vinaigrette | (noun) oil and vinegar with mustard and garlic | Synonyms: French dressing, sauce vinaigrette |
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vinblastine | (noun) periwinkle plant derivative used as an antineoplastic drug (trade name Velban) that disrupts cell division | Synonyms: Velban |
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vincristine | (noun) periwinkle plant derivative used as an antineoplastic drug (trade name Oncovin); used to treat cancer of the lymphatic system | Synonyms: Oncovin |
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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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vindictiveness | (noun) a malevolent desire for revenge | Synonyms: vengefulness |
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vine | (noun) a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface | - |
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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 |
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(noun) dilute acetic acid | - |
vinegariness | (noun) a sourness resembling that of vinegar | Synonyms: vinegarishness |
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vinegarishness | (noun) a sourness resembling that of vinegar | Synonyms: vinegariness |
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vinegarroon | (noun) large whip-scorpion of Mexico and southern United States that emits a vinegary odor when alarmed | Synonyms: Mastigoproctus giganteus |
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vinegarweed | (noun) aromatic plant of western United States | Synonyms: camphorweed, Trichostema lanceolatum, turpentine camphor weed |
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vinery | (noun) a farm of grapevines where wine grapes are produced | Synonyms: vineyard |
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vineyard | (noun) a farm of grapevines where wine grapes are produced | Synonyms: vinery |
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viniculture | (noun) the cultivation of grapes and grape vines; grape growing | Synonyms: viticulture |
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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 |
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vinification | (noun) the process whereby fermentation changes grape juice into wine | - |
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vino | (noun) fermented juice (of grapes especially) | Synonyms: wine |
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vintage | (noun) the oldness of wines | Synonyms: time of origin |
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(noun) a season's yield of wine from a vineyard | - |
vintager | (noun) a person who harvests grapes for making wine | - |
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vintner | (noun) someone who makes wine | Synonyms: wine maker, winemaker |
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(noun) someone who sells wine | Synonyms: wine merchant |
vinyl | (noun) a univalent chemical radical derived from ethylene | Synonyms: vinyl group, vinyl radical |
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(noun) shiny and tough and flexible plastic; used especially for floor coverings | - |
vinylbenzene | (noun) a colorless oily liquid; the monomer for polystyrene | Synonyms: cinnamene, phenylethylene, styrene |
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