veal | (noun) meat from a calf | Synonyms: veau |
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veau | (noun) meat from a calf | Synonyms: veal |
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vector | (noun) (genetics) a virus or other agent that is used to deliver DNA to a cell | - |
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(noun) a variable quantity that can be resolved into components | - |
(noun) any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease | Synonyms: transmitter |
(noun) a straight line segment whose length is magnitude and whose orientation in space is direction | - |
vedalia | (noun) native to Australia; introduced elsewhere to control scale insects | Synonyms: Rodolia cardinalis |
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veer | (verb) shift to a clockwise direction | - |
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(verb) turn sharply; change direction abruptly | Synonyms: curve, cut, sheer, slew, slue, swerve, trend |
veering | (noun) the act of turning aside suddenly | Synonyms: swerve, swerving |
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veery | (noun) tawny brown North American thrush noted for its song | Synonyms: Hylocichla fuscescens, Wilson's thrush |
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veg | (noun) edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant | Synonyms: vegetable, veggie |
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vegan | (noun) a strict vegetarian; someone who eats no animal or dairy products; may also avoid using animal products (e.g. leather) | - |
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vegetable | (noun) edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant | Synonyms: veg, veggie |
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(noun) any of various herbaceous plants cultivated for an edible part such as the fruit or the root of the beet or the leaf of spinach or the seeds of bean plants or the flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower | - |
vegetal | (adjective) composed of vegetation or plants | Synonyms: vegetational, vegetative |
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(adjective) (of reproduction) characterized by asexual processes | Synonyms: vegetative |
vegetarian | (noun) eater of fruits and grains and nuts; someone who eats no meat or fish or (often) any animal products | - |
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vegetarianism | (noun) a diet excluding all meat and fish | - |
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vegetate | (verb) engage in passive relaxation | Synonyms: veg out |
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(verb) propagate asexually | - |
(verb) grow like a plant | - |
(verb) produce vegetation | - |
(verb) establish vegetation on | - |
(verb) grow or spread abnormally | - |
(verb) lead a passive existence without using one's body or mind | - |
vegetation | (noun) inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life | - |
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(noun) an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart) | - |
(noun) all the plant life in a particular region or period | Synonyms: botany, flora |
(noun) the process of growth in plants | - |
vegetational | (adjective) composed of vegetation or plants | Synonyms: vegetal, vegetative |
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vegetative | (adjective) composed of vegetation or plants | Synonyms: vegetal, vegetational |
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(adjective) of or relating to an activity that is passive and monotonous | Synonyms: vegetive |
(adjective) (of reproduction) characterized by asexual processes | Synonyms: vegetal |
(adjective) relating to involuntary bodily functions | - |
vegetive | (adjective) of or relating to an activity that is passive and monotonous | Synonyms: vegetative |
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veggie | (noun) edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant | Synonyms: veg, vegetable |
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vehemence | (noun) the property of being wild or turbulent | Synonyms: ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, violence, wildness |
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(noun) intensity or forcefulness of expression | Synonyms: emphasis |
vehement | (adjective) marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid | Synonyms: fierce, tearing, trigger-happy, violent |
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(adjective) characterized by great force or energy | - |
vehemently | (adverb) in a vehement manner | - |
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vehicle | (noun) a conveyance that transports people or objects | - |
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(noun) a medium for the expression or achievement of something | - |
(noun) any inanimate object (as a towel or money or clothing or dishes or books or toys etc.) that can transmit infectious agents from one person to another | Synonyms: fomite |
(noun) any substance that facilitates the use of a drug or pigment or other material that is mixed with it | - |
vehicular | (adjective) of or relating to or intended for (motor) vehicles | - |
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veil | (noun) a garment that covers the head and face | Synonyms: head covering |
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(noun) a vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church; a silk shawl | Synonyms: humeral veil |
(noun) the inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth) | Synonyms: caul, embryonic membrane |
(noun) a membranous covering attached to the immature fruiting body of certain mushrooms | Synonyms: velum |
(verb) make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing | Synonyms: blot out, hide, obliterate, obscure |
(verb) to obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil | - |
veiled | (adjective) having or as if having a veil or concealing cover | - |
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(adjective) muted or unclear | - |
veiling | (noun) a net of transparent fabric with a loose open weave | Synonyms: gauze, netting |
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vein | (noun) one of the horny ribs that stiffen and support the wing of an insect | Synonyms: nervure |
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(noun) a blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart | Synonyms: vena, venous blood vessel |
(noun) a distinctive style or manner | - |
(noun) a layer of ore between layers of rock | Synonyms: mineral vein |
(noun) any of the vascular bundles or ribs that form the branching framework of conducting and supporting tissues in a leaf or other plant organ | Synonyms: nervure |
(verb) make a veinlike pattern | - |
veinal | (adjective) relating to the veins of plants | - |
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veined | (adjective) having or showing markings that resemble veins | Synonyms: veinlike, venose |
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veinlike | (adjective) having or showing markings that resemble veins | Synonyms: veined, venose |
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velar | (adjective) of or relating to the velum | - |
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(adjective) produced with the back of the tongue touching or near the soft palate (as `k' in `cat' and `g' in `gun' and `ng' in `sing') | - |
(noun) a consonant produced with the back of the tongue touching or near the soft palate | Synonyms: velar consonant |
velcro | (verb) fasten with Velcro | - |
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veld | (noun) elevated open grassland in southern Africa | Synonyms: veldt |
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veldt | (noun) elevated open grassland in southern Africa | Synonyms: veld |
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velleity | (noun) volition in its weakest form | - |
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(noun) a mere wish, unaccompanied by effort to obtain | - |
vellicate | (verb) irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear | Synonyms: pinch |
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(verb) touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements | Synonyms: tickle, titillate |
vellication | (noun) a sudden muscle spasm; especially one caused by a nervous condition | Synonyms: twitch, twitching |
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vellum | (noun) fine parchment prepared from the skin of a young animal e.g. a calf or lamb | - |
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(noun) a heavy creamy-colored paper resembling parchment | - |
velocipede | (noun) a vehicle with three wheels that is moved by foot pedals | Synonyms: tricycle, trike |
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(noun) any of several early bicycles with pedals on the front wheel | - |
velociraptor | (noun) small active carnivore that probably fed on protoceratops; possibly related more closely to birds than to other dinosaurs | - |
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velocity | (noun) distance travelled per unit time | Synonyms: speed |
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velodrome | (noun) a banked oval track for bicycle or motorcycle racing | - |
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velour | (noun) heavy fabric that resembles velvet | Synonyms: velours |
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velours | (noun) heavy fabric that resembles velvet | Synonyms: velour |
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veloute | (noun) white sauce made with stock instead of milk | - |
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velum | (noun) a muscular flap that closes off the nasopharynx during swallowing or speaking | Synonyms: soft palate |
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(noun) a membranous covering attached to the immature fruiting body of certain mushrooms | Synonyms: veil |
velvet | (adjective) smooth and soft to sight or hearing or touch or taste | Synonyms: velvet-textured, velvety |
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(adjective) resembling velvet in having a smooth soft surface | Synonyms: velvety |
(noun) a silky densely piled fabric with a plain back | - |
velveteen | (noun) a usually cotton fabric with a short pile imitating velvet | - |
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velvetiness | (noun) Quality of velvet: velvety appearance, feeling, or taste. | - |
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velvetleaf | (noun) tall annual herb or subshrub of tropical Asia having velvety leaves and yellow flowers and yielding a strong fiber; naturalized in southeastern Europe and United States | Synonyms: Abutilon theophrasti, butter-print, China jute, Indian mallow, velvet-leaf, velvetweed |
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(noun) arborescent perennial shrub having palmately lobed furry leaves and showy red-purple flowers; southwestern United States | Synonyms: Lavatera arborea, tree mallow, velvet-leaf |
velvetweed | (noun) tall annual herb or subshrub of tropical Asia having velvety leaves and yellow flowers and yielding a strong fiber; naturalized in southeastern Europe and United States | Synonyms: Abutilon theophrasti, butter-print, China jute, Indian mallow, velvet-leaf, velvetleaf |
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velvety | (adjective) smooth and soft to sight or hearing or touch or taste | Synonyms: velvet-textured, velvet |
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(adjective) resembling velvet in having a smooth soft surface | Synonyms: velvet |
vena | (noun) a blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart | Synonyms: vein, venous blood vessel |
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venal | (adjective) capable of being corrupted | Synonyms: bribable, corruptible, dishonest, purchasable |
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venality | (noun) prostitution of talents or offices or services for reward | - |
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venally | (adverb) in a corrupt and deceitful manner | Synonyms: deceitfully, dishonestly |
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venation | (noun) (zoology) the system of venous blood vessels in an animal | Synonyms: venous blood system |
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(noun) (botany) the arrangement of veins in a leaf | - |
vend | (verb) sell or offer for sale from place to place | Synonyms: hawk, huckster, monger, peddle, pitch |
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vendable | (adjective) fit to be offered for sale | Synonyms: marketable, merchantable, sellable, vendible |
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vendee | (noun) a person who buys | Synonyms: buyer, emptor, purchaser |
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vender | (noun) someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money | Synonyms: marketer, seller, trafficker, vendor |
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vendetta | (noun) a feud in which members of the opposing parties murder each other | Synonyms: blood feud |
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vendible | (adjective) fit to be offered for sale | Synonyms: marketable, merchantable, sellable, vendable |
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vending | (noun) the act of selling goods for a living | Synonyms: hawking, peddling, vendition |
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vendition | (noun) the act of selling goods for a living | Synonyms: hawking, peddling, vending |
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vendor | (noun) someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money | Synonyms: marketer, seller, trafficker, vender |
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vendue | (noun) the public sale of something to the highest bidder | Synonyms: auction, auction sale |
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veneer | (noun) an ornamental coating to a building | Synonyms: facing |
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(noun) coating consisting of a thin layer of superior wood glued to a base of inferior wood | Synonyms: veneering |
(verb) cover with veneer | - |
veneering | (noun) the act of applying veneer | - |
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(noun) coating consisting of a thin layer of superior wood glued to a base of inferior wood | Synonyms: veneer |
venerability | (noun) the quality of deserving veneration | Synonyms: venerableness |
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venerable | (adjective) profoundly honored | Synonyms: august, revered |
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(adjective) impressive by reason of age | - |
venerableness | (noun) the quality of deserving veneration | Synonyms: venerability |
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venerate | (verb) regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of | Synonyms: fear, revere, reverence |
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venerating | (adjective) feeling or manifesting veneration | Synonyms: respectful, reverential |
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veneration | (noun) religious zeal; the willingness to serve God | Synonyms: cultism, devotion |
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(noun) a feeling of profound respect for someone or something | Synonyms: awe, fear, reverence |
venerator | (noun) someone who regards with deep respect or reverence | - |
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venereal | (adjective) of or relating to the external sex organs | Synonyms: genital |
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venesect | (verb) practice venesection | - |
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venesection | (noun) surgical incision into a vein; used to treat hemochromatosis | Synonyms: phlebotomy |
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vengeance | (noun) the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life | Synonyms: payback, retribution |
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vengeful | (adjective) disposed to seek revenge or intended for revenge | Synonyms: revengeful, vindictive |
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vengefully | (adverb) in a vindictive, revengeful manner | Synonyms: revengefully, vindictively |
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vengefulness | (noun) a malevolent desire for revenge | Synonyms: vindictiveness |
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venial | (adjective) easily excused or forgiven | Synonyms: excusable, forgivable |
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(adjective) warranting only temporal punishment | Synonyms: minor |
venipuncture | (noun) (medicine) puncture of a vein through the skin in order to withdraw blood for analysis or to start an intravenous drip or to inject medication or a radiopaque dye | - |
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venire | (noun) (law) a group of people summoned for jury service (from whom a jury will be chosen) | Synonyms: panel |
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venison | (noun) meat from a deer used as food | - |
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venogram | (noun) an X ray of a vein injected with a radiopaque contrast medium | Synonyms: phlebogram |
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venography | (noun) roentgenographic examination of veins | - |
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venom | (noun) feeling a need to see others suffer | Synonyms: malice, maliciousness, spite, spitefulness |
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(noun) toxin secreted by animals; secreted by certain snakes and poisonous insects (e.g., spiders and scorpions) | - |
venomed | (adjective) full of malice or hate | - |
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venomous | (adjective) marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful | Synonyms: poisonous, vicious |
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(adjective) extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom | Synonyms: deadly, virulent |
venomously | (adverb) in a very malevolent manner | Synonyms: poisonously |
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venomousness | (noun) The property of being poisonous or envenomed; or of having a venom-producing gland. | - |
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venose | (adjective) having or showing markings that resemble veins | Synonyms: veined, veinlike |
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venous | (adjective) of or contained in or performing the function of the veins | - |
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vent | (noun) activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion | Synonyms: outlet, release |
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(noun) external opening of urinary or genital system of a lower vertebrate | - |
(noun) a hole for the escape of gas or air | Synonyms: blowhole, vent-hole, venthole |
(noun) a slit in a garment (as in the back seam of a jacket) | - |
(noun) a fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt | Synonyms: volcano |
(verb) expose to cool or cold air so as to cool or freshen | Synonyms: air, air out, ventilate |
(verb) give expression or utterance to | Synonyms: give vent, ventilate |
ventail | (noun) a medieval hood of mail suspended from a basinet to protect the head and neck | Synonyms: aventail, camail |
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vented | (adjective) supplied with a vent or vents for intake of air or discharge of gases | - |
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