| vinegar | (noun) sour-tasting liquid produced usually by oxidation of the alcohol in wine or cider and used as a condiment or food preservative | Synonyms: acetum |
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| (noun) dilute acetic acid | - |
| vinegariness | (noun) a sourness resembling that of vinegar | Synonyms: vinegarishness |
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| vinegarish | (adjective) having a sour disposition; ill-tempered | Synonyms: vinegary |
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| (adjective) tasting or smelling like vinegar | Synonyms: acetose, acetous, vinegary |
| vinegarishness | (noun) a sourness resembling that of vinegar | Synonyms: vinegariness |
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| vinegarroon | (noun) large whip-scorpion of Mexico and southern United States that emits a vinegary odor when alarmed | Synonyms: Mastigoproctus giganteus |
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| vinegarweed | (noun) aromatic plant of western United States | Synonyms: camphorweed, Trichostema lanceolatum, turpentine camphor weed |
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| vinegary | (adjective) having a sour disposition; ill-tempered | Synonyms: vinegarish |
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| (adjective) tasting or smelling like vinegar | Synonyms: acetose, acetous, vinegarish |
| vinery | (noun) a farm of grapevines where wine grapes are produced | Synonyms: vineyard |
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| vineyard | (noun) a farm of grapevines where wine grapes are produced | Synonyms: vinery |
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| viniculture | (noun) the cultivation of grapes and grape vines; grape growing | Synonyms: viticulture |
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| vinifera | (noun) common European grape cultivated in many varieties; chief source of Old World wine and table grapes | Synonyms: common grape vine, vinifera grape, Vitis vinifera |
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| vinification | (noun) the process whereby fermentation changes grape juice into wine | - |
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| vinify | (verb) convert a juice into wine by fermentation | - |
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| vino | (noun) fermented juice (of grapes especially) | Synonyms: wine |
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| vinous | (adjective) of or relating to wine | Synonyms: vinaceous |
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| vintage | (noun) the oldness of wines | Synonyms: time of origin |
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| (noun) a season's yield of wine from a vineyard | - |
| vintager | (noun) a person who harvests grapes for making wine | - |
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| vintner | (noun) someone who makes wine | Synonyms: wine maker, winemaker |
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| (noun) someone who sells wine | Synonyms: wine merchant |
| vinyl | (noun) a univalent chemical radical derived from ethylene | Synonyms: vinyl group, vinyl radical |
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| (noun) shiny and tough and flexible plastic; used especially for floor coverings | - |
| vinylbenzene | (noun) a colorless oily liquid; the monomer for polystyrene | Synonyms: cinnamene, phenylethylene, styrene |
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| viol | (noun) any of a family of bowed stringed instruments that preceded the violin family | - |
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| viola | (noun) any of the numerous plants of the genus Viola | - |
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| (noun) a bowed stringed instrument slightly larger than a violin, tuned a fifth lower | - |
| violable | (adjective) capable of being violated | - |
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| violate | (verb) destroy | - |
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| (verb) destroy and strip of its possession | Synonyms: despoil, plunder, rape, spoil |
| (verb) act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises | Synonyms: breach, break, go against, infract, offend, transgress |
| (verb) force (someone) to have sex against their will | Synonyms: assault, dishonor, dishonour, outrage, rape, ravish |
| (verb) violate the sacred character of a place or language | Synonyms: desecrate, outrage, profane |
| (verb) fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns | Synonyms: break, go against |
| violated | (adjective) treated irreverently or sacrilegiously | Synonyms: profaned |
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| violation | (noun) a crime less serious than a felony | Synonyms: infraction, infringement, misdemeanor, misdemeanour |
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| (noun) entry to another's property without right or permission | Synonyms: encroachment, intrusion, trespass, usurpation |
| (noun) the crime of forcing a person to submit to sexual intercourse against his or her will | Synonyms: assault, rape, ravishment |
| (noun) a disrespectful act | Synonyms: irreverence |
| (noun) an act that disregards an agreement or a right | Synonyms: infringement |
| violative | (adjective) violating or tending to violate or offend against | Synonyms: offensive |
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| violator | (noun) someone who assaults others sexually | Synonyms: debaucher, ravisher |
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| (noun) someone who violates the law | Synonyms: law offender, lawbreaker |
| violence | (noun) an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists) | Synonyms: force |
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| (noun) the property of being wild or turbulent | Synonyms: ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, wildness |
| (noun) a turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction etc. | - |
| violent | (adjective) acting with or marked by or resulting from great force or energy or emotional intensity | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by violence or bloodshed | Synonyms: crimson, red |
| (adjective) effected by force or injury rather than natural causes | - |
| (adjective) marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid | Synonyms: fierce, tearing, trigger-happy, vehement |
| (adjective) (of colors or sounds) intensely vivid or loud | Synonyms: wild |
| violently | (adverb) in a violent manner | - |
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| violet | (adjective) of a color intermediate between red and blue | Synonyms: purple, purplish |
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| (noun) a variable color that lies beyond blue in the spectrum | Synonyms: reddish blue |
| (noun) any of numerous low-growing violas with small flowers | - |
| violin | (noun) bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family; this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow | Synonyms: fiddle |
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| violinist | (noun) a musician who plays the violin | Synonyms: fiddler |
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| violist | (noun) a musician who plays the viola | - |
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| violoncellist | (noun) someone who plays a violoncello | Synonyms: cellist |
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| violoncello | (noun) a large stringed instrument; seated player holds it upright while playing | Synonyms: cello |
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| viomycin | (noun) a basic polypeptide antibiotic (trade name Viocin) administered intramuscularly (along with other drugs) in the treatment of tuberculosis | Synonyms: Viocin |
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| viosterol | (noun) a fat-soluble vitamin that prevents rickets | Synonyms: calciferol, cholecalciferol, D, ergocalciferol, vitamin D |
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| viper | (noun) venomous Old World snakes characterized by hollow venom-conducting fangs in the upper jaw | - |
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| viraemia | (noun) the presence of a virus in the blood stream | Synonyms: viremia |
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| virago | (noun) a noisy or scolding or domineering woman | - |
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| (noun) a large strong and aggressive woman | Synonyms: amazon |
| viral | (adjective) relating to or caused by a virus | - |
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| viremia | (noun) the presence of a virus in the blood stream | Synonyms: viraemia |
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| vireo | (noun) any of various small insectivorous American birds chiefly olive-grey in color | - |
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| virga | (noun) light wispy precipitation that evaporates before it reaches the ground (especially when the lower air is low in humidity) | - |
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| virgin | (adjective) in a state of sexual virginity | Synonyms: pure, vestal, virginal, virtuous |
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| (adjective) being used or worked for the first time | - |
| (noun) a person who has never had sex | - |
| virginal | (adjective) characteristic of a virgin or virginity | - |
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| (adjective) in a state of sexual virginity | Synonyms: pure, vestal, virgin, virtuous |
| (adjective) untouched or undefiled | - |
| (noun) a legless rectangular harpsichord; played (usually by women) in the 16th and 17th centuries | Synonyms: pair of virginals |
| virginity | (noun) the condition or quality of being a virgin | - |
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| virgule | (noun) a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information | Synonyms: diagonal, separatrix, slash, solidus, stroke |
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| viricidal | (adjective) tending to destroy viruses | Synonyms: virucidal |
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| viricide | (noun) an agent (physical or chemical) that inactivates or destroys viruses | Synonyms: virucide |
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| viridity | (noun) green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass | Synonyms: green, greenness |
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| virile | (adjective) (of a male) capable of copulation | Synonyms: potent |
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| (adjective) characteristic of a man | Synonyms: male, manful, manlike, manly |
| (adjective) characterized by energy and vigor | - |
| virilisation | (noun) the abnormal development of male sexual characteristics in a female (usually as the result of hormone therapies or adrenal malfunction) | Synonyms: masculinisation, masculinization, virilization |
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| virilise | (verb) produce virilism in or cause to assume masculine characteristics, as through a hormonal imbalance or hormone therapy | Synonyms: masculinise, masculinize, virilize |
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| virilism | (noun) the development of male secondary sexual characteristics in a female (or prematurely in a young boy) | - |
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| virility | (noun) the trait of being manly; having the characteristics of an adult male | Synonyms: manfulness, manliness |
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| (noun) the masculine property of being capable of copulation and procreation | - |
| virilization | (noun) the abnormal development of male sexual characteristics in a female (usually as the result of hormone therapies or adrenal malfunction) | Synonyms: masculinisation, masculinization, virilisation |
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| virilize | (verb) produce virilism in or cause to assume masculine characteristics, as through a hormonal imbalance or hormone therapy | Synonyms: masculinise, masculinize, virilise |
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| virino | (noun) (microbiology) a hypothetical infectious particle thought to be the cause of scrapie and other degenerative diseases of the central nervous system; consists of nucleic acid in a protective coat of host cell proteins | - |
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| virion | (noun) (virology) a complete viral particle; nucleic acid and capsid (and a lipid envelope in some viruses) | - |
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| viroid | (noun) the smallest of viruses; a plant virus with its RNA arranged in a circular chromosome without a protein coat | Synonyms: virusoid |
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| virological | (adjective) of or relating to the science of virology | - |
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| virologist | (noun) a specialist in virology | - |
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| virology | (noun) the branch of medical science that studies viruses and viral diseases | - |
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| virtu | (noun) objet d'art collectively (especially fine antiques) | - |
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| (noun) artistic quality | Synonyms: vertu |
| (noun) love of or taste for fine objects of art | Synonyms: connoisseurship, vertu |
| virtual | (adjective) existing in essence or effect though not in actual fact | - |
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| (adjective) being actually such in almost every respect | Synonyms: practical |
| virtually | (adverb) in essence or effect but not in fact | - |
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| (adverb) (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but | Synonyms: about, almost, most, near, nearly, nigh, well-nigh |
| virtue | (noun) the quality of doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong | Synonyms: moral excellence, virtuousness |
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| (noun) morality with respect to sexual relations | Synonyms: chastity, sexual morality |
| (noun) any admirable quality or attribute | Synonyms: merit |
| (noun) a particular moral excellence | - |
| virtuosity | (noun) technical skill or fluency or style exhibited by a virtuoso | - |
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| virtuoso | (adjective) having or revealing supreme mastery or skill | Synonyms: consummate, masterful, masterly |
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| (noun) someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field | Synonyms: ace, adept, champion, genius, hotshot, maven, mavin, sensation, star, superstar, whiz, whizz, wiz, wizard |
| (noun) a musician who is a consummate master of technique and artistry | - |
| virtuous | (adjective) morally excellent | - |
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| (adjective) in a state of sexual virginity | Synonyms: pure, vestal, virgin, virginal |
| virtuously | (adverb) in a chaste and virtuous manner | Synonyms: chastely |
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| (adverb) in a moral manner | Synonyms: morally |
| virtuousness | (noun) the quality of doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong | Synonyms: moral excellence, virtue |
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| virucidal | (adjective) tending to destroy viruses | Synonyms: viricidal |
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| virucide | (noun) an agent (physical or chemical) that inactivates or destroys viruses | Synonyms: viricide |
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| virulence | (noun) extreme harmfulness (as the capacity of a microorganism to cause disease) | Synonyms: virulency |
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| (noun) extreme hostility | Synonyms: virulency |
| virulency | (noun) extreme harmfulness (as the capacity of a microorganism to cause disease) | Synonyms: virulence |
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| (noun) extreme hostility | Synonyms: virulence |
| virulent | (adjective) infectious; having the ability to cause disease | - |
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| (adjective) extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom | Synonyms: deadly, venomous |
| (adjective) harsh or corrosive in tone | Synonyms: acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, vitriolic |
| virulently | (adverb) in a virulent manner | - |
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| virus | (noun) (virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts; many are pathogenic; a piece of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin coat of protein | - |
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| (noun) a software program capable of reproducing itself and usually capable of causing great harm to files or other programs on the same computer | Synonyms: computer virus |
| (noun) a harmful or corrupting agency | - |
| virusoid | (noun) the smallest of viruses; a plant virus with its RNA arranged in a circular chromosome without a protein coat | Synonyms: viroid |
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| visa | (noun) an endorsement made in a passport that allows the bearer to enter the country issuing it | - |
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| (verb) provide (a passport) with a visa | - |
| (verb) approve officially | - |
| visage | (noun) the appearance conveyed by a person's face | Synonyms: countenance |
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| (noun) the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British) | Synonyms: countenance, kisser, mug, phiz, physiognomy, smiler |
| visaged | (adjective) having a face or visage as specified | - |
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| viscacha | (noun) gregarious burrowing rodent larger than the chinchillas | Synonyms: chinchillon, Lagostomus maximus |
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| viscera | (noun) internal organs collectively (especially those in the abdominal cavity) | Synonyms: entrails, innards, insides |
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| visceral | (adjective) relating to or affecting the viscera | Synonyms: splanchnic |
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| (adjective) obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation | Synonyms: intuitive, nonrational |
| viscerally | (adverb) in the viscera | - |
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| (adverb) in an unreasoning visceral manner | Synonyms: unreasoningly |
| viscid | (adjective) having the sticky properties of an adhesive | Synonyms: gluey, glutinous, gummy, mucilaginous, pasty, sticky, viscous |
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| viscidity | (noun) the property of being cohesive and sticky | Synonyms: cohesiveness, glueyness, gluiness, gumminess, ropiness, tackiness, viscidness |
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| viscidly | (adverb) in a sticky viscid manner | Synonyms: stickily |
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| viscidness | (noun) the property of being cohesive and sticky | Synonyms: cohesiveness, glueyness, gluiness, gumminess, ropiness, tackiness, viscidity |
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| viscoelastic | (adjective) having viscous as well as elastic properties | - |
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| viscometer | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring viscosity | Synonyms: viscosimeter |
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| viscometric | (adjective) of or relating to the measurement of viscosity | Synonyms: viscosimetric |
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| viscometry | (noun) the measurement of viscosity | Synonyms: viscosimetry |
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| viscose | (noun) a rayon fabric made from viscose (cellulose xanthate) fibers | Synonyms: viscose rayon |
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| (noun) a cellulose ester obtained by treating cellulose with caustic soda | Synonyms: cellulose xanthate |
| viscosimeter | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring viscosity | Synonyms: viscometer |
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