| avoid | (verb) stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something | - |
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| (verb) refrain from certain foods or beverages | Synonyms: keep off |
| (verb) declare invalid | Synonyms: annul, invalidate, nullify, quash, void |
| (verb) prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off | Synonyms: avert, debar, deflect, fend off, forefend, forfend, head off, obviate, stave off, ward off |
| (verb) refrain from doing something | - |
| avoidable | (adjective) capable of being avoided or warded off | Synonyms: avertable, avertible, evitable |
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| avoidance | (noun) deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening | Synonyms: dodging, shunning, turning away |
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| avoirdupois | (noun) excess bodily weight | Synonyms: blubber, fat, fatness |
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| (noun) a system of weights based on the 16-ounce pound (or 7,000 grains) | Synonyms: avoirdupois weight |
| devoice | (verb) utter with tense vocal chords | - |
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| devoid | (adjective) completely wanting or lacking | Synonyms: barren, destitute, free, innocent |
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| devoir | (noun) formal expression of respect | - |
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| envoi | (noun) a brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetry | Synonyms: envoy |
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| invoice | (noun) an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered | Synonyms: account, bill |
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| (verb) send a bill to | - |
| ovoid | (adjective) rounded like an egg | Synonyms: egg-shaped, elliptic, elliptical, oval-shaped, oval, ovate, oviform, prolate |
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| (noun) an egg-shaped object | - |
| reservoir | (noun) tank used for collecting and storing a liquid (as water or oil) | - |
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| (noun) lake used to store water for community use; a lake (natural or artificial) used to store water and used as a source of water | Synonyms: artificial lake, man-made lake |
| (noun) anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies | Synonyms: source |
| (noun) a large or extra supply of something | - |
| unavoidability | (noun) the quality of being impossible to avoid or evade | Synonyms: ineluctability |
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| unavoidable | (adjective) impossible to avoid or evade | Synonyms: ineluctable, inescapable |
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| unavoidably | (adverb) by necessity | Synonyms: ineluctably, inescapably, inevitably |
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| unvoiced | (adjective) produced without vibration of the vocal cords | Synonyms: hard, surd, voiceless |
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| (adjective) not made explicit | Synonyms: unexpressed, unsaid, unspoken, unstated, unuttered, unverbalised, unverbalized |
| 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 | - |
| (verb) give voice to | - |
| (verb) utter with vibrating vocal chords | Synonyms: sound, vocalise, vocalize |
| voiced | (adjective) produced with vibration of the vocal cords | Synonyms: soft, sonant |
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| (adjective) communicated in words | Synonyms: expressed, uttered, verbalised, verbalized |
| voiceless | (adjective) deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote | Synonyms: disenfranchised, disfranchised, voteless |
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| (adjective) produced without vibration of the vocal cords | Synonyms: hard, surd, unvoiced |
| (adjective) being without sound through injury or illness and thus incapable of all but whispered speech | Synonyms: aphonic |
| (adjective) uttered without voice | Synonyms: breathed |
| 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 | (adjective) containing nothing | - |
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| (adjective) lacking any legal or binding force | Synonyms: null |
| (noun) an empty area or space | Synonyms: emptiness, vacancy, vacuum |
| (noun) the state of nonexistence | Synonyms: nihility, nothingness, nullity |
| (verb) excrete or discharge from the body | Synonyms: empty, evacuate |
| (verb) take away the legal force of or render ineffective | Synonyms: invalidate, vitiate |
| (verb) clear (a room, house, place) of occupants or empty or clear (a place or receptacle) of something | - |
| (verb) declare invalid | Synonyms: annul, avoid, invalidate, nullify, quash |
| voidable | (adjective) capable of being rescinded or voided | Synonyms: rescindable |
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| 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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