| vacationer | (noun) someone on vacation; someone who is devoting time to pleasure or relaxation rather than to work | Synonyms: vacationist |
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| vacationing | (noun) the act of taking a vacation | - |
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| vacationist | (noun) someone on vacation; someone who is devoting time to pleasure or relaxation rather than to work | Synonyms: vacationer |
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| vellication | (noun) a sudden muscle spasm; especially one caused by a nervous condition | Synonyms: twitch, twitching |
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| verification | (noun) additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct | Synonyms: check, confirmation, substantiation |
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| (noun) (law) an affidavit attached to a statement confirming the truth of that statement | - |
| versification | (noun) the art or practice of writing verse | - |
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| (noun) the form or metrical composition of a poem | - |
| (noun) a metrical adaptation of something (e.g., of a prose text) | - |
| vesication | (noun) the formation of vesicles in or beneath the skin | Synonyms: blistering, vesiculation |
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| vesicatory | (noun) a chemical agent that causes blistering (especially mustard gas) | Synonyms: vesicant |
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| viatication | (noun) purchasing insurance policies for cash from terminally ill policy holders | Synonyms: viaticus |
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| vilification | (noun) slanderous defamation | Synonyms: malignment, smear |
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| (noun) a rude expression intended to offend or hurt | Synonyms: abuse, contumely, insult, revilement |
| vindication | (noun) the act of vindicating or defending against criticism or censure etc. | Synonyms: exoneration |
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| (noun) the justification for some act or belief | Synonyms: defence, defense |
| vindicator | (noun) a person who argues to defend or justify some policy or institution | Synonyms: apologist, justifier |
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| vinification | (noun) the process whereby fermentation changes grape juice into wine | - |
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| vitrification | (noun) the process of becoming vitreous | - |
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| (noun) a vitrified substance; the glassy result of being vitrified | - |
| vivification | (noun) the activity of giving vitality and vigour to something | Synonyms: animation, invigoration |
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| (noun) quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous | Synonyms: animation, brio, invigoration, spiritedness |
| vocation | (noun) the particular occupation for which you are trained | Synonyms: calling, career |
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| (noun) a body of people doing the same kind of work | Synonyms: occupational group |
| vocative | (noun) the case (in some inflected languages) used when the referent of the noun is being addressed | Synonyms: vocative case |
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| wildcat | (noun) any small or medium-sized cat resembling the domestic cat and living in the wild | - |
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| (noun) an exploratory oil well drilled in land not known to be an oil field | Synonyms: wildcat well |
| (noun) a cruelly rapacious person | Synonyms: beast, brute, savage, wolf |
| wildcatter | (noun) an oilman who drills exploratory wells in territory not known to be an oil field | - |
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