| vocable | (noun) a word that is spoken aloud | Synonyms: spoken word |
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| vocabulary | (noun) a language user's knowledge of words | Synonyms: lexicon, mental lexicon |
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| (noun) the system of techniques or symbols serving as a means of expression (as in arts or crafts) | - |
| (noun) a listing of the words used in some enterprise | - |
| vocal | (noun) music intended to be performed by one or more singers, usually with instrumental accompaniment | Synonyms: vocal music |
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| (noun) a short musical composition with words | Synonyms: song |
| vocalisation | (noun) the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract | Synonyms: phonation, vocalism, vocalization, voice, vox |
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| vocaliser | (noun) a person who sings | Synonyms: singer, vocalist, vocalizer |
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| (noun) an organism that can utter vocal sounds | Synonyms: utterer, vocalizer |
| vocalism | (noun) the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract | Synonyms: phonation, vocalisation, vocalization, voice, vox |
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| (noun) the system of vowels used in a particular language | Synonyms: vowel system |
| vocalist | (noun) a person who sings | Synonyms: singer, vocaliser, vocalizer |
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| vocalization | (noun) the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract | Synonyms: phonation, vocalisation, vocalism, voice, vox |
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| (noun) the use of uttered sounds for auditory communication | Synonyms: utterance |
| vocalizer | (noun) a person who sings | Synonyms: singer, vocaliser, vocalist |
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| (noun) an organism that can utter vocal sounds | Synonyms: utterer, vocaliser |
| vocalizing | (noun) the act of singing vocal music | Synonyms: singing |
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| 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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| vociferation | (noun) a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition | Synonyms: call, cry, outcry, shout, yell |
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| vociferator | (noun) a loud and vehement speaker (usually in protest) | - |
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| vodka | (noun) unaged colorless liquor originating in Russia | - |
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| vodoun | (noun) a religious cult practiced chiefly in Caribbean countries (especially Haiti); involves witchcraft and animistic deities | Synonyms: hoodooism, voodoo, voodooism |
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| vogue | (noun) the popular taste at a given time | Synonyms: style, trend |
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| (noun) a current state of general acceptance and use | - |
| voice | (noun) a means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated | - |
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| (noun) the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech | - |
| (noun) the ability to speak | - |
| (noun) the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract | Synonyms: phonation, vocalisation, vocalism, vocalization, vox |
| (noun) expressing in coherent verbal form | Synonyms: articulation |
| (noun) the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music | Synonyms: part |
| (noun) something suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression | - |
| (noun) A term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds, with sounds described as either voiceless (unvoiced) or voiced. | - |
| (noun) a sound suggestive of a vocal utterance | - |
| (noun) an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose | Synonyms: interpreter, representative, spokesperson |
| (noun) (metonymy) a singer | - |
| (noun) (linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes | - |
| voicelessness | (noun) having no voice in the management or control of affairs | - |
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| (noun) speaking softly without vibration of the vocal cords | Synonyms: susurration, whisper, whispering |
| (noun) (phonetics, of a consonant) The property of being spoken without vibration of the vocal cords, as [t], [s], or [f]. | - |
| (noun) a disorder of the vocal organs that results in the loss of voice | Synonyms: aphonia |
| voicemail | (noun) a computerized system for answering and routing telephone calls; telephone messages can be recorded and stored and relayed | Synonyms: voice mail |
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| voiceprint | (noun) biometric identification by electronically recording and graphically representing a person's voice | - |
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| voicer | (noun) a speaker who voices an opinion | - |
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| (noun) someone who regulates the tone of organ pipes | - |
| voicing | (noun) the act of adjusting an organ pipe (or wind instrument) so that it conforms to the standards of tone and pitch and color | - |
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| void | (noun) an empty area or space | Synonyms: emptiness, vacancy, vacuum |
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| (noun) the state of nonexistence | Synonyms: nihility, nothingness, nullity |
| voidance | (noun) the act of removing the contents of something | Synonyms: emptying, evacuation |
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| voider | (noun) a hamper that holds dirty clothes to be washed or wet clothes to be dried | Synonyms: clothes basket, clothes hamper, laundry basket |
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| (noun) a piece of chain mail covering a place unprotected by armor plate | Synonyms: gusset |
| (noun) an official who can invalidate or nullify | Synonyms: invalidator, nullifier |
| (noun) a person who defecates | Synonyms: defecator, shitter |
| voiding | (noun) the bodily process of discharging waste matter | Synonyms: elimination, evacuation, excreting, excretion |
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| voile | (noun) a light semitransparent fabric | - |
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| volaille | (noun) the flesh of a chicken used for food | Synonyms: chicken, poulet |
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| volary | (noun) a building where birds are kept | Synonyms: aviary, bird sanctuary |
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| volatile | (noun) a volatile substance; a substance that changes readily from solid or liquid to a vapor | - |
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| volatility | (noun) being easily excited | Synonyms: excitability, excitableness |
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| (noun) the trait of being unpredictably irresolute | Synonyms: unpredictability |
| (noun) the property of changing readily from a solid or liquid to a vapor | - |
| volcanism | (noun) the phenomena associated with volcanic activity | - |
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| volcano | (noun) a mountain formed by volcanic material | - |
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| (noun) a fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt | Synonyms: vent |
| volcanology | (noun) the branch of geology that studies volcanoes | Synonyms: vulcanology |
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| vole | (noun) any of various small mouselike rodents of the family Cricetidae (especially of genus Microtus) having a stout short-tailed body and inconspicuous ears and inhabiting fields or meadows | Synonyms: field mouse |
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| volition | (noun) the act of making a choice | Synonyms: willing |
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| (noun) the capability of conscious choice and decision and intention | Synonyms: will |
| volley | (noun) rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms | Synonyms: burst, fusillade, salvo |
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| (noun) a tennis return made by hitting the ball before it bounces | - |
| volleyball | (noun) a game in which two teams hit an inflated ball over a high net using their hands | Synonyms: volley ball, volleyball game |
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| (noun) an inflated ball used in playing volleyball | Synonyms: volley ball |
| volt | (noun) a unit of potential equal to the potential difference between two points on a conductor carrying a current of 1 ampere when the power dissipated between the two points is 1 watt; equivalent to the potential difference across a resistance of 1 ohm when 1 ampere of current flows through it | Synonyms: V |
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| voltage | (noun) the difference in electrical charge between two points in a circuit expressed in volts | Synonyms: electric potential, potential, potential difference, potential drop |
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| (noun) the rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit; expressed in volts | Synonyms: electromotive force, emf |
| voltmeter | (noun) meter that measures the potential difference between two points | - |
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| volubility | (noun) the quality of being facile in speech and writing | Synonyms: articulateness, fluency |
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| volume | (noun) physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together | Synonyms: book |
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| (noun) the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction) | Synonyms: intensity, loudness |
| (noun) the property of something that is great in magnitude | Synonyms: bulk, mass |
| (noun) a publication that is one of a set of several similar publications | - |
| (noun) the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object | - |
| (noun) a relative amount | - |
| volumeter | (noun) a meter to measure the volume of gases, liquids, or solids (either directly or by displacement) | - |
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| voluminosity | (noun) greatness of volume | Synonyms: fullness, voluminousness |
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| voluminousness | (noun) greatness of volume | Synonyms: fullness, voluminosity |
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| voluntary | (noun) composition (often improvised) for a solo instrument (especially solo organ) and not a regular part of a religious service or musical performance | - |
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| (noun) (military) a person who freely enlists for service | Synonyms: military volunteer, volunteer |
| volunteer | (noun) a person who performs voluntary work | Synonyms: unpaid worker |
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| (noun) (military) a person who freely enlists for service | Synonyms: military volunteer, voluntary |
| voluptuary | (noun) a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses | Synonyms: sybarite |
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| voluptuousness | (noun) the quality of having a well-rounded body | Synonyms: curvaceousness, shapeliness |
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| (noun) the property of being lush and abundant and a pleasure to the senses | Synonyms: lushness, luxuriance |
| (noun) the quality of being attractive and exciting (especially sexually exciting) | Synonyms: hot stuff |
| volute | (noun) a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops | Synonyms: coil, helix, spiral, whorl |
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| (noun) ornament consisting of a curve on a plane that winds around a center with an increasing distance from the center | Synonyms: spiral |
| volution | (noun) a rolling or revolving motion | - |
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| volva | (noun) cuplike structure around the base of the stalk of certain fungi | - |
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| volvelle | (noun) a circular slide chart having rotating parts | Synonyms: wheel chart |
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| volvulus | (noun) abnormal twisting of the intestines (usually in the area of the ileum or sigmoid colon) resulting in intestinal obstruction | - |
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| vomer | (noun) thin trapezoidal bone of the skull forming the posterior and inferior parts of the nasal septum | - |
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| vomit | (noun) the reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: disgorgement, emesis, puking, regurgitation, vomiting |
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| (noun) a medicine that induces nausea and vomiting | Synonyms: emetic, nauseant, vomitive |
| (noun) the matter ejected in vomiting | Synonyms: barf, puke, vomitus |
| vomiter | (noun) a person who vomits | Synonyms: spewer |
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| vomiting | (noun) the reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: disgorgement, emesis, puking, regurgitation, vomit |
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| vomitive | (noun) a medicine that induces nausea and vomiting | Synonyms: emetic, nauseant, vomit |
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| vomitory | (noun) an entrance to an amphitheater or stadium | - |
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| vomitus | (noun) the matter ejected in vomiting | Synonyms: barf, puke, vomit |
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| voodoo | (noun) a charm superstitiously believed to embody magical powers | Synonyms: fetich, fetish, hoodoo, juju |
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| (noun) a religious cult practiced chiefly in Caribbean countries (especially Haiti); involves witchcraft and animistic deities | Synonyms: hoodooism, vodoun, voodooism |
| (noun) (Haiti) followers of a religion that involves witchcraft and animistic deities | - |
| voodooism | (noun) a religious cult practiced chiefly in Caribbean countries (especially Haiti); involves witchcraft and animistic deities | Synonyms: hoodooism, vodoun, voodoo |
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| voraciousness | (noun) extreme gluttony | Synonyms: edacity, esurience, rapaciousness, rapacity, voracity |
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| (noun) an excessive desire for wealth (usually in large amounts) | Synonyms: greediness, rapaciousness |
| (noun) excessive desire to eat | Synonyms: edacity, esurience, ravenousness, voracity |
| voracity | (noun) extreme gluttony | Synonyms: edacity, esurience, rapaciousness, rapacity, voraciousness |
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| (noun) excessive desire to eat | Synonyms: edacity, esurience, ravenousness, voraciousness |
| vortex | (noun) a powerful circular current of water (usually the result of conflicting tides) | Synonyms: maelstrom, whirlpool |
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| (noun) the shape of something rotating rapidly | Synonyms: convolution, swirl, whirl |
| vorticella | (noun) any of various protozoa having a transparent goblet-shaped body with a retractile stalk | - |
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| votary | (noun) one bound by vows to a religion or life of worship or service | - |
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| (noun) a priest or priestess (or consecrated worshipper) in a non-Christian religion or cult | - |
| (noun) a devoted (almost religiously so) adherent of a cause or person or activity | - |
| vote | (noun) a choice that is made by counting the number of people in favor of each alternative | Synonyms: ballot, balloting, voting |
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| (noun) the opinion of a group as determined by voting | - |
| (noun) a legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US Constitution; guaranteed to women by the 19th amendment | Synonyms: right to vote, suffrage |
| (noun) the total number of voters who participated | Synonyms: voter turnout |
| (noun) a body of voters who have the same interests | - |
| voter | (noun) a citizen who has a legal right to vote | Synonyms: elector |
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| voting | (noun) a choice that is made by counting the number of people in favor of each alternative | Synonyms: ballot, balloting, vote |
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| vouchee | (noun) (law) a person called into court to defend a title | - |
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| voucher | (noun) a negotiable certificate that can be detached and redeemed as needed | Synonyms: coupon |
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| (noun) a document that serves as evidence of some expenditure | - |
| (noun) someone who vouches for another or for the correctness of a statement | Synonyms: verifier |
| vouge | (noun) a kind of pike used by foot soldiers in the 14th century | - |
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| voussoir | (noun) wedge-shaped stone building block used in constructing an arch or vault | - |
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| vow | (noun) a solemn pledge (to oneself or to another or to a deity) to do something or to behave in a certain manner | - |
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| vowel | (noun) a speech sound made with the vocal tract open | Synonyms: vowel sound |
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| (noun) a letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken vowel | - |
| vower | (noun) someone who makes a solemn promise to do something or behave in a certain way | - |
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| vox | (noun) the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract | Synonyms: phonation, vocalisation, vocalism, vocalization, voice |
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| voyage | (noun) a journey to some distant place | - |
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| (noun) an act of traveling by water | Synonyms: ocean trip |
| voyager | (noun) a traveler to a distant land (especially one who travels by sea) | - |
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| voyeur | (noun) a viewer who enjoys seeing the sex acts or sex organs of others | Synonyms: peeper, Peeping Tom |
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| voyeurism | (noun) a perversion in which a person receives sexual gratification from seeing the genitalia of others or witnessing others' sexual behavior | - |
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| voyeuse | (noun) a chair of the 18th century used at game tables, having a padded top rail on which spectators could lean. | - |
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