viability | (noun) (of living things) capable of normal growth and development | - |
---|
(noun) capable of being done in a practical and useful way | - |
viaduct | (noun) bridge consisting of a series of arches supported by piers used to carry a road (or railroad) over a valley | - |
---|
vial | (noun) a small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle) | Synonyms: ampoule, ampul, ampule, phial |
---|
viand | (noun) a choice or delicious dish | - |
---|
viands | (noun) a stock or supply of foods | Synonyms: commissariat, provender, provisions, victuals |
---|
viatication | (noun) purchasing insurance policies for cash from terminally ill policy holders | Synonyms: viaticus |
---|
viaticus | (noun) purchasing insurance policies for cash from terminally ill policy holders | Synonyms: viatication |
---|
vibe | (noun) a distinctive emotional aura experienced instinctively | Synonyms: vibration |
---|
vibes | (noun) a percussion instrument similar to a xylophone but having metal bars and rotating disks in the resonators that produce a vibrato sound | Synonyms: vibraharp, vibraphone |
---|
vibist | (noun) a musician who plays the vibraphone | Synonyms: vibraphonist |
---|
vibraharp | (noun) a percussion instrument similar to a xylophone but having metal bars and rotating disks in the resonators that produce a vibrato sound | Synonyms: vibes, vibraphone |
---|
vibrancy | (noun) having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant | Synonyms: plangency, resonance, reverberance, ringing, sonority, sonorousness |
---|
vibraphone | (noun) a percussion instrument similar to a xylophone but having metal bars and rotating disks in the resonators that produce a vibrato sound | Synonyms: vibes, vibraharp |
---|
vibraphonist | (noun) a musician who plays the vibraphone | Synonyms: vibist |
---|
vibration | (noun) the act of vibrating | Synonyms: quiver, quivering |
---|
(noun) a distinctive emotional aura experienced instinctively | Synonyms: vibe |
(noun) (physics) a regular periodic variation in value about a mean | Synonyms: oscillation |
(noun) a shaky motion | Synonyms: palpitation, quiver, quivering, shakiness, shaking, trembling |
vibrato | (noun) (music) a pulsating effect in an instrumental or vocal tone produced by slight and rapid variations in pitch | - |
---|
vibrator | (noun) mechanical device that produces vibratory motion; used for massage | - |
---|
(noun) a mechanical device that vibrates | - |
vibrio | (noun) curved rodlike motile bacterium | Synonyms: vibrion |
---|
vibrion | (noun) curved rodlike motile bacterium | Synonyms: vibrio |
---|
vibrissa | (noun) a long stiff hair growing from the snout or brow of most mammals as e.g. a cat | Synonyms: sensory hair, whisker |
---|
vicar | (noun) a Roman Catholic priest who acts for another higher-ranking clergyman | - |
---|
(noun) (Church of England) a clergyman appointed to act as priest of a parish | - |
(noun) (Episcopal Church) a clergyman in charge of a chapel | - |
vicarage | (noun) an official residence provided by a church for its parson or vicar or rector | Synonyms: parsonage, rectory |
---|
vicariate | (noun) the religious institution under the authority of a vicar | Synonyms: vicarship |
---|
vicarship | (noun) the religious institution under the authority of a vicar | Synonyms: vicariate |
---|
vice | (noun) a specific form of evildoing | - |
---|
(noun) a holding device attached to a workbench; has two jaws to hold workpiece firmly in place | Synonyms: bench vise, vise |
(noun) moral weakness | Synonyms: frailty |
vicegerent | (noun) someone appointed by a ruler as an administrative deputy | - |
---|
vicereine | (noun) governor of a country or province who rules as the representative of his or her king or sovereign | Synonyms: viceroy |
---|
(noun) wife of a viceroy | - |
viceroy | (noun) showy American butterfly resembling the monarch but smaller | Synonyms: Limenitis archippus |
---|
(noun) governor of a country or province who rules as the representative of his or her king or sovereign | Synonyms: vicereine |
viceroyalty | (noun) a district or province governed by a viceroy | - |
---|
viceroyship | (noun) the position of viceroy | - |
---|
vichyssoise | (noun) a creamy potato soup flavored with leeks and onions; usually served cold | - |
---|
vicinity | (noun) a surrounding or nearby region | Synonyms: locality, neck of the woods, neighborhood, neighbourhood |
---|
viciousness | (noun) the trait of extreme cruelty | Synonyms: brutality, ferociousness, savagery |
---|
vicissitude | (noun) mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another) | - |
---|
(noun) a variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something | - |
victim | (noun) an unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance | - |
---|
(noun) a person who is tricked or swindled | Synonyms: dupe |
victimisation | (noun) an act that exploits or victimizes someone (treats them unfairly) | Synonyms: exploitation, using, victimization |
---|
victimiser | (noun) a person who victimizes others | Synonyms: victimizer |
---|
victimization | (noun) an act that exploits or victimizes someone (treats them unfairly) | Synonyms: exploitation, using, victimisation |
---|
(noun) adversity resulting from being made a victim | - |
victimizer | (noun) a person who victimizes others | Synonyms: victimiser |
---|
victor | (noun) the contestant who wins the contest | Synonyms: winner |
---|
(noun) a combatant who is able to defeat rivals | Synonyms: master, superior |
victory | (noun) a successful ending of a struggle or contest | Synonyms: triumph |
---|
victual | (noun) any substance that can be used as food | Synonyms: comestible, eatable, edible, pabulum, victuals |
---|
victualer | (noun) a supplier of victuals or supplies to an army | Synonyms: provisioner, sutler, victualler |
---|
(noun) an innkeeper (especially British) | Synonyms: victualler |
victualler | (noun) a supplier of victuals or supplies to an army | Synonyms: provisioner, sutler, victualer |
---|
(noun) an innkeeper (especially British) | Synonyms: victualer |
victuals | (noun) any substance that can be used as food | Synonyms: comestible, eatable, edible, pabulum, victual |
---|
(noun) a source of materials to nourish the body | Synonyms: aliment, alimentation, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, sustenance |
(noun) a stock or supply of foods | Synonyms: commissariat, provender, provisions, viands |
vicuna | (noun) small wild cud-chewing Andean animal similar to the guanaco but smaller; valued for its fleecy undercoat | Synonyms: Vicugna vicugna |
---|
(noun) a soft wool fabric made from the fleece of the vicuna | - |
(noun) the wool of the vicuna | - |
video | (noun) a recording of both the visual and audible components (especially one containing a recording of a movie or television program) | Synonyms: video recording |
---|
(noun) the visible part of a television transmission | Synonyms: picture |
(noun) broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects | Synonyms: telecasting, television, TV |
(noun) (computer science) the appearance of text and graphics on a video display | - |
videocassette | (noun) a cassette for videotape | - |
---|
videodisc | (noun) a digital recording (as of a movie) on an optical disk that can be played on a computer or a television set | Synonyms: DVD, videodisk |
---|
videodisk | (noun) a digital recording (as of a movie) on an optical disk that can be played on a computer or a television set | Synonyms: DVD, videodisc |
---|
videotape | (noun) a relatively wide magnetic tape for use in recording visual images and associated sound | - |
---|
(noun) a video recording made on magnetic tape | - |
view | (noun) the act of looking or seeing or observing | Synonyms: sight, survey |
---|
(noun) graphic art consisting of the graphic or photographic representation of a visual percept | Synonyms: scene |
(noun) the range of interest or activity that can be anticipated | Synonyms: horizon, purview |
(noun) outward appearance | - |
(noun) purpose; the phrase `with a view to' means `with the intention of' or `for the purpose of' | - |
(noun) the visual percept of a region | Synonyms: aspect, panorama, prospect, scene, vista |
(noun) a way of regarding situations or topics etc. | Synonyms: perspective, position |
(noun) a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty | Synonyms: opinion, persuasion, sentiment, thought |
(noun) a message expressing a belief about something; the expression of a belief that is held with confidence but not substantiated by positive knowledge or proof | Synonyms: opinion |
(noun) the range of the eye | Synonyms: eyeshot |
viewer | (noun) an optical device for viewing photographic transparencies | - |
---|
(noun) a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind) | Synonyms: looker, spectator, watcher, witness |
viewers | (noun) the audience reached by television | Synonyms: TV audience, viewing audience |
---|
viewfinder | (noun) optical device that helps a user to find the target of interest | Synonyms: finder, view finder |
---|
viewgraph | (noun) a transparency for use with an overhead projector | Synonyms: overhead |
---|
viewing | (noun) a vigil held over a corpse the night before burial | Synonyms: wake |
---|
(noun) the display of a motion picture | Synonyms: screening, showing |
viewpoint | (noun) a mental position from which things are viewed | Synonyms: point of view, stand, standpoint |
---|
(noun) a place from which something can be viewed | Synonyms: vantage point |
vigil | (noun) a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe | Synonyms: watch |
---|
(noun) the rite of staying awake for devotional purposes (especially on the eve of a religious festival) | Synonyms: watch |
(noun) a period of sleeplessness | - |
vigilance | (noun) vigilant attentiveness | Synonyms: watchfulness, weather eye |
---|
(noun) the process of paying close and continuous attention | Synonyms: alertness, wakefulness, watchfulness |
vigilante | (noun) member of a vigilance committee | Synonyms: vigilance man |
---|
vigilantism | (noun) the actions of a vigilance committee in trying to enforce the laws | - |
---|
vignette | (noun) a small illustrative sketch (as sometimes placed at the beginning of chapters in books) | - |
---|
(noun) a photograph whose edges shade off gradually | - |
(noun) a brief literary description | Synonyms: sketch |
vigor | (noun) active strength of body or mind | Synonyms: dynamism, heartiness, vigour |
---|
(noun) an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing) | Synonyms: energy, muscularity, vigour, vim |
(noun) forceful exertion | Synonyms: energy, vigour, zip |
vigorish | (noun) an exorbitant or unlawful rate of interest | Synonyms: usury |
---|
(noun) a percentage (of winnings or loot or profit) taken by an operator or gangster | Synonyms: rake-off |
vigour | (noun) active strength of body or mind | Synonyms: dynamism, heartiness, vigor |
---|
(noun) an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing) | Synonyms: energy, muscularity, vigor, vim |
(noun) forceful exertion | Synonyms: energy, vigor, zip |
vileness | (noun) the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions | Synonyms: loathsomeness, lousiness, repulsiveness, sliminess, wickedness |
---|
(noun) the quality of being wicked | Synonyms: nefariousness, ugliness, wickedness |
vilification | (noun) slanderous defamation | Synonyms: malignment, smear |
---|
(noun) a rude expression intended to offend or hurt | Synonyms: abuse, contumely, insult, revilement |
vilifier | (noun) one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel | Synonyms: backbiter, defamer, libeler, maligner, slanderer, traducer |
---|
villa | (noun) pretentious and luxurious country residence with extensive grounds | - |
---|
(noun) country house in ancient Rome consisting of residential quarters and farm buildings around a courtyard | - |
(noun) detached or semidetached suburban house | - |
village | (noun) a community of people smaller than a town | Synonyms: settlement, small town |
---|
(noun) a settlement smaller than a town | Synonyms: hamlet |
villager | (noun) one who has lived in a village most of their life | - |
---|
villain | (noun) a wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately | Synonyms: scoundrel |
---|
(noun) the principal bad character in a film or work of fiction | Synonyms: baddie |
villainage | (noun) the legal status or condition of servitude of a villein or feudal serf | Synonyms: villeinage |
---|
villainess | (noun) a woman villain | - |
---|
villainousness | (noun) the quality of evil by virtue of villainous behavior | Synonyms: villainy |
---|
villainy | (noun) a criminal or vicious act | - |
---|
(noun) the quality of evil by virtue of villainous behavior | Synonyms: villainousness |
villein | (noun) (Middle Ages) a person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord | Synonyms: helot, serf |
---|
villeinage | (noun) tenure by which a villein held land | - |
---|
(noun) the legal status or condition of servitude of a villein or feudal serf | Synonyms: villainage |
villoma | (noun) a benign epithelial tumor forming a rounded mass | Synonyms: papillary tumor, papillary tumour, papilloma |
---|
villus | (noun) a minute hairlike projection on mucous membrane | - |
---|
vim | (noun) an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing) | Synonyms: energy, muscularity, vigor, vigour |
---|
(noun) a healthy capacity for vigorous activity | Synonyms: energy, vitality |
vinaigrette | (noun) oil and vinegar with mustard and garlic | Synonyms: French dressing, sauce vinaigrette |
---|
vinblastine | (noun) periwinkle plant derivative used as an antineoplastic drug (trade name Velban) that disrupts cell division | Synonyms: Velban |
---|
vincristine | (noun) periwinkle plant derivative used as an antineoplastic drug (trade name Oncovin); used to treat cancer of the lymphatic system | Synonyms: Oncovin |
---|
vindication | (noun) the act of vindicating or defending against criticism or censure etc. | Synonyms: exoneration |
---|
(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 |
---|
vindictiveness | (noun) a malevolent desire for revenge | Synonyms: vengefulness |
---|
vine | (noun) a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface | - |
---|
vinegar | (noun) sour-tasting liquid produced usually by oxidation of the alcohol in wine or cider and used as a condiment or food preservative | Synonyms: acetum |
---|
(noun) dilute acetic acid | - |
vinegariness | (noun) a sourness resembling that of vinegar | Synonyms: vinegarishness |
---|
vinegarishness | (noun) a sourness resembling that of vinegar | Synonyms: vinegariness |
---|
vinegarroon | (noun) large whip-scorpion of Mexico and southern United States that emits a vinegary odor when alarmed | Synonyms: Mastigoproctus giganteus |
---|
vinegarweed | (noun) aromatic plant of western United States | Synonyms: camphorweed, Trichostema lanceolatum, turpentine camphor weed |
---|
vinery | (noun) a farm of grapevines where wine grapes are produced | Synonyms: vineyard |
---|
vineyard | (noun) a farm of grapevines where wine grapes are produced | Synonyms: vinery |
---|
viniculture | (noun) the cultivation of grapes and grape vines; grape growing | Synonyms: viticulture |
---|
vinifera | (noun) common European grape cultivated in many varieties; chief source of Old World wine and table grapes | Synonyms: common grape vine, vinifera grape, Vitis vinifera |
---|
vinification | (noun) the process whereby fermentation changes grape juice into wine | - |
---|
vino | (noun) fermented juice (of grapes especially) | Synonyms: wine |
---|