| viscosimetric | (adjective) of or relating to the measurement of viscosity | Synonyms: viscometric |
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| viscosimetry | (noun) the measurement of viscosity | Synonyms: viscometry |
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| viscosity | (noun) resistance of a liquid to shear forces (and hence to flow) | Synonyms: viscousness |
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| viscount | (noun) a British peer who ranks below an earl and above a baron | - |
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| (noun) (in various countries) a son or younger brother or a count | - |
| viscountcy | (noun) the title of a viscount | - |
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| (noun) the dignity or rank or position of a viscount or viscountess | Synonyms: viscounty |
| viscountess | (noun) a noblewoman holding the rank of viscount in her own right | - |
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| (noun) a wife or widow of a viscount | - |
| viscounty | (noun) the domain controlled by a viscount or viscountess | - |
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| (noun) the dignity or rank or position of a viscount or viscountess | Synonyms: viscountcy |
| viscous | (adjective) having the sticky properties of an adhesive | Synonyms: gluey, glutinous, gummy, mucilaginous, pasty, sticky, viscid |
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| (adjective) having a relatively high resistance to flow | Synonyms: syrupy |
| viscousness | (noun) resistance of a liquid to shear forces (and hence to flow) | Synonyms: viscosity |
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| viscus | (noun) a main organ that is situated inside the body | Synonyms: internal organ |
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| vise | (noun) a holding device attached to a workbench; has two jaws to hold workpiece firmly in place | Synonyms: bench vise, vice |
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| viselike | (adjective) clamped as in a vise | - |
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| visibility | (noun) quality or fact or degree of being visible; perceptible by the eye or obvious to the eye | Synonyms: visibleness |
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| (noun) capability of providing a clear unobstructed view | - |
| (noun) degree of exposure to public notice | Synonyms: profile |
| visible | (adjective) capable of being seen; or open to easy view | Synonyms: seeable |
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| (adjective) present and easily available | - |
| (adjective) obvious to the eye | - |
| visibleness | (noun) quality or fact or degree of being visible; perceptible by the eye or obvious to the eye | Synonyms: visibility |
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| visibly | (adverb) in a visible manner | - |
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| (adverb) so as to be visible | - |
| vision | (noun) the ability to see; the visual faculty | Synonyms: sight, visual modality, visual sense |
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| (noun) the perceptual experience of seeing | Synonyms: visual sensation |
| (noun) a vivid mental image | - |
| (noun) the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses | Synonyms: imagination, imaginativeness |
| (noun) a religious or mystical experience of a supernatural appearance | - |
| visionariness | (noun) The state or condition of being imaginary or illusory. | - |
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| visionary | (adjective) not practical or realizable; speculative | Synonyms: airy, impractical, Laputan, windy |
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| (noun) a person with unusual powers of foresight | Synonyms: illusionist, seer |
| (noun) a person given to fanciful speculations and enthusiasms with little regard for what is actually possible | - |
| visit | (noun) the act of going to see some person in a professional capacity | - |
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| (noun) the act of visiting in an official capacity (as for an inspection) | - |
| (noun) the act of going to see some person or place or thing for a short time | - |
| (noun) a temporary stay (e.g., as a guest) | Synonyms: sojourn |
| (noun) a meeting arranged by the visitor to see someone (such as a doctor or lawyer) for treatment or advice | - |
| (verb) assail | - |
| (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze |
| (verb) impose something unpleasant | Synonyms: bring down, impose, inflict |
| (verb) go to certain places as for sightseeing | Synonyms: travel to |
| (verb) come to see in an official or professional capacity | Synonyms: inspect |
| (verb) pay a brief visit | Synonyms: call, call in |
| (verb) go to see a place, as for entertainment | Synonyms: see |
| (verb) stay with as a guest | - |
| visitant | (noun) someone who visits | Synonyms: visitor |
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| visitation | (noun) an official visit for inspection or supervision | - |
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| (noun) an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event | Synonyms: trial, tribulation |
| (noun) any disaster or catastrophe | - |
| visiting | (noun) the activity of making visits | - |
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| visitor | (noun) someone who visits | Synonyms: visitant |
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| visor | (noun) a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes | Synonyms: bill, eyeshade, peak, vizor |
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| (noun) a piece of armor plate (with eye slits) fixed or hinged to a medieval helmet to protect the face | Synonyms: vizor |
| visored | (adjective) having or provided with a visor or a visor of a particular kind | - |
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| vista | (noun) the visual percept of a region | Synonyms: aspect, panorama, prospect, scene, view |
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| visual | (adjective) relating to or using sight | Synonyms: ocular, optic, optical |
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| (adjective) visible | Synonyms: ocular |
| visualisation | (noun) a mental image that is similar to a visual perception | Synonyms: visual image, visualization |
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| visualise | (verb) make visible | Synonyms: visualize |
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| (verb) imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind | Synonyms: envision, fancy, figure, image, picture, project, see, visualize |
| (verb) form a mental picture of something that is invisible or abstract | Synonyms: visualize |
| (verb) view the outline of by means of an X-ray | Synonyms: visualize |
| visualised | (adjective) seen in the mind as a mental image | Synonyms: envisioned, pictured, visualized |
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| visualiser | (noun) one whose prevailing mental imagery is visual | Synonyms: visualizer |
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| visualization | (noun) a mental image that is similar to a visual perception | Synonyms: visual image, visualisation |
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| visualize | (verb) make visible | Synonyms: visualise |
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| (verb) imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind | Synonyms: envision, fancy, figure, image, picture, project, see, visualise |
| (verb) form a mental picture of something that is invisible or abstract | Synonyms: visualise |
| (verb) view the outline of by means of an X-ray | Synonyms: visualise |
| visualized | (adjective) seen in the mind as a mental image | Synonyms: envisioned, pictured, visualised |
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| visualizer | (noun) one whose prevailing mental imagery is visual | Synonyms: visualiser |
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| visually | (adverb) with respect to vision | - |
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| vital | (adjective) manifesting or characteristic of life | - |
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| (adjective) full of spirit; full of life | Synonyms: lively |
| (adjective) performing an essential function in the living body | Synonyms: life-sustaining |
| (adjective) urgently needed; absolutely necessary | Synonyms: critical |
| vitalisation | (noun) the state of being vitalized and filled with life | Synonyms: vitalization |
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| vitalise | (verb) make more lively or vigorous | Synonyms: vitalize |
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| (verb) give life to | Synonyms: vitalize |
| vitaliser | (noun) someone who imparts energy and vitality and spirit to other people | Synonyms: animator, energiser, energizer, vitalizer |
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| vitalism | (noun) (philosophy) a doctrine that life is a vital principle distinct from physics and chemistry | - |
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| vitalist | (noun) one who believes in vitalism | - |
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| vitality | (noun) the property of being able to survive and grow | Synonyms: animation |
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| (noun) an energetic style | Synonyms: verve |
| (noun) (biology) a hypothetical force (not physical or chemical) once thought by Henri Bergson to cause the evolution and development of organisms | Synonyms: elan vital, life force, vital force |
| (noun) a healthy capacity for vigorous activity | Synonyms: energy, vim |
| vitalization | (noun) the state of being vitalized and filled with life | Synonyms: vitalisation |
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| vitalize | (verb) make more lively or vigorous | Synonyms: vitalise |
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| (verb) give life to | Synonyms: vitalise |
| vitalizer | (noun) someone who imparts energy and vitality and spirit to other people | Synonyms: animator, energiser, energizer, vitaliser |
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| vitalizing | (adjective) giving or having the power to give life and spirit | Synonyms: life-giving |
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| vitally | (adverb) to a vital degree | - |
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| vitalness | (noun) the quality of being essential to maintain life | - |
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| (noun) the quality possessed by something that you cannot possibly do without | Synonyms: indispensability, indispensableness |
| vitals | (noun) a bodily organ that is essential for life | Synonyms: vital organ |
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| vitamin | (noun) any of a group of organic substances essential in small quantities to normal metabolism | - |
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| vitaminise | (verb) add vitamins as a supplement | Synonyms: vitaminize |
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| vitaminize | (verb) add vitamins as a supplement | Synonyms: vitaminise |
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| vitellarium | (noun) A modified part of the ovary that in many flatworms and rotifers produces yolk-filled cells serving to nourish the true eggs. | - |
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| vitellus | (noun) nutritive material of an ovum stored for the nutrition of an embryo (especially the yellow mass of a bird or reptile egg) | Synonyms: yolk |
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| vitiate | (verb) take away the legal force of or render ineffective | Synonyms: invalidate, void |
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| (verb) make imperfect | Synonyms: deflower, impair, mar, spoil |
| (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert |
| vitiated | (adjective) ruined in character or quality | Synonyms: corrupted, debased |
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| (adjective) impaired by diminution | Synonyms: diminished, lessened, weakened |
| vitiation | (noun) nullification by the destruction of the legal force; rendering null | - |
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| viticulture | (noun) the cultivation of grapes and grape vines; grape growing | Synonyms: viniculture |
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| viticulturist | (noun) a cultivator of grape vine | - |
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| vitiliginous | (adjective) of or relating to or having vitiligo | - |
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| vitiligo | (noun) an acquired skin disease characterized by patches of unpigmented skin (often surrounded by a heavily pigmented border) | - |
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| vitrectomy | (noun) a surgical procedure that removes the vitreous humor and replace it with saline solution | - |
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| vitreous | (adjective) relating to or resembling or derived from or containing glass | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or constituting the vitreous humor of the eye | - |
| (adjective) (of ceramics) having the surface made shiny and nonporous by fusing a vitreous solution to it | Synonyms: glassy, vitrified |
| vitrification | (noun) the process of becoming vitreous | - |
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| (noun) a vitrified substance; the glassy result of being vitrified | - |
| vitrified | (adjective) (of ceramics) having the surface made shiny and nonporous by fusing a vitreous solution to it | Synonyms: glassy, vitreous |
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| vitrify | (verb) undergo vitrification; become glassy or glass-like | - |
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| (verb) change into glass or a glass-like substance by applying heat | - |
| vitrine | (noun) a glass container used to store and display items in a shop or museum or home | Synonyms: case, display case, showcase |
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| vitriol | (noun) abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deep-seated ill will | Synonyms: invective, vituperation |
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| (noun) (H2SO4) a highly corrosive acid made from sulfur dioxide; widely used in the chemical industry | Synonyms: oil of vitriol, sulfuric acid, sulphuric acid |
| (verb) subject to bitter verbal abuse | - |
| (verb) expose to the effects of vitriol or injure with vitriol | - |
| vitriolic | (adjective) of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action | Synonyms: caustic, corrosive, erosive, mordant |
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| (adjective) harsh or corrosive in tone | Synonyms: acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent |
| vitriolically | (adverb) in a caustic vitriolic manner | Synonyms: caustically |
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| vituperate | (verb) spread negative information about | Synonyms: rail, revile, vilify |
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| vituperation | (noun) abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deep-seated ill will | Synonyms: invective, vitriol |
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| vituperative | (adjective) marked by harshly abusive criticism | Synonyms: scathing |
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| viva | (noun) an examination conducted by spoken communication | Synonyms: oral, oral exam, oral examination, viva voce |
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| vivace | (adjective) (of tempo) very fast and lively | - |
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| (adverb) lively, in music | - |
| vivacious | (adjective) vigorous and animated | Synonyms: vibrant |
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| vivaciously | (adverb) with vivacity | - |
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| vivacity | (noun) characterized by high spirits and animation | - |
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| vivarium | (noun) an indoor enclosure for keeping and raising living animals and plants and observing them under natural conditions | - |
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| viverrine | (noun) small cat-like predatory mammals of warmer parts of the Old World | Synonyms: viverrine mammal |
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| vivid | (adjective) having the clarity and freshness of immediate experience | - |
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| (adjective) having strong or striking color | Synonyms: bright, brilliant |
| (adjective) evoking lifelike images within the mind | Synonyms: graphic, lifelike, pictorial |
| (adjective) (of color) having the highest saturation | Synonyms: intense |
| vividly | (adverb) in a vivid manner | - |
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| vividness | (noun) chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in hue | Synonyms: chroma, intensity, saturation |
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| (noun) interest and variety and intensity | Synonyms: color, colour |
| vivification | (noun) the activity of giving vitality and vigour to something | Synonyms: animation, invigoration |
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| (noun) quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous | Synonyms: animation, brio, invigoration, spiritedness |
| vivify | (verb) give new life or energy to | Synonyms: animate, quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, revivify |
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| (verb) make more striking or animated | - |
| viviparous | (adjective) producing living young (not eggs) | Synonyms: live-bearing |
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| vivisect | (verb) cut (a body) open while still alive | - |
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| vivisection | (noun) the act of operating on living animals (especially in scientific research) | - |
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| vivisectionist | (noun) a biologist who cuts open live animals for research | - |
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| vixen | (noun) a female fox | - |
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| (noun) a malicious woman with a fierce temper | Synonyms: harpy, hellcat |
| vixenish | (adjective) shrewish and malicious | - |
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| vizier | (noun) a high official in a Muslim government (especially in the Ottoman Empire) | - |
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| viziership | (noun) the position of vizier | - |
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| vizor | (noun) a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes | Synonyms: bill, eyeshade, peak, visor |
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| (noun) a piece of armor plate (with eye slits) fixed or hinged to a medieval helmet to protect the face | Synonyms: visor |
| vizsla | (noun) Hungarian hunting dog resembling the Weimaraner but having a rich deep red coat | Synonyms: Hungarian pointer |
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| vlog | (noun) Regular videos on the Web typically by a single independent author | - |
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| vlogger | (noun) a video blogger | - |
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| vocable | (noun) a word that is spoken aloud | Synonyms: spoken word |
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