varicosis | (noun) pathological condition of being varicose or having varicose veins | - |
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varicosity | (noun) varix or varicose condition in which a vein is swollen and tortuous | - |
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varied | (adjective) characterized by variety | - |
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(adjective) broken away from sameness or identity or duplication | - |
(adjective) widely different | Synonyms: wide-ranging |
variedness | (noun) characterized by variation | - |
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variegate | (verb) make something more diverse and varied | Synonyms: motley, vary |
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(verb) change the appearance of, especially by marking with different colors | - |
variegated | (adjective) having a variety of colors | Synonyms: varicolored, varicoloured |
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variegation | (noun) the act of introducing variety (especially in investments or in the variety of goods and services offered) | Synonyms: diversification |
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(noun) variability in coloration | - |
varietal | (noun) a wine made principally from one grape and carrying the name of that grape | Synonyms: varietal wine |
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variety | (noun) noticeable heterogeneity | Synonyms: diverseness, diversity, multifariousness |
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(noun) a difference that is usually pleasant | Synonyms: change |
(noun) a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality | Synonyms: form, kind, sort |
(noun) a show consisting of a series of short unrelated performances | Synonyms: variety show |
(noun) (biology) a taxonomic category consisting of members of a species that differ from others of the same species in minor but heritable characteristics | - |
(noun) a collection containing a variety of sorts of things | Synonyms: assortment, miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, motley, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord |
variform | (adjective) varying in form or shape | - |
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variola | (noun) a highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars | Synonyms: smallpox, variola major |
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variolar | (adjective) relating to small pox | Synonyms: variolic, variolous |
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variolation | (noun) the obsolete process of inoculating a susceptible person with material taken from a vesicle of a person who has smallpox | Synonyms: variolization |
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variolic | (adjective) relating to small pox | Synonyms: variolar, variolous |
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variolization | (noun) the obsolete process of inoculating a susceptible person with material taken from a vesicle of a person who has smallpox | Synonyms: variolation |
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variolous | (adjective) relating to small pox | Synonyms: variolar, variolic |
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variometer | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring variations in a magnetic field | - |
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variorum | (noun) an edition containing various versions of a text or notes by various scholars or editors | Synonyms: variorum edition |
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various | (adjective) distinctly dissimilar or unlike | Synonyms: diverse |
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(adjective) considered individually | Synonyms: respective, several |
(adjective) of many different kinds purposefully arranged but lacking any uniformity | Synonyms: assorted |
(adjective) having great diversity or variety | Synonyms: versatile |
variously | (adverb) in diverse ways | Synonyms: diversely, multifariously |
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varix | (noun) abnormally enlarged or twisted blood vessel or lymphatic vessel | - |
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varlet | (noun) in medieval times a youth acting as a knight's attendant as the first stage in training for knighthood | Synonyms: page |
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(noun) a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel | Synonyms: knave, rapscallion, rascal, rogue, scalawag, scallywag |
varment | (noun) any usually predatory wild animal considered undesirable; e.g., coyote | Synonyms: varmint |
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varmint | (noun) any usually predatory wild animal considered undesirable; e.g., coyote | Synonyms: varment |
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(noun) an irritating or obnoxious person | Synonyms: vermin |
varna | (noun) (Hinduism) the name for the original social division of Vedic people into four groups (which are subdivided into thousands of jatis) | - |
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varnish | (noun) a coating that provides a hard, lustrous, transparent finish to a surface | - |
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(verb) cover with varnish | Synonyms: seal |
varnished | (adjective) having a coating of stain or varnish | Synonyms: stained |
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varnisher | (noun) someone who applies a finishing coat of varnish | - |
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varsity | (noun) a British abbreviation of `university'; usually refers to Oxford University or Cambridge University | - |
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(noun) a team representing a college or university | Synonyms: first team |
varus | (noun) a deformity in which part of a limb is turned inward to an abnormal degree | - |
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vary | (verb) become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence | Synonyms: alter, change |
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(verb) make something more diverse and varied | Synonyms: motley, variegate |
(verb) be at variance with; be out of line with | Synonyms: depart, deviate, diverge |
(verb) be subject to change in accordance with a variable | - |
varying | (adjective) marked by diversity or difference | Synonyms: variable |
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vas | (noun) a tube in which a body fluid circulates | Synonyms: vessel |
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vascular | (adjective) of or relating to or having vessels that conduct and circulate fluids | - |
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vascularisation | (noun) the organic process whereby body tissue becomes vascular and develops capillaries | Synonyms: vascularization |
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vascularise | (verb) make vascular | Synonyms: vascularize |
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(verb) become vascular and have vessels that circulate fluids | Synonyms: vascularize |
vascularity | (noun) the property being vascular | - |
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vascularization | (noun) the organic process whereby body tissue becomes vascular and develops capillaries | Synonyms: vascularisation |
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vascularize | (verb) make vascular | Synonyms: vascularise |
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(verb) become vascular and have vessels that circulate fluids | Synonyms: vascularise |
vasculitis | (noun) inflammation of a blood vessel | - |
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vase | (noun) an open jar of glass or porcelain used as an ornament or to hold flowers | - |
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vasectomise | (verb) remove the vas deferens | Synonyms: vasectomize |
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vasectomize | (verb) remove the vas deferens | Synonyms: vasectomise |
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vasectomy | (noun) surgical procedure that removes all or part of the vas deferens (usually as a means of sterilization); is sometimes reversible | - |
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vasiform | (adjective) constituting a tube; having hollow tubes (as for the passage of fluids) | Synonyms: cannular, tube-shaped, tubelike, tubular |
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vasoconstriction | (noun) decrease in the diameter of blood vessels | - |
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vasoconstrictive | (noun) any agent that causes a narrowing of an opening of a blood vessel: cold or stress or nicotine or epinephrine or norepinephrine or angiotensin or vasopressin or certain drugs; maintains or increases blood pressure | Synonyms: pressor, vasoconstrictor |
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vasoconstrictor | (noun) any agent that causes a narrowing of an opening of a blood vessel: cold or stress or nicotine or epinephrine or norepinephrine or angiotensin or vasopressin or certain drugs; maintains or increases blood pressure | Synonyms: pressor, vasoconstrictive |
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vasodilation | (noun) dilation of blood vessels (especially the arteries) | - |
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vasodilative | (noun) a drug that causes dilation of blood vessels | Synonyms: vasodilator |
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vasodilator | (noun) a drug that causes dilation of blood vessels | Synonyms: vasodilative |
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vasomotor | (adjective) relating to the nerves and muscles that cause the blood vessels to constrict or dilate | - |
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vasopressin | (noun) hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus; affects blood pressure by stimulating capillary muscles and reduces urine flow by affecting reabsorption of water by kidney tubules | Synonyms: ADH, antidiuretic hormone, Pitressin |
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vasopressor | (noun) any agent that produces vasoconstriction and a rise in blood pressure (usually understood as increased arterial pressure) | - |
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vasosection | (noun) surgical incision into or division of the vas deferens | Synonyms: vasotomy |
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vasotomy | (noun) surgical incision into or division of the vas deferens | Synonyms: vasosection |
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vasovasostomy | (noun) a surgical procedure that attempts to restore the function of the vas deferens after a vasectomy | - |
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vasovesiculitis | (noun) inflammation of the vas deferens and seminal vesicles; usually occurring with prostatitis | - |
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vassal | (noun) a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord | Synonyms: feudatory, liege, liege subject, liegeman |
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vassalage | (noun) the state of a serf | Synonyms: serfdom, serfhood |
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vast | (adjective) unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope | Synonyms: Brobdingnagian, huge, immense |
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vastly | (adverb) to an exceedingly great extent or degree | Synonyms: immensely |
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vastness | (noun) unusual largeness in size or extent or number | Synonyms: enormousness, grandness, greatness, immenseness, immensity, sizeableness, wideness |
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vat | (noun) a large open vessel for holding or storing liquids | Synonyms: tub |
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vatic | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy | Synonyms: divinatory, mantic, sibyllic, sibylline, vatical |
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vatical | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy | Synonyms: divinatory, mantic, sibyllic, sibylline, vatic |
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vaticinate | (verb) predict or reveal through, or as if through, divine inspiration | Synonyms: prophesy |
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(verb) foretell through or as if through the power of prophecy | - |
vaticination | (noun) knowledge of the future (usually said to be obtained from a divine source) | Synonyms: prognostication, prophecy |
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vaticinator | (noun) an authoritative person who divines the future | Synonyms: oracle, prophesier, prophet, seer |
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vaudeville | (noun) a variety show with songs and comic acts etc. | Synonyms: music hall |
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vaudevillian | (noun) a performer who works in vaudeville | - |
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vault | (noun) the act of jumping over an obstacle | Synonyms: hurdle |
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(noun) an arched brick or stone ceiling or roof | - |
(noun) a burial chamber (usually underground) | Synonyms: burial vault |
(noun) a strongroom or compartment (often made of steel) for safekeeping of valuables | Synonyms: bank vault |
(verb) bound vigorously | - |
(verb) jump across or leap over (an obstacle) | Synonyms: overleap |
vaulted | (adjective) having a hemispherical vault or dome | Synonyms: domed |
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vaulter | (noun) an athlete who jumps over a high crossbar with the aid of a long pole | Synonyms: pole jumper, pole vaulter |
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vaulting | (adjective) revealing excessive self-confidence; reaching for the heights | Synonyms: overreaching |
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(noun) a light leap by a horse in which both hind legs leave the ground before the forelegs come down | Synonyms: curvet |
(noun) (architecture) a vaulted structure | - |
vaunt | (noun) extravagant self-praise | - |
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(verb) show off | Synonyms: blow, bluster, boast, brag, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, swash, tout |
vaunter | (noun) a very boastful and talkative person | Synonyms: blowhard, boaster, braggart, bragger, line-shooter |
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vauntingly | (adverb) in a boastful manner | Synonyms: big, boastfully, large |
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veal | (noun) meat from a calf | Synonyms: veau |
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veau | (noun) meat from a calf | Synonyms: veal |
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vector | (noun) (genetics) a virus or other agent that is used to deliver DNA to a cell | - |
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(noun) a variable quantity that can be resolved into components | - |
(noun) any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease | Synonyms: transmitter |
(noun) a straight line segment whose length is magnitude and whose orientation in space is direction | - |
vedalia | (noun) native to Australia; introduced elsewhere to control scale insects | Synonyms: Rodolia cardinalis |
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veer | (verb) shift to a clockwise direction | - |
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(verb) turn sharply; change direction abruptly | Synonyms: curve, cut, sheer, slew, slue, swerve, trend |
veering | (noun) the act of turning aside suddenly | Synonyms: swerve, swerving |
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veery | (noun) tawny brown North American thrush noted for its song | Synonyms: Hylocichla fuscescens, Wilson's thrush |
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veg | (noun) edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant | Synonyms: vegetable, veggie |
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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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vegetable | (noun) edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant | Synonyms: veg, veggie |
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(noun) any of various herbaceous plants cultivated for an edible part such as the fruit or the root of the beet or the leaf of spinach or the seeds of bean plants or the flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower | - |
vegetal | (adjective) composed of vegetation or plants | Synonyms: vegetational, vegetative |
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(adjective) (of reproduction) characterized by asexual processes | Synonyms: vegetative |
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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vegetarianism | (noun) a diet excluding all meat and fish | - |
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vegetate | (verb) engage in passive relaxation | Synonyms: veg out |
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(verb) propagate asexually | - |
(verb) grow like a plant | - |
(verb) produce vegetation | - |
(verb) establish vegetation on | - |
(verb) grow or spread abnormally | - |
(verb) lead a passive existence without using one's body or mind | - |
vegetation | (noun) inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life | - |
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(noun) an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart) | - |
(noun) all the plant life in a particular region or period | Synonyms: botany, flora |
(noun) the process of growth in plants | - |
vegetational | (adjective) composed of vegetation or plants | Synonyms: vegetal, vegetative |
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vegetative | (adjective) composed of vegetation or plants | Synonyms: vegetal, vegetational |
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(adjective) of or relating to an activity that is passive and monotonous | Synonyms: vegetive |
(adjective) (of reproduction) characterized by asexual processes | Synonyms: vegetal |
(adjective) relating to involuntary bodily functions | - |
vegetive | (adjective) of or relating to an activity that is passive and monotonous | Synonyms: vegetative |
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veggie | (noun) edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant | Synonyms: veg, vegetable |
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vehemence | (noun) the property of being wild or turbulent | Synonyms: ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, violence, wildness |
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(noun) intensity or forcefulness of expression | Synonyms: emphasis |
vehement | (adjective) marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid | Synonyms: fierce, tearing, trigger-happy, violent |
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(adjective) characterized by great force or energy | - |
vehemently | (adverb) in a vehement manner | - |
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