| turbofan | (noun) a jet engine in which a fan driven by a turbine provides extra air to the burner and gives extra thrust | Synonyms: fan-jet, fanjet, fanjet engine, turbofan engine, turbojet, turbojet engine |
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| (noun) an airplane propelled by a fanjet engine | Synonyms: fan-jet, fanjet, turbojet |
| tutsan | (noun) deciduous bushy Eurasian shrub with golden yellow flowers and reddish-purple fruits from which a soothing salve is made in Spain | Synonyms: common St John's wort, Hypericum androsaemum |
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| tympan | (noun) a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end | Synonyms: drum, membranophone |
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| tyrolean | (noun) soft green felt hat with a feather or brush cockade | Synonyms: tirolean |
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| unchristian | (adjective) not of a Christian faith | - |
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| unclean | (adjective) having a physical or moral blemish so as to make impure according to dietary or ceremonial laws | Synonyms: impure |
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| (adjective) soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime | Synonyms: dirty, soiled |
| underclassman | (noun) an undergraduate who is not yet a senior | Synonyms: lowerclassman |
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| unhuman | (adjective) divested of human qualities or attributes | Synonyms: dehumanised, dehumanized |
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| unman | (verb) cause to lose one's nerve | - |
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| unsectarian | (adjective) not restricted to one sect or school or party | Synonyms: nonsectarian |
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| urban | (adjective) located in or characteristic of a city or city life | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area | - |
| utilitarian | (adjective) having a useful function | Synonyms: useful |
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| (adjective) having utility often to the exclusion of values | - |
| (noun) someone who believes that the value of a thing depends on its utility | - |
| utopian | (adjective) characterized by or aspiring to impracticable perfection | - |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to or resembling a utopia | Synonyms: Utopian |
| valedictorian | (noun) the student with the best grades who usually delivers the valedictory address at commencement | Synonyms: valedictory speaker |
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| valerian | (noun) a plant of the genus Valeriana having lobed or dissected leaves and cymose white or pink flowers | - |
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| valetudinarian | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a person who is a valetudinarian | Synonyms: valetudinary |
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| (noun) weak or sickly person especially one morbidly concerned with his or her health | - |
| valsartan | (noun) an angiotensin II inhibitor that is used to treat high blood pressure | Synonyms: Diovan |
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| van | (noun) a truck with an enclosed cargo space | - |
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| (noun) a camper equipped with living quarters | Synonyms: caravan |
| (noun) (Great Britain) a closed railroad car that carries baggage or freight | - |
| (noun) the leading units moving at the head of an army | Synonyms: vanguard |
| (noun) any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts) | Synonyms: avant-garde, new wave, vanguard |
| varan | (noun) any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia; fabled to warn of crocodiles | Synonyms: monitor, monitor lizard |
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| vaudevillian | (noun) a performer who works in vaudeville | - |
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| vegan | (noun) a strict vegetarian; someone who eats no animal or dairy products; may also avoid using animal products (e.g. leather) | - |
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| vegetarian | (noun) eater of fruits and grains and nuts; someone who eats no meat or fish or (often) any animal products | - |
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| vestryman | (noun) a man who is a member of a church vestry | - |
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| vestrywoman | (noun) a woman who is a member of a church vestry | - |
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| vesuvian | (noun) a green or yellow or brown mineral consisting of a hydrated silicate; it occurs as crystals in limestone and is used a gemstone | Synonyms: idocrase, vesuvianite |
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| veteran | (adjective) rendered competent through trial and experience | Synonyms: seasoned |
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| (noun) an experienced person who has been through many battles; someone who has given long service | Synonyms: old-timer, old hand, old stager, oldtimer, stager, warhorse |
| (noun) a person who has served in the armed forces | Synonyms: ex-serviceman, vet |
| (noun) a serviceman who has seen considerable active service | Synonyms: veteran soldier |
| veterinarian | (noun) a doctor who practices veterinary medicine | Synonyms: vet, veterinary, veterinary surgeon |
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| victorian | (adjective) exaggeratedly proper | Synonyms: priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced |
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| vulgarian | (noun) a vulgar person (especially someone who makes a vulgar display of wealth) | - |
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| wan | (adjective) abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress | Synonyms: pale, pallid |
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| (adjective) (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble | Synonyms: pale, pallid, sick |
| (adjective) lacking vitality as from weariness or illness or unhappiness | - |
| (verb) become pale and sickly | - |
| warehouseman | (noun) a workman who manages or works in a warehouse | Synonyms: warehouser |
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| washerman | (noun) a man who operates an industrial washing machine | Synonyms: laundryman |
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| washerwoman | (noun) a working woman who takes in washing | Synonyms: laundress, laundrywoman, washwoman |
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| washman | (noun) a working woman who takes in washing | - |
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| washwoman | (noun) a working woman who takes in washing | Synonyms: laundress, laundrywoman, washerwoman |
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| watchman | (noun) a guard who keeps watch | Synonyms: security guard, watcher |
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| waterman | (noun) someone who drives or rides in a boat | Synonyms: boater, boatman |
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| wean | (verb) gradually deprive (infants and young mammals) of mother's milk | Synonyms: ablactate |
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| (verb) detach the affections of | - |
| weatherman | (noun) predicts the weather | Synonyms: weather forecaster |
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| widowman | (noun) a man whose wife is dead especially one who has not remarried | Synonyms: widower |
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| wingman | (noun) the pilot who positions his aircraft outside and behind (on the wing of) the leader of a flying formation | - |
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| wingspan | (noun) linear distance between the extremities of an airfoil | Synonyms: wingspread |
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| wireman | (noun) a worker who installs and repairs electric wiring | Synonyms: wirer |
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| wolfman | (noun) a monster able to change appearance from human to wolf and back again | Synonyms: loup-garou, lycanthrope, werewolf |
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| woman | (noun) women as a class | Synonyms: fair sex, womanhood |
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| (noun) an adult female person (as opposed to a man) | Synonyms: adult female |
| (noun) a female person who plays a significant role (wife or mistress or girlfriend) in the life of a particular man | - |
| woodman | (noun) someone who lives in the woods | Synonyms: woodsman |
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| (noun) makes things out of wood | Synonyms: woodsman, woodworker |
| woodsman | (noun) someone who lives in the woods | Synonyms: woodman |
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| (noun) makes things out of wood | Synonyms: woodman, woodworker |
| workingman | (noun) an employee who performs manual or industrial labor | Synonyms: working man, working person, workman |
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| workman | (noun) an employee who performs manual or industrial labor | Synonyms: working man, working person, workingman |
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| yachtsman | (noun) a male person who owns or sails a yacht | - |
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| yachtswoman | (noun) a female person who owns or sails a yacht | - |
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| yardman | (noun) a laborer hired to do outdoor work (such as mowing lawns) | - |
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| (noun) worker in a railway yard | - |
| yataghan | (noun) a long Turkish knife with a curved blade having a single edge | - |
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| yeoman | (noun) in former times was free and cultivated his own land | - |
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| (noun) officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch | Synonyms: beefeater, yeoman of the guard |
| yuan | (noun) the basic unit of money in China | Synonyms: kwai |
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| zaman | (noun) large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and seed pods that are eaten by cattle | Synonyms: Albizia saman, monkey pod, monkeypod, rain tree, saman, zamang |
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