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- VITRIOLAny of various metal sulphates.
- VITTAA fillet, or garland for the head.
- VITULINEOf or pertaining to a calf or veal.
- VITUPERATIONThe act of vituperating; severely blaming or censuring.
- VITUPEROUSVituperative.
- VIVATA cry wishing someone long life and prosperity.
- VOCABLEA word or utterance, especially with reference to its form rather than its meaning.
- VOCABULARRelating to vocabulary.
- VOCABULARYA usually alphabetized and explained collection of words e.g. of a particular field, or prepared for a specific purpose, often for learning.
- VOCALOf, pertaining to, or resembling the human voice or speech.
- VOCATION(Ecclesiastical) A divine calling to establish one's lifestyle.
- VOCIFERANTnoisy; clamorous
- VOCIFERANTSnoisy; clamorous
- VOCIFERATETo cry out with vehemence
- VOCIFEROUSMaking or characterized by a noisy outcry; clamorous.
- VOCULEAn emphatic aspiration or burst of air.
- VOICESound uttered by the mouth, especially by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character.
- VOIDContaining nothing; empty; not occupied or filled.
- VOITUREA carriage; a vehicle, now chiefly in French contexts.
- VOLAGEFickle, capricious, reckless.
- VOLANTHaving extended wings as if flying.
- VOLARPertaining to the palm of the hand or the sole of the foot.
- VOLCANOA vent or fissure on the surface of a planet (usually in a mountainous form) with a magma chamber attached to the mantle of a planet or moon, periodically erupting forth lava and v
- VOLENSIn the state of mind where one voluntarily accepts a specific risk.
- VOLITATIONFlight; flying.
- VOLUCRINEOf or pertaining to birds.
- 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
- VOLUMINOUSOf or pertaining to volume or volumes.
- VOLUNTARYDone, given, or acting of one's own free will.
- VOLUNTEEROne who enters into, or offers themselves for, any service of their own free will, especially when done without pay.
- VOLUTATIONA circular movement; a rolling, wallowing, circulation or rotation.
- VOLUTEThe characteristic spiral curve on an Ionic capital, widely copied in other styles and in neoclassical architecture.
- VOLUTIONA turning (rolling or revolving) motion.
- VOMERThe vomer bone; the small thin bone that forms part of the septum between the nostrils.
- VOMICAAn abscess cavity in the lungs or any other parenchymal organ.
- VOMITOThe most virulent form of yellow fever.
- VOMITORYThe entrance into a theater or other large public venue, where masses of people are disgorged into the stands; a vomitorium
- VOMITUSVomit (the product of an emesis).
- VORACIOUSWanting or devouring great quantities of food.
- VORACITYThe state of being voracious; rapacity or extreme gluttony.
- VORAGOabyss, chasm, gulf
- VORTEXA whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column.
- VORTICALOf or pertaining to a vortex; containing vortices; moving in a vortex.
- VOTARYConsecrated by a vow or promise; consequent on a vow; devoted; promised.
- VOULGEA medieval poleaxe bearing resemblance to a glaive or a Lochaber ax, although the blade portion is somewhat more elongated.
- VOWELA sound produced by the vocal cords with relatively little restriction of the oral cavity, forming the prominent sound of a syllable.
- VOYAGEA long journey, especially by ship.
- VULGARITYThe quality of being vulgar.
- VULGATEMade common, published for common use.
- VULGOIn the vernacular; commonly known as.
- VULNOf a pelican, to wound (oneself) by biting at the breast.
- VULNERATETo wound, cause to become vulnerable.
- VULPICIDESomeone who kills foxes other than by hunting them with hounds
- VULPIDAny member of the true fox genus (Vulpes).
- VULTUREAny of several carrion-eating birds of the families Accipitridae and Cathartidae.
- VULTURINEPertaining to or having characteristics of vultures.
- WAYMENTTo lament.
- WEERTrue; correct.
- WEEVERAny of the usually brown fish in family Trachinidae, which catch prey by burying themselves in the sand and snatching them as they go past.
- WHARFINGERThe manager or owner of a wharf (“artificial landing place for ships on a riverbank or shore”).
- WHISKEYAlternative letter-case form of Whiskey of the ICAO/NATO radiotelephony alphabet.
- WHISKYAlternative form of whiskey, an alcoholic liquor distilled from fermented grain, usually aged in oak barrels, Scotch; a drink of this liquor.
- WOLFRAMwolframite
- WOLFRAMSwolframite
- WOLFSBANEAny of several poisonous perennial herbs of the genus Aconitum.
- WYVERNA draconian creature possessing wings, only two legs and usually a barbed tail.
- XYSTA xystus.
- YAWLA small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars.
- ZEBRAAny of three species of subgenus Hippotigris: Equus grevyi, Equus quagga, or Equus zebra, all with black and white stripes and native to Africa.
- ZELATORA zealot; the male counterpart of a zelatrix.
- ZELOTYPIAjealousy
- ZELOTYPIASjealousy
- ZENAIDAA zenaida dove (Zenaida spp.).
- ZIRCONIUMA chemical element (symbol Zr) with an atomic number of 40, a strong, lustrous, grey-white transition metal mainly used as a refractory and opacifier.
- ZITIA type of macaroni pasta in the form of long smooth hollow tubes.
- ZOANTHROPYThe belief that one has transformed into an animal.
- ZOARIUMA colony of zooids.
- ZODIACALOf or pertaining to the zodiac.
- ZONAA zone or band; a layer.
- ZONULAAny of several small belt-like regions.
- ZONULEA little zone, or girdle; a zonula.
- ZOOLATRYThe worship of animals.
- ZOOPHYTEAn animal thought to have the characteristics of a plant, later specifically an invertebrate of the (former) group Zoophyta, comprising sponges, corals and sea anemones.