many plants. From the latter it can be separated in crystalline form. |
| vitellus | noun | The contents or substance of the ovum; egg yolk. See Illust. of Ovum., Perisperm in an early condition. |
| vitiated | imp. & past participle | of Vitiate |
| vitiligo | noun | A rare skin disease consisting in the development of smooth, milk-white spots upon various parts of the body. |
| vitrella | noun | One of the transparent lenslike cells in the ocelli of certain arthropods. |
| vitreous | adjective | Consisting of, or resembling, glass; glassy; as, vitreous rocks., Of or pertaining to glass; derived from glass; as, vitreous electricity. |
| vituline | adjective | Of or pertaining to a calf or veal. |
| vivacity | noun | The quality or state of being vivacious., Tenacity of life; vital force; natural vigor., Life; animation; spiritedness; liveliness; sprightliness; as, the vivacity of a discourse; a lady of great vivacity; vivacity of countenance. |
| vivarium | noun | A place artificially arranged for keeping or raising living animals, as a park, a pond, an aquarium, a warren, etc. |
| vivaries | plural | of Vivary |
| vividity | noun | The quality or state of being vivid; vividness. |
| vivified | imp. & past participle | of Vivify |
| vivipara | noun pl. | An artificial division of vertebrates including those that produce their young alive; — opposed to Ovipara. |
| vivisect | verb t. | To perform vivisection upon; to dissect alive. |
| vixenish | adjective | Of or pertaining to a vixen; resembling a vixen. |
| vizarded | adjective | Wearing a vizard. |
| vizcacha | noun | Same as Viscacha. |