| verticil | (noun) a whorl of leaves growing around a stem | - |
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| verticillate | (adjective) forming one or more whorls (especially a whorl of leaves around a stem) | Synonyms: verticillated, whorled |
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| verticillated | (adjective) forming one or more whorls (especially a whorl of leaves around a stem) | Synonyms: verticillate, whorled |
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| verticilliosis | (noun) wilt caused by fungi of the genus Verticillium | - |
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| verticillium | (noun) a fungus of the genus Verticillium | - |
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| vertiginous | (adjective) having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling | Synonyms: dizzy, giddy, woozy |
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| vertigo | (noun) a reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall | Synonyms: dizziness, giddiness, lightheadedness |
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| vertu | (noun) artistic quality | Synonyms: virtu |
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| (noun) love of or taste for fine objects of art | Synonyms: connoisseurship, virtu |
| vervain | (noun) any of numerous tropical or subtropical American plants of the genus Verbena grown for their showy spikes of variously colored flowers | Synonyms: verbena |
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| verve | (noun) an energetic style | Synonyms: vitality |
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| vervet | (noun) South African monkey with black face and hands | Synonyms: Cercopithecus aethiops pygerythrus, vervet monkey |
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| very | (adjective) precisely as stated | - |
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| (adjective) being the exact same one; not any other: | Synonyms: identical, selfsame |
| (adverb) used to give emphasis | Synonyms: rattling, real, really |
| (adverb) precisely so | - |
| vesica | (noun) a distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas) | Synonyms: bladder |
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| vesical | (adjective) of or relating to a bladder (especially the urinary bladder) | - |
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| vesicant | (adjective) causing blisters | Synonyms: vesicatory |
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| (noun) a chemical agent that causes blistering (especially mustard gas) | Synonyms: vesicatory |
| vesicate | (verb) get blistered | Synonyms: blister |
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| vesication | (noun) the formation of vesicles in or beneath the skin | Synonyms: blistering, vesiculation |
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| vesicatory | (adjective) causing blisters | Synonyms: vesicant |
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| (noun) a chemical agent that causes blistering (especially mustard gas) | Synonyms: vesicant |
| vesicle | (noun) a small anatomically normal sac or bladderlike structure (especially one containing fluid) | Synonyms: cyst |
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| vesicopapule | (noun) a papule that changes into a blister | Synonyms: papulovesicle |
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| vesicular | (adjective) of or relating to or involving vesicles | - |
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| vesiculate | (verb) cause to become vesicular or full of air cells | - |
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| (verb) become vesicular or full of air cells | - |
| vesiculation | (noun) the formation of vesicles in or beneath the skin | Synonyms: blistering, vesication |
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| vesiculitis | (noun) inflammation of a seminal vesicle (usually in conjunction with prostatitis) | - |
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| vesiculovirus | (noun) an animal virus that causes vesicular stomatitis | - |
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| vesper | (noun) a late afternoon or evening worship service | - |
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| vespers | (noun) the sixth of the seven canonical hours of the divine office; early evening; now often made a public service on Sundays | Synonyms: evensong |
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| vespertilionid | (noun) a variety of carnivorous bat | Synonyms: vespertilian bat |
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| vespid | (noun) mostly social nest-building wasps | Synonyms: vespid wasp |
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| vessel | (noun) a craft designed for water transportation | Synonyms: watercraft |
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| (noun) an object used as a container (especially for liquids) | - |
| (noun) a tube in which a body fluid circulates | Synonyms: vas |
| vest | (noun) a collarless men's undergarment for the upper part of the body | Synonyms: singlet, undershirt |
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| (noun) a man's sleeveless garment worn underneath a coat | Synonyms: waistcoat |
| (verb) clothe formally; especially in ecclesiastical robes | Synonyms: robe |
| (verb) clothe oneself in ecclesiastical garments | - |
| (verb) place (authority, property, or rights) in the control of a person or group of persons | - |
| (verb) become legally vested | - |
| (verb) provide with power and authority | Synonyms: enthrone, invest |
| vestal | (adjective) of or relating to Vesta | - |
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| (adjective) in a state of sexual virginity | Synonyms: pure, virgin, virginal, virtuous |
| (noun) a chaste woman | - |
| vested | (adjective) fixed and absolute and without contingency | - |
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| vestiary | (adjective) relating to clothing (especially vestments) | - |
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| vestibular | (adjective) relating to the sense of equilibrium | - |
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| vestibule | (noun) a large entrance or reception room or area | Synonyms: antechamber, anteroom, entrance hall, foyer, hall, lobby |
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| (noun) any of various bodily cavities leading to another cavity (as of the ear or vagina) | - |
| vestige | (noun) an indication that something has been present | Synonyms: shadow, tincture, trace |
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| vestigial | (adjective) not fully developed in mature animals | Synonyms: rudimentary |
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| vestiture | (noun) an archaic term for clothing | - |
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| vestment | (noun) gown (especially ceremonial garments) worn by the clergy | - |
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| vestmental | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a vestment | - |
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| vestmented | (adjective) dressed in ceremonial garments especially clerical vestment | - |
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| vestry | (noun) a room in a church where sacred vessels and vestments are kept or meetings are held | Synonyms: sacristy |
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| (noun) in the Protestant Episcopal Church: a committee elected by the congregation to work with the churchwardens in managing the temporal affairs of the church | - |
| 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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| vesture | (noun) a covering designed to be worn on a person's body | Synonyms: article of clothing, clothing, habiliment, wear, wearable |
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| (noun) something that covers or cloaks like a garment | - |
| (verb) provide or cover with a cloak | - |
| 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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| vesuvianite | (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, vesuvian |
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| vet | (noun) a doctor who practices veterinary medicine | Synonyms: veterinarian, veterinary, veterinary surgeon |
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| (noun) a person who has served in the armed forces | Synonyms: ex-serviceman, veteran |
| (verb) provide veterinary care for | - |
| (verb) provide (a person) with medical care | - |
| (verb) examine carefully | - |
| (verb) work as a veterinarian | - |
| vetch | (noun) any of various climbing plants of the genus Vicia having pinnately compound leaves that terminate in tendrils and small variously colored flowers; includes valuable forage and soil-building plants | - |
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| vetchling | (noun) any of various small plants of the genus Lathyrus; climb usually by means of tendrils | - |
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| vetchworm | (noun) larva of a noctuid moth; highly destructive to especially corn and cotton and tomato crops | Synonyms: corn earworm, cotton bollworm, Heliothis zia, tobacco budworm, tomato fruitworm |
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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 |
| veterancy | (noun) a state or condition of being a veteran | - |
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| veterinarian | (noun) a doctor who practices veterinary medicine | Synonyms: vet, veterinary, veterinary surgeon |
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| veterinary | (adjective) of or relating to veterinarians or veterinary medicine | - |
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| (noun) a doctor who practices veterinary medicine | Synonyms: vet, veterinarian, veterinary surgeon |
| veto | (noun) a vote that blocks a decision | - |
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| (noun) the power or right to prohibit or reject a proposed or intended act (especially the power of a chief executive to reject a bill passed by the legislature) | - |
| (verb) command against | Synonyms: disallow, forbid, interdict, nix, prohibit, proscribe |
| (verb) vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent | Synonyms: blackball, negative |
| vex | (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy |
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| (verb) subject to prolonged examination, discussion, or deliberation | - |
| (verb) change the arrangement or position of | Synonyms: agitate, commove, disturb, raise up, shake up, stir up |
| (verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile |
| (verb) disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress | Synonyms: worry |
| vexation | (noun) the act of troubling or annoying someone | Synonyms: annoyance, annoying, irritation |
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| (noun) something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness | Synonyms: concern, headache, worry |
| (noun) anger produced by some annoying irritation | Synonyms: annoyance, chafe |
| (noun) the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: annoyance, botheration, irritation |
| vexatious | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexing |
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| vexatiously | (adverb) in a vexatious manner | - |
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| vexed | (adjective) causing difficulty in finding an answer or solution; much disputed | - |
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| (adjective) troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances | Synonyms: annoyed, harassed, harried, pestered |
| vexer | (noun) someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity) | Synonyms: annoyer, tease, teaser |
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| vexing | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious |
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| (adjective) extremely annoying or displeasing | Synonyms: exasperating, infuriating, maddening |
| vi | (adjective) denoting a quantity consisting of six items or units | Synonyms: 6, half-dozen, half dozen, six |
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| viability | (noun) (of living things) capable of normal growth and development | - |
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| (noun) capable of being done in a practical and useful way | - |
| viable | (adjective) capable of life or normal growth and development | - |
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| (adjective) capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are | Synonyms: executable, feasible, practicable, workable |
| viaduct | (noun) bridge consisting of a series of arches supported by piers used to carry a road (or railroad) over a valley | - |
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| vial | (noun) a small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle) | Synonyms: ampoule, ampul, ampule, phial |
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| viand | (noun) a choice or delicious dish | - |
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| viands | (noun) a stock or supply of foods | Synonyms: commissariat, provender, provisions, victuals |
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| viatical | (adjective) pertaining to the purchase of insurance policies from terminally ill policy holders | - |
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| viatication | (noun) purchasing insurance policies for cash from terminally ill policy holders | Synonyms: viaticus |
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| viaticus | (noun) purchasing insurance policies for cash from terminally ill policy holders | Synonyms: viatication |
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| vibe | (noun) a distinctive emotional aura experienced instinctively | Synonyms: vibration |
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| (verb) to feel emotionally | - |
| vibes | (noun) a percussion instrument similar to a xylophone but having metal bars and rotating disks in the resonators that produce a vibrato sound | Synonyms: vibraharp, vibraphone |
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| vibist | (noun) a musician who plays the vibraphone | Synonyms: vibraphonist |
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| vibraharp | (noun) a percussion instrument similar to a xylophone but having metal bars and rotating disks in the resonators that produce a vibrato sound | Synonyms: vibes, vibraphone |
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| vibrancy | (noun) having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant | Synonyms: plangency, resonance, reverberance, ringing, sonority, sonorousness |
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| vibrant | (adjective) of colors that are bright and striking | - |
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| (adjective) of sounds that are strong and resonating | - |
| (adjective) vigorous and animated | Synonyms: vivacious |
| vibraphone | (noun) a percussion instrument similar to a xylophone but having metal bars and rotating disks in the resonators that produce a vibrato sound | Synonyms: vibes, vibraharp |
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| vibraphonist | (noun) a musician who plays the vibraphone | Synonyms: vibist |
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| vibrate | (verb) feel sudden intense sensation or emotion | Synonyms: thrill, tickle |
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| (verb) shake, quiver, or throb; move back and forth rapidly, usually in an uncontrolled manner | - |
| (verb) move or swing from side to side regularly | Synonyms: oscillate |
| (verb) sound with resonance | Synonyms: resonate |
| (verb) be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action | Synonyms: hover, oscillate, vacillate |
| vibration | (noun) the act of vibrating | Synonyms: quiver, quivering |
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| (noun) a distinctive emotional aura experienced instinctively | Synonyms: vibe |
| (noun) (physics) a regular periodic variation in value about a mean | Synonyms: oscillation |
| (noun) a shaky motion | Synonyms: palpitation, quiver, quivering, shakiness, shaking, trembling |
| vibrational | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by vibration | - |
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| vibrato | (noun) (music) a pulsating effect in an instrumental or vocal tone produced by slight and rapid variations in pitch | - |
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| vibrator | (noun) mechanical device that produces vibratory motion; used for massage | - |
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| (noun) a mechanical device that vibrates | - |
| vibratory | (adjective) moving very rapidly to and fro or up and down | - |
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| vibrio | (noun) curved rodlike motile bacterium | Synonyms: vibrion |
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| vibrion | (noun) curved rodlike motile bacterium | Synonyms: vibrio |
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| vibrionic | (adjective) caused by bacteria of the genus Vibrio | - |
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| vibrissa | (noun) a long stiff hair growing from the snout or brow of most mammals as e.g. a cat | Synonyms: sensory hair, whisker |
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| vicar | (noun) a Roman Catholic priest who acts for another higher-ranking clergyman | - |
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| (noun) (Church of England) a clergyman appointed to act as priest of a parish | - |
| (noun) (Episcopal Church) a clergyman in charge of a chapel | - |
| vicarage | (noun) an official residence provided by a church for its parson or vicar or rector | Synonyms: parsonage, rectory |
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| vicarial | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a vicar | - |
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| vicariate | (noun) the religious institution under the authority of a vicar | Synonyms: vicarship |
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| vicarious | (adjective) occurring in an abnormal part of the body instead of the usual site involved in that function | - |
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| (adjective) suffered or done by one person as a substitute for another | - |
| (adjective) experienced at secondhand | - |
| vicariously | (adverb) indirectly, as, by, or through a substitute | - |
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| vicarship | (noun) the religious institution under the authority of a vicar | Synonyms: vicariate |
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| vice | (noun) a specific form of evildoing | - |
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| (noun) a holding device attached to a workbench; has two jaws to hold workpiece firmly in place | Synonyms: bench vise, vise |
| (noun) moral weakness | Synonyms: frailty |