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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