| vac | (noun) informal term for vacation | Synonyms: vacay |
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| vacancy | (noun) an empty area or space | Synonyms: emptiness, vacuum, void |
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| (noun) being unoccupied | - |
| vacant | (adjective) without an occupant or incumbent | - |
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| (adjective) devoid of intelligence or thought | Synonyms: mindless, vacuous |
| vacantly | (adverb) in a vacant manner | - |
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| vacate | (verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, countermand, lift, overturn, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke |
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| (verb) leave behind empty; move out of | Synonyms: abandon, empty |
| (verb) leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily | Synonyms: give up, renounce, resign |
| vacation | (noun) the act of making something legally void | - |
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| (noun) leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure | Synonyms: holiday |
| (verb) spend or take a vacation | Synonyms: holiday |
| vacationer | (noun) someone on vacation; someone who is devoting time to pleasure or relaxation rather than to work | Synonyms: vacationist |
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| vacationing | (noun) the act of taking a vacation | - |
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| vacationist | (noun) someone on vacation; someone who is devoting time to pleasure or relaxation rather than to work | Synonyms: vacationer |
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| vacay | (noun) informal term for vacation | Synonyms: vac |
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| vaccina | (noun) a local infection induced in humans by inoculation with the virus causing cowpox in order to confer resistance to smallpox; normally lasts three weeks and leaves a pitted scar | Synonyms: vaccinia, variola vaccina, variola vaccine, variola vaccinia |
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| vaccinate | (verb) perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation | Synonyms: immunise, immunize, inoculate |
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| vaccinated | (adjective) having been rendered unsusceptible to a disease | Synonyms: immunised, immunized |
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| vaccinating | (noun) the act of protecting against disease by introducing a vaccine into the body to induce immunity | Synonyms: inoculating |
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| vaccination | (noun) taking a vaccine as a precaution against contracting a disease | Synonyms: inoculation |
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| (noun) the scar left following inoculation with a vaccine | - |
| vaccinator | (noun) a medical practitioner who inoculates people against diseases | Synonyms: inoculator |
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| vaccine | (noun) immunogen consisting of a suspension of weakened or dead pathogenic cells injected in order to stimulate the production of antibodies | Synonyms: vaccinum |
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| vaccinee | (noun) a patient who has been vaccinated | - |
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| vaccinia | (noun) a viral disease of cattle causing a mild skin disease affecting the udder; formerly used to inoculate humans against smallpox | Synonyms: cowpox |
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| (noun) a local infection induced in humans by inoculation with the virus causing cowpox in order to confer resistance to smallpox; normally lasts three weeks and leaves a pitted scar | Synonyms: vaccina, variola vaccina, variola vaccine, variola vaccinia |
| vaccinum | (noun) immunogen consisting of a suspension of weakened or dead pathogenic cells injected in order to stimulate the production of antibodies | Synonyms: vaccine |
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| vacillant | (adjective) uncertain in purpose or action | Synonyms: vacillating, wavering |
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| vacillate | (verb) move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern | Synonyms: fluctuate, waver |
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| (verb) be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action | Synonyms: hover, oscillate, vibrate |
| vacillating | (adjective) uncertain in purpose or action | Synonyms: vacillant, wavering |
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| vacillation | (noun) changing location by moving back and forth | Synonyms: swing, swinging |
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| (noun) indecision in speech or action | Synonyms: hesitation, wavering |
| vacillator | (noun) one who hesitates (usually out of fear) | Synonyms: hesitater, hesitator, waverer |
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| vacuity | (noun) total lack of meaning or ideas | Synonyms: inanity, mindlessness, pointlessness, senselessness |
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| (noun) a region that is devoid of matter | Synonyms: vacuum |
| (noun) the absence of matter | Synonyms: vacuum |
| vacuolate | (adjective) formed into or containing one or more vacuoles or small membrane-bound cavities within a cell | Synonyms: vacuolated |
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| vacuolated | (adjective) formed into or containing one or more vacuoles or small membrane-bound cavities within a cell | Synonyms: vacuolate |
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| vacuolation | (noun) the state of having become filled with vacuoles | Synonyms: vacuolisation, vacuolization |
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| vacuole | (noun) a tiny cavity filled with fluid in the cytoplasm of a cell | - |
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| vacuolisation | (noun) the state of having become filled with vacuoles | Synonyms: vacuolation, vacuolization |
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| vacuolization | (noun) the state of having become filled with vacuoles | Synonyms: vacuolation, vacuolisation |
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| vacuous | (adjective) devoid of matter | - |
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| (adjective) devoid of intelligence or thought | Synonyms: mindless, vacant |
| (adjective) devoid of significance or force | Synonyms: empty, hollow |
| vacuously | (adverb) in a vacuous manner | - |
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| vacuousness | (noun) indicative of or marked by mental vacuity and an absence of ideas | - |
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| vacuum | (noun) an electrical home appliance that cleans by suction | Synonyms: vacuum cleaner |
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| (noun) a region that is devoid of matter | Synonyms: vacuity |
| (noun) an empty area or space | Synonyms: emptiness, vacancy, void |
| (noun) the absence of matter | Synonyms: vacuity |
| (verb) clean with a vacuum cleaner | Synonyms: hoover, vacuum-clean |