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- VIADUCTSplural of viaduct
- VIAGRA
- VICARIOUSDelegated.
- VICEROYOne who governs a country, province, or colony as the representative of a monarch.
- VICHY
- VIERSpoken by a player during a match with one or more visually impaired players to indicate the fourth rank in algebraic notation.
- VIGILAn instance of keeping awake during normal sleeping hours, especially to keep watch or pray.
- VIGILANTESplural of vigilante
- VINDALOOA blend of chilis, tamarind, ginger, cumin, and mustard seeds, originally from Goa.
- VISAGECountenance; one's face.
- VISEAn instrument consisting of two jaws, closing by a screw, lever, cam, or the like, for holding work, as in filing.
- VITRIOLAny of various metal sulphates.
- VITRO
- VIVO
- VIXENA female fox.
- VOCIFEROUSMaking or characterized by a noisy outcry; clamorous.
- VOLANTHaving extended wings as if flying.
- VOLTAIRE
- VOLUMEA three-dimensional measure of space that comprises a length, a width and a height. It is measured in units of cubic centimeters in metric, cubic inches or cubic feet in English me
- VORACIOUSWanting or devouring great quantities of food.
- VORTEXA whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column.
- VOYEURA person who derives sexual pleasure from observing other people engaging in some intimate or sexual activity; one who engages in voyeurism.
- VULGARITYThe quality of being vulgar.
- WAGLE
- WAIFAn article of movable property which has been found, and of which the owner is not known, such as goods washed up on a beach or thrown away by an absconding thief; such items belon
- WAITHE
- WAIVETo relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forgo.
- WAKI
- WEFTThe horizontal threads that are interlaced through the warp in a woven fabric.
- WELCHA person who defaults on an obligation, especially a small one.
- WHARTON
- WHEFTA waft (flag used to indicate wind direction or, with a knot tied in the center, as a signal)
- WHELMTo bury, to cover; to engulf, to submerge.
- WHIMPERA low intermittent sob.
- WHIMSYA quaint and fanciful idea; a whim; playfully odd behaviour.
- WHIRAlternative spelling of whirr.
- WHIRLEDEye dialect spelling of world.
- WHOPTo throw or move (something) quickly, usually with an impact.
- WHYTE
- WILYSly, cunning, full of tricks.
- WIMPLEA cloth which usually covers the head and is worn around the neck and chin. It was worn by women in medieval Europe and is still worn by nuns in certain orders.
- WINCEDsimple past and past participle of wince
- WISTERIAAny of several woody climbing vines, of the genus Wisteria, native to the East Asian countries of China, Korea, and Japan and the eastern United States.
- WISTFULFull of longing or yearning.
- WIZE
- WOLVERINEA solitary, fierce mammal of the Mustelidae family, Gulo gulo.
- WOMBATA herbivorous, burrowing marsupial of the family Vombatidae, mainly found in southern and eastern Australia.
- WOMBLE
- WONDEROUSWondrous.
- WOOSEAlternative form of wuss.
- WOOZYQueasy, dizzy, or disoriented.
- WOZNIAK
- WRANGLETo convince or influence (someone) by arguing or contending. Followed by out of: to elicit (something) from a person by arguing or bargaining. To speak or write (something) in an a
- WRITHETo twist, wring (something).
- WRITHINGBended in twisting struggle.
- WROUGHTHaving been worked or prepared somehow.
- WURSTA German- or Austrian-style sausage.
- WUTHERAlternative form of whither.
- XANTHIUM
- XENIAThe concept of hospitality to strangers.
- XYLOPHONEAny musical instrument (percussion idiophone) made of wooden slats graduated so as to make the sounds of the scale when struck with a small drumstick-like mallet; the standard West
- YANGA principle in Chinese and related East Asian philosophies associated with bright, hot, masculine, etc. elements of the natural world.
- YANKO
- YAWLA small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars.
- YESHIVAAn academy for the advanced study of Jewish texts.
- YING
- YOKELA person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive.
- YOKELSplural of yokel
- YORUBA
- YOUTHE
- YOUVE
- YUCAcassava
- YUENG
- ZOFRAN
- ZOMBIEA person, usually undead, animated by unnatural forces (such as magic), with no soul or will of his or her own, typically being slow, obedient, and harmless unless directed to be h
- ZOOTA zoot suit.