| cleavage | (noun) the act of cleaving or splitting | - |
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| (noun) the line formed by a groove between two parts (especially the separation between a woman's breasts) | - |
| (noun) (embryology) the repeated division of a fertilised ovum | Synonyms: segmentation |
| (noun) the breaking of a chemical bond in a molecule resulting in smaller molecules | - |
| (noun) the state of being split or cleft | - |
| divagation | (noun) a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern) | Synonyms: deflection, deflexion, deviation, digression, diversion |
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| (noun) a message that departs from the main subject | Synonyms: aside, digression, excursus, parenthesis |
| extravagance | (noun) the activity of excessive spending | Synonyms: high life, highlife, lavishness, prodigality |
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| (noun) the trait of spending extravagantly | Synonyms: prodigality, profligacy |
| (noun) the quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth | Synonyms: extravagancy |
| extravagancy | (noun) the quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth | Synonyms: extravagance |
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| extravaganza | (noun) any lavishly staged or spectacular entertainment | - |
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| gastrogavage | (noun) feeding a nutrient solution into the stomach through a tube through a surgically created opening | - |
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| gavage | (noun) feeding that consists of the delivery of a nutrient solution (as through a nasal tube) to someone who cannot or will not eat | Synonyms: forced feeding |
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| invagination | (noun) the folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface | Synonyms: infolding, introversion, intussusception |
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| (noun) the condition of being folded inward or sheathed | Synonyms: introversion |
| lavage | (noun) washing out a hollow organ (especially the stomach) by flushing with water | - |
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| lovage | (noun) stalks eaten like celery or candied like angelica; seeds used for flavoring or pickled like capers | - |
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| (noun) herb native to southern Europe; cultivated for its edible stalks and foliage and seeds | Synonyms: Levisticum officinale |
| pavage | (noun) the act of applying paving materials to an area | Synonyms: paving |
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| (noun) a tax toward paving streets | - |
| ravage | (noun) (usually plural) a destructive action | Synonyms: depredation |
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| ravaging | (noun) plundering with excessive damage and destruction | Synonyms: devastation |
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| salvage | (noun) the act of rescuing a ship or its crew or its cargo from a shipwreck or a fire | - |
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| (noun) the act of saving goods or property that were in danger of damage or destruction | - |
| (noun) property or goods saved from damage or destruction | - |
| salvager | (noun) someone who salvages | Synonyms: salvor |
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| savage | (noun) a member of an uncivilized people | Synonyms: barbarian |
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| (noun) a cruelly rapacious person | Synonyms: beast, brute, wildcat, wolf |
| savageness | (noun) the property of being untamed and ferocious | Synonyms: savagery |
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| savagery | (noun) a brutal barbarous savage act | Synonyms: barbarism, barbarity, brutality |
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| (noun) the trait of extreme cruelty | Synonyms: brutality, ferociousness, viciousness |
| (noun) the property of being untamed and ferocious | Synonyms: savageness |
| selvage | (noun) the edge of a fabric that is woven so that it will not ravel or fray | Synonyms: selvedge |
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| (noun) border consisting of an ornamental fringe at either end of an oriental carpet | Synonyms: selvedge |
| vagabond | (noun) anything that resembles a vagabond in having no fixed place | - |
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| (noun) a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support | Synonyms: clochard, drifter, floater, vagrant |
| vagabondage | (noun) travelling about without any clear destination | Synonyms: roving, wandering |
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| vagary | (noun) an unexpected and inexplicable change in something (in a situation or a person's behavior, etc.) | - |
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| vagina | (noun) the lower part of the female reproductive tract; a moist canal in female mammals extending from the labia minora to the uterus | - |
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| vaginismus | (noun) muscular contraction that causes the vagina to close; usually an anxiety reaction before coitus or pelvic examination | - |
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| vaginitis | (noun) inflammation of the vagina (usually associated with candidiasis) | - |
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| vaginocele | (noun) hernia projecting into the vagina | Synonyms: colpocele |
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| vaginoscope | (noun) An endoscopic instrument that magnifies the epithelia of the vagina and cervix in vivo to allow direct observation and study of these tissues. | Synonyms: colposcope |
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| vagrancy | (noun) the state of wandering from place to place; having no permanent home or means of livelihood | - |
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| vagrant | (noun) a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support | Synonyms: clochard, drifter, floater, vagabond |
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| vagueness | (noun) unclearness by virtue of being poorly expressed or not coherent in meaning | - |
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| (noun) indistinctness of shape or character | - |
| vagus | (noun) a mixed nerve that supplies the pharynx and larynx and lungs and heart and esophagus and stomach and most of the abdominal viscera | Synonyms: nervus vagus, pneumogastric, pneumogastric nerve, tenth cranial nerve, vagus nerve, wandering nerve |
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| vulvovaginitis | (noun) inflammation of the vulva and the vagina | - |
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